Show correspondence from fr m idaho I 1 EIST BANNACK CITY idalio idaho terley march 1864 1 EDITOR abero is but little of interest to write about from here but what there is I 1 will send you if you think it of any interest to your readers you vm cin publish it and I 1 will continue to send you an occasional line flom fi om this place the winter which has been exceedingly exceeding gly cold hero here still hilll holds Us its grip gri and march still maintains its reputation as a blow hard although spring seems a little behind time the miners have commenced work in ili earnest and are getting well paid for their labor tho the canon about two miles below this place is paying splendidly and some of the claims claim pays from 50 to per day somo new leads ha hav e been recently discovered that bid fair to rival the dakota the saint paul lead stands first among the new discoveries the is held in high repute and the cherokee 77 9 etna y libee bee hive and ophir aro are all consid considered d goodla good Claims ims and aro are being worked quartz mills aro are needed here there is plenty of quartz here now to keep one hundred stamps running the dakota quaita quai tz pays all the way from to per ton somo some good leads are found twelve miles above this place and some conle on the rattlesnake about fifteen miles from rom here there w will 1 ill no doubt be an immense in b business done in I 1 lead ead mining before a great ecat while the surface prospects very fine file and as they go go deeper in their lead claims they find fina them increasing in richness there tb cro are but few exper experienced 1 fenced lead miners here herband he roand fid the owners are arc all slow workers although the dakota D has been discovered eighteen mouths months the deepest shaft on the lead is sixty four feet deep the vigilance committee seems to be about all the law we have hero here now and bad men fear it more than they ever did the law you have ha V e burboa perhaps h 1 s already alre 1 id heard of the hanging baliet ing of bill bunton n bro brother ther of the one kill Mlle killerby edby dby luce at sal salt lake city at deer lodge and cyrus skinner from california at H ell gate two to others were hung at the same time whose names I 1 do not remember wm win hunter who came to salt lalo lake as a I 1 teamster ia general Cou connors nors command was hung recently on th the i gallatin Gal latia all alf were hung hang as highway robbers I 1 J T A alado way was jiu h ung 1 ng yester yesterday d ay at virginia virgini i city lie he is the same man who was in the employ of the eastern overland mail company for foe sometime and was somei somewhat hat notorious as the leading man in several scenes of bloodshed on the eastern division the particulars tic ulars I 1 have not learned but he seems to have been carrying a high hand for some time at virg virginia nia defy defying in the law and running rough h shod over everybody A man whose name I 1 d do 0 not recollect was hung bung some two weeks s since I 1 be e at virginia for foe shooting a man two men one named moyer and one named coos ter banished from hero here some som three or four weeks ago returned after going to salt lake and came near being hung bung when ho he took his second leave immediately glad to get away alive the first U S mali mail arrived this p in much to the joy of everybody they left the second ma mail 11 at snake river and will start back for it to morion I 1 A party of about three hundred men we well 1 I i arme armed dand and equipped will leave virginia the of this month for the yellow lv stone country they think they have a big thing provided they dont get whipped by the indians F from rom what little news we get here wo we see that uncle sam is marching on and we are daily e expecting to bear that jeff has gotten hungry and thrown up the sponge OBSERVER |