Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-17
a9fw DALENE MINES. ere.

EDrToR Posi- -ISTELLIGEScKR:
SPOKANE FALLs, April 10, 1854.
For the edification and enlightenment
Of the would be ambitious Ceuf d Alene
gold miner and Others of the Puget
Sound country, will submit the few
facts following, cleaned while sojourn-
ing in Spokane Falls. Men are fiockine
in here every day from the east and west
IN such numbers that, unless they have
blankets, they will find themselves Mi
nus a bed. l res men here every day
Just in from the mines, who say there Is
nothing to do, and from two to six feet
OF snow from Eagle City to the mines;
that it is useless for nybody to go sooner
than month vet. In the mines and at
Eagle City meals are 81 each. Pack
trains leave Spokane Falls every othe1
day to pack provisions from C1ur
| d'Alene City into Eagle City, n distance
| of about one hundred miles. A steamer
leaves Spokane bridge for Cnur d Alene
City, a distance of forty miles, by Spo-
kane river, by which everything il trans
ported to Coeur d'Alene. There is also
u stage line from Spokane Falls to Eagle
City.
The stage arrived at Spokane Falls
last evening, having on board Glenn King
and party of capitalists who have been
into the mines on a prospecting tour.
The former IL gentleman Of means
who owns half interest in the steamer
before mentioned. He also swns the
TOWNSHIP of Eagle City, wherein lots sell
at 600 and upwards. l overheard Y
| conversation between one of these eapi-
talists, who WAS termed Doctor" and
| a friend of his to whom the Doctor said,
very confidentially and with much en-
phasls: " The placer mines are a tizZle,
bat the quartz mines are immense"
also tapped fellow who came in on
| the same stage, who was not capitalist
but one of those would-be miners and
blOwhards who, III talking with green
horn, (for he tOok-Or nlstOok-me for
onsi are inclined to give taffy by saying,
when asked about tue times and pros
poets III the mines, that they were boom
ing; that one day this week *llOO WAS
taken in gold dust out of the Widows
Claim 1t WAS then he saw that | WAS
no greenhOrn sy the questions and con-
illusions | propounded to him. In the
first place oornersd him about coming
TO Spokane Falls, where there is nothing
doing and nearly five thousand psOsl 10
to do 1t, and paying $50 a day for
board. In the second place he owned
up that he did not see the gold dust and
that nobody had told him about it. In
the third place, he did not know where
the Widows claim Was, although | am
told there is such claim paying about
FL day to the man. and to verify his
statement he showed an f. specimen of
coarse gold. In one piece. 1t looked very
nne. On my questioning him he said
he was never In the mines and did not
expect to go there, as he was in business
here, and that the specimen was given
him by the man who found 1t, to give or
| send ii to his (the miners 81 wife In Walla
Walla. This business Ian Is the one
whom the Doctor nbave mentioned spoke
tn 80 confidentially when arriving on the
coach or stage.
The fact is, the snow is 40 deep that
nobody can tell how much gold there is
there, and the conclusion | have co,ue
t. Is that the mines III great measure
are like the Skagit mines. The hotel
Keepers and furnishers of supplies are
reaping a big harvest.
10 conclude. will say that it il NOT
wise for anybody to come to Spokane
Falls with the expectation of getting
work and putting in the time until the
snow leaves the mountains, because there
IL nothing doing at any kind of labor.
The saw and planning mill is shut down
until the hiph water in July, when logs
are expected to come down the river.
The sash and door factory is dong very
little. All the lumber used here COMES
ON the railroad from Idaho and Mon
tana.
am going today 10 kathdrum, Idaho.
to Fish Lake, IN the mountains. l will
post you rs near AS l oan find out.
feel SO improved in health that can eat
like hog. The air is very light, gay
up here. will he able Ia return to Sc
attic in two or three months.
Yours, respectfully,
DANIyL GRAHAM.