Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-04-10
IIoe II. Hutchinson Talks.

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Hon. Joe H. Hutchinson, former
lieutenant governor OF Idaho, re-
Gently visited Denver and in an in
terview with representative Of the
Denver Post, expressed himself as /
follows regarding Thunder Noun
tain and the state in general:
"Thunder Mountain gold region
is entirely surrounded by old placer
fields such as the Boise Basin, Stan
lev Basin, Florence, Warrens aud
Lemhi placers. The total output
in gold from these placers in the
past was over $500, 1000, 900. Its
area is 10000 square miles, in
!. which there are to-day less than
900 people. Now place 1000
people in Massachusetts, Connect
. cult and Rhode leland and leave
the possibility there open for in
yes ment to the rest of mankind.
2 and it would look like good place
), to go, wouldn't it7 Yet, from the
IS Bitter Root mountains to Butte,
!. Mont, and form Boise to British
:. Columbia, larger in area than the
9 three New England States, and the
a future possible wealth in Idaho's
% 100 miles square is greater thar the
o. wealth of the three states named.
90 Butte is the copper center, Sho-
50 shone county, Idaho, produces one
60 half Of the lead output Of the United
90 States. The Thunder Mountain
30 region is exactly between the two
20 Take a map, find the 115th merid
20 ian, then the 45th parallel, and the
o. point where they cross is going t.
50 80 be the mecca Of the gold prospect
90 20 ors for 1902.
= Your map will probably SHOW
20 Vinegar bill. This was called Vim
e egar hill because it was at thi
point that Colonel Bernard and Col
% onel Fellows DESTROYED the sheep
, 90 eater Indians in 1872, and the sol
o. diers that were with him were OF
~ top of this little cone surrounded
50 by Indians, and had nothing bu
. vinegar for one week.
81 80 THE gold that is being foun'
4 50 there is evidetly in the last rhyo
4 a lite overflow and there does no
9 y y seem to be any vein place, so ia
0 90 as developed, but the whole sui
6 II ace of the mountain, ranging j
2 y y depth from a featheredge to tn
. 90 deepest point, proven to be 4l6 fet
S Is thick, and for thousands of feet j
9 9 IS IS width. will run all the way frol
- SO to SIS per ton, free milling
,ur e with plenty Of water and WOO
TX. There are series of volcanic CONF
,, WI lying to the north and east of Thur
q 20 der Mountain, Sheep mountain
% 81 Bismark mountain, Etes mountain
IS II etc. In the past great number
! IS lodes of base ores have been foun
8 % in different parts of these cones an
% 81 placer gold in nearly all of Il
No % creeks. The lodes carry silve
81 IS lead, copper, zinc, cinnabar al
"A 81 even tin.
e 50 Remember that the district
u % $50 miles from railioad. 1t b
80 o. cost in the past $50 per ton to G
= I. % % the ores to railroad; then transpc
ii 90 tation and smelter charges to
x W % paid; so that 800 ore in that d
40 % trict would be about the same as
r 81 :" ore in Cripple creek. Now the ra
roads are going to build to the go
fields, and we of Idaho think tn
this new field is going to be
en'' Idaho what Leadville was to Co
over RADIO. Some of the people tt
the were in Cripple creek in 1890 a
of 1892 are to-day Idaho's substant
i, men. Thunder Mountain is prol
49,. bly, going to be Transval. Ida
'h's contains more rivers and wa
than all the other arid states put
cent gether. Monumental creek is lar
put than the Platte. Salmon river
I at any of her three forks is as large
nent the Arkansas at Pueblo. Just
al to fore the main Salmon empties i
allied the Snake it is as large as the
a g. Grande.
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