The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-08-07
COLD, SILVER, COPPER
ANOTHER PIONEER OF THE KLoN-
Dixie HAS MADE A FORTUNE.
Devils Country-SlOcan Ore
Shipments.

Parker, an old friend OF his, who is now |
at Dawson City, the metropolis OF the
famed Klondike. Parker served under
the colonel during the war in the Seven
teenth Illinois cavalry, says The Spokes-
man Review. He is a carpenter by trade,
and Colonel Davis vouches for his integ
rity Parker passed through Spokane in
April of last year, bound for Alaska. The
letter follows:
Dawson City, n. w. T., June l, 1897.
My Dear Colonel: / have been think
ing maybe you would like to hear from
me and to know what | am doing and
if l am getting rich. Well, colonel,
am | landed in Yukon one year ago
last May, and l have been one of the
lucky ones. L did not have but 81 when
/ landed here. | went to work at my
trade at SIS per day, and bought my
own chuck, all the same as army rations,
which cost me So per day. | finally got
the mining fever and went to the Klon
dixie country. Say, colonel, our army
marches were a luxury compared with
the trip over the mountains, wading
through the marsh, sleeping standing up
to your knees in water, but with feel
ing that if L could keep up l could get
enough of the yellow stuff to pay me for
my trouble. / saw many a poor fellow
sick, footsore, hungry, with almost des-
pair written on their faces, which remind
ed me of our army life, but the thought
of the future, if successful, had a tend
ency to brace them up. | helped to bury
five or six poor fellows that became dis
couraged and downhearted over the
hardships encountered, that gave up and
nothing could save them. You remem-
Der our march from Pilot Knob to Hell
ena, Ark, when we were out of ratiOns
for 10 days, had to sleep in the swamps,
snakes and swamp flies pecking at you
it is nothing compared with the lulu
birds you encounter here. Why, they
will stick their bills chuck through your
, green leather mittens and will pull your
breeches off if they have a good chance
= We all have to wear thick covering on
the face and protect our bodies as well
as we can.
lawful cold. l have seen it 60 and 7(
r below. All you have to do is to keeI
! your feet and hands warm and the rest
r of your body will take care of itself.
n Colonel, | did not have but one sin
r gle dollar when l landed. | have in golC
1 nuggets to the amount of $4,000; have
|. taken from one pan from SIS to $l20.
t have claim that is good for as mucl
l. more. Now, old comrade, if you wan
G to make a fortune, come. | will SCI
g you through the winter, put you on t.
as good a claim as l have. l know o
locations which, if you were here, yol
}. could get big money out of. | woul
like to see some of the old Seventeenth
boys. How we would work hand in han
and come out with more money than yO
ever saw"
/ To Revise Mining Laws.
p" At its recent session in Denver the il
= ternational mining congress named a con
II mittee of five to revise the United State
y mining laws and report its results
IL congress, and subsequently authorized tn
president to increase the committee b
le adding one representative from each mil
y ing state not originally represented O
ne the committee. Accordingly President
~ l.. Price has named the following: w.
Reyes, California; +. j. Newlands, \
vada; w. S. Haskins, Idaho; w
= Clark, Montana, G. Il. Dennis, Washin
( ton; w. B. Potter. Missouri. The origin
IN members of the committee are; j.
Todd, South Dakota Charles j. Moor
nm Colorado; r. A. f. Penrose, Arizona;
as A. Reynolds, New Mexico; Lamar Cob
en- Georgia. The committee will meet at De
ne yer September 7.
VS. On Springer Creek.
ad From a cablegram received from 10
lis don, England, it is learned that the lO
he 600 shares of promoters stock in the vi
he ing and Phoenix, taken there recently
he English mining men, has all been su
he scribed. These claims are on Spring
creek, one and one half miles from Sloc
City, b. c., and have remarkably go
surface Indications Numerous ASA
nc have all given satisfactory returns, test
-" az by several different assayers. Recent
- suits from three assays were: $2l3, &c
~. az and silver; $370.25, gold and silver, a
'n' $524.6O in gold and $3.50 in gold.
- the course of a month, with plenty
cash in the treasury, the company W
put on a force of men and actively pro
to cute development work in the proper
la Seven Devils.
ult The Peacock company has few m
are at work under the charge of Mr.. 10
the Pilmer, as foreman. They are starting
ose at very near water level with an OF
cut, making a dump of the waste and !