Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-01-05
ATLANTA RoAD.-MATr GRAHAM. Of

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Atlanta, aftergiving an account of the
mines, or prospects, Of aSilver Mount
ain district, " heretofore called aSilver
district" points out to Boise City the
advantages to be gained by that place
by the construction Of . wagon road
up Boise river to Atlanta and to said
district. The Statesman says the point
OF divergence for the road to Silver dis
trict would be . short distance above
North Boise, BY which we infer is
meant . short distance above the juno
ton Of North aud Middle Boise.
from the confluence Of these rivers to
point on North Boise directly east
OF Banner is no less than twenty-five
or thirty miles, and over the toughest
kind OF country. Silver district is
northeast of Banner, and sixteen miles
from the latter place. The route is
an easy one over which to construct a
road. This road could be continued on
to Atlanta at very small cost as COM
pared with the expense of putting a
road up Middle Boise to Atlanta. It is
a mystery to every body acquainted
with the two routes, why the Boise
ties favor the Middle Boise route.
The lowest estimate of the cost of
the road up this river is $4,000, and
any one that puts the figures that
low, and has been up that river, knows
nothing at all of the cost of road
building along mountains of rock,
and the cost of bridge building.
Men of good judgment estimate the
cost of this proposed road at from
100000 to 100000. One hundred
thousand is low estimate. Why
do the people OF Boise City scott at
the idea of putting road through
from Banner to Atlanta? 1t is the
best and far the cheapest, and the
road could be travelled at all seasons
of the year. Heretofore the ssdeep
snow on the Moore Creek Summit"
has been the great drawback to this
route, as far as Boise City was con-
cerned. We will inform the Boise
people that there is but very little
difficulty in keeping the road open
for travel from here to Banner, and
will henceforth be kept open by the
travel between this place and that.
Nose Kempner, with his little sleigh
and two mules, is now hahling pass
engers and freight from this place to
Banner and vice versa, and intends
to keep the road open all winter.
He made the attempt two years ago,
but failed for the reason that that
was the toughest winter for travel
since 1864, the snow being the deep
est since that time, and notwithstand-
ing the great depth of snow, Nose
would have travelled the road all
winter with his sleigh if he had been
prepared by having feed at stations
along the route. The worst part of
the route from Boise City to Atlanta
via Idaho City is from here to Banner,
and the travel between these two
places alone will keep this part of
the road broke. The distance, by
way of this place is longer than up
Boise river we admit, but the adj
vantages of this route over that far
more than compensate for the differ
ence in distance, which is no great
difference. 1t seems that Boise City
fears that this section will be bene-
fitted if the travel from the capital
to Atlanta comes through here. Boise
CITY should remember that she owes
the greatest part of her prosperity to
Boise county, and that now, as in