Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-04-24


BY FRANK Mi LER.
CHAPTER VIII.
.Thcre l. a tide in the affairs OF men,
which taken IT the food, leads on 10 lor-
tune.
Omitted else, the balance Of their lives
ia hound in shadows and in miseries -
SHAKESPEARE
"'rberc is Il tide in the affairs of women
which leads--the Devil knows where"
--I,yRoN.
OF all tho mining towns and camps
in the New FL Dorado, where Pac-
tclean streams Of wealth and per-
pctua fountains Of youth, life, hope
and health were to flow perennlal'y
and increasingly. broad and wide and
deep forever, like tho waters OF the
great river Of Life which flows ever.
iaslingly close by the throne OF al
mighty God; The Florence mining camp
was tie most difficult of access, and
by far The highest in altitude above
the level Of the sea Severe trosts
occurred almost every night during
the summer of 1862. and on the 81
day of July of that year a binding
snow storm, lasting nearly all day
with high, raw, disagreeable wind
covered the earth ia places many
inches in depth with soft and yielding
snow. On the 4,h OF July the Ma
,ional Anniversary of American ln
dependence might easily have bee,
celebrated by u jolly sleigh ride il
maay places in that mining camp.
On the first of May snow was
from six to twelve feet il dcptl
in that depression in the Salmon Riv
or NJ nntains.
Florence was so named from the
name Of young step-daughter of +;
Doctor Fnrh r. originally from Siski
you county, California. The young
miss, aged about thirteen to fourteen
years, came with her mother into the
camp on horseback, from Lewiston on
Snake river, about one hundred ant
thirty FIVE to one hundred and fort,
miles distant by tho trail first Travelled
from Lewiston, and reached Florence
by The first Of May, 1862, in goot
health aud spirits. Several ladies', in
Guiding the wife of Benjamin NJ. An
derson, Esq, now Of Boise City, thi,
Territory. travelled from Lewiston mos
Of the way ON foot, aud all of them, 50
far as known Ia the writer, who pass
ed that summer in that mining camp
engaged in his profession as lawyer
reached Florence safely, and well
sound and hearty.
To return to our original subject
the first settlement of Boise count,
and OF "Boise Basin" the subject o
the manufacturing industries, and par
ticularly of the first saw mills put III
tor saving out lumber aud other build
ing material and the saving and man.
ufactnrc of material for mining anc
agricultural and mechanical purposes
next claims Il place in this series OF
imperfect, hastily written and chaotic
sketches of pioneer lite in Boise coun-
iy and in Boise Basin.
The first saw mill constructed in
Boise Basin was near Pioneervile. by
b. l.. Warriner, practical machin-
list, mill-wright, lumberman and saw.
yer. The mill was put up during the
winter of 1862 1t was water mill.
and Mr.. Warmer commenced oper.
ations with IL as soon as tie thawy
weather of the following spring 1868 J
enabled him to obtain water power to
run it. The quantity of lumber he
sawed out during the spring, summer,
and fall of 1868, was simply enormous,
and the demand continued constantly
TO be in excess of the supply The
second saw mill erected in the Basin