The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-15
EDITOR SILVER MESSENGER

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leading thereto would represent
the spokes %centering to the hub.
Thunder mountain is certainly
the central mining attraction just
now all over the country, and no
doubt will continue to be so for o
long time to come, as it is beyond
peradventure a wonderfully rich
country and of great extent and
one from which as yet no adverse
reports have come. The STAN
pede is on and nothing can stay
it until it has run its course and
served its day and purpose.
There is much great good to
come out of the Thunder noun
tain excitement aside from the
development of that particular
section or district. 1t will be the
means of opening up and bring
within the folds of progress and
civilization that immense stretch
of country in Central Idaho here
tofore known and of record as
the Great UNEMPLOYED, Thereby
affording more opportunities for
the ambitious and industrious
element to acquire homes and oc-
cupation and for the investor
wider fields for his capital. Every
mountain and hill, valley and
gulch, will be exploited and pres
pected for the precious and use
full minerals and metals and all
tillable and stock lands will be
occupied and utilized. Roads
will be constructed to all the
principal camps; good trails will
traverse every section, and in a
very short time the Song of In
dustry will ring out the old and
ring in the new order of things,
and Idaho will be all the bigger
and better for it and the world
will be none the loser by it.
This Thunder mountain country
TO which the eyes of so many
thousands are now turned, is big
enough for us all, for it is at
least 150x100 miles in extent
sufficient in area for a good State
itself if it were down East instead
of out West where a county is
often as large as an ordinary
eastern State. 1t is necessary
that there should be many diff
ferent gateways or entrances
thereto, for the thirty, five or forty
thousand people who will go in
there this season could not find
hoveling or camping room if the
waterways were limited to two
or three. For this reason the
writer can heartily recommend
new airline cutoff as good
and quick as the best, and much
better and quicker than some al
ready well advertised. I will
give some of the good
points of the route and lets-t the
public be the judge as to its
merits or dement's.
OF course, Challis is one great
gateway to the new mining field
through which many will natur-
ally pass, choosing what they
believe to be the best route from
that point. BY our Challis- Yam
kee Fork-Jordan Creek Air Line
Route, one can come up by stage
from Challis to Bonanza and Gus
ter, or over the old road from
Challis to Custer. From mouth
of Jordan between Bonanza and
CUSTER the trail leads over to
Loon creek and on down to Mid
die Fork and over to Thunder
mountain, a route always taken
the early Thunder mountain
prospectors, a number of whom
from Custer were among the
original locators of ground at
Thunder mountain. Now, with
your permission, Mr.. Editor, and
with this brief introduction to
our route. | will give the merits
OF our airline cutoff, making due
allowance, of course, for dips,
spurs and angles and the miner
al variations" hoping that this
route will complete the number
OF "spokes' to the perfect wheel
of routes
This is the route President
Roosevelt will take to Thunder
mountain the coming summer.
He has planned to visit the West
and take in the new mining field
and see his namesake, the boom
town of Roosevelt, and assist
ut the dedication of the new town
ball on the Fourth of July. The
Mountain & Thunder
Long Distance Tele-
phone Co. will string a wire from
Mackay via. Challis, Custer, Bon
snza, Jordan Creek, Loon Creek
md Monumentalville to Thunder
mountain in order to give the
President Observation-Disclosures
his family and the Cabinet
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