Show ROUTES INTO NEW NW N W 0 r hou houst IDAH GOLDFIELDS tC n reca 1 Short Line Lino Figuring on Extending w da to Thunder Mountain Ir I Ip p st of rr THE nE MOST FEASIBLE LINE JANE L M ke Men the lUo Ilond noad to so go o but bui mado do lee iee It Ity y General Passenger Agent Durley Burley of ot atthe thc M the Short Urn Lino Is olive to the possibilities po aim t JIles of ot tile the Thunder Mountain mining tiled district In III Idaho Ho IJo lut hats hall ft II special pc i cial ChiI representative looking over the ground In the Salmon ilver country countr extension of ot the new nOs branch for or an nn sligh slight road from to ChoUs and nd or 11 thence Into tho the newly discovered gold goldfields fields The Holse nol e people Ile are making strenuous efforts to have tho tim Thunder 47 1 Mountain road run from tho the state tata cap capItal capItal c Ital ltd but such a II line lino would have so coven n ranges to cross and a II greater distance miles to travel than by IJ tho the Mack route rou te and nOlI Mr 1 r y re recently recently recently expressed himself In favor ot of the Salmon river line lino linoW lineN W 0 Q Page lage n a prominent Halley min mining mm N E InS ing man when In Salt Bait Lake IRke lately held IelI that thit the proper route would be bevia bevia via Ketcham over oer the Wood river line but the th Short LIne Lino haIc their rh heads and say gay En No the tho Salmon Silmon river LI Ij IS I the most economical route rout From Utah the present route easiest of at access Is via Red lied Hock Bock on the Short Ion bit t Line and thence by stage w tl Salmon City CIt Leesburg Lee to Velio I Jacket ir In thence It Is only thirty elgh miles by lIy byn byI I 19 n good mountain trail on Jo t 0 middle middleford Ive ford tord of ot the Salmon river 1 J let et ito i ir tr route Is III up the tho Salmon river rJ ii yer vel Clayton Stanley creek and Hear Bear val vol volley valby al alley ley by down tho the middle ford font of the io Sal Salmon mac mon men and thence up Marble creek the 1 It Is Ia claimed that at Challis the th Short 6 t Line can depend on SOO tons tOilS o ot of ore f I dally daily from mines new developed and c Judge Ju ge of Salmon City says ed there Is not only gold In that country doa but copper cobalt nickel and JIs bis bismuth F muth rauth Also Al o that on creek cicek to tho the north of tho the Salmon there thero aro great sue deposits of ot copper a r The Short Line people do not say n yet et when construction on tho the proposed extension will begin but fortune hunt hunters huntI dr I ers are nr already on the road to Thun Thunder Thunder S der Mountain and a II phenomenal rush r sh Is expected In the spring an nn early curlY com commencement niL nt of ot this most desirable work may be expected 4 ft I II U Mead Mend the mining expert who whon n made the th recent sensational exploitation t tion Is back In Salt BRit Like ned and says that In the tho fifteen en days ho V M there ho bo became convinced that the halt half had hadnot hadnot not been told and ho he wax was successful ful fulIn f In bonding three claims adjoining Col fourteen claims Ho lie des describes desa a d Thunder Mountain as a 0 great eruptive volcanic mass ribbed with Il streaks of at cobalt lava lavo and andr r what Is probably talc The yellow p metal meta Is the heaviest In the rock and certain certa n streaks are arc literally plastered with gold Raid Mr Mead saya saye ho lie never saw tho the like of or It before While he could not give exact figures yet ns as to tho the assays of simples s Mr Me Mer r Mead said that from train the same Bame work workIngs ork orkIn logs Ings In s In the tho Dewey Dewer property samples gave gae an nn average of or Its In gold lohl from fromI a the west drift and from 1093 to ta 1975 95 I on fl the seven foot toot streak on the sur Bur surface surface face Martin Curran formerly man hed H ed d of or the he Lode Loile Dollar at nt City ity there Is tons of ot 1673 ore In sight |