The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-03-14
LETTER ssox wnrDsY ISLAND.

WBIpSY IsLAxD. March Is. 1850.
En-. IxTKLLioENcxR:-1n the Fall Of
81 l established . residence 1t Port
Madison, and from that time to the
present l have been Puget Ssunder.
The only stesmboat Ne then got .
glimpse of was the Otter. b0as owned
by end run in the interest 81 the Hud
son Bay Company. Our mails were
carried in canees: but il wss . great
day with ~ when enc Of @. A. Msigs's
vess-ls arrived bridging Calilosnia ps.
pers. became reader OF the Intel.
LIoENcER 1t it birth (sbso Newell
held forth over the Gem Saloon). and
have with Interest net,csd it, progress
as compared with tho SCUM country.
l can only cay. sfter reading your
present issue. that it 10 . credit to 40
~ representative paper.
The people Of this Island have met
with great loss in the failure Of the
California demand for potatoes. The
constantly Increasing demand from
tsere led our farmers to believe that il
would continue. but this year Cslifor.
MIA appears to have enough ADD to
spare; aud the Consequence TO ~ 10
that there 10 now about l5O. 600 bushels.
or, ut last ysar's prices. seventy five
thousand dollars worth. now in the
way Of this years crop. and dead loss
Many OF our farmers are I've hundred,
and come 6ftesn hundred, dollars worse
of thsn they would have been had
they not plowed furrow last year.
In regard to the Skasit bosm, I
would ssy. boom il forth. and give the
labDsing mao . cbsncs n get together
. few dollars without life long servi.
tade. A Icing - new diggings ere
wEispersd shout there will be mining
excitsments. And why should there
not. when il 10 an aoknowledgsd fact
that the 6rst in The new dissings get
oil the cream In March, 1882. ar
rived at the m,nss in TvOlumuG
County. Cal. Thy had been djscover.
ed few years before and wers pretty
wsll worked ont Il was mostly guich
aud creek disgiuxs, and he'd pad, ssd
were skill p.ysng we'll. The elaine Ia
the creek and gulch beds vould DAY
from two ounces u tao hundr~d dol
lars per day to the msn. Nv 6rst labos
vss b. the day. The man WORKED
fox and myself tsok out. o. N average.
one hundred dollars dsy. he tnot
ninety 6vs dollsrs and gave - 6vs.
sosa issrnsd b mise and look Ser gold,
and the next elk years we're passrd 10
vainly trying 70 6nd what ether miners
bed evsslosked. An origisal claim IN
most any god MINING diserict l. gooi
70 10 Owner fee enc q too thnuooni
q least-that b, IN the creek snd gulch
beda Some claims ars hsteoe thas
others, snd sons nay be voeshleea ~
ina 70 the cfeet hsving ben paahsd in
to its pressnt bed BY : landslids, which
buries the enld ID The cd ~. vhers Il
remains % - foand b somo one aitsl
the easy working plices are oil gone
like 70 ses yonng men strike cot 70,
themselves and make On. effort lue I
start 10 the wosld-in fact. chew thi~l
backbone. II they fail, iev dollar,
and few months time aro gone. II
they ars succsssfal. ysars Of strivina
fer the 6rst thousAad dollass are evo6
ed. and With jadicioeo uanagsueai
ANerwasds life Of eose 10 bofoes then
Some Ut The boys from THE lslasd havu
shswn true grit By pushing sAead "a
the mines and . claia. Thsy Uss'
surrounded By I've fsse OF anew, b.
they never thought Of ssesrr. TheJ
waited until che Clerk q ~ Wesehe
had had his say nut, aad then ouwast
was the cry. They went. cav chi
conquered. ard came back With frosss
toes and heels. bat With Q claia q
CURED. ! ~ hey dsserss ersdiA an
my wish b that success nay cstw,
their e1brss. RE. A.