Show 0 thunder Tl mountain Movin tain the new eldorado IX months ago thunder mountain in idaho had bad hardly been heard of among the mining fraternity of this western country today the slogan with everybody throughout the united states is thunder mountain and the cry is being taken up and e echoed c h 0 e d throughout the civilized world this new mineral discovery this mountain of gold this great stretch of virgin country which it is believed w will be to this intermountain region what the rand has been to africa and the klondike to the great northwest is now being more freely advertised than either the rand or the klondike ever have been and the rush to this section of the west durino during the present spring and coming summer promises to be grea greater in its proportions than was the rush to Johannes bure or the from all indications another month or six weeks will witness a rush into new camp such as has seldom been heard of in the annals of mining history and every section of the country every city of importance throughout the united states will help to year to develop more bonanza propositions more great producing and dividend paying mines than the klondike or the rand can now boast of wonderful as are these great gold bearing district of world renown it was only late in in the fall 0 of f 1901 that thai mining mining men began to I 1 9 4 L the depuey mill thunder mountain klondike when wealth galore was first discovered anaese in these great gold bearing regions and to even exceed the exciting and unprecedented stampede into california following the discovery of the yellow metal in our sister state in in the year 1849 and in the early fifties As a matter of fact th the tidal etidal wave of this great influx of miners prospectors capitalists and investors is almost fairly upon us and swell the great army of fortune seekers thunder mountain will soon be the mecca of all and as all roads led to rome in the olden times it will be a common saying within the next three or six months that all thoroughfares lead to thunder mountain a region wonderfully rich in id its gold deposits bobb bothin in quartz mining and placer diggings and which promises before the close of the 11 realize the wonderful mineral possibilities of the thunder mountain rec region rion in this day and age mining operators are inclined to be skeptical re garding alleged new finds and e even v e in boise m me e tro polis polls the splendid claims made for the thunder mountain discoveries failed to cause any excitement during the early part of the season and it was not until outsiders began beann to investigate into the possible value of the bonanzas of this mineral section that home people began to have coir some conception of the wonderful opportunities offered there and by the time the incipient rush to this locality had set in the advent of winter vir dually prohibited further investigation but enough was then known to satisfy the most conservative that another Mil mineral leral wonder had been found and since then extensive preparations have been made to enfer the promised land as early during a th tha present season as possible 00 As thase e who could do so have gone into section 0 ivr W and already at beast two t hou 9 ft T locations have been made and all of these as near to the dewey mine and mill as aa possible the dewey being the prospect for which colonel W H dewey the successful idaho mining operator and millionaire paid the caswell brothers the handsome sum of late in the fall of 1901 many mining companies have been incorporated for operation in the district this season and two or three town sites have been laid out and platted stage routes are being established to run from boise ketchum mackay redrock bedrock and weiser the government is arranging for mail service and post offices and within six months there is every reason to believe the thunder mountain region will possess several cities with a population of many thousands each and boasting of almost every metro politan convenience william allen alien such as fine hotels and pa white a noted kansas stores telegraph and s as bourna journalist list is expected telephone tele p hone electric in zion in the light and water systems near future on his and easy rall railroad 4 way to thunder communication mountain where he with the outside will gather data for a world series of magazine thunder mountain articles district is located in Worl dId aho city idaho county idaho idaho pit pittsburg osbu it is sixty miles south V men who own claims of the main salmon on thunder mountain river and from eighteen have subscribed to twenty y miles for a wagon road west from the middle X from bear valley to fork of the salmon that camp the it can be reached 44 boise subscription rip tion from fi v e different has reached nearly points on the oregon that amount short line ra railroad will build the road viz boise ketchum and also make needed mackay redrock bedrock improvements on the and weiser t trails r a i I 1 s road between this leading into the camp 96 place and bear valley from all these places which have been world wei s e r transformed vieta in thunder mountain ct idaho into ac idaho thos tive outfitting outwitting out fitting and forwarding points at the present time many hundreds are heading towards this new eldorado but the mining review alev bew is informed that it is not wise to try to enter the thunder mountain district until the middle of may or the first of june provisions there are very scarce and very high in price while accommodations are lacking however within a month or six weeks preparations will have been made to care for the thousands now making arrangements to visit this region which is now from all accounts virtually snowbound snow bound but little real prospecting work has been done outside of the dewey mine and no thorough work in this line can be done until late in the spring or early in the summer it is true that a number of important strikes have been recorded in the district since the rush to this locality began last fall while quite a number of transfers have been made in 11 of expert geologists however alj the thunder 1 mountain region is exceptionally rich ih in its mineral I 1 deposits and in the immensity of its ore bearing ledges and veins thunder mountain itself being one vast deposit of gold bearing ore so extensive and far reach ing that the extent of its wealth is incalculable the mineralized area not being confined to thunder Mountain alone b ufa extending r until the known belt has already been located 1 0 over an extent of country covering at leant fifty miles square and taking in rainbow lenbow and surrounding mount mountains ains I 1 As is the case in nearly every new new mining camp it will take some ome time yet and a large amount of systematic development to determine just what is the formation carrying the large deposits of high grade and milling ore similar to those already exposed in the dewey mine the mammoth droppings crop pings of which according to one authority presenting a body of gold bearing rock that has been ti traced aced on the surface for a distance of three thousand feet and from one hundred to three hundred feet across and virtually showing one million five hundred thousand tons of ore of an estimated value of ten million dollars to say nothing of the great tonnage exposed in the mine workings one rich chute alone according to calculations made being valued at if it extends from the surface to the leyel level of the tunnel workings surface wor workings kinas on this great ore zone uncovering a bonan bonanza z a lead forty feet in len length ath and from five to seven feet in width assaying from to 1975 in gold to the ton the bulk of the massive vein however being a milling proposition ranging from 10 and up the ore being practically free milling easily and cheaply mined and being free from pyrites and base metals S several everal e eminent experts have made an examination of thunder mountain and all agree to a certain extent as to its formation one authority stating that it is almost identical with that of cripple creek colorado in that it ib consists of a rhyolite zone intersected by intrusions the greatest va values luebe being encountered at the contact of the dyke with the overlying volcanic breccia the position of the dyke showing that it was one of the last of a series of volcanic actions which took place at a period probably antedate antedating in g the cambrian age thunder Moun mountain tean notes roosevelt one of thunder mountains new towns expects to be visited by at least miners and wealth seekers within the next six weeks times halley hailey adado one hundred and twenty seven pack horses are to be started from ketchum tomorrow for thunder mountain they will pack an aver average acre of lbs ibs apiece ney seems to be accomplishing rood good results in his work for the weiser council coonc il meadows route to thunder mountain at salt lake 0 E ebrada bradd and ed lewis arrived here from mercur utah tuesday through his work as have ot others fiers these gentlemen came to inspect the different routes for a large party of utah miners who will come this way after the report is received H L benner the well known mining man returned a short time ago acro from thun thunder mountain having inspected this new eldorado on snowshoes mr benner is well pleased with what he saw of the mineral possibilities ties of this new eldorado mr benner states that at least two thousand claims have been staked out in the district and he says that the claims have all been well staked big posts from sixteen to eighteen feet in length having been sunk down through h the snow and into the ground aground at the discovery points and corners corn rs mr benner is now in stanley basin idaho e examining Ka mining mining property Y statesman boise idaho another sale of thunder mountain mining claims was closed up yesterday the consideration was not a promise to pay but the clean cash was paid over bert day william graham and A L tuttle who are the foremen and amalgams amal gama tors at the dewey mine were successful in locating a choice group of claims last year they were designated as the philadelphia nos 2 3 and 4 this group of claims is situated between divide creek and lava creek east of monumental creek these claims were among the earliest locations of last year and adjoin the boston group and are in in close proximity to the rainbow claims the owners of these claims sold them and completed the transfer yesterday to the thunder mountain consolidated gold mining company limited for the cash price of boise statesman D F call one of the party that arrived from thunder mountain on last evening brings the interesting news that an important discovery has been made in the dewey mine he does not know what the particulars of the strike are but he had it from good authority that a body of very high grade material had been opened shortly before he left the assays essays ran so high that the management thought there must be some mistake but a second series af samples went higher than the first it is not thought that this is the rich shoot showing on the the surface but an entirely new discovery fred mitchell the well known utah miner who was sent into thunder mountain by Aless rs stewart fc and keifer of this city is according to all accounts the ali first st man to get into this new eldorado this spring in a letter written by him to his associates dated march mr mitchell says 1 I arrived here today after a very hard trip I 1 got here with pounds of grub but it is worth a dollar a pound I 1 packed it forty miles on my back and doubled the trail with fifty pounds at each trip the snow is five feet deep here but all the gound g is located around the dewey property I 1 will get some two miles from the mill I 1 will commence locating in them the morning all of the men in the mine and the mill quit work to locate so the mill has been shutdown shut down the country is all porphyry y and volcanic ash mhd veins are blanket and from three to seven zones the ore is all free and some of it runs from 70 to to the pan four men panned out in four days there are seams of charcoal in the veins which run well in gold the ten stamp mill runs on 6 oie there are good prospects in three different mountains thunder lightning and rainbow and lots of rich placer ground with porphyry bedrock that runs from to 25 to the yard I 1 was the first one in over the salmon trail |