Show RUSH kUSH TO THUNDER MOUNTAIN FIELDS I I WILL BE LIKE EXCITING DAYS OF 4 49 9 1 Agent gent of Eastern Investors Invest Investors t tors Declares Region the Richest Gold Co tJ AU 6 t V B j v vt t I fi g I Ever Ex 1 fed 4 E EiB EB B Simmons of Spokane who represents representS rep rep- resents Eastern investors In Inthe the the Thunder Thun Thun- der lIer et in mountain country has just returned iJ the r ne new mining cam camp Speaking king r. r e various routes by w which one may mayner n ner er the new Eldorado and of the reK rek re- re K k Awards I ards which will meet the tho fortune seek seek- er Cr r after arriving there he said r- r Thunder mountain has had enough t y T G development work worl done on its various 1 JI ledges to show that it is one of the 1 I richest gold-bearing gold territories ever yet discovered discovered The country is literally filled hued with auriferous rock of an an easily rallied nature Colors are to be found I wherever one cares to wash out a pan pan- ful of dirt Fortunes will be made there thereas as they once were in California and I IIi Ii would not be surprised if w we e experience just such a rush as there was in 49 if d Stage Line Via Salmon Ci City 1 There are aie four or five ve different routes by which Thunder mountain can be 7 reached e ched and people are going in al already al- al ready Salmon City has a good stage line jine as s far as Yellow Jacket which is r ii about out fifty miles from the mountain and Ketchum arid and Haily Hally are aie each booming booming booming boom boom- ing a. a a route through their respective towns Boise Bolsa s endeavoring to secure a a. share of the travel by way of Bear alley valley This route rout is a very bad one one Welser Weiser and Council route is is being beng well ad and will no doubt get its ha share hae e of f the rushIn rushIn rushIn rush In the north we have ha the Spokane and Stites route loute via Ma either Dixie or Warrens The northern route is is by long lang odds better than either of the routes L if cm pm the south as the divides are lowr low- low lowen er en r and there are more stopping stopping- places I I came over the Dixie trail and found it itIn r In good shape First Twelve Miles the Worst The first twelve miles out oat of StiteS are re the worst on the trip being very I r. r and a E steep grade When you are a little up the first divide the road hardens and It is good traveling to the summit This first divide is the highest highest high high- est load on the Dixie route being about feet high Dixie Itself is the next highest point being feet altitude Fr From m this on the ascents are comparatively comparatively easy The divide between the Salmon river and Big creek is no higher t than tian an Dixie and one does daes not have to go any higher than that unless he climbs Thunder ml mountain itself No Better n no Month Hence Walter Waiter HoVey HoVel Hill who is in ir the employ of the Northern Pacific is surveying sur sur- the road from fron Stiles stites to the mou mountain tain in order to ascertain the correct correct correct cor cor- distances lie He has bas found so far ar ha hat ah an average between ti th the minimum and Jn Xi rum distance estimated t d by t h have ve been bean over over overY th the trail is about abou tC correct i The trail will vill be no better a month from now than han t Is at resent present As it J is Is s the high Ci s he be beSt beat t condition con con- dillon for tr traveling g and the low ones are bad A month from row now the low I 1 divides ides wilt wilL be in good shape shap but th thI the I high ones will be ver very very- soft |