The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-11-07
TINE NATCnEEz COUNTRY.
mleh Mines and Grand and PietuF-
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Account 81 . Trip % This
land 81 wealth.

Tho trail from Cleman's corral, running
along for some sig or seven miles, soou
drops down into the basin or bottom d
the Natcheez, iorty-flve miles above ths
city Of North Yakima. A the prospectol
comes over the high peak on the trail
there bursts suddenly TO his gaze thu
pandest view that Il ID possible TO imag'
inc. To the right looms up hill after hill
and mountain after mountain, stretching
away up the river into dim and blue per
spectve. To the LEFT, abrupt and craggy,
rises an immense wall Of rock, inter.
spersed and crowned with stately pines
and hn. Far down into the bottom oil
the valley, like . thin ribbon Of silver,
whirls, frets and dashes the Natcheez.
Some Eve miles up this open valley, ct the
head, stands the Edgar Rock, grim, bare
and erect, like sentinel Of time keeping
watch and ward over the treasures that
lie In this storehouse Of nature. In this
bottom are wide stretches Of open ground
covered with luxuriant grass Of the bright.
est green, surrounded by . jungle Of
brush, cottonwoods and pines, some Of
them old veterans, towering up for q hun
dred and fifty feet or more and six or
seven feet through at the base. Here on
the trail, only about foot wide, one can
look down into the narrow pass, that the
river has broken through, some thousand
feet below, which gives one q feeling Of
being suspended In mid-air.
Standing in the bottom, where our
camp has been pitched, we can look up
on all sides and follow the dykes and
fissure veins over one hill after another
clear way up into the farthest mountain.
The rock in which the richest silver lies
Is principally porphry, although there are
rich veins Of talcose slate. On the left or
south side Of the creek there ID hardly Q
single point but shows up rich indi-
cations Of silver. It Is on this side
that the Relief and Quandaiy claims are
situated and are the richest by far Of any
that have been located. On the north
side, however, there are one or two tests
holes, among . number, that are exceed
lngly promising. None Of these holes
have been put In over twenty feet, and Il
Is found that the farther they 20 In, the
better the find. There ID Q gulch that
comes down about mile above the camp
and Il IL thought BY some Of the pros
peCtoTs that, from the indications and
cropping, here will be . big surprise.
But there d no point in this whole
stretch Of seven miles In length and prob
ably eight In width, but where good ore
can be found. It Il iree milling and car
ries with Il nothing that can possibly
make Il expensive TO get the silver out.
I noticed In the river bottom . number Of
sluices and panning outfits where men
have been working placer claims, and I
am told by some Of them that they can
pan out from seven 10 eight dollars = day
and some days have done better. Above,
close 10 Edgar rock, some one l. at work
on placer claim and b exceedingly mys-
terious about what he does and has done.
Here the gravel and sand IL quite 6ne and
there d no doubt but that be ID making .
good deal more than fair day's wages.
In the bottom, ct the edge Of beautiful
grassy glade, Captain J. 7. Simmons has
made permanent mining camp, with Z.
K. Current o. recorder. They are now at
work putting up log cabins In order 10
stand out the winter and operate on the
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In anticipation Of this M. Current hss
located 4 tovnsite on a hieh beoch land
that runs an along the north side Of The
valley.
The ore, nom the returns Of the assay.
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