The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-06-22

Pritchard's friends soon began Il
talk about the discovery and in tht
spring of 1883 the first gold rush tC
the Occur d'Alenes started from
Montana. VIM. osburn, Charles Sar-
geant. Jack O'Keefe, John LeFever
and Jim Cunningham came in togeth-
er by way of the old Mulan road
The snow had not yet gone off the
mountains and though equipped with
snow shoes they experienced great
difficulty In crossing the divide. Mr.
Spot by name, al d the little horse
found it almost impossible to make
ANY progress In the deep snow. After
a time, however, happy thought oc-
Cured to his master, and acting upon
| 1t he strapped two pairs of snow
shoes to the horses hoofs. After some
trouble Spot learned to manipulate
them quite cleverly and the party
reached Murray after experiencing
many other similar difficulties.
The next spring new gold rush
was started to Murray The Northern
Pacific had completed its line to the
coast and men came in from all points
bringing with them tools, grub, liquor,
and all the other articles necessary
and unnecessary which go to make
up a new mining camp in new
country. Wages mere high and food
and clothing were equally high One
man coming in from Denver brought
a ham with him for which he had
paid eight dollars, and he sold it In
Murray for fifty dollars. Hay which
the packers feed their horses cost
them one hundred dollars a ton.
: Countless interesting stories are
toldR about these first days in Murray
One of the most interesting centers
about the discovery of gold on
Dream gulch A man by the name of
Davis dreamed of finding gold in a
gulch at certain place. The dream
left such strong impression upon
his mind that the next morning he
set out to prospect the place Here,
sure enough, he found gold in pay
ing quantities. The gulch was after
ward called Dream gulch and Mr..
Davis was given the name of Dream
Davis
The original discovery of the Moth
err Lode, one of the first quartz veins
in Murray which has produced consid-
cradle gold, was made by Bill King
He found a large quartz face in the
bed of the creek which was spreckled
with gold. The face was about six
feet long and about four feet wide,
but Bill was afraid to put a shot into
1t, because it nigh. prove to be only
a pocket. After a time, however, he
was persuaded to do so and his fears
proved correct, With this unfortunate
discovery began the decline of Murray
The rich placer ground was
becoming exhausted and no new
gold could be discovered. The pros
pectors began to wander in other dir
ections. The town slowly lost popu-
lation and in 1898 after a bitter strug-
gle the county seat was moved to
Wallace which had sprung up on ac-
count of new discoveries on the South
Fork.
The first discovery of great i'm
a IN ha A.
by N. S. Kellogg. Kellogg had been
by two Murray men by
the names of Cooper and Peck, and
had been sent over the mountains to
he south to prospect for gold While |
prospecting in the creek and near
where Wardner now stands, he found !
| piece of lead float. He took this |
lack to Murray and showed it to his
partners, but they would have moth
ng to do with him. The manner in
which one Of his partners received
lin is an interesting bit of history
n connection with the discovery made
alter. When Kellogg came back to
durray with the piece of float he
ound one of his partners eating din
er in restaurant. He walked up
o the table and showed his partner
he piece of float and was angrily
old, that he was sent out to hunt
old, not for that junk" Then with
scornful gesture Peck threw fifty
ent piece on the lunch counter, he
imself was eating an expensive din
err, told the waiter to give Kellogg 9
to eat, and then sat down
his own table and after finishing :
is meal walked out, leaving Kellogg
ably boiling his coarse food at the I
inch counter. :
After finishing his meal kellogg
ent out into the street where he Ia
Jet Phil O'Rourke. He told O'Rourke o
his find and showed him the float l
tier which he was taken by O'Rourke M
} Dutch Jake Goetz and Harry Baer "
no at the time were grubstaking /
'Rourke.
Goetz and Baer Immediately fitted a
'Rourke and Kellogg out with o
'ub and tools and they set out for l
e South Fork, After they were well =
their way they came upon the b
lrro which belonged to Kellogg's for
err partners and which had been L
rned loose after the partnership a
Id broken m They caupbt tba ~