Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-04-15
wOoD RIVER.
Graphic Description OF q Trip to
that Region.

Graphic Description Of q Trip Il
that Region.
There is q big craze in all directions re
garding the Wood River mines. 1t follow
that anything and everything concerning
that section will prove interesting to 4
large share OF the SENTINEL's readers.
We find in the Ogden Pilot q very reada-
BILE letter descriptive Of a recent trip from
.Kelton to Wood River. Those who con.
template emigrating in that direction can
learn precisely what they are to encounter
by carefully perusing it. The date Of the
letter shows that communication between
Wood River and the outside world is not
very rapid at this season Of the year. The
letter is from a gentleman who left Ogden
March 25 for the Poor Mans Paradise"
The Pilot vouches for its ~truthfulness. He
writes as follows:
BLACKS RANCH,
Ten miles from Bellevue)
March 81, 1881.
EDITOR PILOT: / left Ogden March rs ct
2 O'Clock A. M, and arrived at Kelton in
good time. Giving genial Snyder a part
ing shake l wendell my way to the stage
office, and found my fare engaged by my
travelling companion, Thomas Edgington.
At 8 A. NJ. we piled into q coach, with space
for four and filled by six, three on the out
side and all space packed with mail matter
and grain.
We now strike for Wood River, via
DEVILS Dip, Raft River, Clear Greek,
Marsh's Basin and Goose Greek. At the
latter place we get orders to lay over for
thirty-six hours to give passengers ahead
OF US q chance to go on, and here COM
menced an extortion. At the hotel u
meals cost US 81 each, and the table cannot
be beat for scantiness. This delay finally
comes to an end, and leaving six victims,
together with most Of the mail for Boise
City, we are crowded into q dead-ax wagon
filled with grain, and continue our jour-
ney. Six miles out we cross Snake river
by ferry, change horses, and directly ar
rive at the Forty-mile Desert. Grass is
not plentiful at this season OF the year,
and it must look extremely dreary to the
weary footman. Near the middle of the
desert a small sink Of water greets the eye.
The stage company have erected q bush
corral at this point, and after changing
horses again we arrive at Little Wood
River at 8 P. M. hungry, and find another
poor layout for passengers. After break
fasting on doughty bread, beans, musty
coffee and rusty bacon at 81 per head, the
cook exhibits a fine string of trout, which
he reminds us he had forgotten to cook.
We surprise him IN turn by remarking that
we never liked trout anyhow, knowing
from his natural cupidity that if they had
been served on the table the charge would
have ruined a Vanderbilt. But, really,
this is an outrage, for which the company
are responsible, and they are not liable to
catch the same passengers for q second
trip.
Little Wood River is about 60 miles from
Goose. Creek. We now start for Cotton
wood, distant 16 miles, and after travelling
5 miles we change from the wagon to o
bob-sled with one seat. Upon this are
piled five passengers and luggage, and
every once in a while, amid the mud, slush
and snow, some one finds himself cleft"
the rest are ~guffawing in their loud.
est notes. / think your humble servant
made the greatest number Of ''strikes."
At Cottonwood, 4 P. NJ, the worst place
yet, we find every n dr-happy, and
nothing to eat, and are obliged to lay over
for "a hours. At the expiration of this
we start again on our bob-sleigh.
Walking, wading and almost swimming,
we reach, at Q P. NJ, this place, and find
good quarters-in fact, a frst-class house.
From here to Bellevue is 10 miles, and
the last stage that came in was IA hours on
the trip. Now, there is no way of getting
there except on sn~ow-shoes, and not being
an adept in that kind Of locomotion, I am, |
Micawber-like, obliged to wait for some
thing to turn up. I am in hopes to reach
Bellevue in four days. The mail comes
by way Of Blackfoot, about twice q week, |
on snow-shoes, and passengers by the same
conveyance.
APRIL IA man came in during last
from Bellevue, and states that there
is not a pound of bacon for sale in town.
and but little -four. For beef they are
killing their milch cows. ! know that
there are plenty Of provisions on the way.
My friends and others can judge for them
but il / were back in Ogden, know
ing what l do now. I would not start be-
lore the 18th by railroad and stage, and not
before the goth by team. T. W. a..