Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-11
orEs = RICH SECTION.
a Wagon Is0nd that Ada and Boise
Counties should Build.

The Statesman's correspondent of
this place. Cyclops gives the
following good pointers in regard to
q wagon road from Banner to Dead
wood and Sheep Mountain:
Last week / had something to
say IN regard to the advisabiIity Of
Boise and Ada counties joining hands
and constructing wagon road from
Banner to Deadwood and Sheep
Mountain. Such road could not go
via Cape Horn except by the expend-
iture Of an immense amount OF money,
and would have to pass through the
Warm Spring canyon and Deadman
canyon. The latter fills during the
winter months with snowslides from
100 to $50 feet in depth. Be-
sides not melting away until July,
they would do each year an irrepara-
BILE damage to the road. BY going
from Banner down to the Payette to
the mouth of Clear creek, over which
route the road could be easily graded
with plows, and following up Clear
creek to the head, the expense of
constructing good road would be
small. Two years ago Con Wertz
took pack train of twenty-five ami
mails heavily loaded with supplies for
prospectors at Deadwood from Ban
ner to that place without striking a
pick or shovel into the ground. He
went over the Clear creek route.
Considerable money had been spent
on a trail from Garden valley, and
the money was wasted. A road from
Banner to Bear valley via Deadwood
could be kept open the year round as
easily as from here to Banner, and
would be as direct a route as any
mountain road could be expected to
be. To reach Boise City by the Pay
ette route would be thirty or forty
miles longer. Besides, that route is
one over which many thousands would
have to be expended in getting
through the sixteen miles of gorge
below the mouth of Middle Fork,
nearly every foot of which would have
to be blasted. Were road con-
structed from Banner, one would GER
tainly be run up South Fork to con-
meet it with Garden, Round and
Long valleys. This would make the
great mining sections of Central Ida
no accessible to these valleys, as we'll
as the valleys of Ada county. While
our agricultural sections would be
greatly benefited, BOISE City would
become the depot for machinery and
supplies of all kinds. Each county
would secure her just proportion ol
patronage. Such an equal division
would certainly be beneficial to us
ALL To the furtherance of such an
enterprise we could all afford to con.
tribute money and labor, and would
not hesitate to do it. All that we
need to put the road through and
open up the greatest mining districts
is for the people of Boise City to con
tribute their share. When this i:
done the people of the Basin can
and will, do tie rest. From Banner
to Sheep Mountain the road would be
through continuous belt of gold anC
silver mines which cannot be devel
oped because the prospector canno
sell mines that are inaccessible, anc
he cannot do development work con
tinuously where there is no hope o
getting paid for his expense and la
Dor within few years. The exten
anu TiCUUeSS u tHOSt HiucIai uciu'
no one who has not visited those iso
5 lated districts can realize. They ar,
simply a source of wealth that wher
/. tapped will run out to enrich not onl,
f the immediate vicinity, but the who'll
State. The Wood river people real
ize this fact, aud with their usual Ell
ergy in opening up new districts ant
making them tributary to their owl
I towns, have already reached Cap
:, Horn with wagon road. In shor
!, time it will be continued from ther
to Deadwood. Boise and Ada coun
ties cannot afford to sit idly by an
e watch trade that ought to come t
n them going to Wood river. Bur
should they not get move on them
selves, the folly of tardiness will i
. time be felt to no little extent"
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