The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-02-26
THE STAMPEDE FOR GOLD.
Tremendous Rush to Thunder Noun
tain Anticipated.

Tremendous Rush to Thunder Noun
tain Anticipated.
Several Butte men started out a
week ago to lead the stampede into
the Thunder Mountain country of
Idaho and to get there if possible be-
fore the spring rush begins. In the
party is Colonel Brown the famous
stampeder, who is going into Thun-
der Mountain over the Boise route
He has been investigating the differ.
ent routs and the many stories told
of the new district and writes as fol-
lows to the Standard from Nampa:
"One can hear of nothing but Thun-
der Mountain and Its wonderful
wealth. The fact is, so far as | can
| learn the ore in the new gold field is
not as rich as people are led to be-
lieve. 1t is low grade proposition,
but with an unlimited quantity in
sight. The country is an i'm
mense mineral zone containing gold
in paying quantities similar to the
famous Treadwell, in Alaska, only
there are greater quantities of it and
richer in quality. Colonel Dewey of
Nampa erected a 10-stamp mill on
his property there during the winter,
from which a satisfactory product is
being produced.
Most of the mines are located
in an almost inaccessible part of the
country at this time of the year, and
they can be reached only by severe
hardships. Believing that there is to
be an immense stampede when the
weather will permit, the several
points, both in Montana and Idaho,
are preparing to handle the throng.
There are five different routes by
which the mines can be reached, but
the one most accessible at this time
is by way of Shoshone, in Idaho, and
Bedrock, in Montana, but the one
that promises to be the most travelled
and better patronized is that one
along Colonel Dewey's Idaho North
err railroad, beginning at Nampa and
running to Emmett, the present ter
minus, but which will eventually be
pushed to the Thunder Mountain
mines and thence on to Butte.
There is but little travel into the
Thunder Mountain region at this
time. Food is high and it costs six
cents a pound to pack it in, and when
it reaches it's destination it is priced
more than it's weight in gold. There
are a great number of people in there
now and many locations are being
| IO;1 he al md
corder for filing Capitalists all over
the country and others whose faith
was aroused by the first reports out
of the country, grub staked prospec-
tors early in the fall and they nave
made numerous locations, from which
some of them have realized hand
somely.
The country is extensive and
there is lots of ground that can be
located even long after the rush be-
gins, but those who are there now
are determined to locate all of what
they believe to be the best, before
others have a chance in the spring.
There is considerable danger expert
enced by trying to go in at this time.
Two men from Boise lost their lives
by encountering snow slides and be-
ing dashed to death in the canyons
below.
r From what we can learn there is
but one saloon in the Thunder Noun
tain country at present and the pro-
prietor is coming minis of money
The price of Gag" is out of reach
r of the ordinary man.
r There is talk of townsites of all
8 kinds everywhere. The Thunder
: Dewey is the head, has not selected
: the site yet, but it probably will be in
a the near vicinity of where it contem
h plates building it's 100-stamp mill
The townsite of Roosevelt is not
near enough to the objective point
: 1t is in the vicinity of the mines, but
n from what is learned the lots are be
ing sold solely for speculative pur
n poses, and to make as much out oil
them as possible fore the promoters
50 before the permanent site will be de
II termined and established.
/, Fabulous tales of riches are being
r circulated about the country to hell
r, dispose of the townsite properties
The spring rush promises to be &
stampede never before witnessed
t. either in this or in any other coun
1, try. The, gold rush during the pic
a neer days of California promises II
be repeated with vengeance. 1
will be Thunder Mountain or bust,
W and in many instances the colder
t dreams of avarice will not be real