Show A buried indian camp mr kinney of olinza about nine teen miles fast east of shoshone was in town recently wad and gave us an account of the discovery made by himself and others just south of ef that station some four years ago he found holes boles in the ground while bu hunting utin and su supposed they were coyote holes he then dug down about six feet and lound found more or less water wader in the sandbur sand but paid little attention to it during the past two weeks mr kinney has had bad one or two men sinking a shaft t to prospect this singular freak in the great snake river lava pla plains itis about seven rom the surface considerable water was found and at the depth of some twelve feet there was found a layer of 8 sagebrush covered with loose lava rock I 1 im addea bedded in the sand and lying on top p of a bed of blue blud clay the rocks were smooth and rounded by the action of water and apparently ap ardently were from a stream it is about thirty miles to take nake river while excavating the first few f e w feet indian relies relics were found consisting of arrow heads beads charcoal etc the sagebrush evidently had bad been lying there for half a century or more was soaked heavy with water and of a very black appearance capt rice 9 ho cho worked in this ground for mr amney is an old prospector and thinks that the indications indication are favorable for coal and that if a shaft were sunk to any considerable depth a flowing well or stream of water would be opened in the midst of this desert plain it such would abuid be the case a stream of water would he be of untold value as the snake river plains are from efty df ty to seventy five miles wide and between american falls and glenns glennd ferry head of horses would thrive it if there were only a general supply gat of water the rhe theory has been here hep that underground rivers and la A reservoirs of water exist and some so Z talk has been heard of organizing a stock company at shoshone to sink artesian wells across in the deserter deser tor to get congress to appropriate a sum for reclaiming these fertile and valuable plains this discovery of water on en an elevated plateau or ridge may become of great reat commercial value to the section of idaho and should be fully explored an and d a shaft sunk to sufficient clent depth to determine all the facts the location was apparently an ancient indian camp but has been filled up and covered over by the drifting sand shoshone journal |