Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-06-29
OUR ELIzABETHTowN LETTER
Judge Booth Whites Dull Care Away
by Penning Some Thoughts
for His Favorite Paper.

ELIzABETHTowN, N. NJ, June 25ih,
1861 have been waiting for some.
thing to turn up, so I could write you.
The new noon has come, the first
quarter passed and to-day a full moon
and no change, so | thought 1t best to
write you something. The district is
all here, nothing having left except the
ore that has been shipped out. Old
Badly looms up just the same. It Is
the first thing 1 see in the mornin 3
when | get up out of bed. At this
present time, the sun rises over the
highest point and l am up to see it
rise and know 1t is q fact from my own
observations. speak positively, as
know some will doubt the statement,
| will say, right here, if some of nay
old friends in Las Vegas would get up
and see the sun rise, they would enjoy
ii, and it would be a novelty to them
I will only speak Of this morning In re.
gard to the sun rising. / ate my
breakfast at s O'Clock and had every.
thing in ship shape to see old Sol make
his appearance over Old Badly. I en-.
,joyed it, and l assure you 1t was more
pleasant than other mornings when
the sun wakened M up by shining In
my face. Enough Of sun rise.
There is here, as in all well-regu-
lated communities, some persons call.
ing themselves prophets. They have
named the exact time when the rain
would fall. They have something un.
known to me by which they make theil
calculations on. But, like the Ad.
ventists, they miss some point, and
they fail to prove true prophets.
have not put myself on record. 1t is
too far inland, and like miners, have
come to the conclusion that gold is
where you find it, and it rains when il
do rain. To-day,the moon is full, and
the clouds are below the mountain IS
cap, and | presume 1t will soon rain.
1 will say a few words about the
camp and mining propositions: There
is the same feeling among the pros
pectors. They are positive that the
gold is here, and all are anxious to sell
interests, so they can develop their
properties.
The postmaster informed me that he
is receiving more mail than aver and
it is increasing every day, which proves
that the population is increasing.
Elizabethtown is very quiet at this
time. There is no water to work the
placer mines, and many Of the placer
miners are out prospecting for lodes.
There have been large fires west OF
here and the report is that more of the
fumes of the big ditch have been
burned. There are no fires at this
tims. The Oldest residents say they
have never seen the streams so low.
They hunt fish nov with clubs, having
dispensed with the hook and line al.
together.
Last Saturday or Sunday, l have
forgotten which, sometimes my
memory fails me a party from this
house went out and returned with more
fish than we could eat, at ore time.
We did not count them, but in bulk
they more than filled a milk pan.
They were not hunted, but were taken
with hook and line choppers the bait.
There have been a number OF fishing
parties passing through here, and the
was Jud Lyons and a party of ten
He called on me and in
formed me, with a knowing wink, that
he was going above where the old and
fishes were-he indicating on his
left arm up to nea the elbow. It was
the wink that settled 1t with me.
A house or wheels has just passed
the door, a man and wife, with five
constituting the inhab.
They are from Oklahoma and
have been since April 1st getting here.
The people here are getting up a
celebration for the 4th. There will be
The usual games, horse racing, ETC.,
up with q dance in the large
pavilion. | understand the. saloons
will all be open, SO that the thirsty
quench their thirst and the pro-
prietors profit thereby. | will be
where l can observe all the games and
will report the different winners. time
made, etc. S. E. B.