The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-04-19
Is Weiser to Control Her Tributary
Territory
GATEWAY TO An EMPIRE
But Roads are Necessary to Garner Natures
Riches.

With the opening of the Thunder
Mountain gold fields there Will arise
the problem of means of procuring
wagon roads into that rich country
and on what routes they will he
located Near to Thunder Mountain
is another immens ely rich district
known as Miller Mountain which is
attracting much attention. Both of
these districts will soon yield an i'm
mense traffic and roads from some
railway point must Re had in order
to transport machinery for the mills
that Will soon be extracting the trea-
sures from the mountain sides. The
valuable commerce that will follow
makes the road matter very i'm
portant one to the points that may be
affected by the route first opened.
The question has already found its
way before the public through the
Boise Statesman and Idaho World.
The idaho World publishes an
argument for the construction Of an
expensive bridge across the Payette
river in Boise county and urges that
it becomes more necessary through
the opening of Miller mountain and
those districts. This causes the
Boise Statesman to rem ark as follows:
The Statesman does not know anything
about the foregoing proposition, but it is
well satisfied that improvement and ex-
tension of that road will be of great ben
eft to Boise county and 10 this city One
of the important matters to be taken into
consideration is that of opening a road
into the Thunder Mountain district That
section is certainly destined TO become
very important, Thunder mountain be-
ing in he center of number of rich To-
calities. A company has BEEN organized
to operate at Thunder mountain. 1t an
nounces the purpose of erecting mill
there during the present year. From all
that can be learned the mines owned by
the company fully justify that the mil
be put in very soon.
In order 10 erect a mill in the Thunder
mountain district it will be necessary tt
have road, There are two ways of get
ting IN. One is by building road from
Warren. This would involve the con
struction of long highway through 9
4
through which Thunder mountain may
be approached is by way of the stat,
wagon road through Bear valley. 1t il
said that less than % miles of road build
ing would have to be done to reach th,
district by that route, The rest of tn,
road passes through an open, level coun
try, while there would be two or thre
times as much road to build over tn
other route.
Under these circumstances it would
seem as though the necessary road shoult
be constructed by the Bear valley route
The mining company probably expects t,
do large part of the road building itself
1t would be a great deal cheaper for it t.
build via Bear valley, and if the other 10
calites that will be benefited would Civ
it some assistance IN the matter it coul'
no doubt be induced to select that route
The building of the proposed bridge owe
the Payette is one of the improvement
that should be provided
The only natural gateway to Thund
er Mountain and Miller Mountain i
Weiser These points lie northeas
of here and Boise lies AZ mile
further south than Weiser. From
Weiser there is an ideal route, whicl
will not require over thirty miles o
road construction, with some repai
of intermediate roads for futur
heavy traffic. The route mentione
is, 40 miles from Weiser to Cam
bridge, 2 miles to Salubria, 30 mile
from Salubria via Indian valley an
over the mountain to Van Wyck, 5
miles from Van Wyck up. Big creek
over the divide and down the sout
fork of Salmon to Thunder Mountai
IA total of 127 miles from Weis
er, fully 40 miles better than an
other route. Taking off the fort
miles to Cambridge leaves Thunde
Mountain only 81 miles from rail
road point in Washington county
with Miller Mountain considerabl
nearer. Cambridge is Thunde