The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-19
ABOUT FORT STEELE.
Conflicting Reports Come From the
New III Dorado.

CONNECTING Reports Come From TIL
| New Fl Dorado.
We publish below two version.
of the mining outlook of the For,
Steele, B. c., country, where severa
of our townsmen recently went te
seek their fortunes:
The Spokane Chronicle of the
9Th inst has the following to say
regarding the camp:
James Cronin, the pioneer mining
man of the Fort Steele country,
and the locator and present large
owner of the famous St. Eugene
mine, admitted to be the larges,
silver-lead proposition in the world,
arrived in Spokane last evening,
having como down from the north
over the Bonner's Ferry trail after
a three days journey. Mr.. Cronin
was forced to come to Spokane for
supplies, famine existing at the
present time in East Kootenay be-
cause of the stoppage of transport.
alton on the river route. He saws
so great has been the rush of pros.
pectors into that country this spring
that the visible supply of provisions
aud miners implements have been
exhausted. Beef on the horn, he
says, brings twenty cents a pound
and -four is $500 per hundred
pounds, and is hard to get. All
provisions bring correspondingly
high prices.
Mr.. Cronin, says that at present
only force of five men are at work
in the St. Eugene mine, doing de-
velopment work. Owing to the ex-
cessive rates for transportation, no
ore is being shipped from the mine,
and thousands of tons are now on
the dump awaiting the building of
the Crows Nest railroad into the
district. Mr.. Cronin says that they
now have from $4,000 to 10000
tons of ore blocked out in the mine.
The new town of Moyea, on Moyea
lake, near the st. Eugene mine, is
taking on building boom, and lots
are in demand and selling at high
figure.
Mr.. Cronin will purchase large
amount of supplies in Spokane.
which he will pack over the Bon
ner's Ferry trail to the mine.
Now here comes the Wallace
Tribune of the 10th inst, and gives
an entirely different version of the
outlook of the new Ell Dorado:
George Blackwell, of Murray, re-
turned from Fort Steele yesterday
and gives it as his opinion that it
is one of the best places in the
Northwest to keep away from.
Hundreds are leaving Moyea who
went in with fair stake, and those
met on the way going are discour-
aged to such an extent by travellers
after travellers that they turn back.
He says there is not one man there
working underground for wages.
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