| Show wood RiTer ver by courtesy of a friend of ours we have been permitted to peruse a a etter letter written from bullionville Bulli onville wood river country concerning the lie projects and prospects in that so called el dorado oatlie of the north the he writer states that lie lias has been in the woods considerably in f fact act lie 10 is tired ongoing of going around there there acro are some sonic few good mines mi iles liere there but they arc are not near as large in actual returns nor in prospective yield as there is in utah the writer also thinks those wood river mines never will approach anything like hc the prolific abundance and wealth odthe of the utah mines he ile states in hat language that ho lie hates the like tho the abode odthe of ho wicked after leath death and does not intend to stay there th erelong long there is nothing but drinking and gambling going on there making tile the country a aver very y vicious resort of the worst characters the men have lave become the very slaves of gambling nibling ga they will work like biggers all day and spend their night at the faro table most of the mines are owned by salt lake or ogden parties the country so our correspondent states is altogether over and overdone ove adon I and papers which eulogize the country arc are publishing gross falsehoods there is not alie e arross feast east shadow of a shiow for prospecting pec ting for the whole of the country for twenty miles in hi cither either direction is taken up staked off and clai claimed nied and was so before our informant fori nant got there about a month there has been becil nothing struck to amount to anything that our writer got knowledge ot OF the paying mines mines were ered last summer there is a far better jett ershow abow to find paying payi ng mines mines in ill than there is in that much vaunted northern bonanza region alie lo 10 wages wages are 84 per day roost most of which h icci is spent by the laborers in sport ort and worse all in all from tho the expressions of our correspondent it appears that there is in the wood river countr country elsewhere little wool for much muck caring shearing in addition to this we will pub h what a correspondent of the irson index writing from wood ivar says the longer one lives re the ices lees lie knows and the more nore I guzzled he lie becomes about the mines mines is the prettiest looking mountain country I ever saw and I would cato to make a home here if the mines prove good but these nice arcen n mountains cant support much of fa city c it unless good od mines are the he trouble e is the mines dont go down today to day you seem to leave lave a good one and tomorrow to morrow it is Is gone one yet I have faith that some will pr prove ove permanent the mountains are full of men prospecting some have kotkow q coy y it t is all humbug there are about persons here from all parts of the world and from every station in in life building is brisk but all kinds ot business arc are overdone it is is no place for fora a man who haa has a home and can get a I good living elsewhere |
