The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-07-05
representative of Salt Lake Tripuhe
Tells Facts About Thunder.
WILL Be A. GREAT CAMP
Immense Bodies of Good Ore In the Dlstrlct
-Prospectors Making New Strikes.

The Salt Lake Tribune has spec
ial representative in Thunder Noun
tain and that paper of last Monday
contains comprehensive two col
umn article written from the camp
on June Oath, which gives a very
liberal and comprehensive resume Of
the conditions in the district. The
Tribune representative is convinced
that central Idaho is an immense
mining district. Among other
things the correspondent says:
In many respects the Thunder noun
tain boom is like others OF similar
character that have preceded it In dif-
ferent parts of the West. Many men
who spent from four to six weeks on the
trail wallowing in the snow and mud
and undergoing all the hardships Incl
dent to pioneer life, came up Monu-
| mental creek took rubber" at the
west side Of Thunder mountain and af-
ter learning that all the ground in the
vicinity of the Dewey mines was staked
X inquired about the other trails and at
ward march. cursing the country in gem
eral. the newspapers and Col. Dewey in
particular. Scores have gone out giving
| the country black eye who were never
hundred yards from the trail except,
perhaps. to hunt their horses or to get a
Shot at deer. Many started in with
only month or six weeks supply oi
PROVISIONS and without money expecting
to make the journey. an everlasting
fortune and get back home in time tt
celebrate the Fourth of July.
MERITS OF CAMP.
1t is altogether too early to give III
estimate of the real merits Of Thunde
mountain as mining camp. Its isola
tion and inaccessibility will necessaril,
retard development work, as no ma
chinery can be transported here at pres
ent except on pack animals over NOR
than hundred miles of very bad noun
tain trail. That there is vast deposi
of low-grade, free milling gold ore i
Thunder mountain is fact beyond dis
pute and is patent even to the causs
observer
WHAT DEWEY PROPERTY COVERS.
The Dewey property embraces grou
of twenty claims on Thunder mountai
lying contiguous and covering an area {
approximately four hundred arces. O
one of these claims, high up on II
and at this point all of the actual deye
opment work has been done. At tn
tunnel site the hill is laid bare and a
immense face of porphyry intersperst
with quartz, and nearly white in colo
is exposed to view, This is the go
bearing rock of Thunder mountain
The Dewey company has purchased
hundred-stamp mill which will be p
I'm place as soon as wagon road can
n fhA &,t~.
parties have contributed S17, 500 towar
thls road and it is expected that by Au
uSt lst it will be completed.
Ihere are hundred or more clair
on Ihunder mountain that show t
alne character of rock as the Dewey b
are not mlneralized to the same extent.
DEVELOPING CLAIMS
DeVelopment work on the princiI
e'alms ON the mountain will begin in
lew iew days Nothing has been done so
VI o,iis season by reason of the i'm possibili
a. oolalnlng supplies at reasonat
nsure; Flour is now selling at $S +
sack oacon at 30 cents, sugar 25 Gel
anu other articles in proportion. Pat
ers want twenty cents per pound
oringing provisions from the varlo
points of supply
SUPPLIES ARRIVE.
me new superintendent of the Dew
~ ni'nes arrived yesterday and today I
Iompanys pack train of fifty mu
iTaueu 0Iau with ten thousand pounds of 81
ples came In over the Bear valley tr
aio aioh Boise. A large number of min
S a,so accompanied the outfit. 1t is sta
in here that the Sunnyside company ha
aa,ge outfit on the trail and that work
. iarge scale will begin upon it's arriv
=, NO ACTS OF LAwLEssNEss.
many locations are being made
msrole, Smith, Copper, Big and Tr
, per creeks, all Of which are within a
,as s Vi ten miles from Thunder MOI
Iaa Iaau' There have been no acts of la
,e'Sness reported up to date and one
c. g. sate here in person and property as
oat Lake City.
views from the outside is decide
bisaarce, the latest daily paper In ca
oeing The issue of June 10th. Mail
uarried from here to Warren and Ket
san n,, the nearest offices. by special m
tbnsers' the townste companies bear
fo fae expense. The carriers travel
uo, nv, and are from eight to ten days
''Aihg the round trip.
GREAT MINING CAMP.
Alter careful survey of the situat
uere The Tribune correspondent is
'ue opinion that Thunder mountain ,