, 1882-03-25
UPPER COUNTRY NEWS.

UHIaB COO0IkI d6ba
Itsms Collected for the Statesman On the
Fan. Steamboat and the Hurricane Deck
ofa cayuss Hor,e During q trip from
WlIA walla to the Eead Of Savt-
CATION on Snake River.
TIE wing dan operations on Salmon river
have been given up owing to tia great diff
Guilty in working ground below the water
level; the bedrock was never reached and
what dirt vas taken out Was very good but
no. rich enough to pay for stripping l. feet
of top dirt, party Of men are now prospect
ing above John Days creek and will give the
river bank thorough test before high wa
ter comes.
The miners in Wsrreus are working IN
their quartz ledges and taking ont some very
good rock; there are numerous very rich
but narrow ledges in the Old camp and are
open for location and working by any man
Of energy.
Several of the smaller cattle men on Cam
as Prairie and Salmon river have been re-
Gently bought out by men who intend TO 20
extensively into the business. The Salmon
river country althsush steep is the best cat
| tie range ia the north, near the river snow
seldom falls and never remain, long enough
to prevent cattle from doing wei.
! The U. S. mail route to Warrens il now
again an established fsct.
A man is trying to ruin the prospects Of
Assotin city by starting what he terms a
newspaper there; the place will; flourish i;
10. handicapped by pazy blacksmith pr;n-
ters..
There is as much good agricultural land
left in Northern Idaho as has been taken
and fully as many people as are now there
can be supplied; it is government land open
10 pre-emption homestead, timber culture
etc, and equals, the best Of any other Sec
ton o. the Pacific coast, on PotlatcL alone
there is enough left to make q county as
| large as Columbia county, and on Camas
| Prairie, and In ShoshOns and kootenai
counties there is much left; the country
skirting Criigs mountain offers excellent To-
cations for the dairy business; there is much
scattering timber here consisting of pine, fir
and cedar, wild timothy grass grows plenti-
| fully and there is abundance Of Sater every
where: apples. plums, pears and berries Will
| do well there Those amiable Land office
gentlemen at Lewiston, Messrs j. NJ. Howe
and Richard Monroe Will g.ve every inquir-
! er all the information thy can with pleas
| ure.
A most excellent quality Of lime Is now
manufactured near the Grande Ronde river
and is used a. Lewiston in preference to that
brought from Portland.
The dear people Of the thriving town OF
Moscow have been requested to start one OF
an old Bedrock" family with a hatful of
type and a printing press but as the citizens
have no particular dirty work they want
performed just now they have declined.
The Colville mission school has obtained q
| splcHCit ItpuL1lAOu VI AnN
upper country not ouly Tor the excellent ed.
ucation their children receive bus also from
the fact that they are kept from becoming
| hoodlumq which are increasing at such an
alarming rate in every town and city; chill
| dren are educated and boarded for 500 per
annum, and it is said they are made perfect
! little gentlemen Of The school Is under
control Of the sisters and fathers. and is a
bran,h OF the Santa Clara college of Califor
MIA; at present there are So girls and 6S
boys in attendance at the two schools which
will shortly be removed to Spokane Falls.
That old time rich mining property in
Florence known as Bear Track" has lately
changed hands, it is the longest lasting
claim in the camp and has yielded many
thousands OF dollars of the precious Laetal,
ditch, fumes. ground and everything per-
tanning TO the claim only brought 5000
Lewiston is getting famous as health re-
sort. the reason is that the climate Is pure,
dry and warm and the absence Of malaria
through no extensive plOWing in its mediate
vicinity: invalids go there because they can
| 90 nowhere else; Portland is too damp and
the mountains too cold at this time of tine
year.
Lewiston is blessed with a one horse Sun
! day law which is more hopored In the breech
than 80 tba oboarvapca etorao ara .lloua1
to be kept open until 10 o'clock A. NJ, and
are then supposed to be closed for the re-
mainder of the blessed day-only they most
decidedly are not.
The Indians say that before the advent Of
the whites mountain sheep were very plen-
! tiful in the steep hills along Snake river;
now they are only to be found in very re-
mote and almost Inaccessible localities.
The Lewiston Gun Ciab are anxious to
shoot a match with that of Walla Walla
their proposition ia that team of our bes
shots should first come to Lewiston and then
| they will return the visit and shoot at our
city.
The RAYMOND House at Lewiston is one
Of the incest and best hotels on the coast; it
is a new house we'll built and handsomely
| furnished with every convenience for guests
and the travelling public. We can heartily
recommend 1t.
Robert Grostein is having plans drawn for
| a new residence which Will. when finished,
be the handsomes. dwelling house in the
upper country. and credit to Lewiston.
The worst place on Snake ri"er for boat
TO navigate is at Log Cabin island, the vessel
! has to hug tine bank so close that her sides
overhang the land and the only channel is
the width OF the Poat and not foot to
spare.
James Carroll engineer Of the "Almota" is
one of the best men in the cOnpanys en-
ploy-
Two thousand bushels Of wheat have been
shipped from Assotin city TO Dement, Bros
of the Empire mills of Walla Walis; the
grain is of most excellent quality and sam
pies can be seen at this efhce.