Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-28
Clarence Eddy Thinks that the
Thunder Mountain District
Is All Right
HAY BOUGHT AT 5000 A TON.
Glowing Account Of the Outlook In
ldahO's Coming Mining Camp
Some DrOII Features

] think that Roosevelt and the Thuu-
der Mountain country IL all right says
Clarence H. Eddy In the Boise Capital
News. rode through from Custer city
so miles to the southeast, and was not
at Thunder Mountain long enough to
see The mines but learned from relia-
bic men that the Dewey sunnysde and
several others are world-beaters The
ore there Is estimated By the acre It
Is entirely free milling, " goodaverage
grade, With some Of remarkable rIch-
ness saw specimens OF phonolte
with free gold. II win keep thousands
Of men employed and hundreds OF
stamps laundering through several
generations to reduce the ores OF Thun-
der Mountain, as they are now estlmat-
ed by good authority.
From Randals to Roosevelt the
roadside AZ frequent lnteryals Is piled
with excess freight The sum total of
stock employed In trelghtng to Thun-
der Mountain Is estimated 20 exceed
1000 head The price of horse feed Is
almost prohibi,ory 10 me averave
purse, Hay Is 5000 per ton, oats sc
per hundred All vegetables are not
less than 10 cents per pound, owing 20
cost OF transportation The same np-
plies to all commodities except b Of,
which Is driven In on foot and retaIls
at l2is cents. But now that the wagon
road Is completed these prices viii soon
be greatly reduced.
THE FREIGHT BLOCKADE.
The wagon road reached Roosevelt
early IN September ana Ia good
mountain road, free from an rocks and
stumps It's steepest grades are about
70 per cent but Improvements are be-
Ing added. All means for moving
freight are taxed to the utmost and
pack trains are employed In addition
to the wagons,
SUPPLIES ROLLING IN,
From Roosevelt to Boise one meets
many four six and even eight-horse
outfits pulling hay grain and garden
produce toward the Thunder Mountain
market Roosevelt. Is a Mecca for ali
me ranchcrs In a radius OF 100 miles.
from the middle fork OF Salmon river,
which affords the nearest ranch pro-
duce. you VIII and the hardy ranchers
belaborlng burrows and cayuses over 30
miles 81 TRAN TO exchan{e his potatoes
for q wad ot currency from the Sunny
side, Dewey. II. v, etc
BUsTLING BELLECo.
The new town Of Belleoo. on Marble
creek at the lower end Of the sunny
Side tramWay, Is seven miles southeast
Of Roosevelt, over the finest piece OF
graded mountain road In Idaho. Belleco
thus far doesn't cover much ground.
but i Is a beehive OF industry. There Is
more action there to the square inch
than any place ! ever saw. The new
sawmili Is turning out stacks OF clean,
white lumber. Bunk houses. boarding
houses, and the structure OF the great
sunnyslde mill are rising like dreams.
saw men working everywhere cutting
wood, building cabins or loading bur-
ros and mules with timber for the
shafts and tunnels which are being
driven into the great butte known as
Thunder mountain.
1000 MEN AT THUNDER.
Some estimate I 100 men in the Thun.
der country There are % women, but
there seems more .hau that. You may
not see SO many IN the daytime. hut
when night waves her wand over the
town Of Roosevelt, men spring up as II
by magic and the business places are
filled. Every house IN Roosevelt is
business house From end 10 end and
on both sides OF her 200 yards Of street
are stores, saloons, restaurants. lodging
houses and dance halls, with no room
exempt from the hustllng footsteps Of
traffic
TILL 1T TO TEDDY.