Show I I A BUSTED BOOM H r i 1101 rIlle GOA flood people of ColLe Tille pit as cor a bonanza air HERALD it is 13 not often vie we eca sc anything concerning thia this place in your column sand and whether it ia is for the want of chips or not I am unable to say but if you think it will be of inter interest cst to your readers you may insert the following COKEVILLE is a fast tt little town situated in the northwestern corner of the territory about 05 milea miles from E evanston Evan vanston van slon down bear river it has a permanent population of about twelve families S audia and ft transient population principally ally men inen var varying aug f from rom 20 to who are depending upon chop chopping ing and making railroad tie for a pi livelihood vc I the lie oret oregon on sh short or t L line ine railia railway y runs ahr through ough the v valley alley within I half a mile of the tow town I I which is located on a nice little bench with fine facilities for irria tifft wo we have two coal mines one of them only being worked at present which coal enough for home consumption although it is of a very soft nature therease there Ther eare are sei several verRI FINK IZ RAN clim in the valley and the land here is we well adapted for roots and some kinds kind F of small I grain but the people ale do not seem to be possessed with a knowledge of farmin farming gor or else they do not care to engage in in the the cows are fat and generally ene rally present an nil appearance of king being fine but it does not agree with our ambition to milk them eo to we let them run and send to oilier other settlements for our butter and cli cheese dese we have in our town two boarding liou houses es and two saloons and until a recent arite the latter have been open day and night and while we have neither church nor theater younce the male population I agrenot without a place of resort i I n I t I I I we have ONH ONE STORE the proprietor of abiel is J W stoner who is always willing to accommodate under the most obscure circumstances and where can be bo ob bained anything anything thing from ft a suit of broad broadcloth c cloth lot anK down to a tin teapot we have but one way of distinguishing gu gui shing sunday from other days and that is by the scores of people coming from the tle more remote parts of the county to trade the people hero here arc are as arc are found in other parts of the country more or less excitable about two weeks ago ono one of our settlers struck as he thought ank it may yet prove to t be so a rich lead of ore re in in i a canyon about seventeen mil of hero here called rock creek others got to hear of it and the news reached evanston when several parties from that place with nearly all the settlers hero here started for the mountains on the day and raid some of them in the night of the nit mercury down to 20 degrees below zero to locate claims in the vicinity of the imagined mammoth which they named the 11 s RA MINING DISTRICT there they remained digging and grubbing gi building buildings cabins etc meantime sending pieces of the valuable quartz to the as aayers ayers office to be analyzed while the few who were left in the were anxiously waiting the returns of the to know the extent of her wealth but to their utter amazement they invariably came as follows foj lows t r territt Ter kitt iron god noner G lead none 91 silver nom gold NONE trace of cither either it 11 ia is not riot necessary for me mc to say how they felt but a person would think now to coille into inte the place that it i ia arf art old eastern quaker town town and antl avery everyday day sunday I T Respect respectfully fally I F felix ELIX COKEVILLE wyo jan |