Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-11-23


4 most sahguine expectations will be realized in
Che work.
i 81 no PEONRER-THE NEW ROAD.
Jesse made the ridefrom Placerville to Cen.
tewille an easy and agreeable .jaunt, and the
delightful day overhead and excellent cOndi-
ton of the road, rendered it a really pleasure
BILE trip From Centerville to Pioneer and all
the way hack to idaho City, we were again
mounted on the frontboot seat with Smith
Barker, who has driven longer over that route
with fewer mishaps and better luck than any
other driver y Ha@
John Lodge, the owner of the road between
CenterVille and Pioneer, has materially bet
tered it, in cutting new road q good portion
of the distance by which the two very ugly,
high and steep hiIIso on the old road are avoided,
and the route passes, instead, over quite
level and undulating country. e45 ssisi
eaa7 PIONEER FARM AND GARDEN. 81
Within mile of Pioneer is the largest and
by far the finest farm and vegetable garden in
this Basin, owned and carried on by skilled
German citizens. They have this year raised
prolific crops of oats,i barley and hay, and of
potatoes, turnips, ruta bagas, cabbage, beets,
celery. carrots. parsnips, onions, sage, summer
sayory, and all kinds of vegetables and herbs
used in cooking or seasoning. 4 It lis valuable
sDot. aae h ,4a.ai1f 9ti g4emst1 g
+. PIONEER CITY. s.##t t.s..fts
This famous early and exceedingly rich min
ing camp looks comparatively quiet at this sea-
son, but this is to be expected, as SO many of
the old residents have gone below, to Calitor-
mia, or Oregon, or Nevada, some with their
families, to pass the winter. But the open
stores, well stocked with goods, Of Madigan &
Cannady, Danskin Brothers, james Duncan,
and NJ lMoritz & Co.; the public houses of
Green B. Holland, eHaubrick g. Co, John
O'Donnell, P. .Keegan, John Graves, Joseph
Grafton and Jerome johnson; the well kept
restaurants of M. Clarity and Mccormick
the trade shops of Hugh Craig, F. Mcfarland
and John Donahue; and the. other evidences
of business activity and prosperity, very plainly
show that Pioneer City still maintains front
rank among the Basin camps, and that it will
continue to do so, for years to come, there can
be little doubt. AT the Office of the Elkhorn
Mining Company, in which is also Wells, Far
go & Co.'S Agency where the well qualified
Secretary of the one, and the attentive Agent
of the other, Mr.. Hugh w. Mckee presides-
we saw fine collection of ores taken from
various lodges in that and other quartz regions.
.. ~ THE BIG DITCH.
On the return trip to Centeryille we saw at
several points along the road or adjacent, sec
tons of the cuttings, tunnelings, and fumings
of the Grimes Creek Big Ditch Company's
new extension ditch. Ben. Wilson of Pioneer
is half owner Of the work, and the other half
is owned by VIM. T.. Law of Centerville, now
on visit for the winter to San Francisco, and
o. G. Waterman of Pioneer. The cuttings,
where we obtained close view, were finished
in the best order of ditching, and display the
unusually large capacity Of the ditch. The
tunneling is more than half executed, and will
be pushed to completion before Spring opens.
During the late fair, very favorable weather,
the contractors who have undertaken the con-
struction of the fumes, Siphers, Sixty, and
Waterman, have rapidly prosecuted the work,
and in a few weeks it is expected they will
have the whole of that portion of the great
work completed. The highest auming will be
a trife over sixty.nine feet altitude. The sur
yey of the elevation of the old ditch and the
extension was made by that very competent
civil engineer, james Thorburn. The ditch,
when finished, will supply an extent of rich
mining country that will give employment to
hundreds of miners. aaf s9.l s.. h.a
stst4ss4.s a4.ss CENTERVILLE. .aTeas A@aas
This noted camp of early days is gradually
gaining in business and mining Importance,
and it will be next year, almost beyond doubt, |
one of the liveliest, richest, best mining camps
on this whole coast. The enterprise of Chan
nell & Thatcher, the large ditch proprietors of
that section, and the introduction Of water by
the Big Ditch, will cause to be opened a very
extensive quantity Of ground known to be rich