The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-06-01
SALMON TO THE SEA
TRIP FULL OF THRILLS
GO FROM Widest IDAHO TIC
SAN FRANCISCO BY WATER
TAKING NOTICE.
(Salmon Recorder

1 tSalnOn RecOruer.)
Capt Guleke has built another ship
with which to sail down the mighty
salmon at an early day. He will be ac-
companied by W. H. Prior and son, who
come from New York for the expert
ence of navigating the river which Lew
is and Clark, explorers Of the north
west, found too forbidding for any raft
they could launch upon 1t. In the dis
lance of more than three hundred miles
from the city of Salmon to Lewiston
there are rapids that go right off
from ten to fifteen feet. The helmsmen
must be on their job to navigate such
reaches of the river. Dozens of former
navigators of the rapids have met with
mishaps, sometimes losing their lives
many times their boat and equipment
in the descent. What is familiar to
Guleke and unworthy of mention to him
is thrilling experience for the nov
ice on the trip.
With him on his recent voyage down
the river were Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Warrington of Shoup, and they are
experienced travellers, and they had all
the adventure they wanted. Speaking
of the trip, Warrington said
Staunch Craft.
I'VE came through the most danger
Gus country that have ever visited.
Our boat was built of inch boards, of
double thickness on the bottom and for
part way up the sides and handled
with sweeps. 1t was eight feet by Is
feet. Capt. Henry Guleke brought our
boat the entire distance. He has been
operating on the river for the past IS
years, and in all that time he has never
had an accident, although many less
experienced men have been drowned
and their cargoes of freight and equip
ment lost.
when we first left Salmon there
were some who thought we would never
get to Snake river. When we had pass
ed Sheep creek and Ruby rapids and
arrived at Fiddle rapids, the people
there said we would never get past
China rapids.
THE country we came through is
most wild. There is game of every de-
scription, and plenty of it. | counted
10 deer along the bank of the Salmon
river and l saw three elk. We shot
one bear and there are numerous
mountain sheep and game birds"
Mrs Warrington was enthusiastic
over a trip they had taken, although
she said she shut her eyes when they
came to any particularly dangerous
rapids. Some places we dropped l6
feet she said.
In order not to break the continuity
Of their water voyage Mr.. and Mrs.
Warrington embarked on the GuIeke
boat for Lewiston, travelled thence by
steamer Twin Cities to Portland and
from that city sailed direct to San
Francisco, covering a total distance of
upward of 1900 miles from the CONT
mental divide to the Golden Gate har-
Dor, all by water something worth the
while in perilous adventure
Cobb to Make the Trip.
Mr.. Warrington said that Irving Cobb
the writer had communicated with
friends of his in Shoup asking of the
feasibility of the trip down the Salmon
river. He said it was the evident in
tention of Mr.. Cobb to make the trip
The Salmon river craft that are APP
proved for safety are not much for
beauty. They are none of your mer-
maids for curvature of body nor are
they nymph-like in form. On the
contrary as might be said of Mr. Cobb,
who gets there just the same when 1t
comes to writing, as does one of
Guleke's boats when it comes to shoot
ing the rapids of the wonderful inter-
mountain rivers.
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