Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-05-07
A TOUR OF THE BASIN.


away to CentervilIe, Iog'em and P laeer-
vile. The roads are II. very good conditioa
with the exception Of going in and out Of
the towns, where an interminable network
of bitches renders travel by wheeled vehicles
rather uncomfortable Arriving in Center
vile, at neon on Thursday, We waited until
one o'clock and took passage on Francis &
Co.'S stage line to Pioneer city ct. HOg'em.)
The road between these points had only been
completed so as to admit of wagon travel
about three days, and was of course soft in
places, but as whole is one of the best
roads and most delightful drives to be found
anywhere in the country. The grades are
not steep, and are cut in the soft granite sand
so as to preclude the possibility of their ever.
becoming muddy. Hog'em, in proportion to
the number of inhabitants and size of the
place, is the busiest camp in the Basin
Grimes creek affords an abundance of water,
and the mines that command it are very rich.
We met many old acquaintance at Hogen,
all apparently prospecting in worldly affairs,
and laying up treasure on earth. Messrs.
Wheelock and Harrington have large stock
of goods in addition to several good mining
claims. John Nano and bis partners, run
their blacksmith FORCES nearly constantly day
and night. Col. E. A. Stevenson four miles
above town. has a fourth interest in the Faucet
& Co. ditch, besides 300 feet of paying
ground. Louie Weinheimer-of Drake &
Co., Placerville, who have purchased the
store of Alf Slocum-is opening a branch
house. Ply Giberson gathers tithes after the
manner of Brigham; never has to do a lick
of work, and is getting rich off his dividends.
Jake Vinton has the dollhouse on the Hog
EN- and Centerville road, and Bill Weaver
superintends the Faucet & Co. ditch and
claims. Such is brief review of those we
have known in California, and are now in !
and about Hog'em, That enterprising tin
man, G. H. Chick of Centerville, has estab- |
tablshed branch of his business there I'M
der the management of Mr. Norris and |
nine host, John A. Douglass, Esq, keeps the
Stage house to the satisfaction Of his patrons.
Drs. Boatman &, Stewart physic the people,
Dir. Semple lays down the law and Father
Mesplie ministers to their spiritual wants -
that if they escape not the meshes of the
law and the pains Of the physic, peradven-
ture they may ind treasure in Heaven"
AS no traveller we believe has yet described
the fort at Pioneer, known as Fort Hog lem,
it may be interesting to the uninitiated to
know, that about a year and half ago
party Of prOspectors discovered the Boise
mines in the vicinity Of the site of Fort Hog
'em One of their number Mr.. Grimes,
was killed by Indians few miles above on
the creek; their provisions became scarce,
and it was deemed expedent to send a dep
utation to Lewiston for provisions Mean |.
while, the party that remained built stock s
ade fort, some fifty feet square, of pickets ]
from ten to twelve feet high, with port holes,
&C., after the most approved style Of militia :
ry defense. In this they remained fortified
some six weeks until their provisions arrived {
when they emerged and located claims. Tp 1
fort still stands in state of good preservation,
and should be respected and protected asa p
monument to the hardy pioneers who opfl-
ed up to the world one Of the richest gdd :,
fields ever known in the history of mining 8
operations. Leaving Pioneer city, Crk In
drew up his team in front of w. f. & O.'s
Express Office at two minutes past eight, md Y
in precisely one hour and FIVE minutes We d
alighted il front Of Charlie LutcheS Bte, +,
Centeryile. Had Horace Greeley ben a Ia
passenger from Hog'em that mornin, he d
would doubtless have begged as piteousy for d
the driver to go slow as when expoStutlng {
with the Wasnoe Jehu on the narok Gades y
of the Sierras.
Centerville appears dull in the stress the
miners are all at work and have no tne to 3
spend in town, while the transient pJllc all {,
seems to concentrate in Idaho city and is Ia
not satisfied that it has seen Boise uF!l It las 81
reached mere. The best evidence tat there Z
is something to do is to see the eople at R
work. Harry Ellsworth keeps thefashiion K
Restaurant-as neat and elegant N eating z
as the Basin affords.
PIacerville like Centeryille, hasa Dull ap-
pearance, but trip through the alcheS and Z
cracks soon dispels any inference elaI ~ Is an !
idle camp. The water is alrea falling to i
some extent in Wolf creek, aFa runs SO
muddy that it will scarcely run own nil 5.
another evidence that the groud is being a
stirred,up A want of space retiuds US that
we have already said enough, BIt our task d
would not be complete were He TO neglect
the kindness and attention sh@n US at thF
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