Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-24
Letter from Joe.
San FRANusco, Aug. IL, 1869.
yRoy OGDEN TO THE BAY

ground has been gone over so often
that the subject, has become stale to
most readers the country is mostly
fiat and dusty, and chiefly unprofita-
BILE except to the owners of the rail-
road. The Union Pacific shows the
perfection of littleness az well as
injustice in not giving Ogden City a
stations switch even. Corinne, on
the repulsive bank of Bear river,
fingers on the favors expectant Of
Montana Promontory is fit point
for fighting out railroad company
spite, while the public is put to the
greatest possible inconvenience
DEVILS half-acre in every sense of
the word. A long slow night of 1t
to Elko, an overdone city of mag
nificent prospeets--as substantial as
q child's corn-cob structure corn
whisky abundant. Carlin, a few
miles west, is determined on damag-
ing Elko, and between the two there
may be written sometime another
Tale Of Two Cities by Dickinson
the devil, all one to me. Ny ancient
friends Of the Humboldt Register
(now independently are making the
best of their time while the iron is
hot JOY be with them. Between
glowing dispatches to the press OF
this city, Cope and Mineral Hill dis
tricts, Elko, Carlin, &c, there ought
TO be a great " inland city /" there
abouts, expect. At Winnemucea,
man by the name Of Booth was
trying to get newspaper under
way. | pity him. Think it is the
spirit of Wilkes. undergoing punish
ment for deeds done in the body.
Winnemucca is his Dry Tortugas.
Fitting transport from Washington
to Winnemucca-from h to break
fast. / went from Winnemucca to
washington-you know the rest.
Reno lingers-the Crescent is goring
right and left with both horns, in its
desperation. Truckee is dull and
in debt, because the railroad is slow
10 pay. Sacramento looks liyelier
than any place I've seen on all my
rounds; still it complains of dull
times. There is more building going
on in Sacramento in proportion to
its size than any place. The Capitol
building botch is rapidly completing.
Shoddy in monument--no more.
Sacramento boat /; same hour ; the
slough, hogs back, Bcnicia and
Frisco. Four young aspirants for
collegiate honors on board, from
0wyhee to Benicia Abbott, Tregas-
kis, Bailey and Meador skylarking
little cusses-specially first two
not bern to be drowned. Frisco all
the same hung on the
Pacific RAILROAD
line, and with the assistance of an
earthquake occasionally, will vibrate
like o pendulum and continue to try
to regulate the machinery Of the
balance of the world. Big thing OF
tick. Railroad, bigger thing oil
dead heads-overland travel one
grand funeral procession (original)
Plenty of prospect holes lelt--sent
along the corpses. G. f. Train
dead beat, returned this A. NJ; adyo
Gates ChiDese-laiter return dea
bodies for burial. Went TO hea
Rev. Horatio Stebbens yesterday o.
moral aspect Of railroad. Their
are three eminent diyines in Frisc
-Stebbins, Stone and Seudder
three stepping-stones TO salvation
three capital SIS In my estimation
Luck in odd numbers, you know
much virtue in the number tire,
anyhow. Horatio is my choice
Unitarian, successor Of Starr KIM