Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-09-17

Dsscriiptisa of the Gold
and Silver Mines Of
Nevada!

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sbs aasss ] aoansed the eysriand stage Il
0maAs, and In sAs sfssrnoon og Esd ar.
riTed in good eondisisa al n. Ksarnsy !,
/ rsm&nsa here with oar cid friend DR..
Aillsr, until shs sfssrnean es 18th, whan
| sgain resamsd my seal N she evsriaa
for sAsss Fegions, IL and about the Hum
bolt valley. The road, a. you ara aware,
iis ap the Platte valley for asar 900
milss bsfoss intersecsaag The Rocky
Mountains.i The aaiaksErspssd sansassa
OF The ssansgy, whsa sadazed for six OF
seven ssdisas days aad nighss becomes
uainssressing and monossnoas, but the
sAgnsBess ID relisred By our srrisal at La
Port station 81 tAs base oa the arss range
oE she Rseky AkOansains, On the nosning
os che 2ssh.
The overland roase hase strikes ths
mouasaias . little above the mouth Of
the Cash Ia Puds river, and some sixty or
seventy milas norshvardly from Denver.
During the night pfsvioas,I bad NODDED
my has %, and |, thersfora, stood facing
Old heesg uncovered. Aftas breakfast
Ing on antelope with s..axiaSso aud haas-
ing np GsiL old Aas, | started 70 naka
my first ride into tbs moansains. TIE
stations are generally aboas tsn milea
apart, and are meslly goo I sabatassial
stone Structures, where men and beasts,
inhAbis andar the sans roof. Tha teams
are gensrally mules and on many poT.
sions Of ths rouse they work Eve and six
Of them, when avs, three are abreast IN
the lead. The rate Of travel, Ia an aysz-
age Of 100 miiss svsry "a hours. After
travelling about hfsy miles through rug
ged msuntains, We ssxiks the Larimie
plains, shere the road 10 yery smooth
and good for near one hundred miles,
The nsxs mountains Of note. arc shoss
about Port Hslisak, where We arrived On
Both. Here | msa my fsssad Barron Won
ssisch. frsm psussia, who pssossaed me
aboas o wssk fFon omaha. He had pre-
vioas 10 leaving omAhs, agreed 10 ssop as
sems point In the snouassias and rest an-
iii eaaa along when We wass 10 trssel
togsshss 10 Sals Lake City. 1 found hisn
enjoying himself hugely. de had som-
Portable quarters 10 ths fost, and had en-
ploysd cook, also, ssssral hansers silh
horses, dogs, &s.; he had killed sew
sral aaselops and Diasktsilsd dsas, win
any quantity of ssgs hens and jack rab-
bisa, he founa his sisaation 30 pIsasaas
and agreeable, shss be concluded 10 re-
main weak or Two longsf, aad 70 bag i
few bear before isaving the hanssrs had
told him Thai they ware found In that Vi
sinisy in grsss ssundanes. Iadsed II.
Haiisek 10 enc u sha bsss huntanx local
isiss In tie mounsaias, and II COL, Bab-
sist should svT sravsi ths route As
shoald By oil msans Esy OVER ana sake j
huns.
The whole roass fsom ske sins ysa
Strike shs noantsins untiI yoa get "a
Salt LAks 0ity, u onssof great interest .
% unlnlsiassd MosntAinssx lIka myself.
Ths sssass, b saaay places i aaraaa.