The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-03-25
LETTER FROM ROCKY BAR.

KDIToR WoRLD: Winter still holds US in IL
chilling grasp, and an occasional expresstnaI
Or some adventuresome biped, are the Onl.
Recommendations We have with the world.
The great CRY is for provisions" No
pound of -four, meat, bacon, or vegetables
land many have had to go to Sirmp Greek
as miles from Boise City, to get even -four
Before my window the snow is fully ten fee
deep, and all but the last snow very solid
Many are now or. beans and coffee will OUT
sugar, and small ration of -four; and some
have no flour, and no one has a months sup
ply, except the Idaho Mill Co., and they have
given away and sold much. March set in
truly " like lion." Snow, and the heaviest
Of winds we have ever had here for four
days-at times it being impossible to see
across the street for driving snow.
Thequartz mills Idaho Co.'s) keep at work
and make good clean-ups, but the exact sums
| cannot learn. Their ledge is running into
sulphites. Tunnels are being run into the
hills in many places, and the prospects are
very Aattering. The Second Extension east,
on the Alturas lode, struck it very rich-even
as high as twenty-five cents to the pound of
rock. 80 Ea
The only mode of moving, except immedi-
ately round town, is by help of snow-shoes
but, although times are hard, and money and
provisions hard to get, yet great confidence
Is felt and hope for the future.
Our County Commissioners are opposed to.
taxing people every few miles they travel,
and are very chary in granting toll-road fran
chises. They have declared the Goodrich
Express Trail a free thoroughfare; also, the
trail running west from here by way of Fall
creek and down the Boise River, to the west
line of this county, free road, and asked
the Commissioners of Boise county TO CO.
operate with them. The trail from here to
Yuba River is also declared county thor
onghfare. The road districts are small and
numerous, and thus we shall have as good,
easily travelled wagon-roads as it is possible
to getin so wild, rough, rugged and broken
up country. #9A
Provisions and necessaries are at the fol-
lowing rates Flour, none-last sold, soc per
pound bacon, nonc-last, ST. % tb, Except
1t LOOMS & Co.'s, who have not raised their
prices on anything sugar, none-last sold,
SOC % ID beans, none-last sold, 35c ~ ID;
candles, ,35; fre-wood delivered dry, $I2
green, So per cord.
Tie owners of the Lucky Boy quartz lode
nave taken some excellent rock from their
edge, but as no gold is visible to the unas-
listed eye, nothing sure can be told. 1t is,
loweyer, full of decayed supplies.
The Yuba fever keeps in an intermittent
tate, and 1uctuates fl ON temperate to boiling
eat. There is much dissatisfaction with
be Recorder of that district who, when he
eft last Fall, took the mining Regulations
nd Records away with. him, and that act
nay cause much trouble in the Spring.
Much calculation is made as to when pro-
isions can and will get in here, and all hope
hat packers will push through at the very
arliest possible moment, by way of Boise /
lily, Strip creek and Little Camas Prairie
nd as soon as they can come will be their
est time, as very high water must be the
esult of so much snow. M
| shall be glad when there is something of i
1terest to write you about, but now all can :
aY is-dull quiet no "grub /" and books
early as scarce and to packers HeaVe
head, and come inl wfL Quill.
P. S. DR.. Truesdale killed 'Nondescript,'
o-day-Wolverine is, perhaps, the proper
anne of the animal. 1 aor ri, aa #
A party of Illinoisans, living just below
own, are the only people who have more
our than they can use in two months, and p
hey will neither sell or lend a pound ; they .
ven have refused women and, since Friday q
Ist, deny having the -four. The name given Z
} their dwelling, is the "Hog-pen." The I!
ader is man named Compton. Thus they
We whilst many go hungry, and it is getting
orse and worse every day. ao aat @. ~
Rocky BAR, Alturas Co., March 8, 1855 \
TIT must be decidedly scaly business out 8
lere making an honest living measured
2 the square (meal) sYstemR The cor
spondence reads as though the author was :
nngry when he commercially complaint
in alternate paragraphs, that, at the
te he was growing desperate, an article of :
70 columns length (from Rocky Bar would