Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-07-09

with the inivetable Yellow Pine which, shelter
ed from the fierce winds which sweep the noun
tain-tops, here grows to hight Of sixty or eighty
feet, though usually but foot to eighteen inches
in diameter. Of these pines, log cabins are
constructed with extreme facility, and probably
one hundred are now being built, while three or
four hundred more are in immediate contcmp-
lation. They are covered with green boughs of
the pines, then with earth, and bid fair to be
commodious and comfortable. Asyet the entire
population of the valley-which cannot number
less than four thousand including five white
women and seven squaws living with white men
sleep in tents, or under booths of pine boughs,
cooking and eating in the open air l doubt
that there is as yet table or chair in these
diggngs, eating being done around cloth
spread on the ground, while each one sits or re-
clines on mother earth to enjoy. The food, like
that of the Plains, is restricted to few staples
Pork, Hot Bread Beans and Coffee forming
the almost exclusive diet of the mountains but
a meat-shop has just been established, on whose
altai are offered up the ill-fed and well-whipped
oxen who are just in from a fifty days journey
across the Plains, and one or two cows have been
driven in, as more would be if they could here
been subsisted But these mountains are main
ly wooded, while the open hill-sides are so dry
during Summer that their grass is very scanty.
and halfstaryed cattle as one meets or nasscs
in this rayine and on the wav b;tber Cnrn Il
50 per bushel in Denver and scarce AZ tbo,
Oats are not TO be had. there ;s NOT n tun of
Hav within two hundred miles and rono con
be brought hither over the present road at
cost below $40 per tun. The present shift of
humane owners is to herd their oxen or mules
on the rich grass of the nearest prairies for
week or so. letting them subsist on hro,yse and
a very little grass and then send them Iown
the mountain aoain. This had as !, ;s soor,s
the hest that can he done LIVING of all L;nJs
will always he dear Mt these mines vbere An,er;-
can Flour is now selling st the rate of eaI Nor
barrel. and Bacon il worth 5Oc ner Mound.
Sugar ditto.
| nresume Iess than holr ,bo fo,. -. a,.o
thousand neonle now in thia rar;ra Iavo hno',
here week. be who hos haor hora .bmao ,ooi
ia regarded as op,e an old sa,,Iar Tho a,
cannot fall short of five b,,nJroJ nor Jo, hoi
anred bv an efIlux NJ ahor, onn b,,ntbr,.l t a.,
of the latter Cd avay con,;roaJ ,ba. paot!
Mountain oold dom;n;r,' - o,,a - -!
some Of h., ha,a o .a ... .'.5 Us
weoLs oa,;n, M ,ho;. r,,.i;o;. wv =. my.
,bo;r boo.s II Ell; 81 P,o,s'' ~ea'6 ~,a6 ou'
,yorL cd f,r ,hn rno sV,'' o.S S"eis "SNo
ami ,he;r hoard and ioJ,s I'Ju"'o ~. - Pe. uat
,yoaos ~, ,h, "',ai;...e lam! lam! ho' 'iisi
ero1 AnJI esal 49,; - sae i.iis 70 o'i.siu-
hans manvEw;Il rool;1o tha;r Jrna %mnu nv aoI,h
bere co. oroa,ar n,,u,lor Iii ,l VI 80
sc,ntv means tax ,bo;r ,,o,,ors s. du p,dnon 'o,
orJ tbon laavo sorrod ~, ,;ai' - 80. hnte
-, ,ho,'s9J i III
tbs ray;ne hosnra ,bo os S', e .ISreu ii'
do no, aao 49,, Lie e - VIZ
HE NOV "Ia ho.o o' ''IT n are 70 nne PronIa-
aroo of ~: d;,,,,;. et.,i .ne'elole' .he
enlaryedWof wSh;c6 th"ro ;s no assusao W. s,ea''
cannot imagine how, baiftbo n,,n,hor s,,h
s;st here even nm 20 ,ha. oaul,. sa.t;u ~ =, oe
Winter which n,ps, p o,usn % oan.r,I ' ~ VI "
mimi, and oonsoo,,an,i,. - Iii ts'S bs,' VI
Nonnia;n ;n,,ns,r,. VIZ ,ho ~ i "A ;'.s, . a.oNI
fror,, H. - '.:2I 'i eoIu JuSt MiesteI
one cor,,an,. bos an o,,. ; - my ~
nnt r,nra H.. IS sos - ~. ,ouai' AZ Lo'. ~
use of oucL s;lver1 wb;ch ~ yI.u III ~ smS
no;se and il es,;r, .,"d as rou,h SSio
r. nv lonr'settieJ con,;o,;on ,bot
ripbt and indsnntabIe oauhI;nn ,bo horJos, Jo
Though sometimes the 6y;ct . ,mV =. ah,e;n
Gold = 70 m;ne for ;tNtbat eo"J "I' sa ~ ou.ar,
S,nchar;o vii ,,s,,aii,, ID soou 'silie s oi
s,;cLing to his own h,s;nass ,bnn Sy J""or,; w
il for rod. .diogngNand that % tbe man wbo bny
inc fo;od IN snr,o o,hor ,r.'';t aaia,I., .''''
retrieving his fort,,pes by cold -n,;n;,,r, -
,,;s.at sh;nh ba Iii ~ INNING luaAes
Of his davs '''>''' " 'D' ~ '''e ''iO
W. had n f,r,ors ,,,,ho.;,c, e,,, 1.
from, tb;s ten, ,b;s o,.or2;,n ,riso, 20
safe men nnts the nuu,hor grssont ~ : 5aotoo %
600 Tbangb nv, ,rop W -,
il hr;ef and forciha oddre.anS .e S io h'
several others ,,bero;r Mn poa,ol - ~
nress f,c;lt;es the panfo Pa;Iro,od
new RocLy Nonnto;n S. Ton.,'o.,,Ppa w., e.,
bI;ng Sc 90 ,vero 5;sor,sad ,i';,h 60 I'm
freedom Sncb oo,ha.;nn af .m 'a 'Ge Jaoni,. a,i..
drown b;,,'or fro,, nnor, So; y. m'n S suuueniy
every Stare in gen wbero the frS, su axo ,,e9
raised tbe 6rst tant r;tohod b., ,,h;,o a,, , Ias
than six weeks ago should Gave % ;nsnrad . 'Isa th
dnilast s,eaLer VII oarnas,nnss e ot .;.h vi. az
oonence u ''o' win e'-
W;n;ne ou;cLsr. almost ovorv don,r,n,o,. of
useful ;5dnstrx Tmn oooI ; ,l;,s 1' pa hnnn y,
close ot hand h,oot So om,.P Sos a'e 60. ou,itHs
force here and ia line GOOD tH;r@ ~ sP MS
en;1. MOL ~ 5o oonts ao,s .n, aI,su,. y, snap
ofi;ce i inst estobsbed tn which an Epposs pooS
Oit;ee viii soon attach itself nroxs;on M ptors
will soon follow then grocer;ps. than 81 dr'.
goods. then n hotel so unt;l u;,b;n % 10Y tan
Years the tourist Of the Cont;n.n, ,,;, w., ba
whirled nm IN these d;eg;ncs over y loranr hu,
far easier road windinS oronnd the m9nnto;n'
TONS rather Than nasS;na over thor, and Ill
sin his chocolate and reo5 his Nav YorL n,mar
not vet five days oldwat the "Gregprv %