Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-08-15

- u ~ ~ Atlanta IS lull OF inter-
est as reminiscent of early days and
as disclosure of the activity of the
present. The dis tance from Noun
tain Home to Atlanta is 80 miles.
the route being via Camas creek,
Pine, Featherville and Rocky Bar.
At Camas creek crossing is the old
Bailey ranch, now wned by Gar
rett and associates of Mountain
Home. A few miles down this
creek is the dam which impounds a
large area of water This expan-
sion in the creek is now called
Camas lake, which outlets through
a mountain tunnel into Long Tom
reservoir, thence through a canal
into Mountain Home reservoir,
forming an irrigatiDg system for
the land in the vicinity of Mountain
Home.
Pine is on the south fork of the
Boise river and is trading point
for a mining, ranch and timber
country. The Franklin mine and
mill are located here, which are
owned by r. P. Chattin of Noun
tain Home, c. L. Hopkins being in
direct charge. This is the only
producing mine in this vicinity,
though there are many prospects,
some of which look well. En- route
from Pine to Rocky Bar are many
ranches and few sawmills ir
the valley of the south fork, witt
tents of campers and cabins of pros.
pectors that show the country is
alive in the summer season witt
people who fish and hunt and ex
plore and enjoy rest and shade ano
isolation. Tie south Boise stream
has its source in the snowy basin:
and timbered recesses of the Saw
tooth range. Its course is marked
by a narrow valley and a generous
growth of pine and fir trees. Man.
tributaries flow into the mali
stream from both sides, cutting
their way through the rocks, expos
ing to the observant prospector th'
character of the formation and it
naturalization. From Pine to ROCK,
Bar we pass Junction Bar, whel'
there is some interest in placer dig
gings. This is where Feather rive
flows into the south Boise.
The route takes us up the torme
stream to the town of Rocky Bar
with its rows of old buildings, erec
ted 40 years ago, when placer min
ing there was at it's height anC
where lode mines we're subse
quentN worked. Activity at Rock,
Bar was contemporaneous with tn
activities At Florence, Warren ant
Boise basin. To pc convinced tina
Rocky Bar has seen strenuous day
and lurid nights one has only I
take a view of the havoc the ny
draulic giants and elevators nav
made in this historic gulch- n
material from surface to bed-roc
has been washed and jigged an
sifted till there remains only grea
drifts of coarse gravel which tn
sand carried down through tn
SluICeWaVS- bul pidOOA SfO' 49,
have ceased and perhaps not a doze
men are employed in the quart
mines. including the Elmore, Id
and Pittsburg. But this is day {
the revival of old diggings and III
rehabilitation of old mines and
..hope springs eternal in the du
lest camp, there is a prospect th'
Rocky Bar will regain her form'
activity. it being generally conceds
that the rich veins of mineral al
here. AS it now is, the travel
arrives here at night and leaves
the morning as he makes his way
or from Atlanta.
Between Rocky Bar and Allan
is mountain range that separat
the south fork of the Boise Nv
from the middle fork. The ROT
traversing this stretch of 10 mil
between the two points named
rocky and steep. The summit b
tween them is at an altitude Of pc
haps 5000 feet and here the dep
of sncw IN winter is such as
make wagon hau1age usually impo
sible from January 10 July Is
This fact makes it essential tn
winter supplies be laid in befo
travel over the summit is cut off