, 1883-12-22
FROM THE MINES.
A GOOB CAMP. BUT BtpIx ms.
MORAIIzED.
Plenty Of snow. saloons and Geld

! there We're five feet Of snow on level or
November 29th. Since then a contipaef
chinook has reduced it to one foot.
A restaurant started up at Eagle CITY last
week. Cold potato and plate Of rice 81,
bits. Standing room and five minutes oaly
allowed for refreshments and if not THROUGH
on time the bouncer fires you out.
During the last snow storm, which lasted
two days and three nights, several Of the ru.
ta-baga men left the CAMP and since then
tie arrivals have been as three 70 one 70 the
departures. There were one hundred and
fifty men camped on the Mullen road at the
loot OF the trail waiting for the storm to
pass over, and they Lave since fought their
way in.
A good trail can be made into camp bv
cutting out the dead timber. If miners had
organized tine camp this would have been
been done at the start.
Eagle City has quite large -sized ele-
phant for SO small place. Every house is
saloon and there are half dozen tents
whose owners are all trying to get rich sell
ing whisky. The tiger howls night aud
day.
The "N dow" claim prospects well and
the boys have her stripped on the high bed
rock, with plenty of water, good bottom
and good dump; the boys have soft thing
and are working it for all it is worth.
Some scrub tried his hand robbing sluice
boxes the other day; but the boys got after
him with a scatter gun and the fellow ran
so fast he sprained his ankle and was glad
to sell his clam for 500 and quit the camp
when notified to de so.
1t was thought that packing was over for
the season but train came in yesterday.
having been two days from Beaver creek,
eight miles, and twelve days making the
eighteen miles over the summit from the
Mullen road to Beaver. On its arrival the
packers passed the hat around among the
miners to purchase feed for the mules, and
oats are only fifty cents a pound. a trail
had to be shoveled for the train over the
summit where the snow was from eight to
fourteen feet deep and Columbia Com
pany" "a. +. Parker & Coz are freighting
from Camp Ceur d'Alene up the north fork
to the mouth of Eagle creek, by means of
fiat boats, for ten cents a pound. and also
carry passengers both ways. Since the sue
cess Of their first trip, half of the loose men
in camp have gone to building boats.
An agent Of Small Bros. was here recently
soliciting money to cut new trail to bring
a saw mill into camp.
II any Of our readers hear a man cussing
the camp, spot him at once either as a fraud
or tenderfoot who has been frczen out. 1t
is a good camp and will yield millions OF
dollars before it is played out. The gold is
here.
The Sheriff Of Kootenai county has been
in 10 serve isjlnct;Jns on parties who jump
ID cl inns; but tie boys say they have no
business outside the camp and stay right by
their claims The twenty acre claims must
be broken up or the camp is total wreck,
until the ruta blga men are bought ont or
frozen out.
There will be more money brought in
than is taken out for some time, but 1t is a
good camp. No. ! camp and the truth
might as well be told. 1t is, however, in
bad hands, and things are so badly mixed
that it will take long time to get them
Strengthened ont The real estate bureau
who sat on their launches and boomei the
camp after they had located their twenty
acre claims, are getting badly left, for Disn
-miaers-are jumping and opening them.
Injunctions will be served and the
whole district will be more or less demoral-
ized hy the slow process of expensive litlga-
ton: and We will be mighty lucky II no
blood IS shed. Never aid good camp have
SO bad a start A. r. Z.