The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-02-06
THE CEUR D'ALENES.
A Fresh 1nstalment Of important
News.

A "Miner" Reporter "squsexes'
1 Tommy Roean.
A MINER reporter learning thai
Tommy Rogan of this city had just
returned from the new mines,
equipped himself with note book and
pencil and hunted him up. Tommy
was DOE found, and at a wink and q
nod from the NJ. r., entered an ad-
joining room and gracefully sub.
mitted to an exhaustive squeezing
process. To the questions "When
did you return, and what kind of a
trip did you have?" Tommy an
swered, SUNDAY night, and 1 had
a pleasant time and an enjoyable
trip"
R.-"What route did you take?"
T.-'Down the road to Tone City
and over the Tone City trail. The
Belknap road and trail will not be
open to travel for some time yet, and
Tone City will be the principal point
Of departure to the mines until it Is
opened. A few packers have sue
ceeded in getting through to Eagle
City Dy the Mission route, but as
there is 80 much land travel on that
route but few will take it when the
Belknap road shall be opened. There
is no use of talking about a pack
trail over the present Tone City
route. The trail is good enough, be-
Ing on almost level ground, a. far as
King Emerson's.: Then comes The
tug of war. Why, it is almost as
much as a man can DO to walk up
the steep divide, much less getting q
loaded animal up"
R.-"How do they get tobogeans
over it?"
T.-"Well, I'll tell you. They get
along first-rate until they come to
the foot of the divide, and then they
s%plicelropes and dozen or more men
pull up one toboggan at a time.
When once on top it's a rough road
to travel. The trail follows the back
bone of a spur of the mountain, and
a hard old backbone it is, too, moth
ing but short and precipitous hills all
he way until you get within a short
distance of Eagle City, when the
descent is gradual to the valley be-
low" !
R.-"Were there many on the trail
when you passed over?"
T.-"Well, we passed 2O6 men with
toboggans."
R.-"Who do you mean by WEI"
Unlike O'Meara and myself.
W. went over together and came
back together"
R.-"Are there many people at
City ?"
T.-"About 1900 now and they are
in every day by the tifties."
R.-"Wh t do they do when they
get there?"
T-"Most of them 60 to work
of building houses. Those that
don't build can get $500 a day help
ing others to build. They have the
finest ti'uber l ever saw over there.
of trees just the right size for
house logs, and millions that will
make the best kind of lumber. Near
y every tree is from $50 feet to 200
'eet high. Immense cedars are also
'ound in abundance. They roof their
with "shakes" rived from
,hese trees. They are sawed into
our foot lengths and rive as evenly
md smoothly as though cut by a
CUTTER
R--'Did you see any Butte boys
,ver there?'
T.-'Plenty of them. There are
quite a number at Eagle City but
Nurraysville. seven miles above
eagle on Pritchard Greek, Is settled {
principally by Butte men,"
R.-''Who are they?"
T.-"Let's see. There Is Twohig {
Who used to keep the corner saloon s
cross from Sands Il Boyce. He is ]
up a saloon at Murraysville. &
Then there Is John Cameron, for t
aerly of Vaudeville, Ed. Rooney.
ack Bow, Tom Williams, Cap. 1
Frank Carey, Johnnie Mil s
er, formerly of Kinna & Jacks, and {
Delegate VIM. II. Clagget. The l
wo latter came In together. The t
oys gave Clagsett a lot and are
up a house for him. BY the
7ay the Judge, as they call him /
yer there, wished me to present his Q
to his friends in Butte, but
s every one here is his friend, and q
8 l can't see them all, I guess you q
ad better put that down too. Then q
here is Falligan's man. Dave
runner, and Lum Duuwoodie, and r
[ugh Kennedy, who used to keep a b
on Montana street and others
hose names I can't just now recall n
!, mind" +
R.-"How are these men doing?" b
T.-"They have all got ground and y
ley think good ground. Their {
aims run from five acres to twenty b
cres each, but there are many more f,
the former size than of the latter" C.