New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-25

buckshot; and the coach wss rihed Of 10000 In gold
dust Ncse OF the robbers are yet secured troaen tns
dollars searching fr them through all the border States
and Territories.
Se1t day we ride for % miles along the clear Sake
ton woods THIS dim. crooked artery Of the great des'
erts heart 500 miles long rising within half mile
Of the head Of the MISSOURI and flowing into the Co
lambda 1t must be the original reptile which
-"Wies In and wires oat
Leaving the 70 der still in doubt,
MhSthsr The snake which made this track
Wa goas South or coming back"
The Indian name. Sho-shoso or Winding River is far
better than ours. The while mon keeping Middle
Ferry has taken rather comely savage woman VINO
shall rear his dusky race, but who now sts nat upon
the ground beside their log cabin, sewing moccasins
At Cedar Point we cross by rope fcfry.
Three distant, rugged mountains rising from the
ssge plain, are melted By the sunset and twgh INTO
amber sapphire. pale violet and Transparent pearl
The night Is intensely cold Before the sagebrush fre
Of one station spread robes wait three hours
for dawn when the finds the coveted mules
hicb were out grazing among the hills. Crossing hhm
mas Creek large. transparent s.ream. which disap'
pear few miles below. sinking in the earth like the
rivers Of Damascus from the endless reach OF desert
where slow wheels pillow the deep sand We view the
Three etons (W0men's Bressts) printing the eastern
horizor TILL slender and spire-ike. they are called
by Indians the Three Pinnacles Leaving Pleasant
Valleys grassy tte basin among the dark bighiands
the light MS over tie divide Of the Rocky Noun
tains, from Idaho and the Pacific Slope into Montana
among the tributaries Of the Missouri.
From beh. nd brown bare mountain rises the morn
ing SUM- contracted by the great eclipse into inrid
binding, slender crescent Down In tie deep gulch OF
rasshoIper Creek we roach the city OF Bannnck-in'
dian bannack-for it was named from savage tribe
Here in August. 1861. begun the first settlement OF
Montana The diggings often yielded go per day 70
the man, but like most gnlch mines were soon ex'
hausted In fmh times the city had 1900 peopej now
has 2O0 dreary succession Of struggling. empty log
houses and galows which has outived many tenants
Even the County Sheriff who built 1t was nnly hanged
nnon Il by the Vigilantes" for highway robbery and
murder Quartz mills with hundred stamps In the
building In the vicinity or to arrive soon
Many Of the gold veins really very thong
AZ the depth Of two hundred feet of the richest has
capped" or 'pincned out." One company paid w.
DC0 In Eew.York foe csims which are utterly worth.
less. Another invested $4,000 In large number OF
claims Only two of them have any appfeciable value
and thew are OF class which can be bought here iol
500 70 q COZ each third expended large sum fof
fnncied lode which never existed at all the seller eh
bibjtinQ yerv rich alleged and OF course prove 70
come from IT, but really from distant mine! II woua
be easy and wholesome 70 lodge one or two such chsrac
ters In New.York Peutentiary. though every eastern
canitaist who buys qnarts odes without their examia
ton By some trustworthy person IN MS interest,", 9e
serves TO DO swndled and Is morally certain 10 get hs
deserts. -,...a
grass smoother farer and greener than those o. Coo.
RADIO Idaho or Nevada To our leu Montana Cny
upon large beautiful plateau already boasts mara
dozen buildings and embryo mills 1t ID the hatlie
snake district exclusively silver where the loies open
richly Upon one. shafts are sunk SHY Iees ana te ~
ASSAYS &Go 10 the tun The adjacent mountains abound
ing In excellent pine, are already crested WIN SNOW
likely few weeks hence 10 be ten feet deep success
iyely crossing RsttlesDake Greek Beaverhead RIVER
named fr,m a rock mountain family resembling sh'
head Of beaver and still another iontary OF tse ns
souri, bearing the euphonious appelaion OF the o1la
ingwater we reach Virginia, five days and four hght
from Salt Lake City. IL