The Elk Mountain pilot., 1880-07-01
What it Costs to hyt--The DISADVANTAGES
i. Of the Psst, in Oh. Matter Of Building
Overcome, Etc, E!e.

accommodations during the wiLte1
and early spring; but since the camp
has been accessible by teams, and the
roads in comparative good condition,
accommodations, board and everything
pertaining to ones comforts are not
more expensive than any other place
the same distance from railroad trans
portation--seventy- miles.
Provisions are reasonable enough,
considering the wages that are paid
miners and mechanics. Flour can be
bought at $40 hundred, and bacon
at from S18 70 $40. There are about
ten restaurants or eating houses where
man can get good meal at seventy
FIVE cents, also restaurants on the
European plan, where persons can get
what they call for, served up in good
style. There are also numerous lodg-
ing places, where tired traveller can
enjoy night Of sweet repose for the
small SUM of fifty cents. You don't
have to lay on the soft side of a plank
with a rock for pillow, either, but
you will receive kind and polite atten-
ton at the hands of attendants, who
will furnish you with good single
bed that has nice, clean sheets and
pillow slips, and after you get locked
in the arms of old "Morph.," you
wouldn't know any difference but what
you wers sleeping in Fifth Avenue
hotel.
The disadvantage in not obtaining
lumber until the present, has been an
obstacle to enterprise that could not
have been avoided nevertheless
most of our merchants have erected
hewed log houses, while some have
resorted to the use Of large tents, only
for temporary use. The first steam
whistle that ever turned itself loose in
this camp was heard from Eckerly's
saw mill last Friday, and the resound-
ing shrill seemed to have quite stiin-
ulating effect upon business, and con-
tracts for log buildings seemed to de-
cline at least fifty per cent from that
time on. The aforesaid mill IS now
running night and day to its utmost
capacity.
Following close upon this mill there
are no less than half q dozen Others
that have fallen in line, and will soon
be producing lumber with equal ca
pacity. The question may be asked,
"What use will be made of all the lum-
Der that viii be cut by so many mills ?
then again it will be SO cheap-being
sold now at SIS and s3o-that the
market will be glutted, and then
will build" The man who contem-
plates building. need not expect lunl-
ber to be much lower this season, for
you must take into consideration that
there are no less than fifteen large
business houses to be erected, and from
four to six hotels to accommodate the
public, besides buildings for saloons,
restaurants, bakeries, meat markets,
and various ether buildings that go to
make an enteyprislng town, and also
dwellings to accommodate at least two
thousand working miners.
The question may be asked again
by the stranger who may anticipate
doing business here, "What have you
IN the camp 10 support such popuia-
tion as spoken Of above??" and the
answer is eniphatically,
RICH PAYING MINES.
There are no less than dozen mines
working forces from ten men up to
forty, while there are hundreds ofpros-
pect holes that are being worked by
smaller forces. These mines are all
sacking ore ready for shipment, and it
is a fact beyond doubt that there is not
another mining camp in the State, or
perhaps in the country, that can pro-
duce as many high grade ore mines as
are found in this camp, and it is no
uncommon thing for mines here to sack
ore, carrying ruby and brittle silver
that will give mill returns all the way
from 500 to 1000 ounces. And 1t Is
proof conclusive that all the rich leads
have not yet been found from the
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