Idaho tri-weekly world. (Idaho City, Idaho) 1875-1875, 1875-04-23

Noun Al, Iowa, April 10, 1879
rs Wos1D: Once more we ha'l
with pleasure The advent Of the bright
faced little WoR1D in our family, and
through it we get such news IS we
cannot get in any other way, though
We get our Eastern papers, and with
them all the eastern news, we still feel
an interest in Idaho affairs. I presume
that the readers of the WoRLD-or at
least the Idaho portion Of them-are
not much acquainted with this neck
of the Lords moral vineyard, and con-
ssequently everything from here will be
news.
Ringgold is the name of our county,
and it is IN the southern tier of coun.
ties in the state next to the Missouri
State line. The country is well wa
tered and has considerable timber, al
though in this respect it is somewhat
behind its sister counties, but as the
farmers are planting out trees, Ring
gold bids fair to become well timber
ed. Wells are bored with large au-
gers for that pupose. There are sew
.eral men in the county with these au-
gers and it makes paying business.
I asked one of them the other day
what he would charge for boring in
case he got no water. and received the
somewhat edifying response: "Water,
hell, or China" The bored wells are
walled with brick, or when there is
none to be had they use lumber for
curling.
There iss limestone in the eastern
part of the county and one or two
lime kilns. No coal or minerals have
been found as yet, but we think that
coal can be found; and as the county
offers $500 to the person who finds it,
the prospect is we will soon be using
coal for our fuel. The principal rivers
Of the county are the east, middle and
west forks Of Grand river. Each of
them have plenty of timber, and the
divides" between them form the farm
ing land. We have no railroads as
vet, but one is surveyed through
Mount Ayr, the county seat. Mount
Ayr is fourishing little town but it
was born
20 waste its sweetness on the desert air.
For all the other places Of note turn up their
Noses up ct II in contempt.
Three banks supply the people with
cash, and five stores with the other
necessaries of life. Two hotels feed
the poor devils of boarders with bad
grub, and eight doctors give them
rhubarb to work it of. Ten lawyers
keep the county in an uproar and
from fifteen to twenty ministers deal
out the salvation. Ut is said they
never make misdeal, and can turn tire
right trump every time.) Mount Ayr
Is to have an eight thousand dollar
school house for the benefit of two or
three forty dollar school MAINS.
The countyha nearly hundred school
houses and about sixteen hundred
young ideas" that are taugat how to
shoot by one hundred and twenty
schoolma'ms mostly old maids; or
perhaps had better say 'ladies of a
certain age" Some of the younger
.'nes are pretty, but as general thing
the pretty ones don't hang on long.
No one but Brick Pomeroy can do the
schoolma'm question justice, SO will
drop it.
Literary societies and spelling
schools are getting quite popular.
There are several literary societies in
Inc county, but most of them are closed
for the summer months. | have at
tended one in which eloqucnce was
poured forth in streams Oh such oues-
tions as, Resolved" always re-!