The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-07-08
EIGHT DAYS ON SALMON.
Captain ouleke Brings Boat From Sal.
mon With SIX PASSENGERS

Captain H. Guleke, of Salmon City.
arrived from that place on Thursday
morning after an eight days river trip
on the flatboat High Flyer" Cap
tain Guleke, who has made fifteen or
twenty trips down the Salmon and
Snake rivers since the beginning of the
Buffalo Hump excitement. states that
he never had a more successful voy-
age. or one that was more pleasing to
the passengers.
Captain Guleke and the 'IIigh
Flyer left Salmon City on wednes-
day. June 20. with a full cargo of
machinery and supplies for Shoup
forty-five miles down the Salmon
and with passengers for Big Creek
and Lewiston. The passenger list in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Ket-
chum who disembarked at Big Creek,
where they will visit friends for a
time, and Mr. Hines, of Salmon City,
who has gone to Big Creek to bid on
carrying the mail to the new post
office the department is establishing
at that place. Passengers for Lewis
ton were c. w. league and o. L.
Sanders, of Spokane, who made the
trip down to get a view OF the river
and the surrounding country. and
Arthur Burke, of Salmon City, who
relatives
The river ON the trip down was
found in fine stage Of water. When
the mouth OF the Salmon was reached
It was noticeable that there was a
great deal more water in that stream
than In the Snake. For a 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 great flow that 1t is diff
ficult 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.
Captain Guleke left in the after
noon for Spokane from which place
he win so to Butte, and then to Sal
mon. He expects to make one or
more trips to Lewiston this summer
In talking of the river he explained
that the boat ride down the stream
he believed to be one OF the most en-
joyable that could be taken in Ameri-
ca. After leaving Salmon City, the
river runs through beautiful noun
tain country for the first fifty miles.
to the mouth Of Boulder creek. where
the Shoup settlement is located. This
in years now gone was a very promin-
ent placer and quartz mining camp.
Lately Groves & Son have revived
mining In the old Monolith, and dur
ing the past year have put in new
air compressor, and new machinery
in the twenty-stamp mill. and are
producing a good deal of gold. On
his present trip he brought down six
teen tons of machinery and supplies
for this firm
About ten 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 thir-
ty miles up the stream, the Blackbird
district will become one of the great
world producers of gold. copper, nickel,
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 higgins is
reached there are very few evidences
OF civilization along the river. At
few places there are placer miners at
work, and wherever these have locat-
ed there win be found little garden
or orchard. A ferry is encountered
mt Knott crossing. This is on the
road to Florence from the Payette
Lakes country. One of the curiosities
encountered is the hot springs At
one place on the river there is a
rocky point from which the hot water
gushes In a number of places, and
Just below this a considerable stream
OF hot water runs into the main
stream.
There is a stretch of nearly seventy
five miles of the river, where the
snft x.aa - t.4 fH3a
continent. and where at the proper
time on the high peaks can be found
mountain sheep and the big cinna-
mon bear in numbers. while further
back toward the back bone OF the
continent are the grizzly and deer
and elk. The smaller streams. OF
which there art a number, are among
the best trout streams on the contin-
emit
Captain Guieke states that there
was good deal of excitement in SAL
mon during the late spring this year
over the rumored extension of the
Pittsburg & Gilmore road from Sal
mon City down the river to Lewiston.
and there seems to be a general inn
preston 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.
SPOKANE UNION STOCK YARDS.
Spokane. Wash, June 21s-Local bank
ers and business men are keenly in
beregted IN the building OF the Spo-
kane union stock yards. the plant for
which is now being constructed in the
eastern part of the city. The first
unit Of the yards is nearing compile
ton. IT includes concrete unloading
dock 500 IT. long. on the Northern Pa
cific right of way, large enough to
unload Is cars at one time; rest pens.
with concrete floor. for 80 cars OF
stock. rest pens with dirt floors. for
125 cars; small pens for individual
shipments; sheds for 1000 sheep and
hogs, that are TO be double -decked