The Dillon tribune., 1884-01-26
/. rAvry NAIL LINE FROM D1A1'
= rn GIBBONvILLE

4 DAILY MAIL LINE FnOA
: 10 GIBBONvILLk
~. ,,oportance Of having daily ma'' ma.
between Dillon ana o'o.
bonville, the mos, prominent mining 80 go. a.
n northeastern Idaho, is receiving ny
ten,ion of the people of that poft.oe "n =. ~.
neiohboring Territory north Of oa'mo"
C;tv The matter of having oally ''"e
es.sh,;shed between our town and 1looon.
III. meets with the unanimous aPProval OF
49,. .,,.-chants. business men and citizens
...ner.lIv of Dillon. The preliminary steps
toward securing the establishment OF oa'-
i mail between these points are now oe'ng
taken by the prominent citizens Oh oo'n
towns. and it is expected that an earnest
and hearty cooperation will be give" %
the project by the citizens OF the towns
and valleys through which the new line
will pass.
The number Of people and the scope OF
country to be supplied by this line fully JUS
fife, the belief that it will be speedily es-
tablished when its importance and urgency
is understood. Beginning at Dilion, the
lire will pass up the Rattlesnake Va'ey
to Arqenta, thence over the divide through
the north end of the Blue Wing mining
d;.trict to Bannack. The road from Dill
Ion to Bannack is good one, having been
used for twenty years. Leaving bannack
the route will be up GrasshoPPcr Greek,
passing close to the Bald Mountain and
Elkhorn mining districts, over into the Big
Hole Basin, where, DETECTING from the Glib
bon battle-ground, it will pass over the main
Rocky range to Gibbonville. On the lda.
no side the mining districts to be benentteo
and supplied are the Gibbonville, Anderson,
Dahlonaea, and Hughes Creeks, and to
great exten. the new and promising mining
district Of Mineral Hill, in which Messrs.
Gilmer & Salisbury are developing rich
gold quartz mines and in which they will
have mills operating next summer.
The road is good ell the way, with the
exception of that part on the main range.
The present road over the main range is an
excellent summer road, but in winter time
it is filled with deep snow drifts. This diff
fculty can be easily remedied by the expen-
diture of $4,000 in building new road
over the range on a line that is comparative
ly free Of snow in the worst winters, and on
which blockading snow-drifts will be avoid
ed. It is proposed to raise this $4,000 by
subscriptions at Gibbonville and on the
Montana side, and the Board Of Commits
sioners Of Beaverhead County will be ask
ed at their coming March session to appro-
pirate literally toward the completion of
the road, and also to establish road dis
trict in the Big Hole Basin, which would
be an additional benefit to the people of the
northern part Of the county.
The distance from Dillon to Gibbonville
via Red Rock, Junction, and Salmon City,
is one hundred and sixty-ive miles-while
the distance from Dillon to Gibbonville via
Bannack and the Big Hole Basin is only
eighty-five mics. There is no wagon road
from Salmon City to Gibbonville, dis
tance of forty miles, and it will cost from
$4,000 to $4,000 to build wagon road
over the scraggy cliffs between the two
towns. An expenditure OF $4,000 will put
the proposed Dillon Bannack Gibbonville
road in good condition, and it viii, be of
incalculable benefit to large portion of the
mineral country Of northeastern Idaho, be-
sides it will make Dillon the depot from
which mails and supplies can be sent daily.
It is proposed to put petitions in circula-
ton immediately praying for the establish
ing of daily mail service, SO that the same
may be ordered by the time the road is
ready for travel-say by the middle ofnext
spring. The most influential citizens of
Dillon will head the move here, while Gen.
Ames, of New York, the president of the
6. C. G. NJ. Co. at Gibbonvile and all the
business and mining men Of that place and
the adjoining camps in Idaho will earnestly
labor to secure this daily line. Our Dele
gate, Major Maginnis, and Delegate Sing
hiser, Of Idaho, who are ever wide awake
to the interests Of their constituents, will
lend their influence at Washington to-
ward securing for the people of.a populous
and rapidly growing section Of country
the daily mail line that is so urgently de-
manded and needed.