The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-19
ROAD To GOLD
FIELD Is OPEN
Salmon City Route to Thunder
Mountain is Ready.
FIRST IN SHAPE FOR TRAVEL
HUsTLING TOWN OF LEMHT
COUNTY DISTANCES RIVALS.

uns of travel they expect to pour in
that way The people Of Salmon City
70 NOT waiting. however. They are now
on. to solicit travel over their ruote.
A. the FIRST step i'm that direction
trrtd has been esta blishcd in Salt Lake
CITY
q. vs.. WaIsen. chairman @ +he COM
mittea of publicity arrived yeLterday.
repr. -.utiug also the Thunder moun-
t4in executive committee of which
William Anderson president of the
lizard of county commissioners. Is
chairman. 40 effort is being made
10 exploit Jhe Thunder mountain dis
tIirt because It's possibilities are al
ready known throughout America. All
energies are being directed toward
beading travel over the route from Red
Rock Mont by way of Salmon City
end Siugiser. in order to prevent gold
seekers from meeting with discourage
melt and delay.
Travel Already Started.
People are already pouring into the
district popularity supposed to be
studded with free gold. and a trenen-
dous rush is expected in the spring.
Salmon city mas determined to become
the metropolis of the new gold fields.
and as result a large amount II
money has been spent in opening up
wagon road and i'm advertising. While
other communities have been making
plans the leading spirits Of Salmon
City have completed their road. and
are now bidding for travel.
A stage line is now in operation
of
tain. telephone cCmmun' cation is now
possible Within sixty miles OF that land
OF promise. and freight may be carried
IN as far as Three Forks. near Thunuer
mountain. without resOrting to the use
Of pack trains. In a short time it can
BE- ctrried on wagons the entire dis
lance Bridges are being Quilt in an
ucipatiOu of the high water that fol-
WIS the spring thaWs. and the Salmon
City route is in a fair way to capture
the greater part of the business that.
viii follow the opening of the district
o. mining operations.
Salmon City Energetic.
The efforts Of little Salmon CITY TO
become @ great mining center COnsti-
tute a story replete with interest. When
The secret Of the i'm -1ense wealth Of
Thunder mountain became known the
town was a hustling mining center
siXty-iive miles from a railroad. Stage
tommunication-perhaps the best in the
r0untry-WaS maintained and the COM
munity was supported by the produce
tive miges and by the rich agricultural
land close ut hand Then came the
word that new Eldorado had been
discovered, a veritable land Of promise.
Salmon City was seized with an ambi-
ton % become a commercial center.
committees were organized. funds
iaisea and organized efforts instituted
10 divert an travel to the sold fields
that way
Salmon City had been favored bv
nature in that connection. The natural
advantages were seized upon BIZ the
hIsiiing Wide-dwake townsmen. As
result wagon road now awaits the
aigonaut-a road that can be travelled
DIP summt' or winter. and the only
route open at this time. Bridges are
oslng constructed where they are
needed to facilitate travel. ana gold
S'tArit are now making their way to
ue treasure fields without difficulty.
Three Days For the Trip.
salmon City was not destined to So
cure the Thunder mountain travel
Witho9t opposition. The citizens an
ucipdtet that condition. ana arose to
lhe occasion. Excellent as was the
Stage system, Improvements were in
uodute !. =. W. NOgler. the mana ger.
started out ON tour seeking Tor hints
anu suggestions. The result was the
Importation uf new coaches. the addi-
u'n %. horses. the introduction OF new
'aunI stations similar To those in
8Hel by railroad companies. The
tHt Was extended from Salmon CITY
wi through the hills 90 the gold coun-
Vs. Today arEOnauts can be landed
' iIu11er mountain five days from
1 .I'he jney leave the railroad at Red
.".N tn summer the time can be cur
.NIee days, including stops for meals
a1d sleep
10 order to make this possible. roads
Too Doe built and streams bridgad.
''' spirit did these things while
" CITIES were engaged i'm devisinr
.S ana means. Thousands of dollars
sea Tor That purpose and when
."-1 was completed additional
s were raised TO advertise the sit
survey was made and a
f repaired $1,000 copies of witch
' sent nut by the citizens commit
.fTman q. ". Walsen Of the
on advertising and Chair
".Htm Anderson Of the exec,l-
81, '.H5I'Fe 1ro receiving daily sp-
Tor the map. Individual
W.n RAILROADS. and other cor
sent out many thousand
newspaper space i'm the lead
-.tHr'S of the mining states
''.H..y purchased.
Big Stocks Of Merchandise
AS RESULT Salmon city is now cx-
I'a.H. a boom ami bids fair ro no
. -."tt Quitting center. Mer-
OBJ. Che town have 81 COO GOO i'm
..' H stocks. and only last week
'-...-u- house ordered an entire
..a saddles Parties are form
H. colorado. I'm Ctan. Montana
and more distant states no
.0at route. and the commit
buried under am avalanche of
from ul parts of the country.
Ions are that every dollar suen+
tale. -''U III lhe way oil
w" work is completed said Mr.
last evening. Salmon Cit,
r.r. reap the hdryests due her cit
.a.-. .'. their enterprise. while rival
tt ... wondering how 70 cauture
ths a. The salmon Citv route is
Jain I"Eigai one 10 Tunder noun
Ert leaving The railroad at Red
rs an excellent stage service car
fq, ~. across t' salmon city i'm one
I.. .'in there the ~7-te is To Lees
u--r .-leen miles. To- California Raf
frs ..., .5e mites. thence to Leacocks
P-s..t.- Lr'm there 10 the mouth of
ma .' creek six miles: 20 Fornev
rf,s. .''.ss' thence 10 Singiser. twelve
a-5 l' Three Forks. eight miles
ff,,. ron. -.. there 20 Thunder mountain
from 't ~, making total Of 10 miles
lhe railroad.