Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-08-07
GOLD, SILVER, COPPER
ANOTHER PIONEER OF THE KLON-
Dixie HAS MADE A FORTUN NE.
Surveying Parties In the seven
Devils COuntry-Slocan Ore
Shipments.

| received an interesting letter from James
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 integg-
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 | am getting rich. Well, colonel, |
am. / landed in Yukon one year ago
last May, and [ have been one of the
lucky ones. l did not have but ST when
| landed here. [ went to work at my
trade at $l5 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 We're a luxury compared with
the trip over the mountains, N5ading
. through the marsh, sleeping standing up
to your knees in water, but with a feel
ing that if l could keep up l could get
enough Of the: yellow stuff to pay me for
my trouble. l 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. l 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-
ber our march from Pilot Knob to Hell
ena, Ark, when we were out of rations
for Is days, had to sleep in the swamps,
snakes and swamp flies pccking 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 good chance.
We all have to wear thick covering on
the face and protect our bodies as well
as we can.
''Awful cold. I have seen it co and 10
below. All you have to do is to keep
your feet and hands warm and the rest
Of your body will take care Of itself
''Colonel, did not have but one sin
gle dollar when landed. | have in gold
nuggets to the amount of $22,GOO; have
taken from one pan from $75 to $l20.. !
have claim that is good for as much
more. Now, old comrade, if you want
to make a fortune, come. l will see
You through the winter, put you on to
as good a claim as I-have. : know Of
locations which, if you were here, you
could get big money out Of. | would
like to see some Of the old Seventeenth
boys. How we would Work hand in hand
and come out with more money than you
ever saw
To Revise Mining Laws.
At its recent session in Denver the in
ternational mining congress named com
mittee of five to revise the United States
mining laws and report its results to
congress, and subsequently authorized the
president to increase the committee by
adding one representative from each min
ing state not originally represented on
the committee. Accordingly President J..
l.. Price has named the following: W. s.
Keyes, California; F. j. Ncw}ands, Ne
vada; w. S. Haskins, Idaho; w. \
clark, Montana, G. Il. Dennis, Washing
ton; W. B. Potter. Missouri, The original
members of the committee are: j. l..
Todd, South Dakota; Charles j. Moore.
Colorado; r. A. T. Pcnrosc, Arizona; F.
A. REYNOLDS, New Mexico; Lamar Cobb,
Georgia The committee will meet at Den
yer September 7.
On Springer Creek.
From cablegranr received from Lon
don, England,~it is Learned that the l0o,
600 shares of promoters stock in the Vik-
ing and Phoenix, taken there recently by
English mining men, has all been sub
scribed These claims are on. Springer
creek, one and one-half miles from Slocan
City, B. c., and have remarkably good
surface indications. Numerous assays
have all given satisfactory returns, tested
suits from three assays were: $2l3 gold
and silver; $370.25, gold and silver, and
$524.60 in gold and $3.50 in gold. In
the course Of month";, with plenty OF
cash in the treasury, the company will
put on force of men and actively prose
cute development work in the property.
Seven Devils.
The Peacock company has a few men
| at work under the charge of Mr.. John
Pifmer, as foreman. They are starting in
at very near water level with an open
cut, making dump of the waste and pill
ing up their ore ready for the smelter.
The Peacock ore chimney is about 800
feet long by l25 wide. The Seven Devils
City Townsite Company:sare having. their
town lots resurveyed, putting them III
proper shape ready for buyers. There
are two surveying outfits in the camp.
One party is surveying over the. Wagon
road to Bear creek by way Of the Hunt
ley grade. Z n
Sme1ter mt Pilot bay,
The latest news from Pilot bay is that
the new management will :start.up the
smelter on or before SeptenlberslG The
Tariff mine, across the lake controlled
by Braden Bros, as agents for the Omaha
and Grant company, will be a steady Gus
toner of the smeIter, as well as the Bite
Bell.
SLOGAN Ore Shipments.
Slocan ore shipments over the kaslo
& SLOGAN railway for the past week to
various smeters aggregate as follows:
Payne, -350 tons; Ruth, 245 tons; White
water, 80 tons; lbex, 80 tons; Washing
ton, 4S tons; Great Western, l5. tons; Slo,
can Boy, Is tons; Wonderful, IA tons
Coin (old Ajax, Is tons; Noble Five
Up the Little Boulder.
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