Show dalene irala the fata morgana 31 of the dalene 1 I T is rapidly na as the watery mist over the meadows under the rays odthe sum mer morning the S L of tuesday publishes the gub joined ined letter received by barney 1 jharvey JI arvey iu in salt bait lake like city which is is couched vouched v as furnishing facts in a plain unvarnished varn dished manner it ia is dated spokane falls feb 29 1884 and reads time thus As the trains from the F east ast hare have been enow bound for fora a week I 1 have not heard from you but am detar i mined to keep you posted about thia this mining district you hear bear so 10 much about people are catain comins in from both the east and west by the hun dred every dy day moat most of them h having ving eagle ragle city as the objective p point adint the more I 1 talk with miners fr from I 1 the heart of the district the still more 0 am I 1 convinced that it is the grandest cran deat swindling scheme gotten up in the U 8 for thirty years I 1 tell you in my ray opinion there is not enough gold in the district so far as discovered ifft if it wis was all taken out to divide up lip with the people who wilf will come to the mines mints this spring and give each man 5 no now w thia this kopini opinion 0 n is based on what men tell me w who h 0 baye spent the winter in the mines a and deho who ray they have prospected the whole district and they are all ill old california idaho and montana miners and know what they are talking about to a certainty T there re will be a number who will make mak a f good ato d thing out of the tools they bring into camps but not half of the poor eyer get back to america with ith a cent all the places on the railroad for tho the mines will play out soon except this place and nd rathdrum Rath drum for those who come from the west and thompson falls for those coming from the eart ait belknap belknap will flutter for a while but ehe she wi will I 1 go down as its soen soon as all the town lot lots ire sold thus I 1 am certain that this letter ia is absolutely correct in the main and that future developments will net change the aspect much signed J 0 |