The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-02-27

Beaver Head Baanock Ia virgins Cit /
Virginia City ID sixty miles from Hallatsr
4 town located Ca the three forks Of the
Missouri. sis, s I.
.Tha quartz ii rotten and can b. easily
crushed with hammer. hich quarts
leads have been discovered In other
pulches. but there are no qaArtS mills 70
So had. SEINE Of the quartz are estimated
Il 81 worth two thousand dollars to the
cord by old miners. This plan is iEnagirl-
AIRY. No tests have been made to justify
auch an estimate.
SALuK AND PRoFiTs or LABeR.
aar,abcrif,p hands find ready employ
merit at five 10 six dollars per day. After
payirfg the hahds, the Averages prohs
from the labor of each hand is from tt.
teen To twenty dollars. Some hands
have taken out a. high as seven hundred
dollars in one day. But IL jss only noW
and then such pocket Of gold Is found.
Board may be estimated for laborisg
hands at one dollar and fifty cents das ;
or course many man age to live on less.
"At Boise Bannoek, on this western
slope of the mountains. 1t b estimated
there are twelve Thousand persons. U
course this includes the mining popuia-
ton in the immediate vicinity.
Virginia City and vicinity contains 1t
the highest estimate about four Thousand
inhabitants. ~ &. $50
Beaver Head Bannock has about one
thousand Ave hundred in the town and
immediate vicinity. "= ,..
" = - t@k = h "a
are spending the winter In Gailiton.---
Fort Benton is the head OF steambOas
navigation on the Missouri river. IL 10
Ibout two hundred and seventy five miles
from Fort Benton to Virginia City, and
nearly the same distance TO Gailiton.-~
Above the Falls Of the Missouri as far as
GalIiton, small boats could easily run. but
no boat can pass over the falls at any sea-
son of the year. .....-
"E lst Of Barnock City. and In the vi
entity of Big Horn on the Yellow Stone
gold gulches have been discovered OF
such astonishing richness that q large
emigration viii 90 directly to that region
the coming spring. What is called color
has been found on nearly all the tribu'
taries Of the yellow Stone. An Indian
recently gave a trader two thousand dol
lars in gold which he had picked up in
that vicinity He enjoined the most pos
tive secresy in regard 20 the matter. say
ing his tribe would instantly kill him If
they should receive information that he
had sold gold:
There is 10 country more admirably
adapted for farming purposes, than the
vast region now occupied by the Grow
Indians, in the vicinity of the river
known as the yellow Stone. This river
il navigable Mt almost any season, as high
IN as thu mouth Of Big Horn. A cnmpa
nv has already selected town site at the
mouth Of the last mentioned stream. In
Virginia CITY, three hundred men are
organized for the purpose Of prospecting
for gold in the Yellow Stone country the
coming spring.
PRICES. N GOLD. OF GOODS DURING THE
LAST THREE MONTHS IN,IDAHo TERRITORY.
Flour. SoG(aH7 p 100 lbs: sugar 81 p
ID tea, SOFA ID; coffee, $i(9l IS 2
sack. oysters and can fruits, s. can,
side meat &c p lb; nails, 5 C + Id; mo
lasses. snip gallon: hams, 75c . 10; beef.
l5@ Sc p +; whisky, 3 gallon; cam
pa me. 81 p bottl" bottled whi-ky, s.
b bottle; vinegar, 81 p gallon; powder,
81 p ID; common calico, 81 2 yard brown
shrctinp, 81 % p yard; yarn socks from
S292 50 2 pair. Our informant states
that on every article that costs one, dol
lar in greenbacks, it will be safe to add
three hundred per cent. in gold as the
cash value in Idaho.
it is impossible for an ordinary observ-
e" to fix any price on medicines. Epson
salts bring one dollar dose. Blue mass
f ty cents pill. Salt for the last three
months has sold for fifty cents per lb.-
Four hundred miles distant, at Salt Lake
CITY. it could be readily bought at two
cents a pound. Large amounts have
been m1de by carrying this article from
Salt Lake to Virginia City. Miners
boots, having the souls and heels filed
with nails. sell readily at $40 per pair.
Dry goods of every description, hardware
and groceries, bear prices in proportion
to the foregoing rates 4"