The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-12-29
THE cGUR D.ALENE.
Later News from the Northern Placer,


The first reports received from the
Occur d'Alene mines, situated near
the line of the Northern Pacific Rail-
way, were of SO rose colored a charac-
ter as to naturally excite suspicion
that they were highly colored pur-
posely to entice men 10 remote coun-
try, so that transportation com pan les
and other interested persons might
fleece them. So many corroborating
accounts are being received, however.
that it Is impossible To doubt tho gem
nineness of the find and that it il
very rich one. Last Saturday Horace
l.. Cutter, cashier OF The First National
Bank of fSpokane, w. r., called at the
San francisco ChroDicle office and ex-
hibited two large nuggets, each con-
tanning nearly 800 worth of gold,
found In the new diggings. Mr.. Cut
ter, who by the way Is we'll known in
this city and San Jose, where he was
formely engaged in the banking bus
iness, states that there can be no doubt
about the RICHNESS of the diggings,
abundant evidence thereof being pre-
sented TO BIN at the bank in the shape
OF dust and nuggets of varying sizes.
lie says there are now something like
800 men on the ground waiting for
the weather 10 open, and believes
there will he big rush in the spring.
At present, owing to the severity of
the weather, little or no digging can
t.x 10 IL L. A..
folly for any one short Of money to
go TO the mines, as provisions are
very dear aud accommodations scarce
and expensive. Spokane, Mr.. Cutter
claims, will be the best point from
which 10 gain access To the mines
when the season opens and that town
is on the line of the Northern Pacific.
The Northwest News and Oregonian
OF Portland confirm the accounts here
tofore published, and the Kootenai
Courier of Ralhdrum, |. T., commen-
ting ON the Chronicles dou bts Iegard-
ing the mines, says:
For months IL has been known POS
itivciy that gold and silver i'm almost
inexhanstible stnres are TO be seen III
tie Occur d'Alone gold-fields- That
the average yield OF the rlasers per
day TO the man II from two o five
ounces OF gold il not cOniroveried.
Not less than 1000 miners have visited
thIs wonderfully rich district during
the past six months and there is but
one oplnion-s'rich beyond SHADOW
OF doubt" Thi, Is not mere idle ru.
NOR but some Of the best miners of
tho Pacific coast say SO, and the
writer. OF his own knowledge-having
made two trips to the gold -lds =
would be willing to make affidavit
that at least three claims yielded not
less than two and half ounces per
day TO the man; and further. that two
of these claims were employing from
seven TO eleven men. Again, IL Is
generally conceded In the district that
other claims have done fully as well,
II not even better, than those two men
toned. While 1t is a fact that not
more than ten claims have been
opened, without a single exception
they are yielding the precious metal
To n remarkable large amount. Why
more claims have not been opened
will be really understood when it Is
stated that work was not commenced
until very late the past summer, and
of course many prosPectors waited to
see what the few truly enterprising
and Industrious would find before
they commenced the work OF develop
ment. But now, 1t being definitely
settled that the claims are rich, all
those who have claims W III commence
active operations either during the
present winter or very early next
spring, and with this end in vl-w are
shipping in very large bills OF supplies,
that nothing may detain them when
work is started.