| Show GOLD IN SNAKE RIVER CANYON chicago record thare ii 1 sac aad I 1 td be kold eliu fph in th stake clr bihy ob idah 9 td 0 pay abb r tery to reach the stream plows through ghr the riet richest test gold belt of montana and idaho and wherever the miners have been able t 11 reach the sand or gravel they have secured rich results resul tr fairty years ago the amphitheater ground around the shoshone falls was waa a lively mining camp and more than of gold oust dust was washed out there there is ie a little beach just above the falls covered with several feet of fine sand it la is about 20 feet lung long and 60 feet broad there in 1663 tom cavanaugh Cava naugA and pat garrity out more than in a few week and several years later some dome Chin chinakea amea went over the same sand again and found half as much more all the wy way up and down the canyon iu in every nook sea aed corner wherever the sand has lodged among the bot turns tome ol of the warlike war like cliffs the minera worked on flatboat flat boat and some rich deposits were discovered la in one oas place where the ne current strikes wibb tull lull force a pocket containing several hundred dollars was washed out j in a a single day this demon 81 rates as the miners claim that the silent river is lo adaA with wilh gold but its perils are great bof the current to is so swift and tre treacherous sebere that a bout boat is easily carried over the talk falls 1 so bo far as a known there here has been but bat one disaster of this kind tom be beuk a minor miner who lived in a cove cave wk kb h two was coming dovah dolgin abe stream in a bout boat some years am when one on of his bin oars broke anal altet ucb he struggled desperately tie other was not sufficient to carry it ashore the leaped into to the water hoping it is 19 supposed to flu find d safety a pow one of the room rooks above we the falls but bag bell whon when he be saw debt destruction ruction was certain stood to in tile bis littler little bout boo folded his arms and looked death squarely in the tace his body ws was recovered a to few aa dayn later several miles below ano and of aftel a month or cr more the corpse of mork joao oneff one of we toe was fou found is some driftwood hat had bad lodged only A few hu hundred ad red yards u under ad or the tails fall 1 4 tf bad in gold dust on his and his bones were soot sent across tb ocean to be buried with those of la fathers A man was paid tomary the coffin in a cart to tibe the nearest a j tion on the union pacific railway ta body of the other chinaman was was never found |
