Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-22
TIE RoISE FEVER.

Tha, the great e. Dorado is ever in the
far distance, and like the ignws tGt,ns is ever
farther and still beyond, only TO be reached
bv toilSome journeys over arid mountains
and sandy deserts, through hunger and thirst
and pcstileEce and savage foes, is the old
story that we gold-huntcrs, OF ten or fifteen
years standing, learned by heart from sad and
bitter experience long, longyears ago. Four
teen wears ago, We saddled and packed our
mules Tour ears were about as long as theirs),
and started in search Of Gold Lake, that
mythical sheet of water, which had no more
material existence than the tabled Fountain
Of Eternal Youth, in search OF which De Soto
found the waters OF Eternal Death in the
turbid Mississippi. Yet little while, and
the har5or o; San Francisco was white with
the sails Of m armada bound for Gold Bluff,
where, as reliable rCmor had it, the sands of
the sea were bat puIverized gold. \ little
later, and from atar oil, from the directly
opposite southeast, came tiiings OF the IN
heard Of u .diih oE the kera. Another wild
rash and frantic stampede. Then again.
f.5m the ta7ghest north, from Frazer and
from Cari5ao, lands strange to the foo; 0: the
whi:e man, cane the madiening view
ha,ina Il : useless to rccOuu: the story,
for !: is within IN, experience Of thousands,
and the memory o: ali. Thousands went
forth up IN the wild ad,en.,.-ss. and thousands
returned; bit n. all. Taose mythical gald
fields are vast cemeteries OF nlmeless graves
Wsaried and WON, and 5.o&ea in health and
sr;ri: and purse. one BY one the wanderers
rs:uca,l, and il any bsoggh! back piles"
they wsre .; tn, kind whi>a require msii-
cine, and no: al iron safe. l; has been ,aas
irora rsao:est antiquity, and it IS 50 until
to-isy; whatever i - rsnilg maa supremacy
b,es:, is eve. in ii. far OF, impossible dis
trnee. surrounded by perils-;he Enchanted
Princess in ,ay i@.psesnao.e castle, guarded
by !GvulnesI5.e and p0isoa-breathing dragons.
Gold Lake, Gold B,uF, Kern, Frazer and
C-ri5oo, have hrl their day, and their history
is written. To-day, it is Arizona, and Boise
We: written; it is oaly now being made and
thousands Of blank pages are yet TO be filled
BY those who are preparing TO "start for
Boise in the spring" We are well aware
that al that we have said, and all that We
might say if we filed this paper, will and
would have about as much effect as the north
wind whistling through key-hole. With
oac suffering from the Boise fever, our words,
or those OF ANY other man" will SO into
oae ear and out OF the other, and touch nary
brain. They will go TO Boise, and those Of
them who don, fetch up at Fiddler's Green,
OF eleven miles this side, will be moping back
next fall, with their naveis adhering to their
back-bones.
The spirit Of prophesy is not upon US. We
are not prOgnosticating through any inspira-
ton; we oaly judge from the accounts which
We receive from sources which We deem
worthy OF credit. Accounts which justify
the belief we have expressed with regard to
the Idaho mines. are received daily. The
numerous exchanges with which our table is
piled, are filed with such accounts. Many
Q! th9se !, is possible, nav, quite possible,
come from that whining, miserable class
that would make Hell Of Heaven but they
are not all Of that stripe. We have now be-
fore Us, in the Nevada Gazette, an extract
from letter from a well known and reliable
former resident in Nevada, dated at Bannock
CITY, Feb 18th. The writer says:
lac weather has beea quite mild during this
meath snow ha~ ;Ge.Iei considerably, bu; II
freezes 4, night There ! I2uca fear expressed
amor. The miners thar water for mining purposes
~" >. very .;.;:i;eI. and think with great deal
# r-A Dickrr, should no; have written his
.ear Expvvta'ious until after he had seen this
litry: iIr all the castles III the ujr that men do
tL-,. acre it beats everything, Here We are
rCGrlS t,ur hundred Titrs fram any navisao.e
sIrr.s~ Wat ought people - expect
4 fIi.Ure water wi. oe our ruIlat!SH. Every
mining town here hyS is rise and fall. and the
cream will be taken from this place this spring
ANer :ha. the Town will su5,idc % = oar-horse
ARRANGEMENT. - - speak That there will BE-
rainic. here Tor y number of wears, there cannot
be any doubt; but AFTER three OF four months the
glory ami excitement Wi. have rGT00ssG
Persons who were in business he last year
male money BIZ; ! must say ID truth don't see
any show f1r shea to make money thi> year, win
fEH E1N,lN u nave Nal'l Las w
this Cjiy was thirty cents per pound on staple
= luGS tina. now can oCty De sold fNr COS; aa;
freight. You caa therefore perceive that trad
here i, Eoi EeI.Ihy. StI.!. property owners Ihink
raev have q good ;EinE. Rents are elormOuS
Ihave been hire nearly i've months Ihopet7
maxi a r4isy by and by. think il had attempt
ci 20 10 any business this winter should hav,
been bur,;-d oUt-cos seqrently would have beef
ia: a.Dsc. Asi, !, hope 20 set into something
,his spring thG; vii. pay,
ir,.sa raa; :a"-.' i, Il bis crowd coming ouI here
III, Ps!"E from C...!t .rGiA We'll let 'em coIie
G:-esy low. cn.ag@Yy. l prophecy, however
i-a. tie a.zj9.;y "i-ta-e who coG.c VII not say
!0ac - -..Galer- who .-e coming here 10 tnaS,
rac. ..;E2e, ". aa.- Sut = sl"ry show. Tasr
! no rI1usr ar1a4I hr=y .Dosr iHr fho oays % Gr
NJ a.. 80, q. wJu.d DC TO .vt we. enorS
alone. Tray GOATS J. u. y
The foregoing is certainly rather fsi!t
calogy upon the famed mines Of Boise
Taose wac have got IN, fever will say that it
IS all bloody lie" Perhaps it is. We
give IL for waas il is worth.