Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1902-02-13
THE ROUTE ESTABLISHED
The Travel to Thunder Mountain Will
be Via GranseYille.
MANY PEOPLE LEAVING HERE DAILY
The Entire Distance can be Made
With Horses and Pack Animals.

III view VI tuc luCICdSAHS duiOuhV
of travel from Grangeville over
the Grangeville- Florence Warrens
route the business men of the city
this week decided on sending out
Tom Watson and Sam Elkins to
cut out the fallen timber on the
road in the vicinity Of Fall creek,
and incidentally to see that the
road is well-broken, after the re-
cent storms, to a connection with
the road coming in from the south
over the Secesh summit.
The outfit started yesterday at
noon with horses and teams.
They also, took along a.party of
mining men who are all bound to
the new Eldorado in Thunder
Mountain, and will go in as far as
Florence by team, and from thence
will each pull a toboggan with 100
pounds Of grub and camp outfit in
to the new camp. The following
gentlemen comprised the party:
G. W. Perry, late engineer at the
Dewey mine; Andy Powelson,
miner at the Dewey; Mr.. Elliott
late blacksmith at the Dewey
mine; w. p. Palmer, = Lewis,
J. NJ. Mcleod, G. A. Downing,
Tom Luellen, Tom Walton and r.
D. Almond. These gentlemen
have been prospecting and mining
in this country for several years
past and know the mountains and
all the routes into and out of the
Thunder Mountain country better
than anybody who has never been
there can show them, and when
they decide that the Grangeville-
Florence Warrens state wagon
road is the only one worth con-
sidering and show their faith by
taking it themselves, it speakes
volumes for the route in question.
There was also in. the city this
week a gentleman from Butte
named w. w. Livermore who says
that the situation is thoroughly
understood all over Montana, and
that ninety per cent. Of the travel
from that state into Thunder
Mountain will adopt and follow
the Grangeville route. He says
that too many mining men from
that state have been into this Sec
ton and know the conditions toe
we'll to be led astray into new and
untried and in some cases unbuilt
routes, by boomers who are more
anxious to make money than tc
tell the truth. At Grangeville
there is a good state Wagon
road running direct south into
Warrens for distance of 80 miles,
and the trail from Warrens into
the new camp is being Travelled
every day and is in shape for pacl
animals now. Moreover, tn,
question of outfitting is a very ser
ious one to the practical minin,
man, who wants to take along a
little freight as possible, and Mr.
Livermore very truthfully re
marked that in Grangeville the in
] tending outiitter can buy ever,
I thing needed in any mining CAM
except stamp mills; all OF whicl
, is quite true. Mr.. Livermore say
that these conditions are quite we
i understood all through Montana
} and practically all the travel wi
come into Grangeville to. do thei
outfitting and make the town thei
point of departure and base of SUI
plies for the new Eldorado. l
: Grangeville they will also fin
: banks in which to deposit thei
money and take in certificates I
y deposit or checks, which they ca
n cash anywhere in the state will
: out discount, which is in itself a
object not to be despised whe
e people expect to remain in til
t mountains in new country a
n summer long, and do not want
j. be weighted down with coin, or
carry around valuable greenback
Such are the views of an abs
lutely disinterested person residil
in another state, who has no axe
grind, who is thoroughly converse
Is with the mining industry al
y knows whereof he speaks
se Tenderfeet may be misle
IS but no man having actual know
edge of the conditions as they ex
today will be led astray, but W
o. tie up to the Grangeville route ,
the state wagon road to Warrel
a over a route which has be
travelled every day during I
present winter.
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