The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-22
z THE NORTH COUNTRY.
The Hopes and Disappointment
of the ProSpeetor.
A Pioneer of PioneerS---Bullion
the Boss Camp.
Especial Correspondence.)

the Boss Camp.
Especial Correspondence.)
BULLION, ALTURAs Co., IDAHO,
October IL, 1882.
Summer has closed her flame.
Autumn with deft and dainty touch
has manipulated the leaves for the
last turn. Winter with uncompro-
missing mien is making ready to
take the seat. None can arrest him,
none can take him in. 1t is a season
of mirth, a season of sadness, a time
for poetic expression. The prospec-
tor is coming in. His eye, which
5rst vast bright with expectation
now sheds a pensive ray in harmony
with all prevailing autumnalnesS.
He talks of winters grub and wants
to work for the usual compensation,
hopes though withered are far from
dead. When the salmon upward
HES, when the streams begin to
rise, they may be expected to bud
again. ProspectorS are aroused.
l found the other day an old lady
camped on Deer Greek, who told me
her husband was prospecting in
the hills; that she crossed the plains
to Oregon in '43; that her husbands
was the first team that drove into
Oregon City; that she was in Port
land when one log cabin comprised
that city, and that they had deter
mined to 60 back to Oregon and
settle. It is painful to contemplate
the chances this merry old couple
have missed through being too am
bilious.
Bullion is the boss. camp of the
Wood River country. When l was
here in June there were about
seventy men working; there are now
over 800 and l believe all the mines
are improving as depth is reached.
The chief mines are the Bullion,
Mayfower, Eureka, Jay Gould,
Idahoan and o. X. 1t is an orderly
camp too, and not an officer in it
not even night Waterman. This
is remarkable as a portion of that
turbulent element who were among
the strikers of Silver Reef, have
managed to wiring in here. But
that affair is over ard though it cost
a little time and money the rally of
the public burdens and the i'm
petuous charge Of the anti-monopoly
newspapers which it called forth
were worth something.
After all, the men who find mines
and have vitality enough to work
them are not the worst class of the
community, and in time they may
learn to treat with Difference the
calamitious visitations of general
debility that are sometimes per-
mitted to chasten mining commune
ties. The Wood River country is
going to come out in spite of all the
lies that have been told and written
about it. OF course there had to be
a reaction; for two years there was
continuous flow and several
thousand locations received flatter-
ing mention from one or another
mining exponent. Many came here
with high expectations to find that
many of these properties were not
even riehiin indications; that there
were difficulties to overcome. and
peculiarities of formation and de-
post to learn. Some got discouraged
and cursed the country, though.
there are claims in the section that
were supposed to be worked out last
fall, that are now looking better
than ever. Here it is proper to OBJ
serve that if some of the mining
journals could be induced to
pattern after the HERALD and
make it of prime Importance
that their correspondents be compe-
tent and reliable, it would greatly
enhance their usefulness. and they
would not, as they sometimes do
now, incur the responsibility of
creating a false impression when
ever they chance to make a semi
truthful Statement. But it is to be
regretted that some of these publ
cations are conducted by persons Of
nogreat merit.
Election time draws nigh Both
parties have been successful in Sc
curing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will
ing to serve their country. Bands
of patriots are around stimulating
enthusiasm, and the "horny" hand
of the toiler finds itself imprisoned
IN the feverish clasp of the coming
and going statesman.
/ am not we'll yersed in,the issues
of the campaign, but | see the re-
publican papers have charged the
democratic nominee with having
introduced bill into Congress the
object of which seems to have been
to arrest the waters of several
naYigable streams with all their
branches, eonine them in a ditch
and run them out of the country.
1t is well known that many promi
nent men of both parties have long
regarded this element with disfayor,
but taking it all together. this would
seem rather high-handed measure.
H.