The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-08-19


inspect the big Moose creek drsdge
boat which had golked over many
yards OF placer ground.
Sunday Afternoon they teok the
trail 10 the Gold Dust mine. They
were examining some fresh deer
tracks when Der FuhFeF startled the
crowd by the announcement that
thers vas porcupine in . pile of
bushes close by. Now the Tender
foot had vague remembrance from
geography dAys that this was q 70.
rociOus South AneFicAn animal
whose habit 1t 10 u back, back, take
aim and shoot deadly quilted aFFaws
with unfailing precision rigLt into
the heart OF his victim, and No she
was away up the trail before she
could be FeAssured, Several tfooi
hens" lazily watched the party's
journey 70 the mine. woodchncks
piayfuiiy peeped at them from be.
hind trees, and several grouse aud
bull-snakes showed by their different
ways OF locomotlon that they had no
desire for a further acquaintAncs
with the company. Just before the
party reached camp the Tenderfoot
spied rabbit through the the trees
aud excltedly proclaimed the fact,
much to the disgust Of the other
members OF the party for IL seemed
that rabbits we're "bIg game" only
to little "piekanInnies" In her ma
tive state. On the road they also
gathered some OF the rare and fra
grant blossoms OF the moose grass"
with which they decorated their
ponies and thus made . triumphAl
entry into camp.
The Gold Dust Mine Man snapped
picture OF the party as they rode
up, before tile Westerner had even
had time TO arrange her hair, and
the Neighbor Lady, ~ho had come
down 10 play hostess, took the girls
10 the cabin which the Cold. Dust
Mine Man had prepared for them,
/ The Tenderioot looked at the cozJ
little room, 1t the dressing table
supplied with toOthpaate, powder,
face cream. etc. and wondered and
Sondered, but she kept 4 Tender
/ foOt's silence. When she took hel
tirst n-mads biscuit from The par
and saw the cuslard by her plate Al
supper she Wondered some more ane
was seen TO give the Gold. Dust. MINI
Man a searching look. And again
when she saw tile great loads Of roci
which he had moved with his owl
hands just below the Gold Dust Nil
and saw the great holes he had mad
in tue earth she broke silence an
said, ~ wonder why the rest Of tn
world does not help q little. AM
then they talked Of the many Id
hands in the cities, OF the vas
amount Of capital mlsused aud won
dered why people did not come on
mere where there ware 80 many res
"iobs. Later the Gold Dust n Inc
Man showed them where the WOO
rats had canned mushrooms for th
winter, placing them ia boxes whicI
had been stored 10 shed. Eacl
mushroom was wrapped separated
In dry grass aud the boxes were near
IL full The Gold. Dust ~ lRe. Ma
] said he had even known them I
wrap them up 10 paper, and Ia
party took his word for thia. An
} the WesteFneT wondered wha
) Ernest Thompson-SstOn knew AbOu
these little animals.
Later, near LessbuTg, Der FuhT'
panned some gold from the "Riei
ardson digglngs" for the party.
was absorblngly interesting but the
we're sure that he must be letting
great deal run out at the sides Of th
pan though each time he got sever
eolors Toward evening the part
visited the we'll kept little cemetel
al Leesburg where are buried . nun
!, Der Of "old timers" aud several Oh
=, ness. There ueIe = nGmbeT Of sum
en- Chlness graves from which q
bones had been taken by rsiAtiV'
and friends aud shipped back " a
old country a. ls the custom Of d
! raoe.
Tuesday morning found the par
eurouts 10 the Boyle post Office. Th'
q visited the Italian mine on The Wa
shsre they Were refreshed uith lea
q onsde. Their route then took the
! up Arnett creek aud over the diSid
p, down the HoekensmIth hill. III
- renderioot sighed that this was q
4 '.soin dowhsst hIir' she ever -
! aud being already tired out she di
A regarded the advice Of Der fuhF
a and insistsd upon riding doWn
= eniIre length much ~ her later dl
. comfort. The party then proceed
!. down Trail aud big creeks 70 q
A Boyle ranch. After . substantl
"a ranch supper ths party sent fnE
K swim, II~r Fuhrer taking his la u
a ~rask and tie MeStAFneF aud g