Show correspondence idaho city aug 7 1861 ED VEDETTE asa As a great many of your readers are arc more or less interested in the welfare of tho the sojourners iri id this part biart odthe of the moral vineyard and as I 1 see gee you ou bayt haab no correspondence I 1 fro from na this city now I 1 concluded I 1 would scribble you a few lines and to commence I 1 will take the subject that troubled lea our citizens most at this time the weather which is very hot ivl we hat naTlia hati imo no tauner rai nr o ra ilme rua the lord willing and no pre preventing venti 1119 providence we do not expect any for some time to come the ground is very very dry and dup dusty ty some gold dust and some that aint As the ground cannot get anything to drink and nd extract of corn and the grape being more plenty than water the citizens here her consume a large amount of the obe o be joyful and some of it is miserable stuff the same as aa it was when you and I 1 used to try to worry a little of it here some borne years ago the placer ani and gulch mines are about played out for this season and the bricks are now taking the run quarts is also coming in for a share of the attention of ye honest miner the rosenbaum mill on the iye junietta ledge owned now by J P lambing is paying big they have struck the ledge down dorn about 90 00 or feet about IS 18 feet wide very rich and it only costs about four dollars per ton to get the rock out and crush it the smiths with the landon mill and ledge are also aleo doing well El arvey on the madilon 14 ledge 1 e 1 is is running ar astras and is doing 1 well our quartz ledges are arc turning out far better than wu was anticipated and the further they linkon sink on the them nithe the better the rock is main street above wall is ia not built up as it was before the late fire the miners have du dug the bottom out of the street so that it is almost impassable the business portion of the city is now mostly below and on wall street johnny co cody y is building a large alre proof brick house with a brick basement on the corner comer of 0 wall and main on the site of his old saloon building the post office irs now on oil the corner of wall and montgomery south of taylor and owens saloon ig ia on the corner of wall aud montgomery cast bernstiel is erecting a fireproof fire proof addition to his store as large as aa his bis present commodious brick idaho is not lot yet dead and bids fair to have a long and prosperous life yet the moat of the itea are sick of that country and are arc returning here they say that lembi is is a b big i bik W our oar citizens fee acel L and know how they are ard ga cing i imposed t upon by the little stage stad sta d jiing aine sacr across oss the plains and they give you credit for the way you pitch into that mo monopoly noply and wish you to give them ame some more odthe same soil t we do not get bur our eastern more thau than once a mouth aud and then in broken doses closes so that the they are arc worth lebs ic bs and ana if things continue as they noy now are arc our people will be compelled to quit taking all eastern papers and periodicals as aa we get them now they are d a perfect nuisance the sweetwater mines are arc attracting orfie borne attention ceic and next spring there will be a large immigration frow from here to those mines and if uncle sun sain S un does not not interfere with tho boys they fo wan clean out poor 10 lo the in dian alike like a shotgun shot gun guD in double quick buic time there has been bech some very rich di diggings g struck near placerville erville and also some diggings on oil the head bead headwaters waters of the Payette there are several pros proa s jaw going tim the ds as thick here as black buds and mra re coming or 1 there therb are arc about Labout m in bois BOI SS county like now this county looks a little liko a chinese colony with a few whites mixed with thoi Chinese sett leriz the health of boise buirl is good lye davs jil cuty of vegetables here fruit fresh butter and ill all other oilier necessaries of life in abundance with somo som of I 1 the luxuries hut but ince aiace tho the good T C started dhere here smashes coolers and juleps have taken a rise and the world wags on vs 15 1 5 us not with man at the tail of i 48 tolf know 9 yours MARK |