Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-04-17

haps one. funY,l,s'f This great army If
gold seekers was in active motion.
monntaill-ward. some on foot, some On
horseback, some with hand carts, and
some travelling by pnLlic conveyance.
The connicnancc Of every man, wo
man and child was radiant with the
rainbow Of promise. All were certain
to return sangnine of success, we'll.
sound, hpppy and hearty, and
laden with the wealth Of modern
Cresns, all in gold, solid, refined, pure,
hrantifGl, genuine gold. By the first
1T May. one-haf or more had taken
their final departure from Portland
and were east Of the Cascade range
OF mountains. Some were almost
naked, and many had neither money,
food, relatives or friends, bnt all were
actnated by one common bond Of SYM.
palhy, for all were advcEtnrets, and
all were engaged in one common pur-
suit of a Common appiness--the pnr-
suit OF wealth, under great difficulties
but a wealth that was certainly in
store for them all, and that, too, in a
very short space of time. Each and
all had certain fortune awaiting him
her or them. on deposit in the great
Bank Of Nature, IN these new Gold
Fields of North America.
The call of the Mohammedan Muez.
yin to prayers. five times every twenty
four hours, in Mahommedan countries
was never responded to more rclig-
iously and earnestly by devnlees of
that religion anywhere, than the earn
estness and zeal with which this in.
mense and Heterogeneous crowd of hn-
man beings moved slowly and surely
ldaho-ward All cold timers" in Ida-
ho will well remember it, for none of
the lew, comparatively, of the number
who now remain alive, can ever forget
their hardships. privaiiuns and strug-
giles during the terrible ordeal they
were all then compelled to undergo
tn reach his new gold "Mdhee." PRO
nounced ll-lay-hee).
Not few turned back from time t.
time and returned from whence they
came, but most of the nnmber pressed
bravely. determineG|y, courageously
on. Upon reaching their respective
destinations, whether at Lewiston
Lapwai, Gro Elmo, Pierce City, Elk
City or Florence, the question, to many
unthought Of before, presented Itself
with appalling force, how to get the
money each knew was there some
where, locked safely up in the great
laboratory ofnature for him or her, and
snlject to no one elses draft or order
Many went to work with a will a,
anything they could do or get to do
but befoie more than one half of this
great army of gold seekers had reach
ed their 'happy land IF Canaan" at
all, this spring, of all others, fully
one-haIf or more OF shat number, were
in full retreat, fearfuly aghast and de
moralized. for the grand base of sup,
plies in the Willamette Valley, Ore
gon. When the advanced guard o
this retreating corps of sappers anc
miners reached Portland, early in June
1862, the entire Willamette Valley re-
gon uttered a most dismal groan-;
a groan that tore heils eoDcave anC
without, frightel the reign of Terro
and Old Night" By July first, 1862
fully enc half of this army of goiC
hunters, the "Argonauts of Idaho,
had returned from whence they origin
all y started, or had scattered upon tn,
vast and almost ilIimtable mountain
RANGES of the cOuntry in sna1 II Urnups