Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-24
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FAIRvIEw, January 18th, 1873.

fAIRYIEW, JANUARY 1Stl, 1919.
EDITOR CHRONICLE 1t has been some
time since last took up the pen to write
you few lines. During that time we
have changed the Old Year for the New
Eighteen hundred and segenty-two has
passed away with its train of misspent
days,-opportunities unimproved, the tur-
moil of the presidential canvass, destruc-
tive fires, etc.-and now we have launched
into the year 1873, of which we know
nothing. We can look back On the Old
Year and see acts or deeds which we
would gladly improve had We the oppor
tunity; but they are gone to return nc
more. and nothing remains fo1 US to do
save to take advantage of the privileges
and opportunities presented by the New
Year we have just entered.
Since | last wrote nothing of much in
terest has transpired at this place. Christ
mas and New Years passed almost un-
known to US, from the fact that all were
at work earning their daily bread, needing
for naught beside.
Winter set in on or about the 18th of
October, but since Christmas it has re-
doubled it's fury, with high winds and
heavy falls of snow. The winters are not
so cold here as they are in Wisconsin, but
the high winds are more than enough to
compensate the favor. II blows perfect
hurricane day after day. without ntermis-
sion, driving the snow into and through
every crack or creviee imaginable
Houses that are waterproof are seldom
snowproof in this country; bit, then it is
no wonder, for they are situated about
eight thousand feet aboyethe level of the
sea, without tree or a shrub to shelter
them. I've often read of snowstorms on
the mountains, end hardly credited the
whole, but l am entirely convinced of
what has been said of. them, for I've
missed the road myself, in daylight, on
the distance Of an eighth of mile.
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The camp is about the same as it was,
though work is not as plenty. Last fall
there was scarcity of men, now there is
an overflow. When winter set in, the
placer mining ce ased, the work onthe
ranches was at an end, and mining camp
thirty miles from here, called South Noun
tain, stopped operations. ALI those men
rushed in here, so that if man should
come here at present he would have to
wait several days, and perhaps weeks, be
fore he could get job, as many do.
Two sad and fatal accidents occurred
few days ago. On the 2sth Of December,
as a Cornishman, named Richard Cornish,
lately from the "old country where he
had large family, was working in shaft
bucket fell from the top of the shaft and
struck him on the head, killing him in
stantly.
On New Years, about 10 O'Clock, a
Welshman called Thomas Hughes was
picking ore from under some old and
abandoned works, the timbers gave away
and several tons of rock AMI earth fell on
him, completely burying him. His com
rade, hearing the fall, hurried to the spot,
and removing the dirt from his face, the
poor man said, Billy, am gone" and
that was all. He died before he coull be
extricated, which was done about II
o'clock. lie was buried by the Odd Eel
lows on the 3D.. The funeral was largely
attended, though it was stormyl and the
sleigh with the corpse had to bs dragged
by hand long distance.
The Dodgeville boys are well and in
good spirits. E. J.J