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Show WILL BE IDAHO'S GAIN i i The 6re.it Rush to the State This Season. TRAINLOADS NOW ARRIVING The State to Gain Twenty-Flvo Thousand In Population This Year It Is Too Soon by nt Least i Month to Undertake tho Thunder Mountain Trip, for the New-Comer The Hush Will Change the Toll-tlcil Toll-tlcil Conditions Uuahunj Inter, cats Rejoicing. Mr W H Allen who wi, recenll sent out by Tho Tribune to make a tour of the whole Slate of Idaho to Investigate Ihe man routes to Thunder Thun-der mountain, returned to Hilt Lake terda nnd related nn Interesting story of hi, experience "I left Silt Lake March first ' slid Mr Allen, 'and since thnt lime hive been on the go tonllntiallv completing complet-ing a trip undertaken by few pi rami, since the Thunder mouiituln excite menl was lilaugurited last November I traveled by rillroid and stage line some thieo thousand miles ' HOW T1IK STATU OHOU'fl Continuing ho said "Wonlerful strides have been taken by Idiho since I first rode over the Short I.lne upon its completion In nbout 1SW to Huntington, Hunt-ington, Just over the border In Oregon, Ore-gon, nnd yet the developments In thnt time. Immenre as the havo been only emphasize tho more tho resources et untouched It nppcars that In the central cen-tral part theie remains a vnst ex-pnnro ex-pnnro of virgin land Interlaced with mlnonl. producing mountnlns and llf-giving llf-giving stream, of water It Is curloii3 to note how little Is known, lenlly, about the State by tho country nt lirge. An examination of maps Bhow, that railroads have been built nlong th" Inner border north, cist, south and west, with an occasional spur running a short distance to the Interior. Of the thriving town, and cities, of colonizations, colo-nizations, of irrigation nnd water-power water-power piojocts, of the ranges, nnd of tho mines located on or near these railroads, or even the stage lines, the majority of people havo long been fa-miliar, fa-miliar, hut of tho Interior or central portion nf the State from the Hivv-toftth Hivv-toftth mountnlnB to that great forest reserve known ns the Hitter Itoot, there Is widespread Ignorance nnd It a p. pears the leaRon for this Is found In tho hitherto Inaccessibility of the region re-gion nnd not because, as many have supposed, tho place Is ono nBt area of arid lands nnd general worthlessnoss Why, there Is not even a perfect mip of the plnce! No Interest wa, sufficient suffi-cient lo require It AH Government and State maps have been proven absolutely ab-solutely unreliable slnco thu Thunder mountain excitement first Inspired such a thirst for knowledge, nnd special spe-cial maps have been drawn In every locnllty and drawn to suit the Interests Inter-ests nr the drawcrR, too Control Idaho Ida-ho Is nt last to bo exploited The rush Is already on! Tho wholo State, nnd the West, for thnt matter, will reap the benefit." . WHAT IS nXPCCTHD. ' The census of 1810 gavo Idiho a pop-ulatlon pop-ulatlon of 81.5IS. that of 1001, 1S1.7I.', the very lowest, estimates of conservative conser-vative men gives 10 000 nn the number of people coming this ear, 25 000 Is confidently predicted In many quarter, quar-ter, while the Governor of tho State nnd miny men of standing who aro In position to bo well ndvlsed assort that the population will bo Increased by upward, up-ward, of 100,000 during the present year, INTEnnSTING POLITICALLY. "Politicians are all at sea. What ef-feet ef-feet will nil this havo upon the into? Republicans, Democrats and 1'opullslB nllko are sitting up nights guessing In vnln. Thero never was a Hko situation. situa-tion. Democratic statesmen claim that It Is miners who nre coming, and miners mi-ners they say, nro all of their faith Itepuhllcans are equally confident thnt it is the farmers from the central States who constltuto the marching hostB nnd thnt they nro forever for 'Old Piosperlty,' while Popullstn think well, thero nro only a few nf them left, and It matter, llttlo what they think or clnlm Hi a close volo Dem ocrooy carried tho State In 1900 If conditions were lo bo tho samo next November that verdict would certainly be reversed, for nil sides nre heartily sick of tho present status As It Is, I believe opinion generally In and out of tho Mnto Is th.it tho Immigration will Insure Republican triumph Hut nil partloa are happy over the pro,, perlty which Is knocking at the State's doorwajs In an) event. COMING IIY THAIN LOADS "Hvery train from the Hist Is from one to six hours late nnwndavs in Idaho They nre dlived hy tho heavy travel livery car Ik crowded by home, seekers, miner, nnd boomers Few of them posfess return tickets Men lire dropping off singly, In pairs nnd by croups at every Important Junrtlon Thej nre looking for rhnnee, tn begin life anew In a loiintr fairly teenilng with Inviting opportunities. Porno of theso passengen, it Is true nre headed fnr the rich linda of Oregon way to Iho north nnd west hut n large ma-lorlt ma-lorlt are for Idaho And the enst-hnund enst-hnund Short I.lno passenger train, nro nlwnjB on tlmr-t-nnd empty It has been n greit privilege tn wltne,s nnd study these thing, nnd lo be nble lo vouch for them If the Immigration is ns extended ns ptosenl rlrcum slnnie, so rlearlj piomlse, II Is golnr to nttract widespread attention, nud the yeai will be an epoch-maker. THI'NDHH MOUNTAIN ROl!Ti:i ' The nll-nbsorbing theme." continued Mr Allen, "Just now Is how to get to Thundei mountain Tho high altitude or the Innumeinblo mountains In tho portion of Idaho now nttrncllng the most attention, nnd their nnrlhcrnly cllmnle, Iuik made them, no If by Divine Di-vine Providence, n Malaga place of Inexhaustible In-exhaustible snow, which In summer siipplle, all the nlleH and meidnws with wuter nnd these rich land,, now nil unsettled, will undoubtedly eventually event-ually clilm the attention of the new. comers, but Just now It Is gold they mo after, and. n, every one knows hy thl, time, a Bleat number will find It In tho vlelnltv of Vlneg-ir hill "How to get thero' Seven different route., uro wldelj advertlaed by twice as man) communities, all the way from H2 to 22j miles nwny from that place On the south nru Halle. Holso, nnd Kmmlt. on tho west Is Council, on the north Is Htlten, nnd on the east me Mackov an 1 what Is known ns the lted Itock-halmon route. These places nre all Inviting the world to pass through theli gates, and each onn in turn Is ntsolutely euro that It holds tho kov to Die situation In this connec. tlon It Is Interesting to note thnt some peoplo nrq going to look fir gold III the mountnlns Othem aro laying for the go'd hunters he result of my study nf these mute, nt close rungei might be of Inter, est to tl o public but I hesitate to bring down on mo the winth of thosi In-teiested In-teiested In loutes 1 could not favor Tor somo of them aro lirepostemus, and ihoio who attempt them will re grot It " A WARNING TO PftOSPrCTOrtS. "All persons going to Thunder mountain moun-tain will do well to study tho situation thoiouglily. 'I here Is today not a troll, and miicn 1 n wngm roid open to thnt i untrv, ind despite the grrvl ef '"nnl to make on or th other It t billev d that It will bo Impossible to lo "ii toi ovir a month Men have walked in m snowshoes ovei vniliu, loutes hut thej are enduring in told hardnlilp, VVhllo I was In t ouncll the bodies of three men who had pcrMie I In tho snow weio brought out Others who hud gone In larrvlng fiom foity In slxtj pounds of food on their ba kn i a no out with the report Hut with that sii ply the) hid been able to ntak out n few clilms In the snow nnd th n had to hurrj out for moro food Thev spend two weeks walking and two weeks working while there On. n n took a kodai with him nnd brought out a pleture of the famous onmp Thl tirtiiro showed the snow three fe i deep ever) where around Pewov i mill Ihe route from Halley will b th. ehoitest In summer and a great tnniiv old limerB swear b Hnraie lewis tin veteran singe mnn who promises to 1m the first one through with his wagons He Is now bucking nine feet of snow on the other side of Sawtooth range nt Sir Toil in While 1 was nt Salmon this week n pack tialn of about eighteen mules left loidcd with supplies hoping tn broik a trail through It Is to bo hoped tint the, mav pueeeed for the buslnee, men of that route are working with nil their might to deserve a Hrge rlnrc of the travel A lirge crowd of prospect ors hive gathered nt that point and the Vngeler Btnsre line from ltrd Hoe k Is carrvlng small numbers of men that far every da at Tin: m:w CV.MP Ml linos nf business will soon bo cHtiihllshed nt the new cutnp There Is a complete newspaper outfit nt bnltnon rend) to orosm to the new I.ldorndn at the tlrst i banco And from far nnl mar the pob are on the march Many oil tlmcis who nre more or less fa mlllnr with that cnuntrv till vou tint von ilon't cnteh Ihem nttimptlng to enter until Mav at lend, and thai It is all foolishness for nun to tr to nc compllsh mi) thing now This ma) or nanv not be so I ana a tenderfoot in) self hut you enn put me down for pre dieting thil when those men ride Into Thunder mountain In cany stages n few months from now the) will find a set tlement there of hundreds upon Inin drods of men who gobbled It all up In tho glorious month of April, 1102 I wish I hnd gone m)solf ns soon ns the news of the discoveries was given to tho worll last November There Is no oiny path One must walk, and crawl and walk through mm, wnter nnd mud, picking the wa over high cold innutitnln, and through pathless forest, for-est, nnd clnngerou, gorges enduring Buffering, pursuing, braving death, risking totil failure Mnny will perlah. no doubt Somo will make fortunes" |