The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-26

are near enough so for practical puT-
poses: but neither one nor both on them
constitute an argument. Place gold in
the position silver has been placed in
by law; let all of the great commercial
nations of the earth denouetize gold, as
they have silver, and if your mass OF
gold is then worth $40 at the mint, the
law of supply and demand does not APP
ply to it, and all must admit that $40
per ounce is its intrinsic value. But II,
under Recommendations, by which one
and that the chief use of gold is de-
saroyed, gold declines in value as the
demand for il declines, as ii will do,
then It's value is a legal fiction and not
intrinsic. Silver was always relatively
worth it's law affixed price, frequently
more, under free coinage. Fluctuations
indeed occurred, buG they were practlc-
ally immaterial and it was only after
the money power, led by Rothschilds,
became strong enough and determined
to lower the worlds money for the pur-
pose Of oppression and robbery THAI
these fluctuations came to be attrib-
uted 10 the cheap and nasty qualities
Of silyer.-T. j. S. in Boise Democrat.
A Wild story of Clear Water River.
A correspondent at Nez Perce sends
the following to the Spokane Chronicle:
The rediscoveIy Of the lost placer dig
gingS near the mouth of Five Mile
creek. on the Clearwater. recalls the
early and tragic history of that place.
Eighteen years ago, in thu autumn a
party of three white prospectors while
making their way up the Clearwater
To the middle fork by alternately pad
ding, polling and lining the light boat
up the rapid stream, camped over night
two miles above the point now known
as Greer+s ferry. They had prospected
all the river bars and strips of shore
along the route, and when camp was
pitched on the evening of their arrival
at the mouth of Five Mile one of the
party got out pick, shovel and goldpan,
and went prospecting for "colors" The
results, whatever they We're, We're 50
highly satisfactory, that the journey up
stream was never continued. The party
put i'm sluiceS. built a dam across the
creek, and prepared for themselves win
ter quarters. A.l fall they shoveled the
yellow earth into the sluices. In the
early spring of the next year, one
of their party floated down the Clear
water in a rude boat for supplies. The
amount OF gold dust he marketed there
was abundant evidence Of the richness
of the find. He never returned to his
companions for setting out afoot with
a pack animal loaded with supplies, he
was warned back by the Indians and
told that his friends were forced to
leave the diggings, and We're then on
their way across the Bitter Root noun
tains into Montana via the Lo Lo trail
He returned to Lewiston and left that
place a few days later for Portland.
Two years later a number of Chinese
az
onto the abandoned prospect of the
three white men. They built a pe1unan-
emit camp, tore out the sluiceway and
made rockers" of the material. For
several months they laboTed. and az
each days work regularly added its
golden quota to the hoard. it doubtless
inspired in them visions of oriental opu'
leroce in the years to come. But the
dreams were never to be realized, for
some months after they had tented
there. the Indians made down upon
them and murdered every member OF
the party Old settlers will remember
the killing of the five Chinese pros
pectors on the upper Clearwater in the
early sos. The placer ground which
can only be reached by the river and
by a tortuous ascent into the canyon
from the plateau above remained urdlS
turbed all these years, until last week
H. Jennings of Rose Quartz camp
while prospecting, descended the noun
tain, discovered the old sluiceway. and
numerous other signs of an abandoned
prospect. He panned out shovelfui
of earth and got from fifty to hundred
and five colors. The placer find is rich
not only in gold and tradition. but in
human bones, for the remnant Of a de-
ceased Chinaman was found this week
consisting of the bones of an arm from
the shoulder down to the digihal tips
Sluice boxes have been put in and q
dam thrown across Five Mile creek
The work viii start the last of the week
and rich results are expected from the
first 'fclean up"