The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-24
DALENE METHODS.
The Old, Old Story Repeated-Notes
3 aT From the North.

a letter written from Belkna5 c9n-
tsins the following 10 reference tothe
Occur 'd'Alene method ofgsining pos
session ofia desirable claim: So
An old Sco!chmao, over so years Of
age. reached the suppo'ed new gold.
field early in June, and with dozen
companions worked on until October,
hard work every day. at clearing
trails from claim to claim and Dig
ging bitches for draining. The amount
Of gold which be had taken ont OF
bis claim was not enough to pay him
wages; there was undoubtedly gold
there; but he had hardly begun 10
work, when on coming out of h:s
cabin one morning he saw party of
seven men down by bis corner stake.
On walking mp 10 see what they were
doing, he found they had taken down
bis notice of occupation and were
putting un one Of their oTn.
"Whai! YOU 90 not mean to say
you are going to jump my claim?"
he asked. Ea
"Well. dunno nothing about your
claim" replied one of the party,
pointing Winchester rife at him,
"shis is our claim now
There were seven OF them, four
with Winchesters and the other three
carrying revolvers ostentatious!y
stuck in their belts, and when they
allowed him half an hour to "collect
bis traps and eit," be was discreet
enough to take advantage o! their for
bearance and got. o. his compan-
ions all but one or two have since
been served in the same way. and it
is estimated that not one claim out OF
ten is now IN the hands OF original
owners. Meanwhile the elected ones
hang about the hotels along the line
comparing notes and crying ven
ge&nce. The memory OF the four
months of hard work is still green
and they are by nc means disposed to
sit down and zee the jumpers getting
rich in their claims. The jumpers
only sWagger around and cay they
don't care d--n for the law and all
the sherifis sod injuncli9ns in the
world; they are numerous, deter
mined and armed; but popular feel
ing ia against them, and would not
allow the original occupiers to forego
their CLAIM il they wished it. Ae soon
as the snow is of the ground serious
effort will be made by the law-and-
order party to s.raighten matters ont.
There is only one recognized method
of Strengthening such matters out in
mining camps, or at all events there
is only one method which anybody
thinks of here, spd that that will be
the one resortsd to everyone takes for
granted. That method has for its in
struments Winchester rifles, six
shooters, and pieces of rope; and that
the blithesome spring will come at
tended with Emusic" and lively shoot
ing nobody here doubts. The military
at Fort C@ar d'Alene, it is limited,
will be nice and handy, and seeing
that the United States deputy surveyor
has already been roughly handled by
the jumpers, and turned out OF Eagle
City, it is reasoned that there might
not be any difficulty when the time
came in convincing the authorities
that it is g government quarrel.
Matters haYs In many cases been
further complicated by the rejumpipg
of some Of the claims by other parties
more powerful than the original
jumpers. while in one instance a. claim
has been jumped three deep Helena
Mont. Independent.