Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-07-01

Some Thirty Thousand Souls Lfy'
to Damn Coeur d'Alene.

some Thirty Thousand Souls Live
to Damn Coeur d'Alene.
The San Francisco Daily Exchange, the
most valuable OF our mining exchanges
publishes the following letter from a gen
tlemen we'll known in California and Ne
vada, and remarks that many similar
letters are received in San Francisco by
friends from other gentlemen Of relia'
bility:
M~URRAYvILLE, June z, 1884.
FRIEND G: l I'm going to leave here in
few days. The longer l stay here the less
/ think Of the camp. l am going out to
the railroad, but cam tell at present which
way / shall go. 1 suppose you see big
yarns again from this camp. It was dying
out, and they had to give it another whoop-
up. As ! told you before, there is one
good claim here, in Dream Gulch. They
only find good pay up the gulch about 700
yards. aud that claim is owned by one
company. 1t pays well, but not what they
blow about in the papers. That claim is
all that keeps the camp up at present. The
gold found in the claim is very coarse,
with a good deal of quartz hanging to it.
In fact, all the coarse gold is full of quartz,
and very rough. 1t never came far. There
is no doubt it came from q quartz pocket
that is very rich.
At Buckskin Gulch, which is not far
from here, they are drifting. They say it
pays wages. Alder Gulch comes next,
where they bave not reached bedrock yet.
Next, Gold Run, where they have reached
bedrock in several places, without finding
anything Of any account. Next, Cougar
Gulch; nothing. Next, West Gulch; moth
ing. Next, Reeder Gulch; nothing that
will pay. There is more or less gold in all
of them. These gulches are all ON
Pritchard creek, in an area Of two and a
half miles, and run to a point in q gravel
ridge. They claim this now for an old
channel, and are trying to give it a boom.
/ have been all over it a dozen times, and
an sure it is nothing but a glacial deposit.
They have found gold in several places in
it, but at so great al altitude it is difficult
to get water. 1t is all a selling speculation
80 far.
In regard to Pritchard Greek, so far it is a
failure; but you will hear every day of
from 81, 900 to Sc 5000 being paid for q sim
gle claim. | do not take much stock in
these reports.
The Widow claim is being worked, and
I am positive it does not pay over 81 or SIS
per day to the hand. Two other claims
have been prospected to the bedrock,
without finding any pay. One claim they
sailed, but could not make it stick. Yet
there may be good spots in it.
The gulch and creek claims they are
working are all around Murrayville. Eagle
City is dead.
l hear that William Parish, who used to
live at the Buttes, has a man buying placer
ground here. If 80. l am sure he will get
left
They have two papers here trying to
boom the camp, besides a number Of men
employed writing to outside papers the
biggest lies On earth. Yet, it is no go.
There is no doubt the railroad keeps them
up. They had three papers, but one had
to go under.
The quartz so far don't amount to much.
II l had the Harrisburg quartz mines from
Alaska here l could sell them. They
would be considered very good mines here.
l have met two old-time Downieyille
men here. They are, like myself, dis
gusted. Yours,
A. M. uLEER