Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-14

4 fev days ago small party Of pros
psctors left this city on q prospecting
tour to the Cascade Mountains. A nsu-
hsT of thejparty furnishes Is the follow
ing account Of the trip, which viii be
read Nth interest
Took the cars to Black River two
weeks ago Saturday. Hired an Indian
with a pony 10 pack our supplies for us,
and ve stayed Sunday night AZ Lev.
Tice's house the James Steel place }.
II showed all day Sunday very hard and
ve were told that foot Of snow fell
that day en- Porter Prairie. about forty
miles from Seattle, but Is disappeared
soon. Monday the roads were very mud
DIV. bat We reached Jones's place. two
miles from Porter's Prairie, at Up. M
passing the Mnckle Shute reserve about
noon. Ii ID most beautiful location
Il few thrifty, energetic white farm
ers owned that land, sheir taxes might
help support soms other reservation for
toe Indians. IL nov seems worse than
foolish for our govern uent g. drain the
revenue channels of eight or ten States
and Territories mercy for the sake Of
giving priest or agent control Of a
handful of educated and uneiucated
Indians. who have their detIng Great
Chief build houses, furnish Supplies.
tools for farming and everything they
nia think Is necessary for their COM
fort, and live On the garden spots of our
lands How many poor white families
would willingly make beautiful homes
of these places, and their work would
be monuments pointing TO the thrift Of
American industry. | don't object to
providing for the natives and fully
compromising them for each and every
favor. as a people or individuals We re-
ceive from them: bat think it folly fol
our people to become infatuated With
more than one colored race at a time
We thought We had quelied and dis
posed of the enancipated race in twc
years, bat the Indian has hssAs Uln1a
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aAd camped At Jacks Fountain, oppo
site the Black Diamond Company.
works. They have good solid log houses
SIX in number, and We could hear tn,
blasksmiths sharpening pick and drills
They shoot of about fifteen blasts daily
Running tunnels. We went up Greer
| River about thirt, miles from here. 4
surveyor who Knows told us it was JUS
| eighteen miles from McC hntick's to tn.
summit, and as re went up the river Al
least 'thirty-ive miles from McClin
ticks, We must have been hanging Oh
| the east end Of the Green River trail auc
| 10 must have stuck out into the Natcne,
valley about II miles from the mountain
bat the water all runs TO the west as IA
az we were. The trail was in good con
dision most Of the way. Inc mountain
sides are perfect network of railroat
trails. Every old bear or Indian trai
has been swamped out lit for pacl
trains, and railroad survey stakes Ar
stuck every few feet.
| We could hear blasting on the Ceda
River railroad, and a miner told Us tina
| i've miles of rail had been laid frou
Rentsn toward Green River, and tina
| they expected the Cedar River railrusl
to be completed as far as the Blacl
Diamond mines by May or June. rh
west side Of the mountains is at thi
| place a great bed of sand rock, and Goa
IL abundant, and Whep the railroa.
reaches this altitude is IL settled fac
that it will continue across the sammi
| to the prairiss. There is mach snow Of
the summit now, and it will be har,
crossing before May.
| We got some Of those grand old view
Of the mountains which seem to thru
Us with new life. Bear, deer, elk, vol
and wildcat signs are abundant an,
pheaslnts and grouse plentiful. SD ther
Is no need of starving. We saw yer
large black wolf--larger than any do
ever seen. He had tins fur, bat We di
not bring him home with as. We sa,
some tiae timber, splendid vine mapl
land, large tracts of burnt land. an
some spots where good houses could b
Whitfield out by An Industrious YANKEES
We went sver on To Boise Creek, sOut
of Green River, and saw SOME fine L4ne
but we're unable to cross the mountain
to the Natchez country, as We hoped t,
on account OF the snow. think "
have found COED vein of anthracit
coal, but can do nothing with it unit
May, or possibly even later. Had muc
rain. bail and some snow on the trip
remind US how weak is man.
Ii travellers want good, first elias
meals and the best of jolly, friendl
company to cheer them on a trip q
this trail. we advise them strongly
stop at the house Of Mr.. L. w. lice, on
mile from the White River railroa
bridge. for the first night, and the mex
lot them stay at Mr.. Jones's, where th
trail leaves the main road for the hill
At each of these places both man An
beast can be we'll cared for at the mos
reasonable rates. and the genial smile
of these gentlemen and ladies viii chee
the traveller np as he plotis on throug
the mud and snow. for he knows go0
upper and friends await him at each q
these places. k0CKs.