Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-04-30
Idaho-Pen Portraits of Its Future.

| Idaho-Pen Portraits Of Its Future.
| Perhaps the reader will say that it is late in
the season to talk about Idaho that enough has
already been said, and that all have gone who
intended to seek fortunes there the present year.
Not so; almost every day we hear of some one
who is going as soon as he q washes up" or
when he gets his pay for the last seasons labor.
Moreover, our exchanges along the different
routes from the coast range to the Humboldt
river give weekly accounts of passing trains and
crowds of emigrants bound Idaho-ward. Thou
sands have taken the fever, and will go in spite
OF any remonstrance; they are in pursuit of a
big thing and though we might be able to
tell them on the most positive authority that
Idaho was the greatest humbug extant, still we
believe they would press on.
We feel it duty, however, to warn them to
remain where they are, and in doing so present
the following testimony in substantiation of the
position assumed months ago, and to show them
that the result will probably be worse than we
ever predicted. The Red Bluff Independent, on
the authority of persons who have already re-
turned, predicts that there will be an immense
food of disguised ones returning the present
summer and autumn. They find the mines of
Idaho less attractive than those of this State,
because less extensive ; they find that it requires
at least the same toll, and much greater priva-
tions and endurance, to make the same amount
in that distant section the Industrious realize
in the mines of California.
Mr.. Mcclure, of the firm of Jas. S. Mccain
Co., has lately received letter from Sam. NAL
colin, an old Weaveryille miner, whose testimony
in regard to the prospects in that region is as
| follows He writes from Centerville Boise coun-
ty, March 9th
"Times are very dull here and the prospects
are not at all favorable for doing much this year.
1t has been dry season, and unless great deal
of rain should fall within the next month there
will be rough times in Boise. Men coming
here at the rate of five or six hundred a week,
and there is nothing in the world for them to do
few get work, while hundreds would gladly
labor for their board if opportunity offered
Some who were able to do so, after spending
few days here, started back to California, thor
oughy satisfied with Boise. If can get away
shall gladly leave here next Fall. Provisions
are high -four 80 cents a pound bacon, 65 ;
beans, 40 butter Sl60 dried apples, so beef
2O@25."
An old Trinitarian, writing from Wallula, on
the Columbia river route, to Frank ". Young
of this place, says:
I" spent last Summer in the Boise Mines and
was glad to accept the position l now hold in
preference to anything l could find there. The
rush this season satisfies me that about ten times
the number of people are the way there
by this route alone that the country can sup
port"
| Nine-tenths of all the information received
from Boise nowadays is of about the same i'm
port. We cannot for the life of US see what in
ducement there is for people to CO. or even think
and talk about going. Our word for it, all such
will be in far better circumstances at the end Of
the year if they remain. Go to work in earnest,
and with the little capital you have, combined
with your labor, aid in developing the resources
of Trinity, which is to-day the best mining coun-
prospect month two, and when a good
mining section is found it may have to be sup
piled with water, but all this has to be done in
the far-of localities after you have reached them.
HStand from Under is the title of very
significant article the subject, which find
in the last number of the Yreka Journal. Read
and reflect:
The greatest crash ever heard of on this coast
will occur at Boise this summer. The country
this side is completely overrun with emigrants
bound northward. The road via the Klamath
Lakes, from Yreka is lined with people so also,
in greater proportion, are the roads via Red Bluff,
Humboldt, Honey Lake, Salt Lake, and the Mis-
souri, river. What all these people will do there
to live the Lord only knows, and those who
l,o,- 6 II, Ia hp
pared to assist them back. The stages and
steamers are not very liberal in that Northern
country about giving persons without money
free passages. The people there now are desti-
tute of money, and are living principally on
credit, which cannot last very long. The chances
for any liberal supply of water for mining pur-
poses is even more limited than in California
The streams in that vicinity are small, and need
to be constantly fed by melting SHOWS to keep
up any supply whatever, and it is a well known
fact that no great amount of snow has fallen the
past winter. What is spent in going there would
be enough to start in business in California, and
what it costs to get back will take man SIX
months to square up and be free from debt
Every circumstance, and every letter coming
from Boise lately goes to show that the present
excitement will leave Gold Bluff, Frazer river
and Salmon river completely in the shade, so far
as stupendous humbugs are concerned We
have no fears but that California will be greatly
benefited by this rush to the North, particularly
the northern portion but we cannot but sympa-
thize with families and young men who will lose
what they might have made good start with in
California. Many who had made preparations
begin to that grand crash will be the re-
suit of this heavy emigration, and they are back
ing out of going The man who is lucky enough
to have goods will be forced to give them away,
on account of the lack of funds to buy, and those
who have money will not remain and put it in
circulation. Idaho City will present just such
another population of half starved and penniless
devils as Victoria did during the Frazer river
excitement.
| NATURAL AS LIFE.-We have received under
cover of an envelop bearing the card of Dickin-
son L Gammans, San Francisco merchants, a
correct drawing of our friend Kelton as he ap-
peared on morning fishing excursion from the
seward end of Meigg's wharf, while on late
visit to that city. He presents the appearance of
-o,,;no Jcoock Walton only more and the