The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-27

but everybody in Idaho thinks they got
a bargain, and the Caswells are sorry
they sold so cheap. The Sunnyside
claim adjoins the Wisdom property. The
development of both has been so en-
couragfng that when the owners of the
Sunny side approached Messers- Moore
and Campbell, who own nine-sixteentns
of the Wisdom. with an offer of $4,000
it was refused. This was in June. The
stock in none of the properties named is
for sale The money for developing them
is coming out of the pockets of the own
ers- They are not counting publicity
and do not care whether people believe
in Thunder Mountain or not. That IS
why / am telling about them, instead of
the millions in it" crowd, who can't get
the millions out until somebody puts up
the money to do it with.
If this<ne field is anything it will be
big proposition. The county in which
Thunder Mountain is located is larger
than the state of Massachusetts, 1t is
heavily mineralized throughout its
whole area. The Big Creek district,
has attracted many of the large mining
men from Colorado. They are taking
no one into their confidence, but are
spending money hand over fist in find
ing out what is in 1t. 1t looks like bust
ness. Another significant fact is the
prospect of a railroads being built
through the district. The officials OF
the oregon Short Line now have a sur
gone about it on the quiet and no one
knows what their intentions are They
began at Red Rock. on the main line
between Butte and Pocatello, and passed
Salmon City, sixty-eight miles inland
the first of July At that point a num-
Der of new men were hired to go
through to Lewiston. which is on the
Snake river branch of the Short Line.
This route would be about two hundred
miles long and taps the new mineral
district as well a fine lumber country.
The Idaho pine is the standard telegraph
pole of the United States.
The Hon. w. ]. Mcconnell, twice gov
ernor of Idaho, and one of the first
United States senators from this state.
gives this account of the happy termi-
nation of a hard luck story: Several
years ago 1 was introduced to an east
ern woman as L was boarding train
for the west. In the course of the con-
versation which followed she said that
while her husband was in the west sew
eral years previous, he was invited to
spend an evening with some men at a
club. He thought he was in the hands
of good fellows, but changed his mind
the next morning when he discoN erea
that while under the influence of liquor
he had bought 81, 400 worth of mining
stock at four cents a share. Think of
it, said she Indignantly, fourteen hum
dred dollars worth of Accent shares 1
asked her if she rememb ered the name
of the company and she replied that
told me l almost fell off that seat. 1t
was one of the richest properties in the
state, and at the market quotation that
day the stock which her husband had
bought was worth $4,000. When the
truth dawned on her she changed her
opinion of Idaho people, although the
good intentions of the promoters who
sold her husband the Accent shares
might still be questioned by some"
Time was when Boise being way out
west, was easy going and altogether
lacking in class distinction The wife
of the mayor and the head waitress of
the hotel met on terms of equality in
the same quadrille at the weekly bah,
and the young men wore their hats and
smoked as the dance progressed. In
those good old free and easy times if a
girl WINGED when cigar ashes fell on her
bare shoulder it was a, sure sign that
she was not properly broke, and caused
her to be classed as a tenderfoot But
all that has passed. The girls have
been to boarding school, bringing back
with them the mannerisms of the effete
east. 1t was a hard thing to establish
class lines and separate the sheep from
the goats, but half the town now
dances on Tuesday night and the other
half on Thursday.
The board walk and the blue wool
shirt are matters of ancient history in
Boise. 1t has automobiles and Panama
hats and polite Observation-Disclosures
J. Haskin. in Kansas City Star.
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