The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-21

return to them sometime in the near fu'
ture."
"Can You see good results from your Ia
borsy'
Eyes; tho same in the work there a
among the heather nearer home Som,
believe and receive, and some do not
There ia an immense field for laborers ant
but few willing workers."
"Isn't IL a continual sacrifice on YOU
part2"
81 do not look at ii in that light ant
would feal badly II l thought ! could NO
again 60 back to the work"
"Are the Chinese one meets in this coun-
try the same as those to be found In theil
own landp"
sNo. decidedly. They are all Of tht
poorer and most ignorant GLASSES. / en-
ioyed visiting the Chinatowns of Portland
and San Francisco"
Miss Buzzsll will visit Bohemian, Billings
and the Gallatin valley in the interest oi
her work, and may return to Helena and
speak of her labors among the Chinese peo-
pie of this city.
'"Twenty-nine wears ago to. night" said
James Gourley on Thursday night. as he
leaned back in q handsomely upholstered
chair at the Helena, II was the only man in
Helena. l always remember the anniyers-
airy, and am thinking of starting a First
Man club or a Last Man club, whichever
would be the most appropriate. There was
no cabin here or settlement OF
and kind. ] was on my way
on horseback from Cottonwood, nov Deer
Lodge, to Montana City, where there was
quite a settlement. Night overlook me
here and l decided to camp down the gulch.
l halted near a clump of bushes where Bach.
Cory g. Company's store now stands, threw
my saddle on the ground for q pillow,
pulled my blanket over me and slept the
sleep of the just. ! am not an old man yet
and when walk past these great business
blocks. or drop into this luxurious hotel a
few hundred yards from my camping spot
of 1862. it all seems like a dream"
~
/ saw an excellent crayon portrait the
other day in a Broadway show window of
James Fairweather, the discoverer of Alder
gulch, which turned out the yellow dust in
such quantities in the early days as to make
the place famou throughout the civilized
world. Fairweather has the credit of wash
ing out the first pan of gravel which led to
the discovery Of gold in Alder, but there
are other circumstances conn ected with the
event. Granville Stuart, new the state land
agent of Montana, in 1876 pointed out that
the Yellowstone expedition of 1868. COM
manded by his brother, James Stuart, WAS
the direct cause Of the discovery of Alder
gulch and the consequent rapid develop
ment OF the territory which followed.
In James Stuart's accoun of the expedi-
ton he mentions a party of six which was
to nave joined the expedition at the mouth
of Sinking Water river, but for some
cause failed. Granville Stuart, in prepar-
ing his brothers. diary of the trip down the
Yellowstone for publication in one of the
volumes of the Montana Historical society,
added a number of foot notes. 1t is in
one of them than the account given of the
party which failed to join the expedition.
This party consisted Of Louis Simmons,
William Fairweather, George Orr, Thomas
Cover, Barney Hughes and Henry Edgar.
They were detained by not being able to
find their horses, which had wintered at
Deer Lodge. They arrived at the ap-
pointed place of rendezvous some three or
four days after the main party had passed,
and taking their trail followed on,
expecting to soon oyertake them;
but before they did so they
were met on the upper Yellowstone
by a large party of Grow Indians, who at
once proceeded to plumber them, taking
nearly all they had, and giving them miser-
able sore-backed ponies in exchange for
their horses, ordered them to return on
pain of death. Situated as they were they
could only comply. And yet this vexatious
outrage was the most fortunate thing that
could have occurred for their own interest
and that of the territory, for on their way
back to Bannack City. one days travel up
the Madison river, Fairweather observed a
point of bare bedrock projecting from the
side of the gulch, and determined to try a
pan of dirt. He was %astonished by obtain
ing thirty cents in beautiful coarse gold,
and in a few more trials he got $1.75 to the
pan. This was at the point afterwards
famous as Fairweather's discovery claim
in Alder gulch.
~
The arrest of an amateur detective in
Butte for annoying Mrs. w. j. Penrose
calls to mind the fact that Helena is full of
them. You pass them on every street cor
ner, touch elbows with them at the bars.