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Show 4 rt day residents that their surroundings were once the Nes Perce Indian Res, ervation. The town of Winchester took its name from the famous rifle. Orogrande and Grofino, meaning 'plenty gold" and "fine gold" respectively, -- Spanish----long go-by stragglerafrom California. Elk City grew up around a single pine treevwhich, legend has it, was r U o , ' nd a It -a- $ t I CIA i NLA .11-- I 1,..) .11...6" A. ' ,,, ! J , , 'V - . , I. . , - ' ,,,. ., , -4,-''- '''''''' - a - , , , ' s 0 , .e ., , -0'- ' t. i , ' . - , ' - . c , , , - 1 - , , 4 ' - . , ' - f - tionalities, Is now cashing In on gold passed over by hasty nineteenth cen, tury miners. Hunin settlement Dixie, mining dred Dollar Gulch, got its name many years ago from , homesick Georgia prospectors. The gulch re-- ceived its name, by the way, because nuggets washed from gravel in a . single gold pan at ,i ts bottom often The whole town of Dixie has changed hands at least three times in the last five years. Present owner, Wendell Stout, is hoping that his purchase will repeat its past history. Gold strikes nearby base - created three booms in the town, one eVeri bringing widt it theonly grand piano for scores . of 'miles around and a Waldorf-Astorchef. ' "Besid social tetAoalhersour ia - - , 4 - , ,, . ' ' rti ' , . , . , , - ,, - , I . 41 - ..; , ' '' - , I ... - - ,- ;- 4, - . - . I - , i i , ..... , .' '"""; , --- , , '. ,' I I , 0 ,, '. ..,f. .., - ,, . . - , 01 - N6 . .4 . i four--- miee-use44- ' 1 Chinese renegades. The little community of 300. people, which once I - I , - - si ' .,. says Chief Brinker Ben Bear of Oralino. Members are casting interested Lewis eyes at the - nearly-complet- ed .........,andClatIL.Zrail-Righway--being- --- hacked through the mountains to their river from Montana.- This , , ', , , - , , 'k''' , 4 . -- - ---- - inimmolimmo," ' a.m. , .411,11Eidito (,) , li SwIriomatigt - ; , liffiNOMNfiliMIIIMISimillinemmral,041111011161110,,,allomwohil , - , I --- '''.. -' , 44744404.441, 4010111,04.41114444.140110 11011101 444, . - After 303 people had run off the tricky curve - and into the Clearwater, a club. was formed,- '' IV'. ' - 'By BOB FORBES HE SPIRIT of the Old West, which Mark Twain spun a yarn about in "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," , still lives in the Clearwater River country of Idaho. , A bunch of the , 'boys" from the small towns of golden and Fel Creek, after missing a curve of their tortuous river highway and taking on unexpected bath in their ears, decided to form T ' . ,. - , ' mishap . : And this Brink and a Half Cllib, founded in the autumn of 1947, soon had a charter membership of 300 hardy charactersall' of whom had been on the river's brink In their autos and then had bounced oft into ' , - the drink- . But friends of the charter mem-hers, who had never piled into the' 10 . . ,, . star for each dunking teeing Clearwater, wanted in on' the It, unique organization. Membership is now open to anybody who has driven the twisting road beside. the river whether or not be shipped water, as almost every old timer has done. At last count, Brinkers numbered 4000 people scattered in every state in the union, Alaska and Hawaii. However, only charter Brinker get membership cards to which gold 1 A number ' have Brinker? agitation for roads. The club members had het- ter take it easy. They might get their reason for existence all straightened out. , . Co4- L ,... 1 ' . - - iiira,13eiiirelicyrua.7"-- bag in the liver. s; As many as six of these marks of merit have thus far been handed out to a single per ' son. charter', Bunkers' home towns most of which depend on mining if they're not lively ghost towns, are as interesting as their rough and ready inhabitants.. ICarnialk Kooskia. Alt- sakah and Weippe remind present- - ' make possible.- travel primitive 'midriff where no through road exists for a north-sout- h distance of 300 miles, and tourists to the foam- awlarwal Idahots.--:. come from - members were awarded a will g. . . route across- - ' , - - ' ' mnemówmAzoncionnateensafto . 0 . t., .....................,-....,...., otthe accidentt were little more than a dunking which, required a tow truck to get the car out But other Brinkers ,have hod their cars smashed in the descent into the river, as did this sod charter member. MANY. . DISERET NEWS MAGAZIKE.,SALT LAKE' Citt, 4 W51 - |