Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-12-03
aInteresting Letler from Idaho.

4 Interesting Letter from Idaho.
It is only occasionally that we meet
with letters from Idaho in our exchanges, |
i the gold seekers who so crafty rushed /
there last spring probably being too busy /
with pick and shovel TO use pen and pa |
per. Ia the last AshtabnIs Sentinel we
fnd one Of considerable interest from J.
T. Simmons, who left Wayne, Ashtsbula
County, early in the season for the new
,a#a III Dorado. II was written TO his wife
a ider date of Virginia City, Idaho, Au-
ii r ,st %, 1865. It win be seen that Ida
no is "a hard road 70 travel and that
as early as August the stampede back TO
the states was at its height Mr. 8. writes
We arrived here last Saturday eve, all
safe and sound We left the Mississippi
river, May 7th, reached here August
10th; out Of that time We laid over two
z.isb weeks; did not travel Sundays, only when
obliged TO, for fuel and water We saw
very much that was Interesting l visit
ed one Of the snOvy clad peaks in the
Dto Bear River chain Of mountains quite al
undertaking, as 1t was some eight or ten
miles, very steep and difficult TO ascend
a.- We,fnslly seached the top, which was
covered With snow and quite cold. The
snow IN the gulches was twenty feet deep
.r0uub khohld fBsaLy ia some place. this was
July 9Th, .Ws,Wept down in different
direction on the snow, one half mile
Cd s{Ws eanabld0w much fauer than we went
up,saud-t.vsa 1870 dock when we got
sdf ii, t2,bfsaaeagHaPz tba Sfss serving Us as a
,-.a - W., we're caBpsd ira lbeeAifu green
i1Sa valley, % either side Of the perpetual
winter II was 65 miles through the
chain We descended lutQ tue deep val,
1eYs, up high bluff, all our four yoke Of
cattle could do 10. draw the wagon. Here
we're rocks that almost touched the-AxeE
- 2 ssfsehe wagon ssHefS we oSerook broken
ones some with every spoke of at the
v1sHll hub, anne Witblhe tong ae nbfoken out,
and all parts Of wagons lying along The
road Those that broke down went back
TO End piece 20 repair the one broken
two or three hundred miles 10 a shanty
or dwelling, Of any kind. Little do peo-
pla know how ata) APPRECIATE settled
county until they have travelled thFGagE
one that is not
feel we'll paid for the time spent il
travelling across the plains and in Chs
Rocky Mountains. No person can.f rru
any idea ofituntil they have travelled II
From the South Pass we went over tou
hundred miles Of the worst roads ere
travelled Steep accents and descenas
rocks, stumps and obstacles Of sser
atf kihd.i Nextwe erriea to- Snake River
A.. any quantity Of fish in these mountain
streams can be eangbb mostly speekie'
trout / caught one In Snake River tia
weighed three pounds After We crosse
Snake River we sgtnck The mail lin
rnnniAg from Salt Lake 10 BAnBock IN
Virginia Ctties Bannock IL 20 mile
west Of this, not as largea place, NOE 4
TO- rich mining country - i'"-
1eeia This city has . population Of abou
$4,000 inhabitants,-l0,000 to 1000
have All thiR an INN and ara
coming; it's 0serdone with emigration
But a stampede is nov raging; thou
sands are leaving in every conceasabl
way. Hundreds are building boats On
the YellowAtone 20 Aoat down the car
aas renta Some have gone to Fort Beato'
and are bailding them there Of arR
size Ferry Aeets will soon be ready1t
- foat down. They viii eo down as qs4c
ks ANY other gsy aud less expensive
.lfa'-ii ao Two hundred wagons start back tc
ads morrow on the Brldger route, selling al
ST as5 they have TO spere here, some going (
California, NettdA. SAlt Lake, etc. Th
, stampede i great great but ep the better 70
aAoaiawagss are cOmfhs dtb,a 6se to tel
dollars day In gold, or double that i
greenbaeks Drifting, that is, workin
under ground ten dollars day; on th
top of the, ground Ave to six dollars an
board yoarseif-understand Imean gold @
III uouple tnAt IN Novernment money Fiou
IL now S26 hundred, which woul
make II 500 q barrel Ia greenbacks
- side pork $50, potatoes so and beans |
90 20 cents pound. Wepaid 81 for
mess Of potatoes / wish could take
f. good meal Of vegetables with you. Pier
ty ofthetn will be rAised next season 2
q miles from hear on the Gallatin, Madiso
and JEFFERSON rivera Forty iodfty bushe
Of wheat have been raised to the acr
s-uo there this season. and plenty Of vegetI
bles to the quantity Of gtouHd planted
found brother Washington putin
5no-y1 up asav mill on Meadow Greek, : tff,
rQ vsutsry 0( the Madison, niRa miles frol
s11eT The siy. ~ he viii gee it started in te
or twelve days e3uA4
.ar - y Lumber is worth from $40 to 1925
1l thousand in gold BE bass ekcelel
location right among the pines Me
40 every day hurry him for lunber
hope the stampede will keep u
Tines are getting better The emearl
ton was too heavy for the place. I'll
gulch i 20 miles long, and the richie
ever discovered, average one million
day Gambling houses are plenty, SON
80 aiiI ~ much as hundred feet long, file
i'7a ~ with gamblers piles Of gold ap, aud care
Tying, They are free for spectator
1oFa0neGwas q lPrussian Hall, thew had
nice band of music and lsinvinra sor
which heard once in q while. thev
as9aissing al Prussians. here are pIentv'
psopie, pshonid think from all natien
newdisooxertes' being made every day
tb q Those smpeders viii give il an a,
ful petting out when they get home.
~ hAya no idea of stampeding yet a. l..