The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-06-30
EMIGRATION TO BLACKFooT.


issagain on the increase The drying ii 0
the water ID some localities having released
many Of the claims from labor, the owner.
laval themselves of their leisure to inspec
Montana and "see the elephant" About ffy
men left Idaho City on Tuesday and Wednes.
day and another large company on Thursday
These men have gene, not because they ex-
pect to derive much benefit from the expedi.
tion, but in accordance withla habit which,
by long custom, has grown almost instinct
ive--love of travel and adventure. The ignis
fatuus of far-off wealth has lured them with
its false, fatteri1g Ugh: from point to point,
year after .year, until, they have become, in
fact the Arabs of the American wilderness,
content with nothing but constant change
and exploration. However attractive this
may be, every old prospector knows to his
sorrow that IT DOES NOT PAY. The advice Of
nearly all these wandering seekersafter gold
TO new beginner would be to remain where
you are--but they are the last in the world
the place of reason, and they go on, season
after season, drifting through hardships and
uncertainties to that final restitution and end
which the humble board in the mountain
cemetery marks for a year or two aud then
deserts TO the unknown. 80 4 Il - q
In all the long lss Of mining stampedes
from camp to camp and country to country,
there is less Justification in this from Idaho
to Montana than any of its predecessors
Here there is something CERTAIN something
tangible and reliable. Men know when they
are here that they are in a GOOD CAMP. Wa
ges are better and more certain here than in
any other mining district on the coast. They
leave it for cold, inhospitable climate, a
country surrounded by hostile Indians, and
already overrun by penniless swarm of ad.
yenturers from both East and West Il is
country where, at the most, not more than
six months IN the year can be devoted to la
Dor. That six months, in the first instance,
will neces sarily, be used in hunting up dig
gings, which lhas far have proved limited mi
extent; or they must be given to hired labor
per day, at rates, if labor is found at all, fir
below those which can readily be obtained in
this country. What object men can have in
going to BIackfoot TO hire out is ineonceiya-
BILE. They can get better wages here, with
out the expense attending the long travel
They can work here more months inthe year
than in Blackfoot. Prospecting for diggings
IS one Of the most thoroughly ''pfayed ont
IDEAS which ever infected a miner. 943aa9
AS for BIackfoot, all the letters received
rom that quarter tell the same story.H Thou
sands are already there, destitute of every re-
,onrse and and anxious to return to better
The Fall will undoubtedly see as
great an exodus from that country as e'have
seen toward it, The crowd who go there |
aoW, will get there just in time to join the
great crowd returning. Occasionally there
comes letter, from some enthusiastic indi-
giduaE who has made, or h0pes to make a lit
tie money, recommending the gceuutryos but
where there is one such letter, there's "a hun
bred to the contrary, advising friends to re-
main where they are. Several gentlemen
have lately returned to this place, who con-
frm this general restitution, anxiety, want,
and ddllness of business. which prevail. in
every portion of that Territory. A gentleman
writing to the Walfa Walla Statesman, under
date of May 10th, gives some wholesome ad
vice to persons who are always itching to
change their positions, which we recommend
to their consideration. He writes from Elk
City: miners who intend coming up here to
work for wages, will do better. totry Placer
Vile, Pioneer City. Idaho City. or all of these
places, frst and if they can get.from four to
FIVE dollars per day they had better stay and
york in preference to travelling over hard
roalsall Summer and running the risk of get
tingsno employment at ALL IfSone man here
happens to Strike it, you may be sure to hear
about it all over the country, while ten men
out of employment and out of money pass
/ GA ;HIaH OLD REPRESENTATIVES 1.-THE
Statesman wasted q half coIamn one day last
week in bombast over he idea that the "great