Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-04-06
WARREN CAMP CAME THRU
WINTER READY FOR BIG SEASON
WITH COMING OF SPRING rHrpp
WILL BE GREAT ACTION I'M oIn :
CAMP-oUTSIDE CAPITAL,
INTERESTED.

correspondent at Warren tells how
me people OF the mining camp spent
the winter IN the following letter to
the Boise Statesman: ~
IN recent Issue of your yaluahla
paper read an article relative to onr
mai service, In which | feel an inins.
elce mas not only been done orr mail
contractor but our community as we'll
true, as your correspondent saws. we
nave not mad papers for a few weeks
curing the heavy storms, but KNOWING
preValnng conditions all over the conn
Try, railroads being tied up by snow
iahd sldes and floods, and we here in
the mountains having from six to four.
Teen Feet OF snow, we have but small
reason to complain. Now as to the re.
ported supplies being stored in bav
ioits since last October, there is Ger
fanny mistake, as B. f. Goldman
Andrew Nelson and Herbert Cook came
over the route during the tie-up. and
with the exception of five hundred
pounds of oats for Dan Woody and =
rev orders of meat for different par.
ties In Warren (and which has been
delivered in good shape) there was not
a pound of parcel post on the route
during the long and heavy storm the
mail contractor had nine men and
twelve head of horses on the road every
day for three weeks, the road opened
one day being filled in the following
day by the falling snow and heavy
wind, and each man in danger of be-
ing buried by slide Only one came
however, burying one outfit. The
driver luckily was able to extricate
himself, but all he could see of his out
fit was the heads of his leaders. After
digging his horsese out and taking them
back to barn, he returned and dug
out the remainder. In a personal in.
terview with B. O. Dustin he informed
me that four feet less snow has fallen
on Elk summit this year than for sever
al years past. The road is being brok-
en- at the present time from the last
storm, and mail will again arrive on
time. In the meantime the Burgdorf
commissary and the ranchers on the
river will not see want
Now while we have not had regular
mail we have not been alternating.
We have a ladies' club which meets
once each week at the home of it's diff
ferent members, where they enjoy social
conversation and needle work.
Our men have hall in the best build
ing in town, where they may have a
game of pool, social game of cards,
talk mining, discuss politics or the war.
The one mill on the reserve still saws
regularly and another will be in opera
ton soon on the Mayflower. About
thirty miners are at work here, and we
have it from good authority that the
Little Giant, formerly big producer,
will also be in operation. Several
small properties will change hands with
the opening of spring, bringing in the
needed capital for development We
are on the way to stay. So keep your
eye on Warren. The hotels both seem
to have plenty of supplies on hand at
this writing. We look for an early
spring, when all who can get away for
few days will make their annual pill
grimage to the Salmon river, there to
camp out, commune with nature, gather
flowers, eat fresh salmon and sour
dough Meadows Eagle.