Show WHERE PERPETUAL THUNDERS ROAR mi mining ning journal weiser idaho I 1 not far from the washington county line in idaho county is one of the most peculiar mountains in the world one of the greatest mineralized piles of rock known to man the true tale reads like a vast reach of the imagination 0 thus but attesting 11 to the old axiom that truth is stra stranger noer than fiction in 1897 the caswell brothers prospectors went into that section in search of the root of all evil As they got well into the heart of the gold bearing region of idaho montana british columbia they began to hear a continuous roar like nothing t but swift recurring recurring peals of thunder and this continued with increasing creasi nr detonation till it settled into a cor sinuous roar when they encamped at the foot of the now famous thunder mountain A day or so was spent in futile examination for the cause of the phenomena but they concluded to leter roar while they prospected for gold old they found it in every stream and gulch chulch even upon the higher side hills the precious metal had been deposited by the erosion of the ares ages and it took little trouble to win it from the sands in which it had found lodgment 11 but they were not merely muscular prospectors so to discover the source of these placers they hunted on the mountain side investigation thorough and persistent however failed to discover any lead or vein but it revealed the astounding fact that the eminence was all made up of gold t bearing material this naturally natu ally incited the brothers brother s to renewed efforts the result being t the absolute certainty for at least 1000 feet in width the formation carried a total rold gold value of over 14 in gold old of which one half is free this indeed surpasses the prospectors dream being even greater than the treadwell mine on douglas 11 island alaska which has up to this time been considered the greatest ore body in the world A 4 ton tes tithe I 1 ore being taken from froin different places pla aces proved the figures 0 given above the cas a number of claims on the mountain but because of isolation and lack of funds they have done only the assessments putt put ingin most of their time placer mining now however a strong combination has taken hold of the property and will push development the way to reach this section is via the P I 1 N ry from weiser to cambridge thence by stage to warren miles thence by pack trail to thunder mountain a beautiful trip in the summer time in passing 11 we will state that the data herein is taken take efrom J th w reports of reliable and disinterested mining men and not from our personal pei bonal observation |