TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State
TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State
TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State
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Told<br />
<strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pioneers<br />
into <strong>the</strong> mine, a mile below <strong>the</strong> surface, to look up some matters about<br />
<strong>the</strong>se deaths and when I saw <strong>the</strong>se men, <strong>the</strong> cable, and <strong>the</strong> basket we<br />
went down in, I left <strong>the</strong> job forthwith and went back to Tacoma and<br />
drew m:" pa~' for <strong>the</strong> three da~'s I had worked.<br />
JOHN RITTER<br />
Ferrv Countv<br />
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The town <strong>of</strong> Republic was originally called Eureka, oi.' "Old Town",<br />
<strong>the</strong> name being changed to Republic at <strong>the</strong> request <strong>of</strong> Patsy Clark,<br />
who operated <strong>the</strong> Republic mining' properties. It was a typical mining<br />
camp and a tent town 'where <strong>the</strong> prospectors and miners came<br />
from all palis <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> country.<br />
I recall some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> antics which my watch-eyed saddle cayuse played<br />
going through town. I would ride this cayuse, carrying supplies, between<br />
:Mr. Keller's two stores, one <strong>of</strong> which was located in "Old<br />
Town and <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r in Keller. 'When making this trip after dark we<br />
crossed rays <strong>of</strong> light cast across <strong>the</strong> road from <strong>the</strong> two saloons. The<br />
horse would stop at <strong>the</strong>se light ra~'s and try to jump over <strong>the</strong>m.<br />
MRS. PERSIS ULRICH<br />
Snohomish County<br />
'When I came here with my parents and two sisters in 1889, we were<br />
compelled to travel <strong>by</strong> boat from Tacoma to Snohomish, and frOID<br />
<strong>the</strong>re <strong>by</strong> smaller boats to "\Vallace (now Startup) and <strong>by</strong> pack train<br />
to <strong>the</strong> present site <strong>of</strong> Index, where my fa<strong>the</strong>r had purchased a squatter's<br />
claim, upon which he also filed a placer claim, to make sure that<br />
it would not be taken away from him. There was a small cabin on <strong>the</strong><br />
•<br />
claim but fa<strong>the</strong>r soon built a larger place, to be operated as a hotel<br />
for <strong>the</strong> accommodation <strong>of</strong> prospectors headed for <strong>the</strong> diggings at Silverton,<br />
Galena and Monte Cristo, and <strong>the</strong> surveyors who were at that<br />
time blazing <strong>the</strong> trail <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> railroad over Stevens Pass to <strong>the</strong> Sound.<br />
.<br />
By 1891, reported rich strikes <strong>of</strong> ore back in <strong>the</strong> mountains and <strong>the</strong><br />
nearer approach <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> railroad brought so many persons to Index, as<br />
my fa<strong>the</strong>r had named <strong>the</strong> community, that he built a much larger hotel<br />
-quite a pretentious one for <strong>the</strong> time and place and this became a<br />
very busy place.<br />
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