Show TILE GREAT CffiUR DALENE i Predicted to be a Second California i S When the BedKoclc of the Wnnh Shall Be Tapped A correspondent of the Portland Or jVetrs a practical levelheaded mining man writes that journal regarding the Ccenr r lone country as follows All thai is wanted in Cceur dAlene today I to-day to bring unparalleled success and endless capital to Murray immense business busi-ness to Spokane the Northern Pacific Railroad and Portland is a Hmnel run from Dream Gulch to tap the bedrock of the wash and the California system of drifting At this point I saw men carrying I carry-ing gravel in bags on their backs from the rim of the hill four hundred feet down I to the creek and make 5 a day to the man with n rocker I with such a wih ridiculous and contemptible method of working men could make 5 a day what would they make or rather what would they not make if the claim was put in proper drifting form I is i at this point the Webfoot Company sluicing in Dream Gulch took out twenty pounds of gold two weeks in succession or forty pounds for the fortnight during my visit at an expense ex-pense of about 600 I hill drifting were I thoroughly inaugurated round Murray the yielclof gold every week would be such that a man to name it or anything approaching it would be denounced as a lunatic At present grand as the weekly returns are foramount of ground washed the mines are not half worked nor the district half prospected The tunneling the hills would also do system in his away with the evils of the twentyacre claim system which prevails on the streams The twentyacre idea when first suggested twentacre gested in California was never intended to apply to purely placer diggings it was intended for quartz and hydraulic mining alone I is now the national law I admit ad-mit but I doubt if true prosperity can come to any camp where the placer mines embrace so many acres to the exclusion of so many men so much work and so much capital Small claims like small farms are the real basis of prosperity I a man be familiar with this mighty product of nature this great gravel mountain wash that has intersected the continent where it is distinctly developed at intervals he is familiar with it in all placesthat is if the formation be well defined and the Tock primitive as at Occur dAlene ho may by comparison with developments at other places safely predict success at that particular point for under such circumstances tho wash has never failed when properly opened and skillfully worked I may be always taken for granted as a rule that i the gulches are rich the hills will prove rich I cannot recall a single exception to this rule either in Montana or California when developments have been matured Nature never changes her laws to suit mans wants or whims and in the formation forma-tion of this great gravel belt as in the organic mineral formations gold silver and copperher laws l are eternal When opened and worked under a proper system sys-tem the hill gold deposits will make Murray eventually another Eureka North Bloomfield Cherokee French Camp Little YorK Dutch Flat and Little Run of California Not before Who will be the first to inaugurate this great eta Finally this is not a speculative article written for effect Its truthfulness will be recognized at once by every practical miner familiar with our gravel deposits During the last thirty years man has become be-come familiar with everything relating to this gravel formation except its origin I and that he will never know Where it first started what power formed its enormous enor-mous channel how water was accumulated accumu-lated in sufficient quantities to fill i with gravel how more recent river afterwards after-wards cut into it at different points how mountains were overturned and quartz ledges crushed to powder to enrich it with gold in such large pieces and quantities as have been found of late years are among the many profound mysteries of creation crea-tion that man cannot understand and probably never will for tho power to do so is beyond our human faculties But still this gravel deposit exists a most attractive at-tractive study in all its relationsa monument mon-ument of mystery with other things in this creation allotted to man Well so long as wo are permitted to extract and enjoy its riches let us be content and at the same time honor the brave old miners of California who have taught us so much of this prohistoric resting place of gold CoQur dAlene like California thirty years ago is now undergoing her preliminary lessons in mining When her gulches arc worked out when new men new ideas new appliances come tour to-ur as come they will with tho other mining regions now opening up she will help to made the great northwest equal to California |