The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-18
NEW PROMISED LAND.
COlyille Reservation Rich in
Farms and Minerals.
INDIANS HAVE FIRST CHOICE
Land Being Surveyed Preparatory to
setf,ement-The Mines Of Bound
airy and Squaw Creek.

A Seattlelte now travelling in the Co,yil.e
reservation in a communication 70 the
Post Int efligencer gives good deal OF val
uab.e information about that country.
winch is soon 10 be opened to settlement,
and about the neighboring mining districts.
He writes:
There is much good and throughout the
region. especially IN the southern and the
western parts. There IS considerable TIM
ber, excellent summer grazing. and, judy
ing from the region just across the line IN
British Columbia. there must be consider
able copper and gold, though as yet no
mines have been opened in the reservation
The country is now being surveyed by
three parties Of engineers, all from Seat
tie. and probably the northern section, in
which there are twenty townships
VIII be ready 10 be thrown open in eighteen
months. This Is the more billy part, where
pretty much all the best land win be in
possession Of the Indian ha,fbreeds or
Squaw men. before settlers VIII be al
lowed 10 run in. The climate IS one TO
encourage out-of-soor Efe the days being
warm and dry and the nights very cool.
The winters from al accounts, are not
very severe. the average snowfall being
eighteen inches and winter not lasting
much over two months. Good water may
be had anywhere and is easily managed for
irrigation. A number Of the ranches a.
ready established AMI which are owned by
halfbreeds. are wei developed, the fruit
trees doing particularly wei. while hay.
grass and garden truck give excellent re
suits.
Besides the industrious ranchers. how
ever. there are many halfbreeds and white
men married to squaws in the reservation.
who apparently are doing nothing hut loaf
at the governments expense. They move
once month. when rations are distributed.
and the rest OF the time await the next
distribution.
''On the Nepilem river is the agency. I'M
der the command of Capt. Buck, L. S. A,
and the home OF the chief of the tribe. Be
sides these are the doctor. who draws 500
a month and Is furnished a house: the
farmer, the miller and the blacksmith. who
receive from Uncle Sam $50 per month.
The farmer whose name Is Steel, has
charge of the distribution of supplies 10
the Indians. listens to their complaints
and counsels them. His Office Is one of
much Importance.
The ranchers as a rule are most hos
pitable to those that visit them. Per-
haps the finest ranch in the reservation
is the one owned by man named Best
ana his Indian wife. who live some fif-
teen miles from the mouth of Bonaparte
creek. Here there are fruit of every kind,
a large variety of vegetables, seventy
five horses and $50 head of cattle. The
fruit trees. which are five years old, bear
wonderfully and with the rapid develop
ment of the canning industry will surely
be a source of wealth TO their owners.
"At the mouth of Bnapart creek there
At the mouth of Bonaparte creek there
half breed pupils. The principal of the
school is now at the convention of Indian
school teachers at present in session in
Tacoma
There will soon be a railway from
Marcus up along the Cattle river, and
this Will open mp an outlet for the min
ing district, which VIII then develop rap
idly. The PARROT Smelling Company. of
Butte, Mont, which has had years of ex-
perience and is composed of cautious
folks. has bonded number OF properties
at boundary creek. wherc saIphide ore
carrying copper and gold is found in
quantity One OF these is the Emma,
where already shaft mas been sunk 100
feet. and an ore body twenty-seven feet
has been found. carrying IS 10 $50 in gold
and per cent. to ~ per cent. in copper.
Another is the Enterprise at Copper
camp. where a seventy-foot shaft leads
TO an ore body forty TO forty-tive feet
in width of red and black oxide Of cop
per running 10 per cent. copper
and from s6 10 SO in gold. Eleven
claims have been purchased at Whites
feet deep and the drift 100 feet through
large ore body. At Greenwood camp the
company paid $500 cash for a half in
terest in the Stemw1nder and bonded the
other half for $4,000. paying 81 600 down.
The shaft is thirty-iive feet deep and the
ore averages SIT gold and per cent. cop
per The test was made by the cyanide
process and saved IS per cent. OF the gold
Up. A. Largey, OF Butte. bonded the
Monarch claim for $4,000. Here is a
s.x;y-foct shaft into a large sulphiie ore
body running 81 "a $40 gold and from 10
Is per cent. copper. The Butte and Bos-
ton Mining Company. Of Butte. the larg-
est mining company in the United States.
which owns the Tamarack and the Os-
ceola mines on Lake Superior. and which
OPENS what II buys and does not specu-
late has bonded the Caribou and the
Amelia claims at Camp Mckinney for
$4,000. II IL a working bond, and al
ready the shaft is down 100 feet, men are
working on three shifts and ten stamp
mills are running.
AT Sqpaw creek camp in the Iethow
country. Fairhaven banker. Mr..
Vanderfoor. has bonded the Jake
Derr group Of claims ard has
put fifteen men 70 work developing prop
critics II IS reported that NaDderfoor has
some Spokane people with him. among
when IS Patsy Clarke. Prof Kinsey
Iarius. the Spokane assayer and chem
list, has discovered a process for Tran
creek ores by which they can be reduced
necessity of shipment to Tacoma or 10
Great Falls. Mont
The best way into the reservation at
present Is from Spokane via the Spo-
kane < Northern to Marcus, and then
west through The bunch grass country"