"OUT WEST."

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4791, 17 May 1884, Page 4

"OUT WEST."

V I'had' supposed that the far West was a new Garden of Eden,'and that'one had but to venture there to gain the wealth of a Monte Ohristo. T met at the Union station, yesterday, a man whom I imagined was by this time a bonanza king, as he went Westward years ago. But if he is a nabob he is travelling incog., and his .conversation is not calculated to stimulate "Western excursions. He wore a shabby i ulster,.long hair and a pensive, searching expression of sympathy. He greeted me as a old acquaintance at oncer - " Well," I queried, " how do you like _ —tb^-West?-"—.^-^- T~ "J — 1 " I like it just well enough," said he, " to remain in the East the remainder of y my days. I tell you, the East is good •nough for any man who hasn't a life and death dispute with the law on hand. In the. East a man above the average in smartness can' get along; but go Weßt and you find.no drones. Every man you meet is on the dead run for wealth, and you must stay up late, rise early, and bolt your meals to keep up with the stragglers in the procession. There's lots of money West, and big wages. I have just come from Colorado, where I got 10 dols. a day for driving a mule team. But—" " That is a very good salary for that kind of labor P" "Oh it js, is it ? Well you go out there and see. Why, my friend, I have

paidjl.dol. 50^ cents, for a.cup of coffee, , 2i101r75 -cents, for .a/glass of beer, and 4 dols. for a horn handled jack-knife with one blade. I have been in the mountains with a party when a chew of tobacco was put up at a raffle, at a dollar a chance ; and if the winner of the tobacco finally got away with it, he had to dodge the contents of the revolvers of the party and keep out of sight for a week. Talk about the West to me I It is a good place to die in; but I propose to Tive from this time out where the sun rises early, and there is no corner on the luxuries of life."