Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-11-22

vi ihe Proposed Railroad from
Junction Bar to the Seven
Devils Mines.

/ ""Sta fASSSu any
where for variety and grandeur Of
scenery, with a country Astounding
with game Of all kinds, the noun
tain streams aud lakes affording
trout, reddish and salmon, with q
climate considered by all travellers
coming from other places unequaled
anywhere. II affords to the sports
man, tourist and person seeking to
restore health and strength to a
broken and shattered constitution
inducements in climate, pure air
and water, hunting, fishing, etc,
second to no part Of the world.
Passing through Garden Valley
Round Valley, Long Valley, Salmon
Meadows and Prices Valley, with a
number Of smaller tributary valleys
that would naturally seek an outlet
for their products by this road. you
have about one million acres Of the
richest kind Of prairie land capable
of producing wheat, barley, oats,
rye, timothy, clover, alfalfa, pota-
toes, onions, peas, beets and all
other garden vegetables in quality
and quantity commanding admira-
ton and surprise from all who have
seen the production. As for pota-
toes grown in these mountain val
leys, where the soil is always moist
ened by the innumerable mountain
streams, they are superior in quality
and produce more largely than any
known section Of country.
Another industry which will pay
well in these alluvial valleys will be
hop growing, which has already
been tried on a small scale and the
yield has been found to be double
that Of the hop districts in the east
and the quality A No. /. command
ing the best price in market.
With the encouragement offered
by near railroad travel it is esti-
mated that these valleys in q few
years would be all settled by agri-
culturists and farmers; the rolling
foothills and smaller valleys with
cattle ranges and every inch of this
soil made to produce its pro rata for
the benefit Of mankind, as nature
intended it should do. 1t would be
perfectly safe to calculate that the
production in cattle and produce of
various kinds from these valleys
alone would in a few years amount
to sixty carloads daily for shipment.
Already the hardy American pioneer
is at work in these PARKWAY noun.
tain valleys, and he will hail with
JOY the coming of the railroad, which
means prosperity and comfort for
himself, his children AID his neigh
bors.
The lumber resources of this part
of Idaho are practically inexhausti-
BILE, SO that you need not calculate
upon q limited supply, but rather
where can be found a larger market.
Immense stretches of forests cross
this road from north to south with
the intervening valleys) containing
some Of the finest timber in the
world, and IL met with from the
time you leave Junction Bar until
you strike the Seven Devils country.
where the immense forests show a
growth of timber equaled only by
the grandeur of the mountains and
the immensity OF the mineral de-
posits found there. The principal
growth are pine. fir and tamarack.
With the various mountain streams
running through these forests, af-
fording as they do the tributaries
upon which to convey your timber
to the mill. and at the same time
affording the cheap power with
which to work the timber into mark
etable lumber, with q railroad near
by 10 bring this lumber to the coun-
try south Of us, where they are
starving for this same material, and
every year demanding more, 1t does
seem that this one industry alone
could more than support railroad
in few short years.
The mining districts on this route
which would become tributary to
this road would be the Bascom dis
trict, including Shake creek and
Pine Grove, Rocky Bar, including
the Bonaparte, Ophir and Wide
West mines; Atlanta, with its inn
mense gold and silver lodes, which
the late experiments of Mr.. Charles
LANCE has demonstrated that the
ores can be successfully and profit
ably concentrated.
Silver Mountain, on the North
Fork of the Boise river, would be
only IL miles distant.
Banner, Forest City, Gold Hill.
Idaho City. Centerville. Placerv:lle.
Quartzburg. are all on the line.
Then. further north, Squaw Greek,
Lake City and Warrens. The latter
place is now being connected by
good wagon road with Salmon
Meadows.
Lastly, and grandest of all, is the
Seven DEVILS mining ennnfrv. which