The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
THE IMPENDING STAMPEDE.
Prospects OF Opening the Trails
Leading to the New Ell
dorado.


Leading to the New e.
dorado.
| Towns on the railroad Crowded
with Expecrant Stam-
peders.
The Experience OF Some Butte
Prospectors.
| Special Correspondence of the MINER.
HERON SIDING, Jan. 4, 81.
According to promise 1 write
YOU the condition of things
as I see them regarding the
Coeur d'Alene mines. First and fore
most the proposition that this is pal
excellence the greatest mining ex'
element ever experienced on the Pa
cidc coast. My travels during the
past thirty days have been extensive,
including Denver, LeadvilIe and the
tine of railroad from st. Paul to
Portland, Oregon. In every place
I have stopped, the interest
in the new diggings has been
intense. At Denver and Leadville
the excitement was at fever heat, and
the first news of an open road to
Eagle City will e an exodus from
those cities unequalled in the history
of stampedes. At Helena. Missoula,
Rathdrum. Spokane Falls, end at
this place I have met probably a
thousand men from all sections OF
the country who are waiting to get
into the mines. These men are the
avant couriers of the army of SIAM
peders who are to come in the spr.ng,
each one of them representing either
organized companies, or interests
which which will bring large
numbers of men who will
start for the mines upon receipt of
favorable advices from their advance
agent. Among these men are repre-
sentatives from every section of the
Pacific Coast, and those from Oregon,
Washington Territory and Califor-
MIA represent the excitement in those
sections as most intense, and predict
a heavy exodus in the spring from
their respective regions. We think
here that the result will be an influx
of possibly one hundred thousand
people ard a condition of things in
Eagle City approaching Pande-
moniunl. But there is a vast con-
tiguous country which is entirely UNI
prospected, and it is believed that
the entire section between the rail-
road aud the old Mullan road, a
distance of fifty miles abounds in
placers as rich as any diggings yet
discovered in the C~ur d. Alenes and
it is probable that the overflow of
stampeders from Pritchard and Ea-
gle Greek will open up this section of
country, which, if its resources have
not been over-estimated will support
a larger population than is likely to
come in next season.
EAGLE CITY.
Your correspondent returned last
night from the most v trip he
ever experienced, though he has for
many years been Injured to the hard
ships Of pioneer life. Upon arriving
at Heron Siding on the Oath inst. l
that the trail from that point
was impossible and SO retraced my
TO Trout creek. Here / found
hat although animals were not trav-
cling the trail it was passed over
Every day by foot passengers who
snow shoes for use in case of
emergency, upon which the last three
Or four miles has to be made in every
case. Providing myself with the nee
essary foot gear and finding a COM
who was DESTROYS of making
lie trip. we started out at 7 o'clock
he next morning. The distance is
said to be thirty miles, but we fonnd
he trail anobstructed by dangerous
or rugged mountains, and al
:hough we made good time, it was 8
}. N. before the glimmering lights at
he foot of a sweeping incline
old us that we had reached the end
If the trail and were in sight of the
ar-famed Eagle City. Adjusting
,ur snow-shoes, which were of the
Sheboygan pattern, we soon made
he distance of three or four miles in
ervening between the end of the
rail and Eagle City, for although
he snow was deep and rather soft
he Sheboygans enabled us to make
,ood time sliding over its surface,
nd at half past nine o'clock we
we're toasting our shins before a
ousing fire at Sam Hayes caravan
arie. The town of Eagle City might
a fine view was it not hidden
" the trees, but sc dense is the
,rowth of timber that the view must
'e taken in detail, only about one
og shaick at a time coming within
he range of vision as We CROPPED our
way am, ng the trees aud ploughed
about three feet of
now. There are at present about
OF fifty of these log shaicks,
catered along Pritchard Creek,
Which constitute the town of Eagle
,ity. and a mile and a half further
are a dozen or more of the same