The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-06-25
GIBBTOWN AS
IT USED TO BE

- O0AD ~ LII
|. A ride TO Gibbonsville. with de.
tour on the way back that toox us
up Boyle creek and covering alto
getner about so miles of travel, af-
lords an outing of rare enjoyment,
as can be testified by the editor and
his companion. Historian John +.
KEGS. We had planned the trip for
"a month, to be undertaken Just as
soon as the right sort OF a rare day
In June should offer for clear skies
and long distance vision, with the
comfort of fairly good roads and
oaimy air. Last Sunday brought
all Of these conditions. Moreover
there had been heavy rains down
that way few days before to lay
whatever dust there might have been
and all nature was smiling.
Historical Browsinos.
Mr. Rees as usual with him was
browsing around for facts in local
history, which are food and drink
for him at all times and in all places.
As 1t is said of news gatherers in
ltheir appointed work, Mr.. Rces has
nose for his particular branch of the
business. Thus 1t was that he had
scented out an old canoe or dug-out
located down on the Norton stock
farm and used for many years as a
trough for cattle feeding. The an.
thentic history of that canoe is miss
ing. Where it came from nobody
seems to know but ii Is undoubtedly
very old There is nothing to show
in its weather-beaten fiber what par.
ticular sort of FIR the tree used to be,
but 1t certainly was a stout member
of the fir family. at least four feet
in diameter and affording a total
length of twenty feet as big at one
end as the other In the completed
boat. Perhaps in the upper reaches
of the Salmon river or far back In the
mountains there might have been
such a mammoth tree in the time oil
Lewis and Clark explorations In
these parts more than a hundred
years ago or maybe there was here
even in the days of the first settlers
in the sixties or the early seventies
such tree, but who can find the
stump or prove 1t? Except as to the
ends of the old water craft, which are
fallen away from cracking. the canoe
is still in good state of preservation
Mr.. Rees took pictures to preserve II
in that form at least TO point a moral
or adorn tale.
ION Lewis ard Clark Trail.
At Carmen creek. as the historian
pointed out, was located a camping
place. Of the Lewis asd Clark party
Here's the valley OF the Salmon wild
ems out and the Expanded view below
3musts have encouraged the hope o
fairly easy going by foot, for the ex
lplorers had advanced few miles
further down the beautiful levels o.
/ Big Flat the view up what il nov
known as Boyle creek should inyit.
them that way. There are no forbid
ding hills nor steep climbs and III,
activity is even and gently rollins
/ far away into the distance. Sudden
ly the famous towers and minaretl
and mosques stand out from the hill
TO the left as you enter the smilin,
little valley. No wonder the nam,
Tower creek was given TO the stream
II was most appropriate and tn,
name might perhaps have endured 4
this day and for all time had II no
been lost in the interval or discover,
and final settlement, when IL took ol
the patronymic of Thomas Boyle
father who reclaimed a fine home
stead there.
Boyle Creeks Towers.
As the correct name is thus lost 4
historical accuracy It is by no mean
the only case OF the same sort Il
Lemhi county For instance Agenc
creek and trail should be called TO
its discoverers. Lewis and Clark. an,
the same should be the appellatiol
of the pass that way over the cont
mental divide. In all these part
they probably found nothing like tn
towers OF Boyle creek in grandeu
and beauty and so they gave tn
name to that water course that wa
so strikingly suggested TO then
These towers stand from out the hill
sides and stretch along the little va
ley for perhaps half mile. Genera
ly of conical shape they taper to tn
top in rings Of perfect curvature an
have as captions in many instance
other little cones or capstoneg poin
ing to the sky. They are Of rtc
sandstone coloring from top 10 boi
tcm standing from 50 to $50 fee
high Natures work Ia scripture ]
roghere prettier or more pleasing i
effect.
Local Habit5tion and k5me,
The socalled Fourth OF July creel
a few miles below, and still farthe
along the Wagon Hammer afford IL
stances of misft or meaningless
names of the same sort. The II
.dians must have given these creek
some sort OF appropriate designatio
and il would be a relief TO have a
aboriginal name occur now and the
in our geography.
Where Clear Waters Run.
The Northfork. which was tn
principal objective in the outing o
Sunday. affords striking instance {
ione river flowing into another almoi
directly up stream al the place {
confluence. The Salmon at this poir
takes up It's western journey 10 tn
sea while It's tributary bends trim
tha from Ha pauQYe