Show MINING department NOTES ABOUT THE REG i li joseph ladue describes the new eldorado HOW u miners work great difficulties iut but a great reward the denver rock irocky Y mountain news has bas the following interesting sketch 0 of f joseph ladue who ito lias has recently conte come from the district it sais s joseph ladue the rulif rl cliNt t nian that over ever came caino out of alaka an tile the day tit in the city and left laist evening for new york to meet alil ill fife lids sir ladne wis was engaged every iniz inte of ills it thue iu in in itter vcr in aam ering front excited inquirers and his hia dianner aud ready replies tarried conviction that lie spoke the truth ile niel Kd denver in III coni tinny with ii a friend john 11 II harris of the olice of tile the general superintendent of the benver pi liver rio iio granite rill rall ballway vay way and in a 1 live of the news wig was so boltl lllian ii to be pre present ent furan fur an hour ur or more moio N lille the vistor was tile vo liders of the gold fields tt at wo grande ir nde boad quarters ills 1113 ellI elicited ted lons eions of astonishment w N liichi aich wore were doubled in intensity as lie he drew from liis his capacious pockets tile the largest and finest specimens of sold old nuggets illig ets ever displayed lis at the lers of tile llie company Y the nuggets lie ile I 1 carrying homo home mr dailue says are arc ignoble samples ot of the bi big chunks of yellow metal which anre picked up dally in the valleys ot of the he far north As a result of mr ladues stop slop over in in denver a syndicate was organized lust last evening which will send two stout young men into the wilds wild 3 of the frozen cn north in search of the yellow metal mr ladue is about forty years of if age and was a black hills miner lie will return to denver within six weeks accompanied compa nied by a bride and may make denver his permanent residence the largest nugget I 1 saw nt at anny 1 I ny time said he be in III answer to an inquiry lini ulry tipped the i caks nt at forty ounce it was forked out of a bole in a which a 1 I miner was working last la st winter aud and picked up on tho the dulip when the ground began to yield under the heat beat of the sun the kold gold runs about IT 17 to the ounce so that the nugget was woith WO th aso no imagination can conceive of the wealth in the and neighboring districts said the lucky miner as he pulled a buckskin bag from one 0 of his pockets and proceeded to edify ills his listeners with a magnificent display from one of his thirteen placer claims that Is a sample of the kind of stuff wo ne get et when it at tile the close of tile the days work we wasti wash a bucket of dirt in order to pay the men their wa wages tile the usual is to pay for 7 the days operation out of a single bucketful of ditt the dirt is washed out in the cabin and the wages which are 15 a day are weighed on the scales cold nuggets und and gold dust is all the money we know anything about in the diggins every nian carries a pair of ol 01 scales and 10 Is the days salary of a common laborer A miner who may be detailed to cut wood receives the same wages its as though lie he is in the bottom of the pit PIL after the listeners had regained their composure I 1 mr ladue proceeded 1 have been abat alaska ka oft off and on oil for fifteen years part of the time I 1 was engaged euga enga ga ed la fu il mining lining and part of the time biale as a merchant reliant I 1 know it good deill about the country its climate and it its peculiarities and the chances which are offered to energetic men sly my advice is for outsiders to stay away until next spring and then will be the time to make a rush tor for a fortune the excitement next sti summer anner will be much greater than it is today to day and the dilli culty in procuring miners will be much greater than the present time I 1 would not be surprised if they will be paying 20 25 a day for good miners for everybody will be wild over prospecting and the men now at work on the placers will go prospecting alio llio day before I 1 left the camp were claims staked out on the banks of the arher somebody went it up on the bank and panned n I 1 pm pin of loose gravel it at tho the surface lie ile found that it carried in gold and the camp went wild on oil the high ground a wirt roan Is allowed to stake out a claim ribo feet square and a man cin can stake only one claim in III the same district in it tile valleys valley the claim is SOU feet up tit and down the stream and it extends side ways to the banks even if they tire lire ten tell nilles miles anait that Is the alie law and as the district is seventy miles inside the canadian possessions the man inan who ivilo stakes a claita claim is protected by the wt bt mining laws in the world I 1 divver know a mining claim to be jumped in fit canada and the protection of the government commences from the mom ut the lie stakes slakes are driven in order to hold old a placer a man mail must do three mouthy continuous developing alit work mork then lie is given a patent and that ill at Is all there is about it sir mr ladue showed tile the most perfect familiarity with the practices and laws or of country and lie he patiently answered every inquiry although lie was vas almost hoarse froin the constant collita nt caw tion since landing lu in san francisco franl aco in ill company with a party of twenty six which created such a furore throughout the country lie ile estimates that all it tile party brought out about in sold gold and modestly says that liu ile is carrying ca r r D only fur for liis ills ex espenes es lie ife tiled med upon the town site of dinv inv ou on the only town ot or illy any importance in fit tile the gold regions loiis atia and as lots lie aio il I 1 rondy ready selling for suing as lilah hogu as 1000 I 1 and lie he refused 1 nil ail 0 of ji for one of his bis placer ligins lii ins it iva was estimated yeste yesterday iday abat irr fr lailye badoc lud hall alu amassed assed a snug little fort foreline line or oc not 1413 3 than 11 i that lufcy y day in august last summer when hs he staked out the townsite towa site of dawson 1 I do not know how many thousand dollars I 1 took out of 0 the ground last N R inter said mr laduc but I 1 had faith in the region and I 1 put it into the ac as fast as it came out my opinion la Is that australia california and t uth africa are not no t to be compared h mth ith the new gold fiebig of tit th north chere has bas been expose if it N orp erp ou oil 1 ne s stream t ream at lea least r t thirty miles of placer 2 and the higher r ground has been baru tested only in one placa of 0 course have no till ity of out tiling thing abolia the fill lodes loder the rhe 11 lodic lei any there and r gilvil it comes to to lode lus BI years will not inin alie r of alie ills ii 14 tile lie gold 11 ams lot flad far tint it J believe it di down fr frum I 1 om nin i tin ill banks u of file stream it in the bourse thelca alic donais froia chic tt ot such rich deposits must lic in anil and mut must be 16 ot of cwi cora at al I 1 nio idiot t wraith wealth the loile lode ing will 1111 Ivo luire heavy m machinery anih at anil i S ti it large tt 1 I will bri attract into ill alie fr frozen acu regions of the arh cI it is aiu bilile iaz ind and not nt at all fill rolia t tile lile that the cot com iiii fit it thit time nylan alif n tile question is lestr st wr rill rans ni III the I 1 bading nati of 0 tin tile illy lead lad to a solution ot of th it if auy ally mail pen alst in attempt iDt to penetrate the gold district li this falli tall v sald said mr ladue 1 I would advise alia to liike filke with him ei right glit months droth ion ions ile he will vircil aloo or 5 had bud better belter the money tot for sun sulk wit plies for money is DO good in tile the hi iii berlo terlo or of the connary ry my advice boull tie lie for him blin to gotto goto juneau cross the tha divide to tile tho lewis river a n distance ot of thirty miles e he x will ill lie be able to buy bily a i boint and in company with eneO two coulp companions ile he alight to be able to make inake the he journey to the gold re reio iou alii la a month I 1 know knew one party which anade tho the trip in ill fourteen days dats lint but that was a breaker aud and I 1 would not lot advise to try it datys Is safer ind it li eiter elter tiie the journey Is a distance a of miles allies over the ri aher ind and through 7 li lium numerous erous ink laba anil fiilds boat 9 are arc flat and cuu can be had bad for aalice al lIvee boat IN will larry irry three fineu and the thence nee esary es ary it costs a man inan about 1 1 a day for board ju iu tile mine binm if fr he be cooks for aud and that la is what everybody is 3 doing much aluch of tile is done on the lie across S charus it r es A inan is ia given say bay feet across tile claim us as a lay and he Is le to pay liny lifty fifty per cent for the privilege mining Is ia carried forward fora ard i through the aid ot of fires art ait built every night at the hie bottom of 0 tag ali hole boba in the frozen ground at daylight the is thawed and it Is ram to the surface the day abil pin up to be thawed out by the still the tha 11 nest ext spring si irin I 1 know many own ers alio ho will du do no auldin lul Din in the sum CUB 1 nier but prefer ill aliu winter minter plan III they devote their entire time in bum mor mer to taking dakins up tile gold ahe the great gre it est dist alICC to badnick is twenty fidio lh to sax feet when a liole hole a 11 down nearly dearly to badrock k the ground firo unil grows very rich and tile list last six sis anclin above the rock guilly usi ully hundreds of it 4 dollars to the pan loan file bedrock in many of tle the claims is filled with cracks which are arc very itch with the metal and usually three or four feet of 0 rock is i brought to the surface up to the ilia time I 1 loft left alie region there was no BO kill kiil ing and no bail bad characters had fould their way in I 1 heard beard of some soine steal ing but it was only when ulle n I 1 it 1 in all 1 as hungry iiii wanted to mt cat w x aich gold w m not buy the united states mail arrives in the district once a month in and is drawn bydo by dogs S it is possible lile that parties will enter during the winter in III the elmo eana way wa but if they tike take my advice they will wait till spring mr fr ladue frays ays lie lott left tile izold fou fields june 23 a and ud carue down the yukon yuon on river thence lunce by ste steamer allier to 0 sin 10 francisco the distance d down own the rit er is 1700 indes lie estimates thal during the first three months of the present year were taken out of the lie ground and wig was invested by lucky in miners iners ne lie sai it requires no hiim knowledge edge of 0 milling to operate in III the mines and that them are people in the district A dull bor of the buiners are accompanied by W their fai fa nill ullies and alie of children chil urca ing nn it the lie banks of the allon Is one of tile inders of the arrilia 1 tion lion left far ir behind bohunil bohi nil tile shortest dal ili i 11 in tile the year acco according iding to mr ladue is three houi bout b and miners mille s ire arc enabled to work seven horns bouls on acco account lint of tile mr ladue lias has inan wal long twili twilight ht three trips through tile the district 1 which the di discovery covey was made and aa n says lt it is one ot of tile the healthiest sf I 1 in the lie world the only Is tit alie vast swarms of mosquitos oM oel which fill tile the air in ill summer time 1331 con and beau beans are arc the principal orti sri cles or of ilet diet lint but the bacou bacon Is ot of 0 qun llly n very pour poor if a nian man must go 0 to the go gold of will cem h this year feln ed mr ladue ladne should leave t this ills country no later lata dball tile the off of the river riv is fro on en over in III tile latter part of october or by the 1 alst 14 of no ember and travel tra ill W l la Is then dangerous danger ouR woi 1 and s be in III progress for beilby years alif there will be no im ariu of wages a ion long time Mi milillis lillic liffa ilary machinery die men n are unusual 1111 1 j busy louly ii of ahcin a are re figuring fla by on bea spivy v y work for tills this f fall a 11 prin principal cipa alle nile cobile in ill the state slate thou ii orders aie 1 abow co 1110 from all parts of t lio world I 1 her i ins ing is going on ajic little slid aud ac ivill I 1 cela ece supply com pally 1 abow PC for I in order from arlo 1 mine foot 1 ut u ri rif lr f tile unla recell bof t t rie A i tib bilm order waa iv as i od ed front from t alio ile killon ore rin inala f of victor for field y gold pling to lio ile built fit at ier Anol litT ori is soon ns as V mas as received liy by tel t raph faolu thirla it A tile ho boston bauler fora dalar dunin duill to lp iw greeted st at lainie LaIn fc Ij voi etli a complete concentrating abe a ald aaa equipped with tables tabac anost approved machinery denver 11 K R ayres ayris manager of 0 th e S cha Clial branch house or of ir pra 3 cr bract A lias has received a Contra contract et to col cousan rn vell larye large smelter at cervillo S new I 1 idill camp of that ca en captain balue it 11 ls is ep oper ito ate tile smelter abich in ww 10 I 1 pecked will be ic ivady idy t to 0 blow thirty days iia men alo liia denver dearer on several othet other larse jobs |