The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-02-29
LETTER FROM AN IDAHoAN.
OwENsBoRo. Ky Ian % |

OwENsBoRo, Ky, Jan. %, 1872.
Ed. WORLD: | will give you a short ac-
count as promised, of my trip from Idaho to
this place. II it MAS not for tho idea of going
on pleasure trip, the journey from Boise City
to kelton would scarcely be endurable The
staging oger that road is something like going
into qdartz mill and coming out through a
Yankee threshing machine. We bounced from
the bottom to the top and from top to bottom
again. and would without doubt, have gone
out through the top if the iron bars in the top
for our head to get through We, however,
arrived safe aud sound at Kelton, and there
took the C. Z. r. Il. for Ogden, which is n
place of considerable promise, being the juno
ton of the Union Pacific, the Central Pacific
and Salt Lake roads. 1t contains about three
or four thousand inhabitants, and is the first
place at which we got a square meal after
leaving Boise CITY. Ham and eggs, stewed
tripe, mountain trout aud other delicacies in
great abundance were enjoyed hugely by us
hungry brethren
At Ogden we took palace car at an addi-
tional expense, OF eight dollars, but we got the
full worth of our money. a palace car is the
finest thing | ever saw out doors, except
pretty woman. 1t is as long as telegraph
and pre;tier than n circus wagon-sprlng seats
velvet cushions, fine looking. glasses and silver
ornaments couldn't help but think what
fine place it would be for old cock-eyed Ben
| if n screw should get loose.
After leaying Ogden nothing of note occurred
until we reached Weber Canyon. where we
stopped for about three or tour minutes, got
off to get hat full of apples. and was little
too late returning, as the cars started OIL at
the rate of thirty or forty miles minute
more or less. Being fast on foot and having
the heels of them, soon overhauled the train
and caught the machine by the hind end and
stopped the wagon long enough to get aboard
The infatuated conductor rushed to the rear TO
600 what was the matter which l fully ex-
plained to him, and in order to prevent Ike
occurrence again he hitched on another loco
motive and away we went.
The passage through the Wasatch and Rocky
mountains is extravagantly grand IN many
places, though the weather was so cold that we
could not 90 more than one eye on 1t at a Time
The road was over high, but not delightful,
Mains. where we were snow-bound, ice-bound,
prub-bound and all the other bounds IN the
catalogue compiled by the most famous lexlco-
grapher. for about three days; but we hnally
reached Cheyenne, a place of considerable I'M
portance, where we stopped an hour OF 50 u
feed ourselves and team Cheyenne is at the
;,ret;on of the Kansas and Denver with the
lu PRR., and on our arrival the patrlotic
den;sons of the burg turned out with brass
band playing some excellent music sucn as
haven't got long to tarry," "The snow, the
snow the unbeautiful snow" etc. They finally
struck I'D a polka, and not being able to stand
lit any longer, jumped out, holding on tnis
time TO the hind end, and dealt them douoie
shuttle till my wind gave out and the whistle
sounded when away we jumped for omana'
The latter place is somewhat bigger than Bos'
ton and Idaho City both put together, ana II
populated principally by bell-ringers and hotei
runners, who 60 after man like thousan'
dead.heads after free lunch Frem Omaho
we took the cars for ST. Louis, from there &c
Evansville, and from the latter place we toof
steamer for Greensboro, Ky, where we al
rived heartily glad that our journey was at al
Yours. &c. VULCAN.