The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-07-05
Letter From Correspondent at Thun-
der Mountain.
GOSSIP ABOUT TENDERFEET
Provisions Getting Quite Plentiful in the
Camp.

Thunder Mountain, June g.
There is great excitement here over
a very rich strike near the head of
Trap creek, between Monumental
and West Fork creeks, and about
two and one half miles from this
place The discovery was made by
Mr.. Haggerty on property belonging
to himself and partners. Your cor
respondent has not been on the
claim where the ore was found, but
has seen number of large pieces
Of the rock, and it is literally filled
with free gold. Mr.. Haggerty says
the vein is very large and can be
traced over a mile on the surface
and shows good values wherever
opened up.
Messrs. Hedges and Lawson have
discovered body of phenomenally
rich ore about six miles north of
here. on one of the triL utaries of
Monumental creek. Mr.. Lawson
gave your correspondent a piece of
the ore, which is beautiful white
Quartz and contains Jumps of gold
half as large as grain of wheat
They have several men at work de-
veloping the property The lucky
discoverers came from the Republic
district and brought supplies for
six months campaign and are very
over the future of the
district
Some of our prospectors are hav-
ing fun at the expense OF two ex-
perts (?) named Irione and Wither-
spoon of Colorado Springs, who
have returned to their homes saving
the Thunder Mountain district is a
fake, etc. These gentlemen came
as far as Big creek, over rs miles
from here, where they struck camp,
and Mr.. Wltherspoon stayed there
while Mr.. Irione came in and located
number of claims on Trap creek.
Witherspoon followed later on and
condescended to honor the camp
with his presence for two whole days,
during which time he ''experted"
the entire district, probably 1000
square miles in area. He also cast
one glance at the property located
by Mr.. Irione and said .tantwortha-
dam. That settled it. They al
lowed the location to lapse and the
ground has been e-located by Jas.
+. Jewell and others. And while
they ''trod homeward their weary
way the new locators have opened
up a big body of ore that assays
from SO to $27 per ton.
A number Of Cripple Creek min
ing men have arrived during the
past few days and express them
selves as being well pleased with
what they have seen thus far. They
have too much sense to expect the
snow to assay 20 per cent gold or to
lind nuggets hanging on the trees,
but are willing to work and open up
the bodies of mineral they think ex
isis here. They say the district
shows up better than Cripple creek
did at first.
The city of Thunder Mountain
will celebrate the glorious Fourth.
A mass meeting was held last even
ing and it was unanimously decided
to celebrate, and a committee was
appointed to solicit funds. 1t took
about 10 minutes to raise over $500
FOR prizes, etc. The program will
include horse races, foot races, drill
ling contests and a wrestling match.
A challenge has been issued for
tug of war between this town and
Several large pack trains have
come in during the past few days
and supplies Of all kinds are plenti-
full at reasonable prices. Flour re-
tails at 81 per sack, sugar, beans.
potatoes, rice, oatmeal and corn
meal, rs cents per pound; dried
fruits and canned goods, 80 to 35
cents; tobacco and butter, 81 per
pound; fresh laid eggs 81 per dozen