The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-02-02
CGUR D'ALENES,
Items Culled from the Coeur
d'Alene "Miner,"

d'Alene miner"
W. acknowledge the receipt of
copy of Number l, Volume, l, of til
Ceur d'Alene M7ner, of Jabuar
26th, published at Spokane Falls, v
T.. It IS a neat little five colum
quarto, full of articles and notes
the new mines, and reasons why til
Spokane Falls route is the best "
discovere I. We take the folIowi1
from its columns:
Snow is over five feet deep on th
level in the mines.
Lots in Eagle City are compar;
lively low at present.
The snow will not be off th
ground earlier than May.
A number of pack trains are i
camp unable to move out.
The mines surpass any before dis
covered in North Ameri ca.
Three thousand men are expecte
there by the middle of February.
A number of claims in the mine
have been sold for good round sums
1t is rumored that two papers viii
be started in Eagle City in tn
spring.
Several individuals are runnin,
pack trains from Spokane Falls II
the mines.
The quartz mines of the Ceu,
d'Alenes promise to develop wonder
fully rich.
Parties are taking goods up in tn,
mines in skitfs, but navigation il
spiced with danger.
several new town sites will be laiC
out In the mines in the spring. They
will be needed.
Two men, names unknown, com.
ing out of the mines, were drowned
in the C@ur d'Alene river.
EvOluti, IN, a station half way be.
tween the Mission and Eagle City,
promises to be a lively camp.
Eagle City will be the metropolis
of the mines. It will contain 10, 600
people by the first of July.
As soon as steamers are running
through tickets IAN be purchased
from Spokane Falls to Eagle City.
Provisions are very high in camp,
and a man without money and asup-
ply of grab has no business there.
1t has been showing here for the
last two weeks and all trails are now
impossible. The only way to get in
is by water.
EAg'e City has been SURVEYED, and
the principal streets have been named
Gold, SILVER and Eagle streets. The
cross streets have been numbered.
The permanent value of the new
gold discoveries depends upon the
production and present indi-
cations point to rich returns from
that source.
Some of the most promising quartz
lodges ever discovered have been
brought to light on Prit hard creek.
No doubt reduction and stamp mills
will be put into the mines next sum-
mer.
A dozen of Summit Valley miners
rom Montana, have discovered a
luartz ledge thirty miles northeast
rom Eagle, aud traced the groupings
;hree miles. Assays of the ledge show
per ton. This is white crystal
zed quartz.
Companies have been formed at
,alt Lake, Utah; Eureks, New:
Denver, Leadville and Durango,
>ol ; Cheyenne, Wyo., and 9lmost
very mining camp in California,
o come in the latter part of Februa
v. They have nearly all representa-
ives in camp.
Another private letter says That
he mines are more extensive than
be public are aware of. That those
Intending to ga need not be in any
urry, for it cannot possibly all be
AIKEN even in the next year. The
now Is nov very deep, and thetrails
nd road next to impossible. Those
lere now can do little or nothing
ntil the snow is off. Snow fell here
st week to the depth Of ten feet.
are high and scare.
Forty-6ve miles northeast Of
ritchard Creek a new gulch discov-
Y has been made in a valley about
le and a quarter miles wide and fif-
en- miles long. It is reported richer
IAN the placers on Pritchard or
agile Creeks. Digging through
ven feet of snow, prospectors dis
'vered diggings going one and q
dollars a pan. A rush has
set in.
The old fashioned pack trains.
it'll saw-buck saddles, stacks of
,Ods fastened on the same in q man
er only known to the initiated,
ngle file march and the hardy and
,vil-may.care drivers have become
'mmon objects on our streets. The
w mines, with narrow and not
'erly secure trails leading In and
IC, have made a demand for this
imitive and slow mode of trans 6
rtation, and in response to this de-
and fresh packing trains are found
d put in operation constantly. Y
As spring approaches the excite G
ant over the Coeur d'Alene mines
tensifies. From all owe the land &
me letters of inquiry. Old miners c
> arriving on every train, some
shinr into the mines at this season g
d others holding back until later. '
IN of every calling, trade, and pro- +
sion; of every class and conditions
h and poor; greenhorns and sharp
!; all bent npon the one object of
ting into the mines at the earliest
,sible moment, and feverish with
stop off at this place and 81
Ter stations in juxtaposition to the t
d fields. Parties leave this city e
the great Mecca every day, in i
ges, on foot, on horseback, in +
CONS and in sleighs. Hardly a IL
elk passes that some one does not g
i've fro the mines, and while ID,
v report everything quiet, yet the u
lfidence in the yielding capacity a
the diggings never waivers. o
IL
County Heard From" =
'oG HORN SIDING, Jan. 25, 1884. "