Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-07

pstra in her barge, bases her claim, l an
told, upon money advanced to Pritchard.
THE Owe DErosRD.
Keller and his partners went in last
September and found some men working
the claim under Pritchsrd's direction, /
believe, though Pritchard was not there.
Keller asked the men IL they had claims
of their own, and upon learning from
them that they had he remarked: "Well,
this is the claim | want" They demurred
and demonstrated, but he forced his argu-
ments. They asked time to clean up,
which he gave. So the Jumpers turned
in and proceeded to business. They have
worked away. regardless of iniunctions or
threats of injunction, and now will prob
ably hold under tho law of the camp,
which made it necessary for every claim
ant to be on his ground April l, 1884.
The Keller crowd was ON hand and no.
body else appeared. He accordingly
dates his relocation from April 1st. No
one with whom l have talked on the sub
iect seems to think any of the widows
have a ghost of q show. Discoverer
Prichard was married last winter to q
widow in Rathdrum, who was keeping a
bakery there. just previous to this ven
ture he begged of Widow Edginton the
favor of her hand in marriage, as | uu.
derstand, from one who is her friond. She
refused, 80 he went on twelve miles fur.
ther and found another woman and a more
willing widow. Poor Pritchard! He
seems as clever an old miner as | ever
talked with, but some incredulous people
say he is a romancer, whose tales are not
to DO taken without salt. Salt is 90 cents
a pound in camp, so they can't take
Pritchard's stories. He is tiddling away
at his mines over at Evolution, on tho
south fork, and says the four men at work
on the sluicesare taking OUT from 20 cents
to 800 a Gay.
THE THREE ORPHANS.
The Mother Load claim is a mile and a
half above Murraysville and is owned by |
three stumpy old graybeards, known as
the "three orphans" The principal or
phan is old Billy King, an Idaho miner,
and If he is halt as rich as he is dirty he
has q fortune Miners cannot be fastidi-
Gus and all the ''rustlers' look rough
and tough, but old Billy carries more
chewed tobacco in his beard than any
man who owns chunks of gold o,ght to.
The owners are sitting on their rocks
waiting for a buyer. For som reason or
other they denotgo to splitting down into
the quartz so full of free gold on that
part of it's surface washed by tho creek.
This leads the skeptics to charge that it
is a bowlder with nothing to back it up.
1t is indeed beautiful and looks as though
molten gold had been apattered over it,
while here and there are Jumps like raj
sins ina pie. The orphans want 500, 900
for their lode and claim that a $40, 900
offer has been made. There are other
claims which have already been some
what talked about in camp, though not
much outside, notably the Butte claim.
located by Pat Flynn; the Bob Ingersoll
lode, bought of the bennington boys by
Judge Claggett, and the iona claim loca-
ted by j. Ii. Miller. The others must
wait Tor fame.
CRUsHER.
| asked about machinery" Would
there be a crusher ut work soon ?" The
question itself was q sort of a crusher for
of the sanguine men who stood
around had the assurance to say that the
mines were anywhere ready for heavy
machinery. One of them said a II. r.
Cummings had offered to trade a crusher
that would work two and a half tons per
hour for a half interest in a particular
lode. I cannot now remember which
one it was 1t is evident, however, that
there must be some more showing before
capital will venture to either take in ma.
chinery, or be taken in by the owners of
claims. The gold which Mr.. Shelton, a
merchant, and Mr. Hassey, a banker,
showed me, and for which the banker
pays SIG. 80 per ounce in cash, and the
merchant $1S in trade, came some of it
from the Widow claim and some from
Missoula gulch, where it was rocked out.
Missoula gulch is one of the side gulches
that run into the Pritchard creek bottom,
and there are cabins scattered along up
the steep sides more than in the other
side gulches.
SCENES IN CAMP.
The camp is a rough place, though as
yet no crimes have been committed here.
1t is said to be like other mining camps