The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-02-15
MAKE YELLOWSTONE
TRAIL ATTRACTIVE
MULLAN TAKES LEAD
Commemorative Tablet at
Eastern Gateway---Plans for
Fourth of July Spring
w YAYSIDE

N.Y. along the Yellowstone trai
w across northern Idaho vii
soon be a feature that vii
add an additional charm to tourist!
travelling this popular highway anC
also prove valuable in making known
the wonderful mineral wealth of tn,
Occur d'Alene district. Credit for the
idea, which is meeting popular APP
proval is probably due Harry w. In
gals and John II. Foss, of Mullan,
who have given "a practical illustra-
ton of what can be done in this line
at Bitter Root spring at the point
where the magnificent new highway
TO Lookout pass crosses the old Null
Ian road. With the assistance of the
county this spring has been faced
with concrete and the road bed itself
has been paved with the same ma
teral. The walls about the spring
are mounted with ore typical of the
Occur d'Alene mines, set in concrete
to prevent removal AS a center
piece in the background will be plac-
ed a bronze tablet in honor of Cap
tain John Mullan. builder of the road
that bears his name. and which will
also inform the wayfarer that he is
now at the east entrance to the fam
ed Occur dAlene mining district the
greatest lead silver and zinc mining
district in the world the value OF
mineral production of which up to
1922 amounted to S696,S79,991 and
which yielded a net profit Of $780,,
2OS, 100, and that 5000 miners are en-
ployed in the district
Mulan People Pay for Tablet
The cost of this bronze tablet,
which will be 24xSO inches, will be
.$125, and Mr.. Ingalls, who passed
around a subscription paper says
more than the required amount has
been subscribed and paid in by the
people of Mullan alone The tablet
has been ordered from the John
Harsch Bronze & Foundry company
of Cleveland, and will be delivered in
time to be placed in position as soon
as weather conditions permit. The
success in securing funds to improve
and beautify the Bitter Root spring
iidS leu MI AnSdtAo ~ AtAiNN AP AAe
matter Of making other springs along
the highway equally attractive, par
ticularly the one below Kellogg, in
this county, and DOlbys spring in the
Fourth of July canyon, in Kootenai
county In this he found enthusiasts
tic public interest He submitted the
matter to Stanly A Easton, manager
of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan, who
much interest and a will
ingness to cooperate in carrying out /
the plan.
Fourth of July Spring.
In a letter to Mr. ingalls, recently /
Mr.. Easton had this to say regarding
the development of the spring in the
Fourth of July canyon: "The big
spring in Fourth of July canyon, gen.
orally referred to as Dolby's spring, /,
should be developed in the same or a
better way. This is out of our coun-
ty and the expense will have to be A
borne by private subscription. l have
80 much on my hands l dislike to
lake the initiative. but If some one
will manage the installation of the
fountain at this spring 7 will be hap
by to cooperate in every possible way
and will furnish mineral slabs of Stag,
material, etc. in addition 10 a sub
,tantial contribution. l think consid-
srable publicity should appear at this
spring. because practically all tour
SITS stop there. l think some such
should be made as APP
pears on the rubber company's sign
BOARD in the form of a big book.
These are all over California and have
very well prepared and informing an
concerning each COM
nunity, which l always read with
much interest and others must also
10 so. The whole suggestion is a
very enterprising and good one and
YOU may count on my entire coopera-
ion"
Others Are Interested.
Mr. ingalls, conferred with f. L.
Hale. manager of the Occur d'Alene i
Hardware & Foundry company and I
'ound him equally enthusiastic over (
he project Mr.. Hale suggested an Z
of the original idea, I
which was to secure title to about an I
lcre of ground at the Fourth of July I
,anyon spring and convert it into a
title park, which would form popu- Z
ar resting place for tourists. The .
cost of carrying out these plans will {
Tot be large. while it would result in {
the Yellowstone trail and I
will prove of great advantage in ad- I
rertising the district.
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