The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-10-24
FROM WYOMING TERRITORY


Rock SPRINGS Oct. 10. "A
To the Editor Of the woRkNoxAN's ApvocArs
few words from our mountain home
may not be unwelcome to the MANY read
ers of the ADVOCATE Numerous private
letters are being continually received bv
miners ia this place from parties desirous
OF connecting their fortunes With the
westward march Of empire. Owing to the
numerous arrivals in Rock Springs. If
bookkeeping miners az late, ana the
shear impossIbility Of all being accommo-
dated, we have been placed under the
necessity Of disseminating all Inducements
held out through private letters t. parties
residing IN he States, or elsewhere. III
come to this place We feel II the duty
We owe to ourselves, and the interest We
teel IN the ell-being Of the mining COM
munity generally, would lead us t. deter.
II possible, any member of that com
munity from being allured INTO Wild
goose chase half way across tie continent.
The miner who, upon his arrival here,
fails 10 srcdre employment. Is placed under
disadvantages that require no hJtle
energy and strength Of character IN order
TO successfully eNtrIcate himself Lucky
the wight vino -,ts into the cars at home.
with purse sufficiently filled FIR an pur-
poses, whose dollars can make easy hls
continued journey toward the setting sun,
or return home~aru a poorer hut wiser
man. But the average working man l.
not So free The majority W the men
who have lately come here. have done 50
on rmI.r3ut tickets Their tickets ar ~
issued that the date of their expiration Is
barely sufficient 10 carry tho blder to the
tickets destination. san Francisco. To
Law over one day At Rock Springs or any
other point. DESTROYS etfectuu.ly the right
ot an emIgrant ticket As a travelling pass
Without employment without money. let
the poor MINER VIII" mas, perhrps, lett a
good home IN The States Just imagine
himself the midst " 4 mountain desert
water ar - 90 per barrel. board ~ 90 per
day. exclusive ~ bed, which ne il sup
posed T. hld himself hundreds Of miles
away from the next nearest industry the
silver mines of Utah and those all closed
for the coming winter. with the
railroad fare at nine cents per mile. and
you have the condition and prospects of
more than twenty men, idle IN Rock
Springs As to the state IF things here
/ may remark that the summer months are
consumed by two-thirds idle time The
iall and winter months are supposed u
he, N coal miners parlauce. the run IN
this place, but owing To various causes. ~
which the Nebraska erasshoppers devas-
tatiou IL, perhaps. the chief We are as vet
working little more than two-thirds time.
In conclusion, one word about the pros
poets Of Wyoming Its aranle valleys are
very isolated few and tar between.
Hundreds # miles may be travelled with
scarcely a blade Of grass to relieve the
monotony Of the dark, gray, ubiquitous
sage brush. Poor encouragement TINS to
farmers Tie district Of Wyoming points
not to the cattle upon a thousand hills, Il
or an unbroken horizon Of corn or wheat
producing prairie. The prosperity II
Wyoming, her future wealth and great
ness exist IN the latent energy and muscle
Of unborn Posterity, and IN her embuweled
stratahcation far beneath her furbIdding,
inhospitahle exterior
Very truly yours.