Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-01-16
LETTER FROM ALrURAs COUNTY,
ATLANTA. 1T Ianr,a-u 20

you letter. During that time the
eiectlon has come and gone; a goodIy
number OF quartz experts have visited
our famous Atlanta, and men curions
10 see the great bonanza have been
seen and departed; new set of coun-
y ohcers-barring few-have been
inaugurated; Democratic President
mas been elected; the Legislature has
met, done nothing, and will soon adj
Journ, unhonored and unsung, all of
which would have furnished material
Tor dozens of useful, instructive and
racy letters; but your "cor" had Meth.
er leisure nor talent to write them.
Ut winter here we have had next to
none, the snow at this time not being
over four inches deep. On the south
hill sides there is none.
Business here is in complete state
OF stagnation, and financial economy
has ceased to be study, there being
no finances here to study.
"Makitel" didn't like the story about
his climbing a tree, leaving his "gal"
to her fate and freezing his toe nails
OF, and | don't blame him. The story
was not correctly told, and may have
been intended to imure his reputation.
The fact of the matter is, his boots
were so large, his understanding being
of the most "magnitudinous" proper
tiOns, that he could not get them
through the limbs of the tree and had
to leave them on the ground. And
his girl was in no danger from the
wild animal, she being big enough to
take care of herself. This Makitel
knew and acted upon the-impulse of
the moment.
Mr.. William Myers is carrying the
mail from Rocky Bar to this place, on
snoW-shoes, at present-that is, he |
crosses the mountain on snow-shoes,
and carries about fifty pounds of mail
matter, besides from ten to twenty
pounds of freight. For this latter he
gets twenty-five cents per pound. 1t
IS hard way to earn a livelihood, but
pays, and Mr.. NJ. is used to it, having
lad the contract for two or three win
:ers previous.
There is now an increasing proba-
oility, or seems to be, that wagon
'oad will be built from this place to
Boise City, in the spring, down the
Middle Boise river; the trail from this
,lace to Rocky Bar improved; two or
hree furnaces erected next spring;
some liUe men interested here:
! telegraph line construct
ID to keep us in communication with
he world, and then we shall have a
place. These things, and
hese only, Atlanta needs. Her mines
ire conceded by all who have seen
hem and competent to judge. to be
Inferior to none. But wealth in the
arth, without energy and in diligence
O extract it, can never make an act
we illness camp. The Buffalo Com +
ANY still hangs fire in the matter of
,aying up. Whether they intend to
'ay up without trouble is beginning
0 be regarded as "kin sarvey" case. {
hat their property is good, and worth
many hundred times the sum of their q
abilities, which are comparatively
mall, is conceded by all; but the mis- s
3rtune of there being but one term of Q
curt year here, makes inconvenient
nd slow work to collect large bills I
ere, and the company is probably
aking advantage of this circumstance. f
,ut inconvenient or not, the company
I'LL be sued, and that before ten days q
xpire, if some of their bills are not