Show WILD old tuners whose eats are en ogdan A alfh 1 great bright fabb e who ehg line this MINERS wyo september TUB once upon a time this was a busy mining camp the place was caled into being by the discovery in of rich placer mines in the gulch anil subsequently alie finding of a large ein if gold bearing quartz at the held of the gulch which leda down to beaver it giai an alt tade of feet and the a r ia pure and arcini br cini alie are always cool aad in the sumner sum ner and early fall the da s are delightfully mild and pleasant it is distant from lander tha county a lively town of about 1000 thirty emilei aad is twelve miles from burnt ranch old souli pass station on tha sn beet waler aher alie wyoming eastern railway a link in the pacific line wil have a elation should the road ever be built and operated J lie survey of the projected transcontinental id over the south pass of the booky kooky mour taina of your readers a ill remember ibe locality via pacilio spring and theace eastward down alib dw atwater villey to fort Fet traian the th r tbt aud most feasibly route across the continent yet surged in its palmy daya when placer mining was carried on or when ahe mills thre were at one time three with an aggregate of alfy pounds poun out gold froni the okli quartz this was a importance con a of beet era hundred people in due rouche of time the pat pa t of the paces in llila gulch in the camp Is located feie meie worked out ald t e population of treasure drifted t other parts of hie country the great ledge which howera at the bead of ahe gulch and which was immensely im mensey r ch on alie surface and for a hundred feet below bai ben worked at times through the inter vecina ears not always with success from a financial point of view alie mills have now been idle for upwards of four years during time the m nes have not IH en exploited at all ladt spring the i iea which were owned hy james kime deore mckay ad kulin aad others were bold to a french company and it is bj lieveld that they will when assured that the railroad will ba built 0 o that they can get the supplies rup plies in cheaply put a lare forca of men to wark in ilia and start up at least one of the mill they cannot allow elih a prospectively clively valuable property to be idle indefinitely some aga the principal cipal mine and mill werd operated of this pl acsai S of salt late cry carried on the work for four but not with profit the only winners being thoe who and were promptly prom ply paid in full and those who supplies and materials kime nuckolls did their systematically but in the eat w racing of the mine found atie ledge bably broken op and scattered anddie noc feel justified in spending the probably pro bibly large amount of money necessary to find the leage or ein in place hence they quit and soon afterwards M nuckolls Nuck olla went it is hoped to a realm of pure delg bt rathe gates we of pea 1 nod the streets paved with gad judging from lie immense outcrop which rears its crest majestically above the surface one cannot help but come to the conclusion that deep down in the bow els of the earth the stringers of quartz become and larm one g cat fissure ein or gold bearing ledge which when properly opened and fully will keep stamps cropp rg on rich ore long after the present and several succeeding generations hall have gone where after the golden fleece have found icat aad riches in the summer land this is y the view taken by the french purchasers of the property who re ea d to have means with chich to develop alie mines and infuse new life into not only this camp but the surrounding country ao well miners delight 1 what a euphonious name how suggestive I 1 in former days the appellate ap on was doubtless ae for during the first s ason sue the discovery of gold in the gulch fie sum otH 2000 nai wa hed out of the pla era by the me of too lang tomb a primitive implement much asad in the early day ol 01 ia california bat at the present lime the sweet bounding ia a misnomer there is noc a miner delighted or otherwise now living in the camp is suggestive of degeneracy ad decay and but tor the presence pr sence here 0 sir jami jamis s aiice and wife the place would bo literally deserted by human beings and the and decaying log babns which dot the hill B dag would bo occupied only by the barje and the bas and the prowling wild bearta of forbat and plain miners would acara pria tely express the situation today to day mr and alra kime were pioneers pion eera an fn the camp and during all its and have remained here toey are to use a homely but expressive phrase financially well being the owners of flocks and herd ranches and houses on a good and lucrative mer baittle business their being the ranchers and lier dera and tor a lake pectin of countr la the surrounding valleys and mr kime is also the and a tri weekly mail is received and forwarded strange as it may seem the doea quite a large bustnes busl nes now the camp Is practically deserted and the mark ol 01 desolation and decay ia oa ceiply everything in it I 1 cannot but believe that its baat days are yet to come after a railroad ahall have the region it would come within twelve miles of here I 1 dont thick that my friend kima and bis estimable wife who leave summered and wintered in this now much of the time lonely camp in the for two hae solely fr their health but that on the contrary the primary and controlling incentive was and baa been the accumulation mu lation of ciany Bhe kee and property of a ions no that now in their declining years lupy find in of a w ell deserved competency if having faliu fied their ambition they desire to retire and enjoy tn peace and quiet tha fruits of their labor who blame them man IA a social being and if for a time be con dents to hina self from ans fellows and undergo privations vcra tiona and it ia anly that he kiy more keenly euay life in the days eliat ard to come after I 1 do not imagine that mr and mra kiin will bo contant to in isolation conch longer however vi ell th ir bui nai may ba paying them or that they would even ba ta carry on active in the booming camp that abis is to ba aad which may soon become I 1 think rather that they long to lay their business burdens down and celira froni the which they have orio long a been aguhar curing A of faithful da to duly I 1 of this by reason u the fact that i st slav mr kenw tore him belt aboy trim luaine to the and hied himself aay to the bright and busy city of within whose plea ant he lingered tor one ull and the as keenly as dots alie schoolboy bia suni iner aton aad be eidee mr kima considerable valuable beil in the tion city and mr kime FA 1 l to nie the other dy we aro grow ing old and want to leftt we lave ensued a permanent va aion t on bushings and 11 a carea and eia cioe let some ono younger thi the place that wah aveao ieng occupied ard carry on w rk were we we want to visit for a year or so our old t lends in ohio and pennsylvania and then turning oar faces toward the west will go to lovely ogden aad make that our future home your felt like commending the good tense show n by thi ladya remarks when they do go lente they will ba and mou ned by the exir prospectors pros especially for many 0 this alaia lne in the deaia that leaie flown partaker partaken pAr taken of their blanty aid been carr ed along by this ft orthy couple whose Buc ciMore may nut be eo kindhearted kind hearted and generous as they have always been until one other pioneer of the calip hib kept nee here tuat ia cickay n ell known to amny people in uis den where he has conoe realty n ho anke 1 up under tha timber allura act sprinca abd ac eaon land at the south pasi cr continental dive mr mckay was at one time ej mill air kime in the ownership 0 a mill and amne uy the sale to the french cornea y was brought about by ad kulin mr mckay received money n porton which be has n my invested in loraing loi aing the above men tinned pacific vh cli ia lie key to the ra broad ad where thera must in the very nature of ahng lie licater lica ted the end of the division the pacific line that is to be p rh ps haa run a ey through mr mckaba land aad should the road ever bo oct nihed beyond the twin C eek co alfield a hichi seems to be ery doubtful aldfo on eastward to te t e projected neb aska ano build in out to sioux quite an important will be at no transcontinental railroad can cros lie pass except via pacific springs it is the strategic point the wyoming casern kasern now a paper road hold ilia point now by virtue ot lavina lavi nj ina ie a corvey and done acme cece siry work on the 1 ne by the way alit if anything any lhing ia being done in the way ot construction laie valley casern Ea sern tr western end of the bo call d short line has anything been done bave the promises nia materialized and are the fiodi band or mire men with their teams and ample neals bursting the in the canyons and mi ving abe dirt fly you know mr editor that what his been promised lor lo 10 these many boits very few if any herple in wyoming so lar as I 1 have learned bare any faith in abe building of this road although each and all realize that a line of railroad through from to Cry pawing between the union and joithe te n would prove of incalculable benefit if not the ta of this part of wyoming in fact the resources f this never be fully developed without the aid of that abe lo 10 0 motive those who have watched and for he of the iron horse say that the pacific lite folks do tco much bilking through ahe columns of the net papera and too little actual nork on tue ground that they really lave no money that they based enough money out of sioux city people to build a local line into a rich lar mini district and eliat it faill stop there thai they may build out of ogden to lie coal fields and there atop etc etc of course these peo pit who talk so dont know anything about the of the company but really air editor it does beem as though it were time that the gave nime n ime gab evidence of their antt n tion to do vi bat they hae co often promised the building 0 even miles out of would be encouraging cou raging to the people of this region that would brine the road almost aa near here as the union pacific now ie I 1 do not belice that the pao pie of ogden at least not many of them appreciate preci ate the value of business eliat would come to them over a railroad running direct from here the bulk of the business is now done by the union pacific teams go to the ra I 1 road troia M ners del atlantic south pass city laider and other places the time occupied making a round trip to point of kocks grecu river city or rawlins en the union pacific from points on the line of route of the projected pacific line is from one to to week the northwestern road with its present western terminus at old fort caspar distant from here about miles solicits business in this section that road does the bulk of the business in sweetwater valley the building of the pacific short line boull change all this and leave the gestern and union pacific out in the the firmer bould extend its line westward and the latter build feeders from its main line into this vat region of wonderful but undeveloped ogden needs the pacific t line more than any other railroad that may come to utah abbe has how much she appreciates its coming and is entitled to something mard than chin music and newspaper talk within a year from now ogdena wideawake wide awake commercial men should be traver tins this section and soliciting the trade at the people clr keus cm if he will tell you what a desirably desi rabla commercio com mercia pluna the of te country traversed by the pacific short line when built woud be for to secure 1 I write this not knowing whether the ork of construction has been started or not but I 1 assume that if it had been started the fait would have been of importance to have been abroad and I 1 have seen no of it to p para of this part of the country anyway hurry up the road city councillor 0 it hank ha a floe anch near lander he raises bladed horbot a d hereford rattle and I 1 am cot bat that he liaa some oil and petro leuia prospects he certainly owns a foat ie n of good coal air hank visits his ranch every fall and the ladder people have been ex pectin g li m for days pas there irani any little fertile va lys to the north and east of here e gran ailes and hay mature during the biet summer seabo the lander valley is the principal farming district albough al hough there are poma ranches on the little and big river and ltd the little and big Pou oagie pronounced and other etre aina f aai the mountains which cjuras through the valleys sheep als ng is one of the most profitable in of this part of wyoming this reminds me that your rustling real estate dealer mr 1 A reed everal yian ago eold 1300 bead of sheep to mr birne alio has since bad them cared fur they increased and the investment he A bood one alio net profit on the flock the pat year vi as up arda of t I 1 cannot begin to tell our readers in one letter hat they like to know about wyoming or at least that part 0 it etli hibb aliey are booner d later tt be connected conn eced with hands of al will tend other batora returning gioina to epen 1 the winter the weather ahre in the hiah mountains la petting rold ai the hayg arow fir rt tr ats atie sun inoima gottli aal before ion the 1 tie baal of v ho for the liere ahi will leave to fod their leals and move out to a mildr mild r and more congenial climate E J ives david davs p r left for the lail roal ting morn ni and nill probably reah econie hy you pet this leter J oly connerly lon a job printer in the jirim ia m camp at guch the arty now liere consist lot E A and his on chirlie and F L casbier of salt Lahe City jur ezrd t on hai not anen the blooming aceb uc eB that we anticipated but the fault for failure is not oare E A littlefield |