Year: 1866

EDITOR BUTTE accommodating swung around
the circle" and brought up the line at Cherokee
Flat, where | intend to fight out the winter. l
thought would drop you a few lines, mot that
Cherokee wants anything said in her praise either
from me any one clse.) Her mineral resources,
permanent residents and comfortable homesteads,
speak more for her prosperity than volumes that
could be written about the place. Cherokee is one
of the best mining camps have struck; things are
reversed here, instead of men seeking employment,
employment is seeking men-there is plenty of
work good wages, and sure pay. At this time of
the year everybody is busy; some company's are
taking out pay dirt, others are demonstrating
their fumes and tunnels" The Cherokee Company
driving their extensive tnnne ahead at railroad
speed running day and night and understand
have had large force of hands employed all Sum :
mer. The contracts were let out in sections, which
enabled them 10 drive the work ahead faster than
the usual way of all the work being done at one
end. Part Of their four foot lume is already in an
the material is on had to finish the balance as soon
as the drifters finish their contracts. The Welch
Company has an extensive branch tunnel running
into it, and intend to dump their tailings into the
Cherokee Company's fume. 1t is impossible for
me TO eHumeTale the different WORKS tldl are IN
progress. In the words of my friend from Pike.
"every one is putting in their best licks." All
these works and improvements not being made
in anticipation of the intended new ditch, by no
lneans-the owners are old residents and they
know full well from experience that if it is any
kind Of mining winter. they will be renumerated
for work done and money expended, Judging from
the immense stratas of wash and the extensive
beds of pay dirt At one time, probably when the
world was young, there must have been small
Mississippi or young Amarzon meandering around
this point of the Table Mountain. As TO the town
it Is built scattering it is impossible to describe
it but if all the houses were concentrated togeth-
er and put in ship shape there are enough of them
to form a respectable sized city II is true there
are no brown stone houses or five story brick build


ngs in Cherokee but there are more neat, comfort
able, substantial frame houses, ornamented with
fruit trees and grape vines than in any other min
ing town of its size in the State and most Of them
are owned by those hardy sons of toll the honest
miner men who by years of industry and provi-
dent habits, have accumulated around them good
homestcads The town has three good stores, three
boarding houses, dry goods store and one resi-
dent physician. to attend the numerous ills that
that flesh is heir to. As to sickness, have
very little of t-tliere no contagious Diseases the
climate is healthy and invigorating, the attitude of
the place is sufficiently high enough in the foot
hills to ensure it against malarious complaints.


If ever the contemplated water ditch is brought
in, and two three good outlets made to the
diggiugs Cherokee will stand in the foremost rank
of mining towns | am no claim owner specu-
later only carrying out the great fiat that went
forth, that 'man should eat bread by the sweat of
his brow" But when look around and see what
the diggings have done for years past, with rain
water, what may we not expect with good living
water ditch.


There are good many Wechmen residents of
what they call British America. | have learned
from one of them that an expedition is being fitted
ont in San Francisco for the purpose of taking
whales MUpsILL.