Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-08
NEVADA VS.. IDAHO.

From information which we gather from
exchanges, and from conversations with peo-
ME from California, we are led to believe
that there will be large emigration from
that State to Idaho and Nevada Territories
this coming summer. The drought in the
Golden State this year makes the prospects
of the farmers very poor, and the business Of
a great many mining towns has become de-
cidedly dull. Consequently, from these two
causes, the attention of great many people
of those districts is turned to the new Terri
tories east of the Sierras, where the prospect
of rich reward for their labors is more pro-
missing. Nevada and Idaho seem to be the
great points of attraction. Now, we do not
wish to be at all egotistical, and we do not
think we are, when we say that the advan-
tages to be gained in Nevada Territory are
far superior to what Idaho can offer. The
mines here are more durable, and they are
more rich. The lodges of Nevada have made
richer men than the placers of California
ever did; and even the most glowing ac-
counts that are written concerning the riches
Of the mines of the Boise country would only
make them approximate to the richness of
those of California. Idaho may have many
very rich placers, but if she has, in few
years they will be comparatively exhausted
like the rich placers of California-and then
the miner will again have to emigrate. But
we are sorry to say we cannot credit all the
flaming reports in circulation concerning the
mines of Idaho. To many, reports are to
the contrary. The best information which
We have been enabled to obtain, from various
sources, all unites in pronouncing the mines
Of that country to be very spotted in
some few places very rich-but generally
producing little more than "the color"
Miners who have been long on this coast
must have seen the i'll results of following
excitemeuts. Before they go off on wild
goose chase to ind rich placer that ten
thousand others are seeking for, let them first
go and listen to the story of miners who
went to Frazer River, or who struggled on
through snow and rain to Williams Creek,
in Caraboo. Did one man in fifty who was
led of by these excitements come back with
out an empty purse: In both these places
were fabulously rich diggings, but they
were "spotted" too. 4 great many
miners of California cannot endure
the thought of working in mines where it re-
quires time to open them, and then time to
get returns from the ore. They would rather
work where they can clean up every night the
result Of the days labor, though, in the long
run, they don't make half the profit. Such
men will always live from "hand to mouth"
and are drones everywhere. For them, Idaho
is the best place. But a man who wishes to
settle down where there is good present and
future prospect, where he may have COM
Portable and settled home, and all the excite
ment appertaining to mining region, where
speculation is always going on and improve
ments being made, must come to Nevada.
The constant stream of bullion that has been
poured out Of this Territory from the very
few mines which have been opened, proves
how rich our lodges are, and the continued
new discovery of rich mines, and the increas-
ing production of the old ones, show how en-
tensive and permanent our mining interests
will be. For people in search of a fortune,
whether they have money, or whether they
have none, this Territory offers unsurpassed
inducements. Her rich lodges are not all
claimed, her mill sites not all taken up, her
towns not all built. To energy and enterprise
she offers these rewards.