, 1889-02-21
THE NEW CAMP.
A visit to Chloride and What
Was Seen.
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A ARsvr.w reporter yesterday bad tSs
fsllewin9 intsrview With = GeselemAn wnc
az ,~o epproeched Gray's landing
vs nsticsd that the vast forest on the
hill and ~ fAx beck ~ We could 80 wa
al IL motion. % though. . cyclone % %wss
having holiday IN its midst. The
nishty hr trees and the graceful pines
would bend back and forth almost
tOuching the ground, then crack ana faii
With sound like thunder. In few min
utss more you could zee scity. spring into
where all this commotion WAS an election
hsd taken place and the 6rst to greet you
was his honor the mayor, who was only
too glad 10 gave you any information, "a
10 Tie future prospects OF the city. Close
TO his honor would set real estate man
With the town plot In his pocket and when
the mayor would hesitate or lack TOR
words or whom he was questioned too
closely the real estate man would strike
new key and play It with all the elo-
quence Of Q Demosthenes. =.
when We got 10 Chloride City the
people we're excited, wild. crazy, mad
With JOY over the bright prospects,. On
every lot was q woodsman and every
woodsman was carpenter and every
carpenter was q real estate agent and
every real estate agent had town site
and on every town site was mine and
In every mine were millions.
AFTER witnessing and gazing on this
sTRANaE soENE
where forests we're being changed into
cities In few minutes, We tried 20 lind
ont the cause and Of course went TO the
fountain bead from which flowed all this
- = xA tnA
"Mr. Allan McDonald. the foreman Of
the Webber, invited ~ 10 20 up and
take Q look at the miuc. After winding
around and mp and Gliding down sew
eral tlmes We got 10 the original pros.
pect hole. There has been taken right
from the surface Q car load Of ore, said
Mr.. Mcdowell, that assayed forty.eiRht
ounces of silver 10 the ton. A hundred
fest below the top Of the mountain is
the 6rst tunnel. This tunnel is to cross
the lode and test its width. 1t is not
possible. Il 10 now City feet long and
right throvgh the solid ore and NO one
can tell how much further it will have
70 b due. Seventy feet below this 10
second. Il 10 not completed. but they
have struck the lode again and the ore
10 Of higher grade than In the first,
some Of II assaying 200 ounces or more Of
silver 10 the ton. Two hundred feet be-
1ow The nrst is another. This 10 only q
few feet long, but the indicatione are very
good, and they expect to strike the lode
have been completed and the thickness
q the lode tested 10 this depth then
thsy will commence 10 sink shalt.
The vein Nc Dowell thinks 10 at least one
hundred fest vide and an extra force of
men will be put on the FIRST OF next
month and the prospecting will be push
Cd for oil it's worth. Mr.. Mcdowell has
been the foreman of the West Granite
mine at Phillipsburg, Montana, and has
lad many years experience and he says,
"A all the old miners say, that IL is the
biRgest prospect they have ever seen.
I'VE next went TO the Jumbo mine.
one and one-half miles from Chloride City.
This mine has been worked but u very
little. 1t il about twenty feet wide on
top and the indications are that IL keeps
getting wider a. II goes down. What
has been tested went seventy ounces per
t0u. There have been several other mines
Uncovered and worked little. with
about the same prospects IA those we have
mentioned.
Taking all ia all the prospects are the
very brightest and we shall not be sur
prisej 10 see
A SECOND BUTTE
spring up where only tive months ago VISA
q vast forest surrounded by the cragRy.
barren peaks OF the Bitter Root noun
tsins.
New mines are being discovered every
day. and the prospectOrs are 40 anxious 10
get to work they won't wait for the snow
20 20; they shovel it of from the side Of
the mountains and then prospect, and
some OF them have discovered new veins
il this way. The present indications are
that the mountains are full Of the precious
metals. and bigger boom awaits Chlo.
ride City and Webber than ever struck
Leadyille or California.
New towns are ,pringing up every
where, too numerous to mention. Every
mas that has balf.dozen lots for sale has
With some beautiful. tewitching name,
and they ars always willing 10 cell the
Grst few lots 1t bargain, Ia order, ss
they say, 70 give their town boom. And
the gambler, too, have drunk of the foun.
tain Of inspiration, and no less light
than Blaak, one of tho famous trio Of
Hurley fame, is prospecting. but he says
there 10 not enough OF money there vt
present for his business, and left for Spo-
kape Falls With the intention of returning
whom times get better with some more lof
his chums. Wages are very good for
those who ere fortnnsts enough to get
work. Hewers OF timber get from a 70
o6 per day. Common lsborers get % 50.
the lowest wages paid. Men Who have
horses or ponies can make fortune pack
ing freight from Gray's landing TO the
camp. Board and lodging l. % per day,
bat most Of the miners have blankets With
them and board themselves. The best way
70 70 TO the mines il for those from the
West 10 stop at Rathdrum. there take the
stage 10 the steamboat landing, there be-
ing good road all the wsy. thence across
A. - - L.. 10 - n~~vss lau&tuu