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THE WEST SHORE.
vA b ft to Ih- (VWUjJ to gWn the remainder. This
km rrdi. for the Chinamen for a while. Be
riimaf m milder than in other localities nearby,
product vegetables in abundance, as
dl m p.l.L Thin paradwo vaa, however, rudely in
M The devd, in the form of the Salmon Eater
h hhh. hV-v4 and lorl the M first parent," not
Hh pippin appK but with rifles and scalping
itiiw.
It m an umuually hard winter, thin winter of
'fa '., and the Indiana down on the Salmon were
Unir; lloth Cub and game were scarce, Apor
linn of the tril paid a visit to Oro Grande, the name
citf-n the town, and akcd for provisions (inurk-a-nwl),
ich the Heathen Chineo indignantly re
fuel. The day wu bitterly cold, and great flakes of
now Ml thick, and the Indians, to shelter them
hrii, built their camp fires in tho streets, close un
d r lb" ! of tho boune. John resented this, and
fitinuiklml tho fires by jxmring on water. This
m, iu turn, In much for tho native and original
uhen of the Mil. They ojtened fire upon the Chi-nam-n,
kilUl Mine dwn or more, confiscated all the
prui.u, mid burned the town. Whether the In
dintj mmj to male m of chopsticks, is not known,
but that tly had a royal ferat, history affirms; and
thu aw ay the glory of Oro (Irande, It is
till worked by a. few adventuresome Chinese, but
Ibe tnt of th m prefer the haunts of white men
At thi tiW tho excitement in quartz began to bo
Ml in this licinity. Mining Ln.1 all boon rocker and
low; riow it m pick and drill, powder and blast
As in tho butury f WmIh, pWr mjDjDg WftJJ h
fcUano guard. A party of proctors, among whom
n J. A. Nnrtoo and Hon. John a Ilohrer, dis
bl tho Charles Dickens quartz
Me, hoWM,oaoverl,,k8YankForkandJor.
-t0.aM,,uin,la,orld.widerepuUtion. Th
wa) m, at tho time of U d acovorr
,uU lnulum(,,lagillbe
the Dickens, and
AU.ut L
MlU., J .f , ,t,uMthe
Estes mountain, on which the Montana is located, is
nine thousand five hundred feet above sea level.
Here let it be stated that the district is covered by a
dense growth of large and valuable timber, and water
power is abundant. The Montana has produced over
$-500,000.00 in gold and silver bullion. The last divi
dend yielded its owners SG0,000.00. Within a radius
of eight miles, there have been discovered and worked
thirteen paying mines. There is no knowledge of
what the placer mines of Jordan gulch have yielded,
but it is simply enormous, and they are still being
worked.
These placers have been worked for years, by Mr.
J. G. Morrison. Last summer he associated with
himself Mr. H. A. Peerson, a gentleman of large for
tune, who mines, as Santa Ana said the Yankees
fought, for the fun of it. They have constructed a
mill on Jordan creek, with a capacity for fifteen
stamps. They have thus far operated only five
stamps, but in forty days run have paid for the mill,
a Frue vanner and saw mill. The mill is run by wa
ter, and the cold snap of last week compelled them to
suspend, with a hundred tons of first-class ore in the
ore house and an unlimited quantity in sight, on
which a force of men will work all winter.
The next year after the Dickens, two miles north
east, the Custer group of mines was located. This
group was sold, or leased, to a California company, in
which Haggin and Tevis were the leading owners. A
thirty-Btamp mill was built, which has never ceased
the dropping of its eight hundred pound stamps, and
has added to the gold and silver bullion of the world
over $.5,000,000.00.
Two mills of thirty stamps each will be erected
next season-one for Estes mountain and the other
for the Dickens-which will make one hundred and
bve stamps within a circle three miles in diameter.
Notwithstanding the great impetus which is given to
business, there are found here no Elysian fields.
One comes here neither for his health nor for pleas-
' TLere Wl11 be in these mountains hundreds of
hardy miners, reaping the reward' of their labor, but
B f?,r food Anient, and the luxuries of life,
ioill I flh1 the fertile lands of ad
stories. Already the denizens
fi cS Si reg0n for the wheat from its
chai o m lt8 faCtries and ten its or
Citv of Pi8 i 8 production8 are in every store; the
here, " e can Dot raise those products
ty J2 S Bil beneath the soil, a
surface. Z T flowers d nthe
to t 'Z ? ! S miniDS di8trict
h on of means to purchase the