, 1864-09-16
Boise Correspondence.
IDAHO CITY, Sept. lst,

EDS STATESMAN For a week past we have
been having very unusual weather for the time
of year. Considerable rain has fallen, and the
atmosphere seems surcharged with Electricity,
the lambent flames of which play across the
horizon, and dart athwart the heavens every
evening, reminding one of the Platte valley in
early summer. The hot weather of July and
the fore part of August has given place to re-
freshingly cool nights and mornings, and some
COOL cloudy days
Some improvements in the building line are
still going on but there are some vacant tene-
ments in the city proper, and still more in Buena
Vista. Many are leaving for winter quarters at
Walla Walla, the Willamette valley and Cali
fornia most of whom will return in the spring.
There is no present probability that the popula-
tion of Idaho City, Boise Basin, or Idaho Ter
ritory will suffer decrease, but on the contrary
will continue to increase almost as rapidly as
within the past two years The emigration
from the States forms no small portion of this
increase mostly settling in the agricultural
districts The Boise river valley is already
pretty well filled up from this source The en-
igrants bring many fine horses, mules and cat
tie into the country, and teaming has become
quite an important item.
The quantity of vegetables and other pro-
ducts of the soil, brought from the Boise and
Payette river valles is very large, averaging for
the past month not less than q dozen
wagon loads per day, brought to this place
alone. Owyhee, and South Boise Mining re-
gions furnish equally good markets for the Boise
river valley, which is the main dependence so
far of all the mining camps in this region OF
country. Many thousands of dollars will be
realized this year by ranchmen, teamsters and
dealers in those products. The vegetables
grown are very fine and large, and hard to beat
anywhere. Onions beets, cabbages, lettuce,
turnips, potatoes, squashes, cucumbers, melons,
tomatoes, and, in short, everything that has been
tried has succeeded finely. Hay in large guam
titles has been made upon Moores Creek
Grimes Greek, and Granite Greek fats, as we'll
as in the river vallies before referred to- and
sells at for less than one-ffth of the price asked
the same time last year.
New and important quartz discoveries are
continually being made the last being in the
vicinity of the North Fork of the Boise river.
Some fifteen to twenty different lodges have
been discovered and located principally silver
bearing quartz, which rival in richness nything
yet found in the country The first discovery in
that locality was made only about q fortnight
since. Within a fortnight afterward some six
or eight other ledges were discovered in that
immediate vicinity and town has been laid
out called 'Silver City," The distance from
here is about 35 miles, the route being directly
up Moore's creek to the headwaters of the same,
and across the dividing ridge between the
sources of MoOre's creek and the headwaters OF
Crooked rivera tributary stream to the North
Fork of the Boise. OF course there was sOme-
thing of a stampede to the new quartz region,
and several hundred claims have been located
and recorded, chiefly on the Banner, Washoe,
California, Washington, Black Warrior and
Wisconsin lodges. There is very little doubt
that the Mountain ridges and water sheds in
the North Boise country are equally as rich in
mineral wealth as in the South Boise, or Owy-
hee
The fact, SO studiously ignored by San Fran
cisco and other California journals, that the
splendor of the star of Idaho, but just emerging
above the worlds horizon, is fast eclipsing the
exaggerated lustre of Nevada is becoming SC
fast and so convincingly apparent that
San Francisco capital is already seeking
investment in no small quantities in Boise, AL
turas, and Owyhee counties, where dividends
instead of assessments await judicious outlays
Political movements have attracted much pub
lie attention during the last month here. A G
Turner the regularly nominated Republican can
ddate for Delegate to Congress, by a flank move
ment of some of the dsaffected among his party
finds another Richmond in the field upon Re
publican platform, in the person of Hon. s. @
Parks, so their will be triangular fight for thai
position between Holbrook, Turner and Parks
somewhat like the Lincoln-Fremont imbrogliC
in the States. Full tickets Of county officers
have been nominated by both parties, and there
are also independents out for some positions. i
secessa is content to abide by Democratic prin-
ciples in Idaho, abolitionism will be cleaned out
to the bed rock this fall, but if not, theissue will
be doubtful.
The District Court conYenes on the 9Th of the
present month. There is large amonnt of civ
il business on the court calender undisposed Of
which will make the next session a protracted
and very important one. Notwithstanding
Judge Parks nomination by one wing of his
party for the delegateship, it is understood he
will hold the September term of the Court, un-
less the arrival of Chief Justice Woodson should
relieve him during some portion of the term
Mrs. Susan Getzler took farewell benefit
last week, prior to taking her departure from
among us, and had an oyerhowing house The
day following the arrival lofMrs. Julia Dean Hayne
and the formation of new troupe composed OF
that star actress of the Pacific coast, Mr. and Mrs
G. B. Waldron, Belle Douglas Mortimer Reeves,
Lane, Lindsay, W. H. Robinson and others un-
der the management of the veteran ], S. Potter,