Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1902-05-16 | Page 6 | The Rush to Idaho

THE RUSH BUSE TO IDAHO Byron E B Says the Biggest t Boom Imaginable Is On Byron B Shear the well known Den Denver ver mining operator returned from a three weeks trip Into Idaho yesterday and In a day or two he will continue on to Cl Chicago cago and return 8 afew few weeks later to join In the rush to the Thun Thunder Thunder der mountain region Mr Shear skirted the land ot of the new Eldorado and finally landed at Stiles the terminus ot of the Northern Pacific branch line He says that few men have reached the mountain as vet All approaches che are thronged with 1 men for tor the trans trails to become passable and aDd he declares that few will make It for two or three weeks yet He got news newa during his ab absence ence of a abig abig big dl covery some miles southwest ot of Thunder mountain and predicts that many sections In that tbt portion ot of Idaho will prove better than anything on the mountain Itself He believes the rush will extend to many s sections or of the state stat which is Ie to ex experience the biggest mining boom the country hu has Witnessed Jed lB In many yea years He saw enough on his trip to convince him that the whole ce central portion of the state is 18 rich ilch In gold silver Vel and the other metals as 88 well