Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-09-01
LETTER FROM HEATH DISTRICT.

science occasionally and wishing to
be as easy in mind as in body I pro-
pose to make amends for late negli-
gence and give you the details of late
events out here in this wild section.
There are but few men in camp, but
what is missing in numbers is more
than compensated for in quality, In
tellect, talent and all that sort of thing.
you know. We are all very happy
out here now, and smiled upon both
by fortune and lovely woman how
could we be otherwise? This is YER
table Tom Tiddlers ground at least so
far as picking up silver is concerned,
for the lodges are increasing in rich
ness every day. and the chunks of
rock and native silver, chloride, &c.
could show you would cause some of
you fellows to say with Mr.. Squeers,
"here's richness, and yet we have not
had a thoroughly good prospector in
here for eighteen months. IT'S true
we have had few chlorides in occa-
sionally, who would root around a
few days and then when their cans of
Jelly gave out and they hungered and
thirsted after buttermilk, as the wicked
are said to be after righteousness, and
so they departed, and not understand
ing the nature of silver ores, exclaimed
with the Rationalistic Chicken, "What
| can't understand l aUont believe"
In fact, the evidences and prospects
justify our belief that ere long we
shall have very prosperous little
camp here. We have shipping ore in
three mines now and they are the only
ones on which any amount of work
has been performed.
We are greatly exercised in our
minds as to the fate of Nose Biddy
and John West. they left the Weiser
with the intention of prospecting our
camp. That was two weeks ago.
Now the question is, have the In
dams killed them, and are their hya-
cynthine locks adorning the wickiup
of some Of the hundreds of noble saw
ages who are now prowling around
these mountains or how? / have no
wish to cause the least anxiety in the
bosoms of their many friends, but
when we consider the many dangers
they have to encounter, and taking
Into consideration the late massacre of
the noble brave Custer and his band
| of heroes things look serious; very
much SO indeed; yet, while there's life
there's hope, and he who tempers the
east wind to the shorn lamb, will no
doubt at some future date clear up the
mystery of their strange and lamenta-
BILE disappearance.
Our energetic and go-a-head fellow
townsman, Hon. WIN. West, left US a
week since en- route for the Basin,
principally, we believe, to find a mar
ket for the next few years for muscle
producing pork and beef. He has now
on their way in not less than 400 head
of fine, fat beeves, 1000 head of ster-
ling hogs and over 100000 pounds of
bacon, hams and shoulders. We had
hopes for long time that Billy would
cast his lot in with the rest of us and
become a prosperous miner, but Fate
ordained otherwise; what has been
the ruin of many a great and good
man before him, in the shape of pet
Eticoat, cast shadow between him and
THE rich K atie HALEY claim. So, as
the fair ones in the granging districts
will not give man a show unless he
owns few acres of bog land and has
Ia few hogs and cattle; SO our Will
liam gave up mining and betook him.
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