| Show HAWLEY THORNE on Clar darker keys fork at tho the I mines EDITOR editon HERALD hell gate river runs beside the northern pacific track going west to to M missoula its waters are clear cold cola and rapid its banks are of solid rock its surrounding country is is broken always grand it is marked by A MIGHTY CANYON lung wil winding iding with a narrow strip of level land on either 8 aide ide of thu the and sides of cold gray a stone tone rising stiff tiff ut straight raight and anti impo imposing bing a thousand feet into the heavens liet ivens occasionally on the mountain hights or upon the steep side sides a scrubby scrawny evergreen has a lodgment but it only seems to give a more dreary dren r spirit to the scene it was down this canyon y idon along 9 this on off a cold clear day lay I 1 mount ed of ofa a handcar han detar bound with its load to inspect a bridge abridge adding my imy strength to that ol 01 the workmen the car was soon SPEEDING AWAY with wonderful velocity along the smooth iron ribbed load oad i that millions oi 01 money and und years of la bor have placed here for the commerce n of the north and west far above me wa wai a little trail now destined to be forgotten its day has bas passed pas sed along it once the wealth ofin of mines ines and the demands fur the to boilers toilers toi lers comfort faunl I 1 I 1 its its way in an almost end endless les line of packs and mules along it too the coach with its load mails maila daily went cast east and west A CLOUD OF dudt dust could from almost any point be seen at auy any time during the day but now the traffic has formed a better softer and aud surer route it is is bonu in a minute we hear bear the labored puff puff of the engine the whistle the tile bell rings all aboard and like a huge serpent the train trails away and along the canyon and the old work of weeks is now accomplished in a day yet riding along the deep gulch benns wenns e paivi i much of the pleasures of scenery seated on uy suy burse horse I 1 have traversed the count country crossed gulches where it se seemed the NIGHT WAS PERPETUAL and galloped along plains that were BO high they appeared ap reared to be suspension to bridges in the t I 1 ie clouds at times elevated above the cloud I 1 have seen a half dozen of natures kings grand old fellows grouped about me and it deemed as I 1 rode upon their eide reide if the mists below me would clear away I 1 could contemplate p ah the whole great globe with its dissolving views its panorama of rivers mountains valleys oceans cities citie and plains after an inspection spec tion of the bridge we worked our way BACK TO GARRISON and prepared to it take the regular train which waa to it arrive a few houm inter at night flight when I 1 lay lav dottai to reet in the car about me we una ns the scenery I 1 had visited in ill and next day dav cheit aln ii the tile un ank lank L to ret re t il it shed iti its light over idt r rth gg d cliff clerke cla i B s fork dorkof of the Gi columbia lumbia ati I a situ similar ilar scene seene to that odthe evening pr pre e ex ut opt pt the hill st timbered and www lav lay epou the ground in 1 icil I 1 I llumi siding kath hatle duni and landing were tit the mot important of tit E s rATION 13 PAt lD although they at art abent to but little iveron H ern siding id is calculating to become thy the chief supply depot for the coeur d dalene alene mines ure tire dit atit but 35 miles it hits a population of who are melly discoverable in wooden houses lit uses and tent teut and are generally engaged engage ii in dri n king gambling an eating judging by the character of the but lutiness butin iness fM street drum is the present starting point to the mine anti differs from heron siding only in that respect and its more diminutive size cabinet CU bilt Landin cj rj the old and bloody camp of odthe the construction forces of or the tile N 12 II 11 it here it was that in a it month over fitly fifty cople passed kud suddenly denly and terribly beyond beyond things thing terrestrial tin HOPE AND RIFLE made such ft a scattering among the blacklegs blackleg saud and slugs that even to t this quiet and peaceful day lay few levy have returned As to the cheur beur dalene mines il it can safely be said that or will bo be there early in the tile spring april ig everywhere the excitement is i aiu u mense L speculation crazy crazy and visions of rapid wealth ar are plentiful there will also be much digap prices ot of provisions are now very high 50 cents a pound being off offered ered fur for flour 81 f for or sugar and bacon THE MARKE 17 will not have a downward tendency until late in the spring perhaps not until the beginning of su summer there are some very rich placer claims taken there may may be he other grand onea yet to be taken that will be a fortune to the finder but there has not yet been discovered r ace piece of quartz equaling woo wow river iver specimens ami and it is a knori fact that placers will be limited there are ten miners there now fo foy every mine snow is eight feel feet deep on the level the southern outlet outlet or by the cmur dalene lake is the one generally traveled now and it is dangerous as welt well a difficult as my next will show beyond peradventure it navigating A barid in a canoe and in ity the case of your tour correspondent being soaked and anti chilled by aneil act i junges int w the ice lee filled sn snow jv t bound 0 und ctr etre earu aru tho the entire north ol 01 idaho idalio ia is rich in mineral it may bt b that the coeur ti Alene excitement will develop something arim ething permanent and worthy the attention of miners HAWLEY Tl Ti lonyE fORNE |
