The Newtown bee., 1905-02-17

ant. Five of us only work to-day and get 10 ounces and s11 of amalgam.
 June 1S We run both machines and get Il ounces of amalgam. No. l gets five ounces and SIP and Mo- 2 gets five ounces and s4. I write letter to A. N. Hawley. We learn that the Indi- ans are very troublesome between here and Foster Bar. Some Indians and some miners killed.
 June 19 Blackman starts for San Francisco with letters, etc. We are obliged to wear two shirts. One wool en next the skin to keep Iwarm. We work both machines and 10 of us get Is ounces and S1O. No. l gets eight ounces and $1, and No. gets five ounces and S6.
 June 20. Work both machines and get one pound, five ounces, and S14. No. 1 gets nine ounces and S11 and Mo- 2 gets eight ounces and S3.
 June 2l. We work both machines. No. gets six ounces and S8 and No. ? gets seven ounces. In all B ounces and S7.
 June ,22 We work both machines and get seven ounces and S8. No. l gets three ounces and S1 and No. gets four ounces and S7.
 Sunday, June 23. We retort S723, of which our share is sS2 30 for H. & N. each. Ruhe is paid S29S for cooking, last month. B. & B. one quarter of beef, S115; Curtlss' work, etc., $42, re- ducing our dividend to S4S 80, what we receive for both H. & N. The weather is quite warln.
 June "A. The warm weather has again returned and with it a rise in the river. Our men most of them leave, some for the fork and some for the Foster Bar Blake and I go to work part of the day and get 5 h dol lars.
 June 9. Blake and 1 work and get Sl64. Neafe returns with Sammy and Sheets.
 June 26. The river is quite high. Neafe and l work and get $275. We try to find place on the bar to work with rocker, but give 1t up.
 June 27. We work a little with a hand rocker after repairing it, and get S3 50. The company gets back from Foster Bar. Robert is just drunk enough to be crazy: has clinch with Scheets and is separated. Scheets runs for his life and Robert after him with a butcher knife.
 June 2S. Robert and Scheets come to settlement. Scheets gives in all his account of overcharges, amounting to some S200. Neafe, Curtiss and my self work rocker and get s3S.75.
 June 29. Very warm. Three of us work and get S14.5O. Sunday, June 30. We separate from ScheetS and the two HammOndS and divide our company property. July 1. Our rocker takes out S36, or SIP apiece.
 July 2. To-day we get in our rocker S5O
 July 3. The river falls little. We take out S45, or S15 each.
 July 4. We have spent Independence by being hard at work. Our dinner consisted of soup made of jerked beef potatoes and turnips, pork, bread, etc We take out S60 of fine gold, or $2( each.
 July 5. We get to-day S4S, or SIG each. Scheets sells and quits the Bal for $500.
 July 6. To-day we get s83, or S27.3; each, making in all the week S1O6. 50 The river now falls very fast, whicf allows us to work to a better advan tage Expenses for the week S6.
 Sunday, July !.
 July s. To-day we get so3 50 thre' of us; S27.SS each.
 July g. We get to-day $54 50, O. S1S17 each. The river continues t. fall slowly.
 July 10. To-day we get s46.5O fo two of us, Curtis and myself, S23 2 each. Our leads appear to run out. July II. In the forenoon Curtis and I get S19. In the after noon 1 work the rocker alon and get sl425, leaving for m s27.35. 1 receive with much satisfac tion letters from home, two from m wife dated March F and April 2O an
 one from Asa dated May 9. } July 12. We scratch hard to fin } rich dirt. Curtiss and l get in th ] forenoon S2O. In the afternoon l wor l the rocker alone and get S1l, leavin 3 for me S21.
 7 July 13. To-day 1 work alone a
 day, and having had two weeks of yer s hard work and my lead worked near] f out, 1 do but little and get but $1
 making in all this week Sl25. Paid f' [, expenses the past week Sl6.50.