Show + + + MH + + + + + + + o + i + The Pacificand Idaho Northern Routs viaWeiser Council and r Warrens Excitement Growing and an Old Time Gold Stampede THUNDER MOUNTAIN t I Expe tedr this Spring The Great Mineral Country of Central I Idaho Gold Assays running from 700 to 3000 per ton A At A 4A 4 dIII 4It 4 110 o I 6 4 tIo rfri A < fr ifc A A A A A A A J6 A A A A 4 A A A A a r Information just received Indicates that excitement over the now goldfields gold-fields of Thunder untaln Is steadily spreading At Weiner and Council active ac-tive preparations are being made to accommodate ac-commodate and furnish outfits into the gold diggings The Pacific Idaho Northern railway runs from Weiser on the Oregon Short Line to Council six tythree miles north toward Thunder mountain From Council stage lines freight outfits pack animals and saddle horses will bo furnished with experienced experi-enced guides and drivers and passengers passen-gers landed In the new camp The Pacific Pa-cific Idaho I Northern Railway company com-pany propose to carry nck animals and miners outfits on their passenger trains at low rates and are offering special Inducements In-ducements to everybody to go via the Yeiser Council and Wan en route The people of Council which Includes the stage lines the merchants the hotel people and the live business men generally gen-erally arc making preparations to take care of the rush when It comas Parties Par-ties afe already going into Thunder mountain from these points The special spe-cial correspondent of The Tribune stated that several very Important mining mi-ning deals have been made and fur J nlsHcs the latest summary of THJJNDER MOUNTAIN MINING NEWS The Caswell group which was sold to CotW H Dewey for 100000 last year has been developed by a working I tunnel with drifts running both ways in which large bodies of gold ore arc blocked cut A 10ton stamp mill was completed January and with some slight delays will soon be able to make Its first cleanup The superintendent writes that he will bo able to pay all expenses and also pay for the property Jn a short time A fourfoot streak of 1000 ore was uncovered In the workIngs work-Ings but It will1 take sixty to ninety days run on the lowgrade ores before this paystreak wll be r6ached mined Assays on this big phonollte gold reef about 300 feet wide vary from 7 to i 3000 per ton in free gold As soon as roads can be built and transportation I be secured It Is expected to Increase this mill to 200 tons capacity The TaylQr Eby Group This group has been sold to tho Jennings Bros of Plttsourg for the sum of 150000 The assays run very high and the surface Indications are Identically the same as that of the Caswoll group Twenty men are now engaged on development work on this very promising property A 200stamp mill will be put on the group has been sold to Crcssy White I at a handsome figure The assays run from 16 to 1100 A largo force of men will soon be put on development work j and a large mill Is projected The HawleyPuckett GroupThis group has been placed wIth Pittsburg I capitalists at the num of 100000 There Is a whole mountain valuable ore on I these claims and It assays an average I of 5all over this mountain A largo mill will soon be erected and I a force of men put to work as soon as the conditions will permit The Sunnyslde Group These claims are still retained by the original locators loca-tors the Caswell Bros who have refused re-fused 100000 for this propeitjv This property equals the Dewey properly In assays and values and Is considered a highly valuable piece property The Longfellow GroupThis property 6 = I d I c 4 Trr3 I 01 ci r IrI I An A I GRA1LJELLE I j ILlmd rf 1frc IIlTrI 0 7 uPFAO JIVMP I LCJL eQP i i 74cE I 1 g F i J IJ + jQw PLLCCIC1 I f ALL4A t40 O 2 Z jnnnO C 74 7 q rI 1 I yiR w i < 5 e c itDR I D ti4eco k 1 t i1r415 lilt COVi h REOE88Y M ii SCAR S 4 7 unur I i J e1 III v 4I 1 ItT lUi c Yfr 11 I rAg1A IIk 80SE fAII 3 DP r i Map of the Weisor Route to Thunder Mountain ground in the early spring A free xmllllng goldproposltlon V The Apex < Burr Oak Group These claims were bold liyL the locators to Mcsers John L Greenlee Co of Pitts burg for a handsome figure Assays I run from J5 to 5100 per ton This company com-pany expects to put thirtyfive men at work In1 the early spring on development develop-ment work and a 100stamp mill is ordered or-dered for this property The Brown Richardson GroupThis I I has been recently purchased by Mr Longfellow at 120000 It assays very high and will be a great producer Development De-velopment work on a largo scale and the election of a big mill wll be accon pushed at an early date by the owner All of the foregoing properties free milling gold propositions The free milling gold field as far as known at this writing covers a section of country twenty miles long and ten miles wide In addition to this free milling section there Is a section of country100 miles < v square that it Is very valuable In gold i and copper The assays show good values In gold and 35 per cent copper These coppergold propositions are on Big creek and Profile creek the latter being far richer than the former and the values a great deal higher than those just enumerated The Missouri George Group on Profile creek Isn very valuable goldcopper proposition the gold values running very high The ledge Is 100 feet wide and adjacent territory in Idaho will be seen the reproduction of THE FAMOUS GOLD DISTRICTS oC the past Idaho Is the State to give to the world a temperate zone Klondike Klon-dike Boise basin in this State has produced 200000000 in gold Florence 10000000 Warren 20000000 30000 I ounces being taken out In the first six I weeks of the latter discovery Warren War-ren Is but thirtysix miles from the l I I j I I I r y VKV xtYwwKv v f raagMiS fcflK A > J rc pa vV xJv > v i Wr > W iA v 45 WI SP5 4pi ilKi dgsl flr TSojB v V > > sp 5 i apv I v > r S u til I k 1 I r 5 j 1l I l 1 F > t pSs J = m F k > Jl pTtItr t tT 4 > V v I b k 1 > i YOre i f r y iife v i vjcvt x it fe e af > II d I J rru I J I JoI 1u I Ore Teams Loaded at Council With Machinery for the Seven Devils and stands up in sight 100 feet high I Ten miles north of Thunder Mountain free gold has been found running 5 per pound I All of the foregoing properties save 1 those on Big creek and Profile creek are located within a radius of three miles of the town of Roosevelt the I town of Thunder Mountain situated on Monumental creek near Its junction with Mule cieck I The altitude at the Dewey mine is 7500 feet and that of Roosevelt C230 feet Roosevelt Is the only available location loca-tion for a lon in the vlclnty of the great Thunder Mountain discoveries A postofilcc has just been established there with W L Cuddy as postmaster and a special service ordered from Warrens Idaho county Lots arc nowj on sale by the Roosevelt Townslte company com-pany and arc being taken rapidly at from 100 to 750 The accompanying map and the view of a typical freighting outfit just starting start-ing out from Council the terminus of the Seven Devils railway loaded with machinery and supplies for the copper and gold mines of the upper country together with a cut of the Caswell Bros cabin at Thunder mountain will give the reader a fair Idea of the local conditions Mr P P Shelby t the general manager mana-ger of the Pacific Idaho Northern railway will be glad to furnIsh Information Infor-mation as to rates distances outfitting advantages stage lines etc via the Wclser route The famous copper mines oC the Seven Devils aro reached also via tho P I N Ry from Its terminus at Council where dally stages and malls leave for these mining camps The excellent grazing agricultural and fruit districts of Council valley Hornet creek and tho pine for sts on tho upper Wclser Little Salmon and other streams furnish attractions at-tractions for new bottlers Price valley Salmon meadows Long valley and tho Payette lakes furnish hunting fishing and recreation as well as a very attractive at-tractive route for prospectors going into the Salmon river and Thunder Mountain Moun-tain gold region The Overland hotel at Council has been enlarged and refitted and noarly all the way parties can camp at night near landless and frontier fron-tier settlements on the way to new gold fluids Game Is plenty and the streams and lakes abound with trout so that no hardship need be suffered en route to these mines after the deep snow is gone from the divides A cutoff trail from Council will bo made by way ot Roseburg In the spring which will make Thunder mountain only 100 miles fjom the railroad for pack trains But for tho present the wagon road and malls go via Payette lakes and Warren This whole route Is not only picturesque but It Is one of great Intrcst which thousands will follow the coming season sea-son onMr R E Lockwoocl tho editor of the Welcer Signal In describing the Thunder Thun-der Mountain country In the Cleveland Plain Dealer says There Is every indication that In I the great Thunder mountain district r J new Thunder moun lain discovery where ore running as high as 3000 per ton was found late last fall All mining men familiar with Idaho are unanimous In declaring that it is destined become the greatest producer pro-ducer of precious metals In the United States It is pushing all olhcift hard as It Is and while California Colorado Colora-do Montana Utah and Nevada have had the benefit of thorough and scientific scien-tific development Idaho has been neglected neg-lected and has been handicapped in the race through lack of thorough prospecting Sst attention of I pecting and the cazIst capitalists and goldsetkers but these conditions are at last broken and the fame of recent discoveries In the Saw Tooth range has spread to such an extent ex-tent that next season will see from 10000 to 30000 miners flocking Into a portion of the State which practically offers a virgin field with almost absolute ab-solute certainty that a larger proportion propor-tion will find fortune or at least sat Msfactory returns than Have succeeded In any of the stampedes oC late years This field Is found In the VAST MOUNTAIN REGION of central Idaho the romantic region of the Saw Tooth range and Salmon river spurs The foaming waters of the gorgeously canyoned Salmon river and tributaries cuts through tho heart of this wonderful domain and as proof of the treasure hidden away In Its mountain recesses the sand and gravel bars of the Salmon river clear to Its junction with the Snake are Impregnated with golden treasure which the abrasion of ages has gathered gath-ered from the hidden veins and deposited de-posited in tim bed of the river Along this river a great placer mining industry in-dustry has sprung up The area of this but partially explored realm Is something like 700 square miles and around Its skirts Boise basin Rocky Bar Atlanta and Wood river on the south Salmon river and Glbbonsville on the east Florence and Warrens on the northwest over 500000000 have been extracted and while It may seem strange that the great heart of the country has not been long since exploited ex-ploited In qeorch of the central zone from which these minor deposIt have radiated Jt Is easily explained when we consider the many excitements which have swept the tide of miners from one place to another along routes which frequent travel made more congenial con-genial and safe from the treachery of the skulking Indian and so It Was that until very recently this section was penetnted only by the daring hunter and trapper who paid little attention to mineral wealth while on the watch for his proverbial red foe But now that the Indian has domesticated and has settled don to peaceful life on his reservation this enticing region I is as safe from such dangers as a city park and the recent explorations made have demonstrated the existence of great wealth awaiting the keen l re searth of man to unearth The coming year will see the INVADING ARMY OF TUNERSt 1 bivouacked on strcanuand trail 1 I c Ing from one side to the other of this promised land at will and the predictions predic-tions are that the next twelve months will electrify the country with a series of discoveries that will give It first place in the eyes of the mining world It Is an Ideal region i for the miner and mountaineer furnishing as It doss ap unlimited supply of large and small game and fish for his maintenance while seeking his SlakeclJc moose j I bear deer wild fowl and mountain and rainbow trout of most delicious flavor To the sportsman it Is an entrancing entranc-ing country of wild forests crystal streams waterfalls lakes and hot springs and affords an opportunity to hundreds of hunting pprtles who annually an-nually seek the mountains for pleas ure to enjoy a delightful season and by employing one or two prospectors fcvmlllai with minerals bag fortune simultaneously with bagging a native bull elk The country is already familiar with the discovery of thegreat deposits at Buffalo Hump where the owners of the ohlet jpropcrt3es ro rated aa nill i llonalres The Buffalo Hump lies on the north side of the great chasm Qf the Salmon river and is only a suggestion sugges-tion ofthe country lying Gixty to seventy seven-ty miles to southward on the opposite op-posite side of the Salmon While of late yearn very rich strikes of PLACER AND QUARTZ GOLD awe becn made between Warren and Thunder mountain whetting the appetite ap-petite of the adventurer preparatory to the great rush at which the country Is now on the eve three brothers named Caswell were the first to penetrate pene-trate Into and discover gold In the Thunder Mountain district proper These bold trappers hunters and miners mi-ners pitched their tent in the summer of 1897 upon the side of Thunder mountain this particular peak being so named because of the fact that frequently fre-quently when the weather 1s calmn and cloudless a lois rumbling sound Issues from Jle bowels of the mountain and can be henrd for mllea Tho peak Is an extinctivolcano and is suppose to Lc hollow and to the falling of crumbling crum-bling masses of earth in this cavity Is attributed the sounds heard The Casells began prospecting and soon panned out gold In encouraging quantities They immediately manufactured manufac-tured a rude rocker and In five days took out 250 in diibt They Kept their knowledge to themseU and the next season went back and began locating mining claims A cqnvas hose had I been brought in and when they had constructed con-structed ditches and sluices they had time to make a short run wHh the pipe the result was a cleanup of 1750 In 1S9D they took out 4500 by the same moans They did not put In all their time placer mining however as they discovered that a gicat hog back of peculiar pe-culiar formation Immediately under which the placers were located which stood 15Q feet high and 700 feet long was simply the big gold mine which by slacking and abrasion had produced the placers They covered this with locations loca-tions and commenced tunnels The next year 1900 between driving tunnel and other Improvements they found time to lake out 18000 from the placer ground During the present year Col W H Dewey a gentleman who had made several sev-eral million dollars In Idaho mines became be-came Interested in the new discoveries and negotiated with the Caswclls for the purchase of the property and in November Novem-ber the mine was turned over to Mr Dewey who paid the discoverers 100 000 cash Dewey had taken the bond on the claim early In the spring and all the season work has been going on under his direction In the course of these operations ore running 3000 per ton has been disclosed The Casvells were > permitted to work the pincers this year and toolc out 10000 As a demonstration demonstra-tion of the magnitude of this one property prop-erty may be cited the report of Mr Martin Curran well known in the West as a sound and able mining expert r k cSIjN I I J 1i I ll I r jiI iii I j 11 f oft I r I LcLrj I fp t f In Cnswells Cabin j I whom Mr Dewey sent to make a thorough F thor-ough examination Upon his report Mr Dovey paid over the money for the mine In the meantime mean-time 810 stamp mll1 had been sent into the camp and elected for next sea tons operation Mr Dewey went to pjttsburg where he had many wealthy friends and oiganlzed alarge conV J I I pany to operate the new properly The stock Is all taken and with JlOOO 000 In the treasury the company Is prepared pre-pared to create one of the largest gold mines In the world Next year a 100 4 stamp mill already purchased will l > j erected The Caswells have other val uable discoveries close by which they will now turn their attention to That the GREAT GOLD FIELDS Imnedlately surrounding Thunder mountain are very extensive la shown fiom the fact that 10 cents to 2 per pan has been obtained from placer beds In the vicinity while many sections sec-tions of the surrounding mountains and streams have not as yet echoed to the footsteps of man and may contain con-tain untold treasure About 200 men are wintering In the vicinity to be on the ground In the early < < spring Strikes made at various places between Thunder Thun-der mountain and Warrens are indicative Indica-tive of the Immensity and value of the Meld On Big creek great copper and gold ledges have been found Smith creek strikes have shown fabulous ore On Secesh creek two brothers Andrew An-drew and Eric Larsen took out W < jp this year in two months from placer deposits On Grouse creoJ Bohndlo and Broughm two old minors rl anfd up 7000 with a canvas hose Miners on Schlsler creek have all received big returns At Marshall lake a party of twenty or thirty men found fine free gold ledges cutting the mountains on each side of the creek These can IH worked by tunnels and without machinery ma-chinery or expensive methods About twenty men are wintering thro and at least 200 Idaho miners are pro paring to go to this point about fifty miles from Thunder mountain In thi spring Parties going In from Council the terminus of tho Pacific Idahs I Northern railway In Idaho will p35J all these locations A large number of Eastern people I I I ale writing letters of inquiry as to the I easiest means of reaching this alluring stretch of country and many ask If It I is expensive and from this it many be Inferred that the Invading army wll > not be entirely composed of Westerners Western-ers The Eastern man will find such a trip to be a pleasant recreation ant j1 a delightful summers experience with the chances In favor of It being moor mo-or lets I profitable Owing to the simps r requirements of the temperate cllnute ease ot carrying provisions and nearness near-ness to base of supply there la no heavy expense to be encountered An7 t r ordinary man can leave any part < i l the East with 200 or 250 or even much less spend the season In thC vicinitY of Thunder mountain and have cnoujjb left to get home on In the fill The man who has more funds will simply be enabled to be more extravagant his tastes or elaborate In his outfit but will be little better fixed for sue cess It it Is mineral wealth he Is look tInS t-InS for > j I After leaving Council thewason one 11nd3 road Whcl takes you to Warrens nearest to another base of 8UPPlcf 1c that c10 V nnd one tng the new gold region three rl119 tralU by reached In two or It Is f or any part of it From J arrej Thund f tysJx miles bypack trail Imp < rtant one mountain cros > slpg orW iumniu elevation ElkCreck I 1 1 |