The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-07-22
SALMON TO LEWISTON
WILDLY PICTURESQUE
MUCH MINING ALONG RIVER AND
TRI6uTARIES-TRouT
IN ABUNDANCE.
(Lewiston Tribune)

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Captain n. GuleKe OF salmon City,
arrived from that place ON Thursday
morning after an S-day river trip ON
The flatboar High Flyer. Captain Gu
ieke, who has made 10 or ~ trips down
the Salmon and Snake rivers since the
beginning OF the Buffalo Hump excite
ment, states that he never had more
successful voyage, or one that was
more pleasing to the passengers.
The river on the trip down was
found in a line stage OF water. When
the mouth of the Salmon was reacned
At was noticeable That there was d
great deal more water in that stream
than in the Snake. For number OF
miles below the mouth practically the
entire width of the stream was taken
up by the clear waters of the noun
tain stream. The water of the Salmon
was In such a great flow that it is diff
hcult to get trout to bite, and on the
down trip, but few fish could be
caught. although the Salmon at the
right stage OF water is an extraordin-
airy fishing stream.
Captains Roundabout Return.
Captain Guleke left in the afternoon
for Spokane, from which place he will
go to Butte, and then to Salmon. He
expects to make one or more trips to
Lewiston this summer In talking Of
the river he explained that the boa.
ride down the stream he believed TO be
one of the most enjoyable that could
be taken in America. After leaving
Salmon City, the river runs through a
beautiful mountain country for The
first so miles. to the mouth of Boulder
creek, where the Shoup settlement. is
located. This In years now gone was
very prominent placer and quartz
mining camp. Lately Groves 6 SON
have revived mining in the old Mono
18th, and during the past year have
put in a new air compressor, and new
machinery in the 2O-stamp mill ana
are producing a good deal of gold. On
his present trip he brought down 1f
tons of machinery and supplies Tor this
firm.
Big Mining Future.
About 10 miles below Shoup is the
mouth of Big creek, one Of the most
beautiful mountain streams In the
west. There is a great deal of mining
prospecting going on there, and 80
miles up the stream, the Blackbird
district will become one of the great
world producers of gold, copper, nick
ell, tungsten and of other rare metals
AT present the country is so Isolated
that it is impossible to do profitable
mining.
Below this stream until Rge'n is
reached tfele are very few evidences
of civilization along the river. At 4
few places there are placer nine II
wrk, and wherever these haya locat-
ed there wiz re found lite garden
or orchard A ferry is encountered at
Knott or ssing. This is on the road %
Florence from the Payette lakes cpua-
try. one % The curiositis; .Aaoun:er-
ed is the hot springs. At one place On
the river there is a rocky potat from
which the hot water gushes in a nu'n.
Der of places, and just below this a
stream of hot water rams
into the main stream.
Back to the Wilds.
There Is stretch of nearly rs miles
of the river. where the stream p'arces
the widest hills on the continent, and
where at the proper time on the high
peaks can be found mountain sheep,
and the big cinnamon bear in num-
bers, while further back toward the
back bone of the continent are the
grizzly and deer and elk. The smaller
streams, of which there are number,
are among the best trout streams on
the continent.
Captain Guleke states that there was
a good deal of excitement in Salmon
during the late spring this year over
the rumored extension of the Pitts
burg & Gilmore road from Salmon
City down the river to Lewiston, and
there seems to be general impression
there, based on statements made by
the railroad company, that this piece
of railroad building win probably be
started in any event early next year.