The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-19
SALMON WATER
ROUTE TO SEA
Thrilling Adventure for Travellers
Who Are Looking for the Wild
Man and Wife Travelled from
ShQup TO San Francisco

ship Hfl WHICH Va SAL nbNu Ate
mighty Salmon NJ an early dsr Fle
/ will NE seenmpaaitd by VI. " Pryor.
aud ~pu, sho cpmrs from NeN York
for tile experience ~ navigating
the river which Lewis and Clark,
the explorers of th= Northwest.
/ "a nd too iorhidding for any rift they
could launch upon it In the dis
/ tance OF more tnan three hundred
miles from the city Of Salmon 10
/ Les iAton there are rapids that dfop
right N from ten 10 fifteen feet
| The hslmsman must be on his Job t.
navigate such re tciIes Of tie river
| Dozeps OF the former naslgatOFs oi
the rapids have met with mishAps
sometimes losing their lives, MANY
times their boat ard equlpment Isl
the descent. What Is familiar 10 Gnl-
eke and unsorthy OF mention by him
is thrilling adventure for the novice
on tlie trip.
with him on hls recent voyage
down the river we're Mr.. and Mrs.
iIenty WArrinatun ~ Shoup, vito are
experienced travellers. aud they had
all the adventure they wanted.
speaking If the trip Warrington
4 said,
We came through the most dan
perpus country that ] ever visited.
cur boat Aas built oi inch boaFds, OF
double thickness on the bottom and
for part Nay up the sides, and han.
died with sweeps IL was feet by
" feet. Captain Henry Guleke
nrought our boat tile entlFe dis.
tanre lie has been operating on
thai river for the past l6 years, and
In alI that time he has never had an
tcc cldent. although many lesa eA
per Nenred men have been drowned
aud their earRoes Of freight and
equipment lest
when ne first left salmon there
Aere some Who thought We would
: ne YER get 20 the Snake river. When
We had passed sheep creek and Raby
I raplds and arrived at Fiddle rapids
q. the people there said We Sould never
get past Cbina rapids
> The country we came through Is
most Wild, There Is game Of every
| description. aud plenty Of IT,
) counted IL deer along the bank of ths
salmon river ana saw three elk.
: W. shot one bear and there are nun.
/ erous uionu'ain sheep and game
{ birds
Mrs. Warrington vas enthusI astic
u over tie trip that they had taken. al
\ though she said sire shut her eyes
+ Allen they cane t0 any particularly
dangerous rapids 'Sume places Ne
n atre dopped IS feet she said.
n la order net b. break the con
= tinuity Of their Aatsr voyage Mr.
= and Mrs. Warrington embarked on
+ tie Guleke Doat for Lewiston, travel
= cd theme. hY tie str ,mer Tain
q CltIps u Portland and from that citS
> sailed direct u san Francisco cover.
,ng a tJtsi distance Of up~Ard Of
d ltD0 miles from the contiRentai al.
s Vide to Golden Gate harbOi al by
70 water something worth while Ia
e prriious adventure.
ID Mr. Warrington left San FrAncisco
q shorty after toe earthquake Ia ipOS.
~ IT, and Mrs. Warrington Travelled for
y sometime through Nortusest aitds
unlii they decided ~ take over !
!. quartz mine In Snoup They have
a ,esn leated there for the past tive
, and one halt years.
b. MIR Warrington declared there Ws,
te Atiil plsnt, ~ ore in Northern Idaho
or hut modern business ethods hac
q. mnitstsd against its development
- he asserted that the mines bad heey
used Tor speculative purposes ~ has
j.. been ruined by mismaDagsmsnt, AnS
d, that person HhB Undertook 70 a.
"A suule oNnerslip nf maJy Of tue prog
= critics Nouid have h start from tli'
a. vety beginning iYstead Of being ahi'
nm 81 take advantage of previous De
ay y.Iupm~nt
ne Mr. Narring ton aid that lrvinl
sr HC4hp. the Nriter, nAt communicate,
.fe with friends Of his in Sboug sklul
Of the feasibility oi the trip don
an the salmon riyer. lie said it VAS IL
q, EVIDENT intention Of Mr.. Cobo 1
ilt make the trip.
Ih- The salmon river craft that are AZ
ars proved for safety are not much f.
Of beauty. Trey are none Of your mel
a. maids for curyitufe oi body nor ~
'peg they nymphlike in form. ca ID
- a contrary. as might b. said ot Nj
TIE Cobb, WHO gets there Just the ssn
az whsu it comes to Writing as does OF
DIA of Guleke's boats when 10 comes
o~' shooting the rapids Of the WoGdsrf,
lntsrmountsin rivers,