The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-12-07

this andthat, but failing in the attempt, went
up to Puller's Springs to wash off orr just in
digration.
There we found Capt. Davis, who Keeps
the hotel, as hearty and genial as in the days
Of yore, when be Kept the old international
in Virginia. Soon after our arrival We
plunged irto a tank Of warm, med c.Eal
water, FIVE feeG in depth and about The size of
All average Pennsylvania nsl.dam. The
diseases that human flesh is heir to, ard
which had been eypurged from the row
healthy systems of forme- :~nvalids, had l1n
ont at one corner, so we were not at"a:d of
encoursering in our aquatic symnas..cs
a twinge of rheumatism, a spasm OF govt, or
the morbid melancholy of a diseased ltver
noaSing about on the surface. If sick folks
feel well, bow must well folks feel after bath
ing in that spring? In the same ratio the
latter should lay in a stock of vitality tina.
would bounce them through a life as long and
happy as mortal could desire. After the re-
juvenating bath, and a night at the hotel, we
started on our sixteen mile drive to Virginia
City. We stopped at Adobetown (absut three
miles below the city, foi a short time, wne;e
We found a jelly lot Of mire-s. Oscar Sed-
man is running his extensive diggings sue
cessfully, and Casey 4 O'Brien a~e doug a
large mercantile business. Every one, o.
nearly every one, knows about old Alder and
Virginia C%ity--how in early days claims of
100 feet each Gin part of the gulch two tiers
Of them) for a distance of - miles, were
each yielding large amounts of dust, and
what q rampant and 1iproarious place the
city was. But now the former is in the hands
Of a few companies--to whom she still yields
much of the needfUl-while the latter plods
along in a quiet, meCaodical manner, neither
losing OR gaining much to speak of.
Afte, a ten days trip we completed the
circle home by the way Of Madison, one of
our oldest settled and most prosperous val
leys, aud of which may speak more at leugih
in the future.
Jack Frost has closed the Norwegian place.
mines for the winter, the owners of which,
generally, have lone we'll during the sunme,
and fail. The Banty lode has yielded dr ing
the fall about Is tons of estimated $50 ore.
and Mr.. Gordon, the owner, is now hauling Il
to Mallory's mill, in Pony, to be crushed.
In the Pony district Carmin & Co.. have
about 30 tons of White Pine quartz on thei,
dump. They haye just made a run in the
Getchell mill, here, of 40 tons, which wen
$50 per ton, aud that on the dump, it il
thought, will yield still better. The Ned ant
Willow Creek (the latter having lain idle
long time) will be worked extensively thi
winter. The owners of the Boss Tweed VII
soon ship east some of the base ore from tina
gigantic lode. There are tons innumerabl
of high grade base ore in SIGHT on this prop
erty. The Keystone is IDLE, with plenty 0
the same kind Of ore exposed. Base ore pre-
dominates in nearly all the lodes here, as vel
as in the Boulder district, near here, after
certain depth is attained. But the none i
in them, and the time is not far distant whel
it will be taken cut. Most of the lodes il
!. camp are being thoroughly represented.
The weather, which has been delightful
until recently, is now frightful--mercury 2
degrees below, with a foot Of snow horse
; paving for grub, and cattle looking with hou
, cry eyes at hay and unthreshed grain stacks
4 folks generally housed w and wonder:n
, whether this thing is going to continue long
! whether the isothermal line has not throw
! off en- us, and where those snow-skedaddlin
chinooks are that once swept over this ter
tory, sending prospectors into the hills; er
4 livening tie business Of merchants and al
strsight'ning the curved backs of stock. ci,
i ing them a chance for their lives, re,.e,;u
the anxiety of their owners, and--that is a
= at present. Yours truly,
y WILL O. kRlCK.
: Pony, Madison County, Nov. %.