Year: 1863




The Golden .Age, of Thursday, comes to us
with an article under the above caption, in which
it, in its characteristic style of argument, con-
tends that the route to Boise mines vla Lewis
ton is nearer than from this place A position
so absurd as this needs no comment, and to pro
duce other facts than we have done to prove the
contrary would be superhuous. A glance at any
map, save the new one which it is said was re-
Gently gotten up in Portland, by Mr.. Leland, to
favor Lewiston, will show that the Boise mines
are southeast from this place while Lewiston is
northeast. Then to go to Boise by way of Lew
iston the traveller must make a sharp triangle;
and even if the distances were equal from the
two points, to go from here via Lewiston, would
be going just eighty-fve miles out of the way
The Age says:


"The Statesman also says the route from that
place has been kept open all winter, and the ex-
press has made it in FIVE and six days. That is
false"


We have never been guilty of perpetrating
any such bad grammar as that. We said nothing
abo ut the road being kept open nearly all winter
though we say now that it was KEEP: open ALL
winter In relation to the express messengers;
we said that they had been ''making their trips
from here to Boise Uia Auburn nearly all winter
in five to six days" This we have from the ex-
pressmen themselves, and when the .Age says the
statement is false, it simply says they lie. We
have received letters from their hands which
have come through in that time and last week
Mr. Rockfellow made the trip from the corral to
Az .I,,.vs sue or rIacervllle, and
allowing Mr. R. half day to have come to the
Corral, "a longer time than is required to make
that distance) he would have made the trip in
four days. The Age cites to Mr. Leland as au-
thority in relation to the location of Boise, and
inquiries "has he any object in deceiving the
miner bound to Boise P" Though we more than
half suspect this inquiry is made by himself we
do not pretend to Judge of him in that matter
| We know that Mr.. Leiands interests are at, OF
near Lewiston, and further that it is subject oil
general remark that his articles appear "biased'
in favor of that point. Whether his saw mill
interests OF that place have robbed him of his
reason we know not, but we do know that he sell
dom ever does anything without he has an object
i'll view, and that he disagrees with all the pub
/ lished maps, and all the miners and packers we
have talked with in relation 10 the location oi
the Boise mines. In his article quoted in the
Age, he admits that the mines are more south
than east from this place. He will not deny
that Lewiston is northeast from here. A close
reader will want no further proof than this that
in his effort to prove that the route by Lewiston
is the most direct, he is trying to make "ex-
tremes meet"


The Age also inquiries why we did not tell our
readers that Mr.. Jones, the express agent at
Boise left here to go by Lewiston to Boise? II
would have been uuimportant had we done so
and besides, this is the first information we have
had that he went that way. We knew that Mr.
Getzler attempted to make the trip over thai
route few weeks ago and failed and knowing
also that Wells Fargo were sending their express
from here uia Grand Ronde, and Auburn, we
supposed, very correctly, that they had given up
the Lewiston route for the present. We are in
formed that it is the intention Of the company tc
send an express this summer to Boise by way o.
/ Lewiston, so as TO touch at Florence, Orc Fine
and Warrens Dggings, or to connect with the
expresses to those points; but they will do thi;
nIrIeIy as nalter or economy, IN reaching the
other points named, and not because they be-
lieve the route is nearer. The expresses that
make the trip from here to Boise via Grand
Ronde valley will beat those by the Lewiston
route by at least one days time, and we assure
the editor of the Age that we will publish this
fact when the Lewiston route is opened.


At latest dates from Boise not single person
had reached the diggings by way of Lewiston
since the early part of last winter.