Show TIIU THE IN SNAKE llvell CANYON there Is sold to bo be kold gold enough in tho the snake canyon idaho to lo voy pay the debt but it la is very to reach tho the stream iowa flows through tho richest gold fold belt of montana moninna and adato and tho the miners hava been atlo allo to 10 reach the ibo send or gravel they have bave so EC cured rich results re sull thirty years yeara ago the tha around tile tho falls A all B alvoy vol wining camp and more than there Is ia a little boach beach just above nuovo LOWMAN ibo ta lis covered several bot feet of 0 fanu ainu sand band it la is about NO feet act long ion and GO CO feet wide aklo there ibero in 1803 too to cu cavanaugh and pal ilat garrity washed out more than ODO IQ in a few boetto und kind several years eura luler later same boua Cai namen went over the iho aamna sand baud agal aaen 11 und and uund found half as much more all ali the iho way up and down the canyon in evory every nook and corner wherever rover the ibo sand band has lodged among efio bottema boi of the war liko cliffs the miners worsted on flat bouts ard and somo some rich deposits were discovered it la one place waltre tile ibo current strikes with lull full lorce force a pocket containing several hundred dollars was washed out in a 1 aay 1 ay this demonstrates n as the diners childes chilies that tho the silent river is loaded with rold gold but its perils are great for tile curlent li is so no and that it boat Is easily carried over the iho falls so bo far as known thero there has been but ono one disaster of this kind tom bell a miner who lived to in a cave cava with two wua was coming down the stream lla la a boat beat SOMO YEars no go when ono one of tile a oars ars broke and although le gILd desperately tho the other not to curry carry it ashi arloro ore tb ibo a leaped into tile tha water hopin ing it io in supposed to find safety urion upon ono one ot the ibo rocas above the abo falls but tie he saw that destruction was cot ceita maln ln stood alood upright in tits hl little bouts boat folded his bla urns arms and looked death squarely in in tile tho faco face ills fits body was a u low ow days day lat r several miles below and after a mouth month or more the iho cornea of men alan su ono one of the chinaman was found la in some borne drift wood that had bad lodged only a few hundred yards yarda under tho falls ile had 1000 in gold dust on oa lie bla dersom and his bla bones were sent across tha hj ocean to bo be hurled with thole of hit hie fathers A man was paid 1175 to carry the coflan in a cart to tho the ri station on tile the union Pa cilia rall railway way the body ol of the other was wa never found chicago record |