, 1889-08-08

are many other fine claims too numer-
ous to mention, which when opened up
may astonish their owners. The main
favorable indication of the camp Is
that the leads arc strong, well defined,
and as rule contain immense bodies of
ore, paying from the top. Were the
camp on the American side capital
would take hold of the prospects with
vengeance, but being on the British
side, where everything moves impercep.
,ibly slow, it is uphill work TO develop
anything no matter how good. The.
that country from the American side
without paying tax of about 30 per
cent of original cost of goods,
and this in connection with high
ireights, runs machinery and oil
other classes of goods up TO undesirable
proportions, and hence retards the de.
velopment of the country. Yet, In
spite of these obstacles, the country is
going gradually ahead The mineral is
there, and II Is rich enough and in suf.
iicient quantities to justify the expense
entailed in opening the mines
The natural place toward which the
trade of that section gravitates is
SPOKANE FALLS,
and II will continue to remain thus un-
less transportation is instituted from the
Canadian Pacific TO the head of the
lake. In that event, Revelstoke
would become the supply point
for the mines. What Spokane Falls
wants to do at an early date is to agitate
the movement leading to the construc-
tion of line of railroad from Kootenai
station north to the Kootenai river q
distance of abont thirty-twc miles
Such q line with two hundred miles of
navigable river in connection with IL
would open up an immense area OF
mercial posi- bilities in themselves su,l.
cient to build up II city. Another good
plan would be for more Spokane men to
take hold of some OF the mining prop
critics in the kootenai country and In
that manner assist in the developing
that section.
While encnmped on the lake an i'm.
portant strike was made in the Sky
Line lead owned by \. ID, Wheeler
This property is located 1000 feet up
the mountain on the lower line of the
granite formation previously mentione d.
The ore is different from that of any
other ledge in the camp, being sulphite,
free milling and yory rich, While down
twenty-five feet the ore body was four
feet wide and the average yield will run
up to about 800 per ton. There is q
streak in the vein from ten to eighteen
inches wide that will go at least $1,000
per ton. on top this lead was only Il
few inches wide, but upon sinking, it
rapidly grew wider and richer. The in.
dicatiOus are that this mine VIII develop
into bonanza.
Quite u number OF prospectors are at
work, and new discoveries are so rapidly
made that they excite little attention
1t is estimated that in both camps, Nell
son and Warm Springs, are about tive
hundred men, about one.third of whom
follow prospecting. A large amount of
inyn.ttuatinrl IL UninU in tha cd l..
ate vicinity of the saloons, which leads
one TO believe that valuable treasures
must be in the earth near by. There
are altogether
TOO MANY rgosPEcToRs
looking for mineral in these localities
for the good of the country.
The Indians of that section number
about three hundred and their willing
ness to work is somewhat surprising.
They pack goods up the mountains on
theii backs for long distances, load and
unload steamboats,, gather berries and
perform a good deal of other useful
labor Some of them have become civil
lied enough to play cards and seven
up seems to be their favorite game.
/ There is the most earnest inquiry on
their part after Sachem Kemp
in whose welfare they are greatly
concerned. While Brother Kemp
WAS III tnPlF UliuNt lew nlOnttlN NHc
he performed many miracles and in
1 tcnsely interested the natives with signs
and wonders. He would excite their
curiosity by removing and replacing his
glass eye which so astonished them that
they regard him as superior being.
/ He cast out few devils walked some on
the water and performed such other
supernatural feats, which caused some
of the tribe to suspicion that ho prob
/ ably was the Great Spirit himself. The
| information on our part that he went
through the air to the land ofthe Okano-
guns was received with great satisiac-
| ton.
The woods are full of luckleberries,
raspberries and blackberries, a few OF
which are picked by the Indians and
placed on the market, but the great
bulk of this fruit-ye-, millions of bush
els of it is never seen by human eye
| The blackberries and raspberries in their
wild state are as fine as any grown in
this region in gardens, and we saw acres
and acres of huckleberry bushes literally
black with fruit which will never be
picked.
THE FREQUENT RAINS,
the countless springs and streams rush.
ing down the mountain sides give &c
all manner of growths a freshness not
witnessed on the plains. The choicest
of wild iiowerS whole realms of them
DlOOln unseen. "A IeW miles away from
the lake the expression of the poet il
true:
Here, the foot of living man,
Never trod since time began"
TO penetrate these Wild regions OF Sc
clusion, where nature reigns untram.
melled and supreme. is one of the thrill
| ling experiences of existence. One
never tires of the scenery Upon as
cending one of the mountains, O
panorama is spread out before the be-
holder awe-inspiring and sublime. The
| lake appears like silver band embrace d
| by dazzling heights--towards the north
height rises above height, until the
whole horizon is fringed with a wilder
ness Of peaks crowned with lasting snow
and holding fields of ice and glaciers ir
the hollow of their hands. The writer
has seen the most picturesque parts o.
the Alps, has stood upon Mount Wash
burn in the Yellowstone Park anc
been among the iar-faned scenes il
| Colorado, but all these must yield the
palm to this unexplored and almost un-
| known scenic paradise of the north. We
| know of no place where u summer could
be more delightfully."- spent, The atmos
pherc in the hottest part Of summer il
cool and refreshing, the best of water is
plentiful in every part, the lake /.
| crowded with trout, and the hun
dreds of brooks, which leap like
messengers OF joy from their mount.
tain homes into the depths below
are filled with myriads of fish---there |.
not the sense of desolation as in the
southern mountains where often not
shrub graces the horizon, Here in al
directions extends an expanse of living