The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-03-20
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Build WeiSer'S New Railroad

gion is entirely Surrounded by old
placer fields, such as Boise Basin,
Stanley Basin, Florence, Warrens
and Lemhi placers. The total out
put in gold from these placers in the
past was over $500, 900, 900. Its
area is 10, 900 square miles, in which
there are today less than 1000 peo-
pie. Now place 1000 people in
Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island and leave the possibil-
ity there open for investment to the
rest of mankind, and it would look
like good place to go, wouldn't it?
Yet, from the Bitter Root mountains
to Butte, Mont, and from Boise to
British Columbia, is larger in area
than the three New England States,
and the future possible wealth In
Idaho's 100 miles square is greater
than the possible wealth Of the three
states named.
"Butte Is the copper center. Sho-
shone county, Idaho, produces ope-
half of the lead output OF the
United States. The Thunder Noun
tain region is exactly between the
two. Take map, find the 115th
meridian, then the forty-fifth paral-
lei, and the point where they cross
is going to be the mecca of the gold
prospectors for 1902.
Your map will probably show Vine
gar hill. This was called Vinegar
hill because it was at this point that
Colonel Bernard and Colonel Fellows
destroyed the sheep eater Indians in
1872, and the soldiers that we're with
him we're on top of this little cone
} surrounded by Indians, and had
nothing but vinegar for one week.
l The gold that is being found there
is evidently in the last rhyolite over
, flow, and there does not seem to be
any vein in place, 80 far as developed,
) but the whole surface of the noun
!, tam, ranging in depth from feather
edge to the deepest point, proven tt
be 4I6 feet thick, and for thousandl
!, of feet in width, will run all the
1, way from SO to $15 per ton, fre'
milling, with plenty of water ant
wood. There are series of volcanic
cones lying to the north and east 0
Thunder mountain, Sheep mountain
= Bismark mountsin, Estes mountain
etc. In the past great number o
lodes of base ores have been foun
in different parts of these cones an
N placer gold in nearly all of the creeks
~ The lodes carry silver, lead, copper
zinc, cinnabar and even tin.
"Remember that the district
$50 miles from railroad. 1t ha
he cost in the past $50 per ton to g
tue ores to the railroad; then tram
portation and smelter charges to
paid; so that 800 ore in that di
trict would be about the same as I
10 Iore in Cripple creek. Now the raj
!. \ roads are going to build to the go
Il fields, and we of Idaho think tn
/ this new field is going to be for ldai
: what Leadvllle was to Colorad
- &ome people that were in Cripp
creek in 1890 and 1892 are tod'
80 Idaho's very substantial men. Thu
der Mountain is probably going
:. be Transvaal, but you cannot
= in there until the latter part of M
!. at the earliest, on account of snt
=, and swollen rivers. Idaho contai
more rivers and water than all
~ Mother arid states put together. Nc
!. umental creek is larger than
- Platte. Salmon river in any of
~ three forks is as large as the Ark
"a sas river at Pueblo. just before
-. main Salmon empties into the Sn'
river it is as large as the Rio Gran