Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-06-10
FROM DELTA, I. T.
DELTA, I. T. May 81, 1856.

DELTA, L. L. play 81, 1856.
EDITOR TELLER:
The usual quiet prevails and the
work Of mining goes on. The quartz
interest is fast becoming the real one for
us, and work is going on to develope new
mines. The Golden King mill is CON-
plete and will be running soon. The
smelter at Milo made good run on the
galcna ore Of the Sierra Nevada mine
Some good mines are to ship ore out
from the south fork soon. Placer min
ing on some Of the side gulches is weak
ening from lack of water and our ditch.
men will have chance to sell water and
reap cash profits thcrefrom. The vac
mum pump on Pritchard creek has been
running for week and it is daily grow
ing in favor with our placer miners, who
are watching it work with keen interest.
SO far it works to charm, and Nye &
Bro, who are operating the machinery,
if it performs the work that is claimed
tor it. to-wit: pump water and hoist the
gravel through large pipe into the
sluice. Many Of the small bed rock
fumes are short of water and are clean
ing up the bed rock with good results.
There is quite stampede on Pony creek,
in consequence Of rich vein that has
been struck. There are also good pros
poets for placer and quartz digging, and
some fine nuggets have been found there,
one by the Reynolds Bros, weighing
nine End one-half ounces. A great deal
Of prospecting is being done in all of the
camps and some valuable finds are re.
ported in many localities. Up Eagle
creek and in the Bald mountain country
is some very rich prospects in quartz and
apparently the country has golden flu.
ture near at hand.
The district court is still grinding
away 10 the judicial crises. The case of
Burke v. Mcdonald has occupied the at
tcntion Of the court and jury for two
weeks past, and some heavy fighting has
been done aud some hard blows given
pro and con for both parties; it is known
here as the "Tiger AID Poorman Lode
claim fight" and involves many knot,y
problems for the lawyers to crack to get
before the gaze of the jurymen who are
out OF luck to sit on the case. Nearly
all the Legal talent in camp and some
from our neishboring sister territory are
employed on the case. Gahnal, Allen
and Stapleton Of Montana Territory Tor
defense, and Major Woods, Hepburn,
Singleton, Mayhem aud Clagge,t for de-
Tense. The case was submitted to the
jury on the 2Cth, and they are still try.
ing to fnd out which is which. The
case OF Kellogg VS. Peck Il Cooper is at
bar now aud jury was cmpanelled on
Saturday night. His honor, Judge
Buck, has patient way of listening to
oil, and quiet way Of settling and over
ruli4g all the brooches of temper dis
played BY counsel in the case. Murray
n lively just now owing to the large
number Of witnesses and jurymcn that
are there in attendance on court. The
water works and fire protection facilities
Of the town are being pushed to compile
tion and large quantity of iron pipe is
arriving for tho construction of the work.
The railroad boom still continues at
Wardner, and surveys are being made
on several routes to plant the steel rails.
One will come by the way Of the 4th of
July canon and Wolf Lodge to the Mis-
sion, and one from the Mission to the
mines, via boat across the Lake. Money
= all that Is short to bind us with steel
bands to New York, Portland, or Frisco
plenty OF money, plenty Of railroad
no money no RAILROADS. Business is quiet
The telephone is G, mpleted from Murray
70 Thompson Falls, also to Wardner
lrom Fort Occur d'Alene and our people
san now have quarrel with the Cooks
It fast and cheap rates. The waters are
going down for days past, and large |
'treams such as Pritchard, the south and
forth forks have been on high all
ime, and travel has been badly inter.
bred with by the raging torrents from
be troubled bosom of the south fork
dany OF the bridges left for Spokane
nd Portland without previous notice to
ne road supervisor or county commits. /.
oners. Several horses were drowned in
'e south fork, and packs and saddles de.
arted on the water route for the Mission. /,
NEE PIERCE. III
A boy twelve years old was the i'm.