Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-06-04

leading toward the right. We passed
through that, riding with our backs
toward the village we intended to
reach, slued around the mountain on
the hack side, returned through an
other divide, and soon were looking
down upon the village again with the
peak we had crossed high above us
toward the left.
ssMost there now, arn't we?' I VEN
tured to remark.
YES; if you want to jump. If you
ride it is a little ways yet"
preferred to ride, so we started on.
The twists and turns that we now
made was only a repetition of the
first. We travelled a good deal like
the ant, which with an egg in its
mouth, and only an inch from the
hole, walks all over the dooryard be-
fore it goes in. 1t did seem as if that
road had been built to eat up time
and accumulate expense. Or course
it wasn't and our erratic course was
an absolute necessity in order to
reach the bottom; but it seemed that
way. If anyone expects to ride over
the top of the Rocky Mountains in a
two horse carriage he must go
where the road goes and feel satisfied.
I was At, last, after long time, we
came out to another observation point
and looked down upon the village
again.
ssReckon now it can't be-"
go wait!" he interrupted; 1--WE are
just underway"
Off we started on another wild
goose chase around the mountain. We
tackled here and tackled there, rode |
up and rode down, initiated the
course of the swallow in it's quest of |
flies, circled, wheeled, advanced and |
retreated, until finally, on the verge |
of twelve o'clock, we entered the viii
lage at the foot Of the gulch, and at |
an entirely different point from that |
which we first looked down upon it. |
I think the village was called Ward; |
but no matter. The houses were |
mostly small wooden affairs, unpaint-
ed, and a story and half in hight.
Some of them were square topped
and some sharp pitched. Many were
just shanties made out Of boards, and
others were mere dugouts in the side
of the mountain and rooted over with
tie, horses, jackasses and black pigs.
All Of them had full run of the
streets. It was at this point that
climbed up and looked into the mines.
The ore taken from them was drawn
by team over narrow roads down to
the crushing mills near the creek,
where, after being crushed and re-
duced in weight, it was again loaded
and drawn by team to some of the
smelling works just outside of the
mountains.
greatly enjoyed by dinner in that
little mining town, and was surprised
over the superior quality and variety
of the food. Somehow I had incul
Gated the idea that fried salt pork was
the hight of a miners ambition in the
culinary line; but [ found that fat
baked turkey with all the appurten-
an everyday occurrence. In fact 1
learned that the miners, as rule, are
high livers. They were extravagant.
Everything was Of the very best.
Dodge informed me that his finest
goods went into the mountains. Can
ned goods were in abundance Not
third or second quality, but the high
est grade on the market Cans of
fruit and fish were opened in one of
the stores that L might see them.
They could not be excelled. 1t is
fact that our canned goods are third
quality compared with those l saw in
the Rocky Mountains. The wages of
a miner is from $3.50 to $500 day;
and with few exceptions they spend
every cent Of it as they go along.
They intend to live to-day if they go
hungry and naked tomorrow.
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