The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-07-05
PRESS CLUB AT MAtJKAi,

CONTINUED from las week.
| Mackay is ore of the few town
where the women have Q club with q
club house of their own, ard When
the Press Club arrived in town thcy
were entertained at the club house
with most elaborate feast. Attor-
ney Ambrose gave an address chat
was full of hits on the printing bust
ness, and responses were made by
president w. s. Hill and Secretary J
w. Jones.
During the part of the afternoon
and evening that was not occupied
otherwise the guests were entertained
at the homes of Editor L. e. Dilling-
ham and Mr.. J. Fl. Greene.
Monday morning the Press party
was served with trout breakfast at
six O'Clock and then went to the snelt
err at the foot of the mountain half
mile away, where they were loaded
upon oar cars for the trip up the
| moutain, distance of some four
miles by direct route but about ten
miles by the serpentine road. Planks
were mailed across the tops of the
cars, and the guests had full views
In all directions as the shay engine
with the strong side gearing that al
ways looks so busy, crept in and out
among the hills and ravines and al
ong the cliffs among the pines. Wild
flowers and shrubs, birds, squirrels,
and chipmonks, and the great expanse
OF valley spread panorama below,
Ranked with snowy peaks fringed
with pine and mountain maghogany,
the fine clear morning combined to
make the trip round of delight.
The elevation of the smelter is
about 5000 feet and the top of the
peak where the party took dinner
is $500. The railroad extends with.
in few hundred feet of the summit,
where great ore bins roar with the
cars of copper ore being dumped in
from the tramway and other work.
ings that thread the upper part of
the mountain.
There are about one hundred men
in at work for the Empire Copper
Company, in charge of Supt. Ralph
Osborn, and a number of contractors
are working leases. Among the OPP
orators there we noticed Robert Her
man, former Blackfoot man, taking
out ore that assayed better than six
ty percent copper, and he says he is
making some money Ramey How
ell, another Blackfoot of the long
ago, Roy Quinn, Will Bascom, H.
A. Johnson. Harry Hunter, VIM.
all are working on their
own claims and taking out rich, ore. |
Frank Leland is the general mama
ger and looks after matters from the
down. Harry Hunter operates a
big boarding house on top of the
peak where one can sit at table
and look over the valley $500 to s.
900 feet below where it is checkered
with fine farms and bright streams.
Here the hungry visitors were seat
ed to a fine Missouri Dinner" and
were then ushered out over or
through the underground workings
as they chose. Some went down
over the slope and others descended
shafts and came out by the tunnels.
When the party reached the smelt-
or again they were taken to the
Mackay Dam, and here permit us to
Use the words of L. Bush Livermore,
editor of the Pocatello Tribune who
has told the story so we'll
The Mackay Dam.
Returning over the scenic road from
The mines, the newspaper men and
heir ladies were loaded into autos
md buses and driven three miles
Up the valley to point where the
canyon narrows. Here is located the
constructed dam of the Los,
River irrigation project-"the DAM"
IS one Of the pencil pushers expressed
t. that defeated Governor Brady
A newspaperman is supposed to
lave a smattering Of knowledge Of all
ubjects, from the binominal theorum
o the Whynotness of the Whichaint.
he is therefore capable of expressing
IN opinion of value concerning ev-
'rything. including an abstruse prob ;
EN- in hydraulic egineering. Less {
says the Mackay dam is 6
Unsafe. He raised such a hubbub
through the columns of his rattling 9