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he is the very soul of honor and I think the most perfect gentleman of the two. We now come to where the most extensive mining was done on some claims there was twenty men to work and it was said that they took out five hundred dollars a day. it was a busy looking scene far as the eye could reach above and below crowds of men busily to work. They were paying three dollars a day and board to laboring men that was a good evidence that the claims were paying. Game was so plenty that you could see a couple of deer hanging upon the side of every hut it was no wonder the Indians complained about killing their game if this would be carried on all the season the game would be externimated . They would not be content with a moderate supply but subsisted on venison intirely it was so plenty there that when beef was worth ten cents per pound I could buy venison for fifty cents a quarter or about five cents per pound. The whole extent of the gulch looked like a country village the houses not being more than one hundred feet from each other. I saw the place where they were cutting the supply ditch and it was a most animated and busy looking sight. about a thousand men to work busily shoveling picking and wheeling dirt. the ditch was about four feet wide and the same in depth. there was no water in the ditch but the level being taken by competent ingineers there was no danger of the ditch failing to bring the supply intended. In the evening we intered another gulch where the claims were not all taken as yet. We spent two days prospecting but could find nothing worth staying for. On the second night we were camping out I had been asleep probably three hours when I was suddenly awakened by a tremendous shouting, we