Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-26
CORRESPONDENCE.

Extracts from a Letter to a New Haven
 Resident Life in Idaho-Snow and
 Floyvers-Quartz Gold and Silver Mines
 Prices Of Provisiens-The Newspapers
 of the New West, Etc., Etc.
 May 5th-Away from schools, churches and society, how glad I was to get your letter Here it is the fifth day of May and two feet of snow on the ground. The mail arrived to- day-five days behind time. We are 150 miles from the railroad, and 800 miles north west of Salt Lake City.
 Bonanza City is a new mining camp, two years old, contains 800 inhabitants, and there some eight or ten families here. Most of the men are miners, who have been on the coast for fifteen or twenty years. I have been travelling, for the past five years over Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota Iowa, Illi- nois, Missouri Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska Wyoming, Texas, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Ne vada, and Indian Territory. spent last year in Utah, among the Mormons Salt Lake City is beautiful place. I have visited the great Yellowstone and National Park and stood on the spot where General Custer made his last charge. Would you like to hear about the Wonderland of America ?" will send choice specimen of the floral kingdom from, the Rockies" which grows ten thou sand feet above the sea level, as soon as the SuOW u1bdpp0dT5 b1db buO uOWOI uldy dDp0df.
 A beautiful mountain stream rushes over boulders, with terrific force, down the canyon past Bonanza. It is full of nice beautiful mountain trout, and oh ! what sport we have catching them
 I am making a sacrifice of myself for the almighty dollar I have some fine gold quartz prospects and hope to make mil Ii n or two" out of them. Will send some more gold and silver quartz specimens if you would like Presume they would be curi- osity "back East" I am not going to die from homesickness if can help it. Thanks for the New Haven papers. In my next I will give you full description of the miners life in the Rocky Mountains.
 Since l began writing it has commenced showing, and is giving us & genuine noun tain storm. I am on top of the General Gus ter mountain, at the Custer gold mine, 2,O0O feet above Bonanza City. Can look down on top of the houses. Often the clouds gather dense and thick below us; and, while it is clear on t'top O Custer, 1t IS stormy down in Bonanza, and it is a grand sight to stand above watching the raging elements beneath.
 May 6th.-Good morning the storm has ceased, and the tall, towering peaks of the Saw Tooth range of mountains rise grandly in the distance, their snowy crests reheeting back the rays of the beauteous sum- as it kisses them good morning. Just over the way, some forty miles, old Mt. Estes looms up 0,0O0 feet high, landmark for a hun dred miles around. At it's northwest base lies mining town called Loore Creek. Three years ago 100 Chinamen were killed by the Indians, not one escaping to tell the story. A few days ago the bones of five persons were found @ few miles from here the remains of four ufen and woman who started Ea st eight years ago from the 'Egold diggins, and who were never heard of until accidentally, miner came across their bleaching bones. In wild canon, in the mountains, few days ago, he found them. Such is life in the far West. They were supposed to have been murdered by Indians or road agents.
 This is country of .great expectations. :" Fortunes are made in a day and squandered in a night. Men who could not few years ago buy meal, are now worth hundreds of thousands. The shining yellow gold lies hidden in the rocky veins and Assures, and only awaits the adventurous prospector, with his pick and shovel, to develop it into bo- nanzas of wealth. Here, side by side, work ing in the mines, we will find all classes kinds and nationalities of people, gathered from all parts of the world in search of wealth. But not one in a hundred succeeds in gaining his desires.
 The mountain people are more liberal than are those '-back East" with their money. There is nothing in circulation less than a siver quarter. Miners get four dollars per day, working eight hours, and think nothing of spending their months wages in single night They seem to partake of the nature of the freedom of the country from restraints of society.
 John Chinaman is found in every mining camp. Everybody expects to make his for tune and return to the States" to employ his riches and to enjoy society, friends and freside homes.
 Hay is $1O0 per ton, butter $1 pound, eggs-none at any price, flour $1o per hun dred, and everything in proportion.
 oat coy phioFQ5, nor children for six months. Oh, pity me in my loneliness.
 May 7th.-With this send you copy of 'sThe Yankee Fork Herald" Have forward ed the large, illustrated paper, called ''The New Westn You will see that the ssHerald'' is a spicy paper; such as Western people like to read. have been fishing this morning and