Show A MINERS experience J S templin Te naplin a well known idaho mining man interested also in jail cali fornia and in mexico in mines who makes his hia home at salmon city but who when winter sets seta in has gold mining ij ia chamberlains basin has arrived at san francisco after having had a very narrow darrow call for his bis life says gays the Aron tele he and an associate named barney tolman were snowbound in the basin and on april alth their condition was fraught with imminent danger by the fall of thirty inches more ot of snow enow this amount fell in eighteen hours they had food remaining but all they had for four horses which they had brought in over ever the bitter root boot range with them was ten pounds of grain knowing as mr templin told last night at the palace that the horses hones could not possibly be nut gut and that they would starve it if left they shot all of them and then started on a mile walk over the bitter root boot mountains to elk city to cross these mountains they had to go to an altitude of feet luckily they struck an old cabin on the evening of the first day where they found four pairs of snowshoes and selecting what they wished I 1 the n next ext morning came on rapidly for sixty miles to the salmon river from there they footed it to a place known as Gard gardner ners ranch where they got horses and rode miles to lewiston mr templin says it was a wild trip and the weather bad the region mom from which he started in chamberlains basin is the place of the great glaciers discovered last summer he says the glaciers are numerous sod and of great size the mountains about are co covered verell with pine spruce and fit fir timber he says these mountains also are full of wild game he and his partner he said saw sonie some moose and many elk the moose are protected by an idaho law jaw but the elk are plentiful enough everywhere every where in that region and need no protection he saw many of their yards also the places where they huddle at night or durings during a storm as cattle do in a corral numerous wild goats were seen while exa eu route too as well as some smaller game bears which he be says are plentiful were all hibernating mr templin comes to california often and frequently buys goods here tor for different mining companies which he represents he says the salmon river gold field as well as an those of california are attracting much attention among colorado mining men and that they have been buying aud and bond ing a number of properties lately |