This place was afterward called Snow Tent, and S.W.

Churchill built a sawmill at the spring, and had all this fine timber at the mercy of his ax and saw, without anyone to dispute his right.

He furnished lumber to the miners at fifty dollars or more per thousand feet.

Bloody Run no doubt well deserves its name, for there was much talk of killing done there.
I, however, went up and talked to the men and told them I wished to hire a cross cut saw for a few days to get out stuff for a cabin, and agreed to pay two dollars a day for the use of it till it came back.
We cut down a large sugar pine, cut off four six feet cuts, one twelve feet, and one sixteen feet cut, and from these we split out a lot of boards which we used to make a V-shaped flume which we placed in our ditch, and thus got the water through.

We split the longer cuts into two inch plank for sluice boxes, and made a small reservoir, so that we succeeded in working the ground.