Show the salmon ri river mines large stories continue to be told about the richness rich nesi of the samon river mines which are said bald to bs be situated in a basin about fifteen miles in diameter on the top of a spur of the biter root mountains and distant about twenty miles from salmon saimon river the country is covered with a thick growth of tamarack from six to ten inches at the butt and from forty to eighty feet tn in length very suitable for building cabins and excellent for hire bire firewood woo the country is 13 represent d as being covered with numerous gulches which are arc well weli adapted 1 for or m ning burp aes ses the depth from the surface to the bedrock bedlock bed bea rock lock is from two to ten feet the rock is of very soft granite and by digging 6 into it ita afoot foot or two plen pien plenty ty of water for working with a rocker is obtained which is the only method now in use the miners are said to have made from one ounce to fifty dollars per day during the tha winter no man working for another for less tha than n one ounce per day all kinds of provisions axce excepting t 1 n beet beef have sold bold thero there for tor one doil doia dollar a r p per e r r pound round 0 und there are some discouraging b taley tales in circulation cu concerning the feringa sum suf of many who mho have gone there during durin the winter some freezing fretzin gand gadd and some have deterred many from proceeding on their way who left california in january and add february and hundreds and thousands were in ore oce oreon oregon olegon b on waiting for warmer weather before going up the columbia and over the mountains to the mine mines at lates latest dates |