Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-06-22
MINES IN IDAHO COUNTY,
1t is Folly to Expect Important Developments
Until Wagon Roads are Built.


had in its last issue valuable article ol
the mining interests of Idaho county il
general and Warrens in particular
which seems to indicate that our Lew
iston neighbors have at last awoke to
realization of the fact that the welfar,
and prosperity of Lewiston is dependen
solely upon the growth and develop
ment of Idaho county. 1t may appear
ungracious on our part to say 30, but il
is the frozen truth that some of the in
habitants of that bnrg formerly evinced
a disposition to sneer at anything and
everything appertaining to Idaho coun-
ty and have never manifested any in
terest in projects that tend to advance
the material progress and prosperity OF
this county. We are therefore douby
delighted to find a more neighborly
feeling growing down there, and we ex-
tend the right hand of brotherhood and
good fellowship to the citizens of our
sister city for their efforts to advertise
and develop our resources, and with the
earnest hope that profitable reciprocal
relations may exist between us forever.
Lewiston is our natural commercial
center, and every stride made by its
tributary towards material prosperity
must necessarily inure to the benefit of
Lewiston. At later date we will re-
produce bro. Leland's able article, but
VI al lind i'm,
and his fellow citizens, both in Lewis
ton aud in this county, that the best
mines in the world are yalueless if they
cannot be got at. This is the trouble
with Warrens to-day. The mines are
there and everybody knows it, and the
one reason why the camp has not de-
veloped is owing to the one fact that it
Is, for quartz mining purposes, practi-
cally inaccessible. Nor can 1t advance
very far towards material prosperity un-
til wagon road is built to it, 80 that
the machinery and appliances used in
the quartz mining industry can be safe
ly, cheaply and expeditiously trans
ported to the mines. 1t has been de-
monstrated over and over again that
the cost of supplies and freight is the
one obstacle to profitable quartz mining
in that camp, and the notable excep-
tions only affirm this general principle.
1t is therefore of the utmost import
ance that a wagon road should be built
into Warrens if the languishing quartz
mining interests of that camp are to be
sustained. We therefore solicit the
earnest cooperation of the citizens of
Lewiston to help forward the move
ment to secure a territoriol appropria-
ton from the legislature next winter
for the purpose of building the propos.
ed wagon road up Salmon river to the
Little Salmon Meadows, from which
point the construction of road into
Warrens can be speedily built with
little help from the counties and parties
interested. With the completion of this
enterprise Warrens will blossom into a
high grade and productive camp, and
hundred quartz mines, and hundreds of
are worthless now, will then have an |
actual money value, and will give en-
ployment to a thousand men. But so
long as the camp remains in its present
isolated and bottled-up condition it will
never materially prosper, while with
the completion of the proposed road it
will be opened up and made accessible
to both sides of the territory, and under
the inspiring influences of cheaper
transportation and competition for its
trade the old camp will take on new
lease of life, and the growth of material
prosperity which will accrue to the camp
and to the surrounding country and
the developments which will be there
by fastened in the mining districts be-
yond will speedily reimburse the terri.
tory for its expenditure. A wagon road
into Warrens will do for that camp lust
what railroad will do for Camas prai-
rie, and every effort that is made to
advance the interests of this countrM
should be directed steadily to that one
aim and purpose, nor should those ef-
forts be relaxed until the end sought to
be attained is successfully accomplished.
Y AT called meeting held in the Hall
on Tuesday the 10Th of June, to take
into consideration the question of fannex-
alton of North Indaho to Washington
Territory, it was resolved unanimously
in favor of annexation, and that call
be made for mass meeting of the voters
Of Idaho county, to meet in Grangeville !
on Tuesday the Goth of June 1888. at
O'Clock p. M, good speakers are ex-
pected to be present.
Two more horses have been found
sb OF to death on the Whita Rird r,noe,