The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-23

country, anu were ali XOlnS Dack 10
continue prospecting and develop
ment 1t is among the new men OF
the country, the stampeders, where
is heard the adverse criticisms. The
investor or mining man will pay heed
to the real prospector, who at the
expense of much time and hard labor
has made a thorough investigation
of the country, rather than to the
voice of the rabble that follows up
mining strikes promiscuously that
money may be made out of the
"other fellow" If tenderfoot STAN
peders had been listened to and be-
lieved in the past the history of min
ing on the Pacific coast would have
been written differently. In 1852,
on the Isthmus OF Panama, en- route
to the California gold fields, the
writer met many hundreds OF gold
seekers returning home, bearing the
most doleful tales of the lack OF gold
in California. Their slogan: "Turn
back don't 90 on to California;
there's no more gold there; it has all
been dug out, and people there are
starvingl" rang in our ears every
mile of the way across the isthmus.
The production of one and quarter
billion dollars in gold by California
since that day is fact that makes it
difficult for one to understand the
CRY OF the s'knockers" of those early
days. We still have the knockers
with us. AS we climbed the summit
of White Pass in ~ and gazed
off into that great mysterious
country = past the lakes and
and down that river of romance. the
Yukon-the. knocker crept close te
our side and issued his warning cry
d of ssfake", "the country is no good
q etc. Yet one hundred million dol
:. lers worth of new gold has been Civ
) en- to the world by the KIondike ant
J. Alaska since that day in 81, when tn
IT knocker knocked the country on th'
e summit of white Pass. And all tn
J camps that have held the boards dnr
, ing the intermediate days betweel
d California and the Klondike, tn
n Leadville, Butte, the Occur d'Alene
n ETC., ETC., all have had their knock
O ere, and the real mining man ha
J. come to regard their works light,
e and passes on to the investigation o.
: new district regardless of the knocks
given it by the knockers.
, In the case of Thunder Mountain
much is expected of it by reason o
the high reputation Idaho bears as
great mineral producing state. Th'
district, while containing consider
] able promising placer ground,
essentially quartz proposition, an
that. as miners we'll know, is on
that cannot be developed to the valu
determining point by few month
development work But the acti,
tiles inaugurated in developmer
work during the early spring an
this summer, and which will be col
tinued until winter closes in, will
!. far prove the district that SOM
what accurate estimate may be mac
to serve as basis for larger ar
more extensive operations next SCI
!, son.
!, The Dewey MILL the only one
the district, made it's first clean-l
for the season recently after co
tinuous run of seven days. The
=. suit was highly satisfactory. II
result of the late exporting of IL
property has not been make publ
I but it is known around the can
- that duplicates of 165 samples tax
:, by Messrs. Kay and Kerby were r.
at the company's assay office, a.
that the values obtained were mu
higher than the average claimed
~ the former superintendent for t
Tho large body of ore already explore
!. There are several routes by viii
Thunder Mountain can be reacht
:. One of the most inexpensive and
=. rect is over the Oregon Short u
&c and its Oregon Railway & Navigati
Company connections, departing
=, the mines at Weiser, Idaho, owe