Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-03

"''Soh arrived here Friday from AL
'uras county. The Bunch bows left
o''Ver District week ago last Fri.
aay Tor Rocky Bar. They went via
Atlanta On leaving Rocky Bar
they went via Pine Grove and took
the cars at Mountain Home for Boise
City. About forty men are EMPLOYED
In the mines at Atlanta, and work
Will start in another mine there in
hve or six weeks. There are about
1orty IDLE men in Rocky Bar, and the
boys met twenty-five or thirty men
gong in to swell the ranks of the un-
employed. 1t will be two months be.
fore wagons can go over the road
from Mountain Home to the Bar
There are about twelve men at Pine
Grove, the new district twenty miles
from the Bar. Work will soon COM
mence on boarding house there.
The party that went from Silver Dis.
trict to Atlanta-seven of tbem-had
a rough and perilous trip. One of
the party, Mike Shay, took a slide
down a steep mountain, and but for
tree that stopped his downward ca
reer, he would have slid and tumbled
into the beautiful beyond. The snow
was so hard on this mountain that
the men couldn't get foothold.
Mr.. Shay began to slide, but before
he reached the tree, was bouncing in
to the air like a rubber ball. The
boys saw him strike, and OF course
thought that he was killed, and in
stantly, as he struck the tree with
terrific force. The men on the side
of the mountain were then in a fix.
They thought to turn back and reach
Shay by some other route, but this
they found they could not do, the
mountain being so steep and slippery
that it was impossible to turn without
losing what little foothold they had,
and following the perilous route un-
premeditatedly taken by Shay. The
| boys then CONCEIVED the idea of
punching footholds in the snow with
the ends of their snowshoes, and by
this means managed to slowly work
their way down to Mr.. Shay, who was
safely anchored at the tree about one
hundred yards below the starting
point. Mr.. Shay had a roll of blank
cts on his back, which saved his life,
the blankets striking the tree. If it
hadn't been for this tree Mr.. Shay
would have slid, plunged, and roll
ed and tumbled with lightning speed
to the foot of the mountain, distance
of about mile, and before his body
would have been near the bottom his
soul would have been winging its
flight to that mystic land across the
odark river" After reaching Shay
the party was three hours getting out
of this perilous locality. They cut
footholds with a Ratchet, and got out
without any further adventure. Mr..
Shay was caught by two snowslides
on the trip from Atlanta to Silver
about the first of last month, but
luckily was not hurt. 1t was
new snow that slid, and being light
and not sliding any great distance
did not carry much weight of the
beautiful. The boys saw an ibex or
the way from Silver District to AT
!. lanta. and Sylvester and the anima
had quite race Syl managed t'
get within two or three feet of him
but didn't succeed in laying hands OIL
him. When the ibex started up
mountain Syl gave up the chase
waved his hand and bade Mr.. lbex
"fare We well brother Watkins" AM
the party watched the animal climb
rugged mountain for distance o
two miles.
, THE following, written by a ma
who arrived the other day from Rock
e Bar, was handed to us for publication
"MR. EDITOR: In reply to an ad
( yertisement l noticed some days az
=; r.rard tn men being wanted l