| Show NOR THERb NOTES the people e count county jr and business 1 round ibous arlo a glo rock E EDITOR HERAL eagle rock ig is a i beautiful alao and slid for ft a new town is quite prosperous prop erous though business is not brisk just now the thit railway shops give em to a numer of men and if no we were writing tini up the country a good deal of apace might be occupied with a description of the business establishments of such firms as anderson aros J glen A co J F tT 01 H lingo E P winn J M avid oo 00 and many others all of whom nhom do a good business in their various lines A description of THE SHOPS might not prove but it will have to be pissed until some other time placer mining in the snake river is not as lively this year K ear as it haa has been beer owing io 10 the high agh water yet a few bw men are engaged in it and ars art making from 84 toa to 5 per r day at the work the town fown iq i liveliest liveliest eliest abut pay day which comes on tic tle 0 of f the month those who labor hero here aro a happy careless art st working for tile tha day day or pr month tomake a raise and spending their earnings carn ings as soon as they get them ROUGH AND UNCOUTH as they are many of them have a sense of pity and a tender heart for which we may oftentimes look in vain in the man with better dress and manners ma liners last night for instance an unfortunate man who had lost his leg came caine to the brooks house and asked the proprietor how much the charges were for a meal fifty cenap cents was the reply he turned away saying he had only a quarter A rough cooki looking I 1 ni young fellow who had just received eu 82 for his daya days work the first he be had earned acco according arding to his own testimony for 16 r five months gave the proprietor the necessary amount for THE LAME MANS MEAL the country hereabouts bere looks desolate enough not a tree or green thing in sight sitting on the portico of the brooks house one can behold nothing but bare rolli roll ing hills looking north and west until the is lost in the misty enow decked tops of one 0 ne of the ranges of the rocky mountains to the northeast until the eye rests upon the horizon lie the plains of snake river upon which many a sturdy farmer armer is battling with the inconveniences inconveniences and hardships of frontier life to make a home for himself bims elfand and dear ones and they have a hard bard time of it only those who have helped to settle anew a new country countr can tell of their trials the crops however however look well and and THIS GIVES THEM COURAGE in a note dropped you yesterday it was said that a snake river farmer sold a load of wood in eagle rc rock ck for a gallon of whisky it had taken him two days to get the wood and he hated bated to let it go for this he ile said if I 1 had a friend in town I 1 would rather give gi v e my load to him although I 1 ne need e d ME the means for bread and clothing for my children he was a hardy old eon on of toil and I 1 felt sorry to see hipoli his old shoes and ragged clothes and also to see the destitution 0 of i two of his little boys he lie had bad with him yet they were withal a jolly set and when his wood was un loaded he lie with his little ones on the hind bind runn running ilg ed along joyfully joy fully to the place called home af afar ar out in the DISTANT DESERT when 1 ben the country shall be bult built up and 1 blossom with flowers and abound abai with fruitful fields and cooling cool shade trees tree Q I 1 hope again to visit the country and sec see these same hardy ady settlers and their children en the rest and alesii blessings they so i richly deserve E 11 A EAGLE ROCK aug 9 |
