, 1884-03-01

stood among pots Of beans, bacon and
buscuit, from which he gave me a
nugget, that weighs $500. The
claim contains twenty acres, and at
the same proportion as that worked
would yield Sl,5OO,OOO in gold dust.
Other claims in the same vicinity
have yielded and promise equally as
well. Men are everywhere at work
digging drain bitches, making sluice
boxes, and preparing for active min
ing as soon as the weather moder-
ates.
next visited the ''Mother Lead"
Of quartz, some two miles further
up Prichlrd Creek. This claim was
located by ]. E. Harris, William
King and Charles Clark, in October
1888, another claim adjoining this
on the same lead, being located by
other parties at the same time. The
old gentleman Harris was in the
cabin alone. He kindly showed me
the mine. We are told that the
streets of the New Jerusalem are
paved with gold. When Satan and
his followers were diScomfitted by
the hosts of the Lord, they repaired
to the internal regions and builied
high a mountain of gold. But here
is a silvery stream which gurgles
and babbles across a bed of gold.
A vein of gold bearing quartz about
four feet wide cuts Obliquely across
the creek, and dips into the noun
tain. am not miner nor an ex-
pert. cannot say whether this is a
''lead," lode," "ledge," or a "true
fissure vein :" whether it is a
"pocket," a float" or a "slide,"
but the eye of green horn can de-
tect gold in this quartz. These men
have spent the lonely winter in their
little cabin, as have many others,
guarding their treasure, doubtless
dreaming of the geld of ancient
Ophir, Of new bonanza which shall
rival the famous COmstock lode.
Other discoveries in this vicinity
and elsewhere in the district are said
to be equally as promising, but your
space will not admit of their men
ton.
TOWNS.
On Prichard Creek, above Eagle
City, several new towns are spring
ing up.
MURRAYvILLE,
At the mouth of Aldar Gulch, Is the
centre of the principal active mining
operations now.
RAVEN,
Is further up at the mouth of Bear
and Granite Clutches, and
SULLIVAN CITY,
Further up, at the foot of the sum
nit. Both towns are surrounded by |
what is believed to be rich placer
and quartz.
Speaking Of these mines generally,
l VIII say, as 10
LOCATION, /
They are in the Bitter Root range of
the Rocky Mountains, not in the |
Coeur dAlenes, as is generally sup
posed. They appear to me to be To-
Gated in KoOtenai county Idaho, but |
in the district they are generally |
assumed to he in ShOshone county. |
ACCESSIBILITY.
Never before has y mining camp |
been found so accessible. A great |
continental railroad-the Northern
Pacific, winds around three sides of
it, within fifty miles distance. Yet |
now they are the most inaccessible,
owing to nothing having been~done
to build roads before winter set in.
ROUTES.
There is but one route by which
freight or passengers can reach the
mines by the aid OF horse, mule, or
cayuse power. This is the route ria
Ceur d'Alane, the Mission and EvO-
luton. Steamboats, will run on the
lake as soon as spring opens. The
Jackass Prairie route for a wagon
road, connecting the steamers with
the mines is practicable, and is now
being opened by the Spokane Falls
and Coeur d'Alene Transportation
Company. The Trout Creek trail is
practicable for fOOtmen only. Icame
out over the ThompsOn's Falls route,
and found it entirely practicable for
a wagon road from the Montana side.
A railroad is practicable from SpO-
kane Falls, as the waters from the
mines flow directly through our city.
The rock formation Of the COeur
d'Alene district are of igneous origin
slate, granite, porphyry and
quartz, and all Indications are those
Of a rich mineral belt. But the
mines are not sufficiently developed
to Judge Of their permanence and
value. The question in placer min
ing is: Will the deep bed rock pay
less or more than the rim rock and
will the quartz prove what prospect
ors fondly imagine?
The district will be thoroughly
IN the spring, and the
problem solved.
The miners are cOming-frOm
Europe, Australia and every State
and Territory of our Union; and
which the REVIEW or l
could say would not stop them.
II.
A Fire At Davenport.
Last Monday evening the village