The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-07-15

ROAD BuILDnlC 0VEk
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE
SALM0N VISITORS GO TO SEE
WHAT CAN BE SEEN OF NEW
HIGHMfY SYSTEM NOW BLAz-
The board Of county commissioners,
w. A. .Briney, H. L. Summers and C.
+. Snyder, with Fred Crandall, coun-
ty engineer, went over the proposed
North fork highway on Wednesday
along with H. A. Turner of the state
highway department; Melvin Will
Jams of the federal department of
public roads, and ]. p. Martin of the
forest service. These men all hold
places of Importance in the engineer
ing departments of highway planning
and construction. Others in the par
ty, besides the two drivers of the mo-
tor cars employed, Dan O'Connell and
I'd Mahoney, were D. F. Delaney, an
Oklahoma guest at the O'Connell
home; Cashier +. E. Edwards of the
Citizens national bank; Phil Rand,
representing the Business Mems asso-
citation, and j. F. Melvin of The Re-
corder office.
Safeguarding Public Money.
In order to make the trip in a man.
ner to afford the commissioners and
engineers the best possible facilities
frp <k L.
as to where the peoples money is to
be spent but also to pass judgment on
the practical utility of the expendi
ture, the commissioners planned to
make the long trip with a stop at
Gibbonsville. The party reached this
historic mining town at supper time
Tuesday evening after the drive from
Salmon in three hours. For the next
day the really strenuous part of the
trip was arranged, with two crossings
or horseback ride of fifteen or twen-
cent was made by way of the Dahlone-
an even grade in the creek bed for a
part of the way, until finally deter
mining to rise at once to the heights
sharp activity on a grade of about 6
per cent and covering miles in getting
over where crows in their flight from
Idaho to Montana would cover only
as many furlongs, or about one-eighth
the distance in a horizontal line.
Looking back down the climbing road
as the traveller ascends the views pre-
sented are enhancing in their gran
ntutv, cid -,
its evergreen of fir and lodge-pole,
tamarack and pine. The closeup
view shows velvet rug of wild flow
ers under the trees interviewer with
its nap of grasses and huckleberry
and myriads of other plants, all sur
prisingly beautiful to one never priv
ileged to behold such floral riot be-
fore. If there is one flower more
striking and standing out more at
tractive than all the rest it is the
moose grass when in bloom. On
stately stem three to five feet tall the
bloom OF the moose grass appears for
all the world like an inverted electric
globe with the big end up. In favor
ed places for its growth, which are
generally found in the depths OF
wooded slopes, the floral globes seem
.actually to light up the dark places
and the fragrance of the blossom &C
tually fills the air.
Mountain Roads and Views.
In making the climb from the bed
of Dahlonega creek it was ascertained
that the survey for the zig-zag road
up the mountain was the work of Hal
Brown when he was a mere boy. The
lad certainly made a mans job of the
survey, for It is good one, withou,
flaw or inaccurate calculation te
overcome the many difficulties pre-
sented. The work of construction &C
cording to Browns plans was partial
ly completed by Jack McFredericks
who used at that time all the funds
available and afterward when more
money could be obtained K. f. Ed
wards took in hand the work of Civ.
ing the road bed its finishing touches
Mr.. Edwards used TO be a man of af
fairs in Gibbonsville and engaged in
many and varied activities there, in
Guiding mining and freighting in Z
large way, besides having perhaps the
largest mercantile business in Lemh
county at that time. While still com
paratively young man he was enabi
ed to make out of his cleanup al
Gibbonsville a comfortable fortune
The growth of Mr.. Edwards into his
present extensive banking business
has been conservative and sound ana
Salmon is fortunate in having hin
connected with one of its banks, whers
he fits in well as cashier. AS guide
on the way to point out the Interest
ing places Mr. Edwards made himself
solid With all his companions HI
was able to tell with unerring GER
tainty just where the proposed roas
down the North fork river wouls
cross the divide and the engineer
found the spot sure enough ngh
where he said it might be founs
though located in the midst of |
dense forest
A Few Big Things In Montana
As the views of mountain grandeur
and beauty were new to some mem
bers of the party so were the sights o
the journey into the state Of Montan'
which was entered through the fa