Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-04-22
FROM MURRAY, I. r.


~ l. l. apr. 1t, 1886.
EDITOR TELLER:
! Spring time ras surely come for the
feathery wanderers have come with ioy.
Gus song, twitterins and singing in the
boughs and tree tops. 50 again we are re.
minded by the change of season by the
babbling brooks and swollen streams and
the disappearance of the beautiful! snow,
except on the high mountain tops, and
dark deep canons where the rays of
sol do not venture, or the warm chinook
abandon the task, and 1t is left to melt
away by the summer solstce,
Placer miners are happy enough at
present for water is plenty, and if the
pay in gravel is as plenty as free gravel
just at present, the boys will have live
y season and golden harvest of dust
Some of the gulches are paying good
that we know of, and the long dull SOL
emn ''phiz' his departed from the boys
with the change Of season. A bed rock
fume is being run on Butte creek and
another on upper Pritchard in the viciu-
ty Of Raven City. But while on b.
rock f1ume matters, it is we'll to state
that Chicago pump firm, Nye & Bros,
have scheme to plant one of their
vacuum pumps here on the deep ground.
The, confidently believe they can raise
the water and gravel, and dump into the
s'ulcFs on the surface, if they can, then
good bye to expensive bitches and bed
rock fumes. The steam pump will here.
at er DO the heavy placer mining. We
have here in the Occur d'Alene many
miles Of deep placer ground, which, as
far as it has been prospected, will pay
well. But the heavy expense to the min.
ers to open them on account of the water;
they are lying idle and have been wait
ing for the bed rock fumc, which Micaw-
Der like is waiting for something to turn
up, and it has it in the Nye vacuum pump
The parties have gone out to Rathdrum
to ship the plant in. BY the middle OF
May it i: expected to be in operation.
They will set it up below the mouth of
Dream gulch. On Coulter Wardner's
fractional claim on Pritchard creek,
where shaft was sunk last season thirty
feet, and no bed stone and more water
than their steam pump could begin to
handle, and that has been the trouble
here with any pump steam or water pow
err; they cannot candle the volunn of
surface water, but this new pump scheme
handles the water, and gravel sucks the
bottom right out of the deep digging.
Quartz mining is going on as usual.
Frank Reeds arasta is ready for work
aud will be crushing ore very som. The
Stevens Bros. arasta near the Mother
Lode will be in running order in two
weeks; they will run on ore from the
Occidental lode. The Golden King mill
is being pushed rapidly to complexion.
and the work on the mines goes on, and
some very good bodies OF ore are IN
sight, while daily the dump is growing
larger. The Golden Chest are do W
some heavy work, and they feel very
much encouraged from the prospect in
sight at the mine, and will start up the
mil Il. soon as some repairs are finished
Ga the south side of Myrtle and Beaver
miners are busy and good pay is the rule
Iha bank tpok in $1,000 of dust last
week at Data, So it is evident that there
are some individuals VIII find the dust.
At Milo and Kentucky City times are
booming red hot The smelter is about
ready to start and a company of Helena,
Montana, will put mp large smeltcr and
reduction works They are Incorporated
and mean the real business, and the DO.
nanzas on the south fork will no doubt
prove mines Of wealth to the parties owr-
ius them, and backed by an agricultural
country, the towns there ought to make
rapid and permanent cities. The south
fork on the Mullan road is taken up by
rtnchers, and we hear that some of them
are g'ins into the potato and rut,bag
b ISM IS in moss-back style-ten, twenty
and forty acre turnip patches and pota-
toes galore, SO no more seventy-fve cents
per pound il the Occur d'Alene for that
vegetable diet Pack trains are again n
demand. Business generally improving,
and good time looked for.
Yours, Me- PIERCE.
o@.az-z.
SDLE1AI NATINEN