Show IDAHO it seems beems hardly possible to pick up a paper from the east or west without finding particular attention directed to the discoveries 0 great wealth in dalo on the pacific boise appear ei fit to ta have the greatest attraction in the atlantic states bannock enjoys the public pa f favor tavor avor and both exceed in riches any mines grer discovered colorado doubts the report and considers that within their own territorial boundaries la Is the el dorado of the age only awaiting the talisman capit alto bring about a development of ot wealth that will astonish the world california with her natural appendage nevada and the rich silver nines mines ot of that territory appears app ears earb to look down with dignified contempt upon the great confusion contu lon ion of tho the times and with the proud consciousness of wealth within her grasp points here and there and inculcates in a general way the morale of a bird in hand worth two ID in a bush notwithstanding these efforts or of the he state on the pacific arid and those of 0 our territorial neighbors east and west of us idaho cannot fail to receive an immense accession to her population this summer As soon as the mis hauf sauri hauri is cleared of ice steamers are to ply between st louis and fort benton with passengers and freight and at all the river towns betwee between n atchason Atch ibon lson and st pauls paulb minnesota we vre are informed that immense overland trains are outwitting outfitting out fitting from denver there will be an early ruh rush for the mines by a new road passing fort laramie and onward by a northwesterly north westerly trail to the three wree forks ot of the missouri cutting off nearly miles talles of the usually traveled road through this city As an indication of the excitement in the pacific we clip the following ho lioi tor roa THE borsh boish minns MINES the country reems to be on fire from one end to the other with excitement relative to the boise mines and everybody who can make a successful trade irada in I 1 feet Is making preparations preparation I 1 for a trip to the placers without the aid of newspapers puffing and blowing the public haye have got a deep seated conviction that there Js no nothing hing like these mines that since the days when every canon gu gulch ich or gully eully in our wn n state was wag a natural saving dank upon which any man of muscle was permitted to make a draft without fer fear of protest all other gold excitements excite ments were mere 9 chams gotten up for the purpose of giang certain talla talia public carriers a substantial benefit benefit but that now we are to tv tobb tobe be blessed wilh a heal healthy thyl vigorous Ig orous and paying thing something that has not uee bee been n ailt lit silted salted c sor not will not peter out but which will rival the good old days of 49 when every tatterdemalion bad his full of nuggets nug geta I 1 the merchant ff have hare also become impressed with the big thing in store and are strain ing every nerve to push forward supplies ex peeling to reap ric rich rewards from the furnish I 1 in ing honest miners with outfits the brother jonathan is advertised to sail on the and already evey berth and almost every foot of room in the cabin has been sei sel llred dired by passengers while the demand for skip fillip roomy room for freight is perfectly appalling fa the uninitiated yesterday moral g about half past ten we counted one hundred and sixteen trucks and drays in line awaiting an opportunity to discharge dischar e their freight for by y the steamer S sailing ailing vessels are iut t tip up for pait Patt portland land and taken immediately ey y those who are determined to be first ia in tha the m imet we notice that a large proportion of the gold hunters are recent arrivals atlantic antic states men not well calculated to brave the hardships of a frontier life mid aad wa wee fear that too many of them will vi 11 he come discouraged and turn baek back if they feel weary keary and aad become dis heartened let them take a 1 iceson ason from those who have served an apprenticeship in the hills billa of 0 california and add puah phah fo forward rivard and see if it there is anything in I 1 it for only the bold can win rs S F call 16 h b 1 the overland mall stages sta es begin bezin to feel the advantages of the excitement an and d If loaded outside and enli in and glen llen engaged gaid before the day cf travel ia 1 s already the agree agreeable able alle language of th the distant offices kr mr Hof faday with all the advantages of early inspiration takes lakes the thae oab between this and virginia Virgin li city under hla hia particular care and quietly announces that on or about the of may be he will run daily stages forthe fon for the tho conveyance of passengers express matter and treasure in addition to this oliver and companas Comp anys express prefers to put through passengers an addinall dinall matter comm corn 11 bitted to their care and mail contractor smith is out wits his bis circulars after the same tash fash fashion lon ion on the iet lat of july mr E S alvord the new mail contractor commences tri weekly mall nail service in the same direction and not at all unlikely to accommodate the public mr alvord will also go into the passenger carrying business it is almost unnecessary to hint that the lebs lees favored with this worlds goods will fid any amount of passenger carrying ox trains starting from this city from now to next neit winters snows while so m much uch is being done ln in favor of the eastern division of idaho on or before the first of july there will be ample accommodation for the tha traveling comment com community muni munt ty from this city to the western division of idaho or boise mr holladay puts on tri weekly service and probably others will take up the slower enterprise of mules and oxen and thus we have the prologue to the comedy the drama and the I 1 tragedy in store for idaho we bave no criticism to offer on an the rumors of the great wealth in Ida lda idaho idabo hoit boit it may be all true it may be far short of the truth and still the future may develop wealth beyond the calculations of the most sanguine but that there is 13 gold there we know from the amount of it that has been expended in this city during the past winter and the still larger amounts that have passed through to both the pacific and atlantic states those who had business here with the first miners from beaver head read early noted by their quiet unostentatious manner that they had got the metal metai they said sad nothing but passed along with that air of satisfaction that can never be counterfeited by pre THE COUNTRY AND ITS MINES mires from froin the hon james tufts tuffs of Virgi virgl virginia nia nil city who passed through here last week we gathered considerable information of the territory of idaho that will interest our readers at the present time doring during the session of the legislature the territory was divided into the following coun uca tha chateau dawson big horn ogallala and yellow stone to the east of the rocky mountains deer lodge shoshone idaho maho nez perce boise owyhee owahee altures Al turus and oneida onelda to the west of the rocky mountains and lewiston situated at the extreme western verge of f 1 the territory remans renoa renca na the capital the delegation from the beaver head country or the eastern division of the territory had to cross ithe the atter root mountains in november 1 through fire five feet of snow to reach the legis lature but szn sensibly sibly have preferred to return by way of walla walla in washington territory down the columbia river to portland oregon from there to san francisco california by steamer and thence then ceby by steamboat rail and stage stape to this place where they were still j miles from the place they started from last november this is isa a terrible round about but the snows deep enough in november are deeper now and over the mountains they cou id d not hope to pass before may or june in the order of neighbors near and distant bannack city is the first of the manir mining 0 towns i f i about miles from this almost du due north 1 with a of about 1203 1200 persons i in almost direct line between bannock cit ya and fort benton renton northeasterly north easterly cours ethere ara are the towns of nevada virginia and gallatin nevada has ony only a population of 1000 or i thereabouts virginia has oooo of a population t on and gallatin only a few hundred hundreds there are a multitude of small places here I 1 and there as the discovery of the precious metals draw a population to together ether but the places named are the principal in the event of f the division oath of the e territory gallatin would be 33 the centre and from its location it ia i b be e deved lieveld by many that light draught steamers ca an n ascend that far up the missouri the mineral resources of idaho idabo are reported to 0 o be exhaustless exhaust lea iba the precious metals have been leen found all along the eastern sope bope of the I 1 hocky mountains from the platte to the sas kat lat in the british dominions do minions mi niong the wind river mountains are drained on the he east cast by the yellow stone river and its tributa tributaries ries rles the tle big ili iii 0 horn and andy wind ind river I 1 are ire chief of these their valleys with their are richi rich i in ll 11 placer mines mins i the valleys below the mountains are rich in I 1 soll boll and delightful in climate the whole region abounds in game Bu buffalo fraio fralo elk deer and antelope antelop e almost literally cover the prairies the sioux and crow indians indiana in the region of the yellow stone are fierce in their tp position opposition to the advance of thu the white man but the country it aa as rich as reported is too rich to admit of a doubt of the result within the last few days raya a company of miners started out from virginia f for or the yellow stone country determined to explore and hold their own and every emery effort is being made to get the government to furnish troops for the general protection and co no doubt a military post will be established there what is known as the beaver deaver head country embraces be ibe sources of the M missouri laouri the three forks jefferson madison madion and aal d gallatin Gallat iii lii I 1 and big hole or wisdom river the name I 1 originated b with the indians from we tb e fancied resemblance of a po point 1 int of rock on the jefferson to the head bead of a beaver and from this the country and the stream bear the name beaver head is the most western extremity of land east of 0 the rocky range situated in a great graat bend of the mountains the mines in in that neighborhood already opened are mostly on the jefferson fork at Banno nanno bannock cil cIr city and in I 1 the vicinity of virginia on the stinking water the water there Is as pure and sweet as any which ever gushed forth from the mountains and the name is only orlly traceable to 10 the whim or freak of mr gindlin the leg legislature chang changed ed the disagreeable name of i stinking water to fairweather after the I 1 chief of 0 a company ot of miners who first discovered cov ered gald in that country there are mines opened on the prickly pear to the north of virginia city and all along the base baab ot of the mountains ains to the sources of the marias discoveries have been made A fine agricultural region 11 extends from the base of the mounta mountains i ns to the east down the tribu baries of the yellow stone A beautiful and romantic nook of land about the size of con cop isto is found prid near thes the sources of the yellow stone the sheet ot of water known as Sublet subie tew ted lake nearly miles in length ia is a charming sheet ol 01 water surrounded by a beautiful I 1 country with abundant timber THE CEMETERY our good offices were requested the other day by a gentleman to expose the habit of persons persona passing over the wall into the cemetery and having thought over the subject we comply we most respectfully suggest that the gateway I 1 of the cemetery be lit hit unlocked during 0 certain hours oe of each day and then no person will injure the walls or themselves in affecting an entrance to the enclosure mr sexton mitchell bab has too much good sense to expect every person to knor know where he lives ilves and ev even en with that information he be can hardly expect that they would hunt bunt there the key and run back again with it every tima time it was wanted we know oe of nothing that the city bouncil I 1 could do that would be more agreeable to the I 1 people han than ban their moir expenditure of tue tha trifling ting amount necessary to engage some aged or infirm person to properly take care of the cemetery keep the gate and ornament the place we are aware of the strict economy necessary to keep the wheels of government moving an and d the many calls upon their attention but there is no place in uie use city on which their fatherly fat fal herly heily care and attention an could he be so disinterestedly appreciated they have built a good substantial wall put up a fine gate but it wants some person there to see that the affection ite and the afflicted are lot noe igind hind rea red red in in visiting the graves that entomb the ashes of their dear departed ibbye in bye gone ages the dead were consigned to the silent tomb skull and cross bones were the only rude sepulchral ornaments that greeted the eyes of the visitor and a dull dread fear was ever after associated with the graveyard today to day the resting places of the dead are beautified garnished with flowers and statutes and grim death is robbed of half his bis terrors no people have a more happy faith uniting the livin living with the dead none should be so ready to show their respect for the thi th departed SCHOOL examination A public exam examination of the scholars of the fourteenth ward school will take place on friday april isi exercises commencing arg aco at 9 a mand m and athal at half lf 4 past one p m mr tripp invites t the h patrons of e education duci duck tion aw |