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Thunder Mountain !
It is on all lips and thousands of men scattered between two oceans
ouly waiting for spring to arrive, when they will pack their blankets
and pull for the new gold fields in practically unexplored Central Idaho.
The certainty of a great rush in rhe early part of the coming season has
brought the usual result attending a new gold discovery, and every trading
point within 300 miles proceeds to announce itself as the "gateway 'to tire
new fields, with "shortest routes," "lowest (asses," "least snow" and all
that.
are
One fact is remarkable, that none of these "routes" were ever heard
of or traveled until Col Dewey's negotiations for the Caswell properties
ountry by an army of
gained from
engine 60 miles nearer that section of the state and made Council the rail
waypoint. No other point rn-.de pretentions until it was seen that there
might be an opportunity to dispose of supplies to the Thunder Mountain
f the c
and the subsequent certainty ot an inva-ion
Prior to that time nil access to the i-ountry was
prospectors.
Weiser, until the building of the P. &• I.
widen took the locomotive
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pilgrims if they could be inveigled into leaving the regular and long
traveled trails, that have stood the tost of time, and induced to adopt
chimerical routes under some dim impression that a more expeditious ad
vent on the scene could lie made possible.
All this clamor and clatter has naturally bewildered the
man un
familiar with the country who expects to go in at some tune next season-.
For the benefit of those concerned, the Signal presents a map which
will yield a fair idea of the configuration of the country, and which at a
glance will giye a correct comparison of the only two roules that by any
the Thunder Mountain country.
possibility can cut a figure in getting into
From Stites and Orangeville, the collapse of the state wagon bridge
across Salmon river lias rendered it impossible to take wagons over the
the road between Florence and Warren, and the road was a hard one when
By traveling via Buffalo Hump and bending rath« r
far to the east and struggling through the rough and frightfully broken
country of the Salmon it is possible to reach Thunder Mountain by pack
trail, but the difficulties are so great that it would be only undertaken by
the bridge was sound.
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prospectors who were already in that part of the country wiien taken with
die Thunder Mountain fever, It would not be considered at all by the
same persons if they were starting from sotue point outside of the state.
Salmon City,away on the east slope (if the Saw-Tooth range, is making a
strong effort to get some of the travel, and the merchants of that place are
running a page advertisement in the Salt Lake Herald delineating the al
leged virtues of a trail which, while possible of travel during the summer
a meagre extent, is still of
season, aDd which is traveled every year to
no practical utility for the easy and expeditious inlet and outlet that will
be demanded by the hundreds or thousands who will go in and out next
H mjjles to Leesburg, the end
low /acket 21 miles, Yellow Jacket to Three Forks 14 miles, Three Forks
to >»ldlc Fork 14 miles, Middle Fork up Monumental cm k to Thunder
MouVtdn 37 miles These are their own figures as given tu Ute Herald
and :A. possibly shaved down to meet the requirements, but, as tltev give
the fibres, it is 166 miles from the railway at lied Rock to Tuunder
From the railroad at Red Itock it is <!<» miles to Salmon City and
From Leesburg to Yel
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