Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-21

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lployed at . salary Of 81 cents per
day to pack grub, blankets, etc, and,
patient philosophers of toll, as they
certainly are, set out on their long
and arduous journey with about fifty
pounds each, which, according to the
customs OF their fathers, they had
swung to the opposite ends of two
poles. These they threw across their
shoulders. The first day ont nothing
ont the ordinary routine Of travel oc-
Cured, and we made seven miles.
camping for the night at the mouth
OF Mattingly, soon to become famous
for its proximity to the Great IVES
term quartz ledge IN. b. am inter
ested in the &c. W") The second
day being pleasant and snowy we
lay abcd to keep dry until abont II
o'clock A. NJ. when the clouds drifted
away and with them the falling sno v,
and we breakfasted and resumed our
journey, camping the second night at
Hog Heaven eight miles further on.
That night was cold and frosty, fact
we realized several hours before day
break; and the snow bore up we'll the
next morning until | O'clock P. NJ, at
which, time, having previously cap
tured one of the finest salmon trout
You ever saw, we halted to feast, an
occupation we had not yet habituated
ourselves 10 on the trip. Next morn
ing we started at daylight, crossing
Camas Swale, 1--WE had named it our
"Comassariat") about I o'clock A. n,
but unfortunately for our stomach it
was covered with snow. But must
now 90 back little: When Mr..
Rice and myself employed the other
two Cinnamon 10 pack our loads, we
carefully assured them that there was
no snow after the mountain had been
crossed, a distance of fourteen niles,
and this we had been told was the
case. 60 on The third day, when the
snow grew deeper and deeper; when
we were sinking to our knees at ev-
cry step; when one Of the other Chi
namen had worn the skin off his an
kles nearly 10 his waist, and no spcck
OF land appeared in the out-spreading
vista before, one Of the other China
men sal down by the wayside-there
WAS 10 road-and. after rueruIly pom
derlng for many minutes, remarked,
for 10, he was wise beyond any Of The
men Of lis generation: mo good,
yon know; Mciican man too muchee
lie; ioolcc Chinaman. No Good
Aud the conclusion of the thoughtful
but irrevcrent pagan was SO plausible
and so easily capable of demorstra-
ton, withal, that both Mr.. Rice and
myself concurred without debate.
The other Chinaman did not deem it
worth his while to take sides in O
matter Of snch trivial Importance.
The fact is, he was so addicted to do
ing the wrong, thing at exactly
the wrong time that his comrade,
one of the other Cinnamon, suf-
fered through the entire trip from
a sort Of chronic disgust But
he managed to avenge himself by oc-
casionally compelling the laundering,
non combatant celestial to wade creeks. |
and then refusing him the privilege of
emptying the wafer out of his boots.
The pirate himself would cross on
foot-log, smiling benevolently at his
shivering victim. Mr.. Rice was the
hunter for the party, and fired forty
or fifty shots at geese, cranes, ante.
lopes, ducks, squirrels and the like,
but none of them lost any relatives by !
his nynnrimanfs I will soon ,nn,.,,n