Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-08-31
m Crowd Miners Prospecors and Mountain People Gathered
Il Dixie Last Thursday Celebrate Anniversary of Discovery
SPEECHES, BALL GAMES, HORSE RACES AND DANCING
e Henry Haz Pioneer of the Camp Tells Early History
the Camp and Renews Faith Shown Forty Years Ago.

Patriotic Song, George Yahrus.
Singing, Columbia, the Gem of
the Ocean," by audience.
Recitation, "Discontented," Mar
garette Trader.
Recitation, THE Ball Game"
Joseph Mcknight.
Song, "Rings on Your Fingers"
Dixie Baseball Team.
Violin Solo, VIM. Tate.
Pioneer Days of Dixie.
Delivered by Judge Henry S.
Hazlitt, at Dixie, Idaho, August "a,
1911.
Mr.. Chairman, Visitors and Fellow
Townsmen: To me has been accorded
the honor of addressing you upon this
occasion, and on behalf of the people
of Dixie, bid you visitors welcome
to our town and extend to you the
freedom Of the city, and assure you
that the people Of Dixie will leave
nothing undone upon their part to
make this an event long to be remem-
bered. Of course when the ball
game begins this afternoon, friend
ship ceases and Dixie will root for
the Dixie team and see that it gives
the Elk City aggregation run for
its money.
The subject assigned to me by the
Committee on Arrangements for this
occasion, is, the Pioneer Days Of
Dixie. The early history Of Dixie il
SO interviewer with that Of Florence
and Elk City that it is difficult te
speak Of Dixie prior to 1893 as
separate community. Well do | re
member the rush to the Northern
mines, as they were called in the
mining camps of California and
southern Oregon. All through the
winter of 1861-62, where ever thu
miners congregated, Salmon River
Orofno, Bannack, Elk City, JohI
Day and Powder River were names t.
conjure with; in fact, there were bu
two topics of conversation, the Nor
thern Mines and the war. Whel
Salmon River, (now Florence) Orc
fino and Elk City were struck, For
, Sumpter had been fired upon; Bul
Run was history. From the Missis
sippi to the Pacific the country wa
ablaze with Indian hostilities, wit
all their attendant barbarities. .
every hand, throughout the natio
was heard the call to arms. The hrs
mining done in what is now Dixl
mining district, was in 1862, in Dix
gulch, by two prospectors, who's
names | have never learned, who ha
: come over the divide from Elk Cit,
;, These men worked awhile and rul
ming short of grub, one of the par
| ners took what gold dust they ha
taken out, some $4,000, and starte
| to Elk City for supplies. At Il
| crossing of Red River, where IL
bridge now is, he was killed by al
| bushed Indians, who robbed the boo
| and hid it in the willows. His pal
ner becoming uneasy, because OF h
failure to return as anticipated, strut
out after him, and between the eros
ing of Red River and Elk City,
met a company of Volunteers fro
Elk City on an Indian scout. Upt
inquiry, he was told that his partn
had not reached Elk City; that III
probably been killed by an lndl,
war party which had been seen on t
meadows. When the Voluntee
reached the ford, short search foul
| the body in the willows. Times !
ing troublous, because of the lndi'
hostilities, the surviving partn
abandoned Dixie Gulch. In lSt
during the Buffalo Hump excitemel
a party of which Bill Teraan was
member, came over the divide
tween Crooked Creek and Big Gre
onto Nugget Gulch where, they su
a hole and found coarse gold. 1t v
from these little nuggets that Mugs
Gulch got its name. This party a
sunk a lot Of holes between the HUI
and Nugget Gulch. ?. S. Prichs
thinks it was on the head of Boul'
Gulch in the vicinity of the Robins
and Cox claims. In fact the Ierr
party did not know where 1t was
oct and did not get its bearil