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Show STORY OF EARLY MINING IN IDAHO History That Has Never Been Fully Told Brilliant Record of Bygone By-gone Years May Be Told Only in Legend- -Gold Hunters Not Historians Story of Fort Walla Walla, Florence, Boise Basin, Wood River and Cocur d'Alenes. Pocatelln, idt Aug 7 Word comes that the m) stories of Tliundei mountain moun-tain ale nol )et tn be levelled Tho dlltUtiltles of rind building have dls-cuuuigel dls-cuuuigel the cntetprise of tiunspnrtliig the1 loo-mniup mill ordeied from tho Allls-i'lialmers cnmpnn). It Is now believed be-lieved thnt the mill will be tnkm lu on the snow next winter without building a wagon m til. Mining men have not lost faith in tho new' district on account of the tempuuii) hetlni ks. It has never been claimed that Thunder mountain wns nil) thing hut a low-grade low-grade proposition, which will tnke time and much hnrd work to develop, 8TOKY NHVllIt TOLD. This generation has but an Imperfect conception nf the mining history of Idaho, htrange as It ma) seem, the startling and remarkable events of edily enrs have never been set down In truthful nan alive This poveity of piovlnilnl lltiraturc inn) be accounted foi b) tho fuit tint miners uru not hlstoilnus. Tho impulse' that lendit men to dig gold fiom the until hits nothing about It to suggist the piesci-vntlnn piesci-vntlnn of historical Ilu ratine. It la llieiefoic u notable as well ns n do-ploiobte do-ploiobte fact that Idaho s liillllnnt nc-ord nc-ord In mining nflniis hus never been lieserved to posieill). A f i w men are Hill living who took part In the stir-ling stir-ling meiits nf neail) halt a eentuiy ago. Win n the) huvo passed uwii) the link that binds the piiscut with thu past will hnve hem brnkui, and I laho's hlstnr) will mil) ixlst In legi nd The exiiumeiit attending the '1 hundcr mountain gold dlsiovcrhs has bmught to the surfme glimpses of the earl) history his-tory of Idaho, when half the woild went mad ovir the tieaiiutes itvuiled In the lonely uiidoiis ot the mountains. moun-tains. rntsT finui niscovmtY. Hold wns Hi st Ui ov i red In Idaho In lW At Tort 'Wnllu Walla was a rap tnln lu the rehulur aim) iiumed II I) I'lerce He hnd talked wllh a Nez Pine Indian, who told fi romantic story of a blight an, I shining metal in the mount ilus In the summei of 1M.0 ('apt I'leree, with two irmpniilnns. vlsliod the Pirr, Indians and traveled along the C'baiwatir ilvei Tlu) got lost lilul would no doubt have p ilshed bad not a filenily squaw led them out of a wilderness or small , , bus dipt I'leice went buik lo I'ort alia Wulla, but Immediately letutned i, i uinpuuled by W T. llussett, Thomas Wnlleis, Jonathan Smith nud Iw i brothers naiuid John and Janus Iindgi Thus relnforud t'npt I'lerce loutliiued his sennh Townid Hie lieadwniirs ot a sniiill slienni thai flow, I Into the t'le ir-w ir-w iter ilver Hassitt nam ,1 to pan tho soil and obtain I u ut In gold The win,;, paily pi nn, 1 for siviial dn)s and u 'i "" In all lb v ilu ii idiiintd to 1', It WalU Wall i Mllimmli ll wan Into in thn si ihon H, ml I i- Smith mini ut a sin ill i ut) in I went to tho I lam when tin h u I h id hi i n obialiiid 'Hi, y i tni, 1 I, i Hi, Hint, i . , ,, finvcrnment r-itlons and took out JSOrt In gold dust. Hnrl) in the spring of If 01 Smith inndo hi way out on snow-sh.oes snow-sh.oes cnrr)ing the $WW. HUM I 1'HOM l'OHTLAND. H was sent to Portland, where It caused a blaze nf ev Itement In those primitive da) a man who wanted to prove th-it he hid found gol 1 showed tho metal as nn ivldeueo of gool fnlth In modem mining koM Is seldom exhibited, ex-hibited, the llrst Intimation being usually usual-ly a whcilliuriow loud of mining stock to be fold foi devi lopnient jurposis This coiupnilsiin Is diawn lo show the evolution In mining nperitlons The ihws nf the discovery triveled fnst nnd a wild rush mi lu from Poit-lund. Poit-lund. Simmers arrived dully from S-nn rranrlseo nud Victoria, bilnglng thou-sunds thou-sunds of adventurers Inside of sixty days the country wns oveirun with ml-ncis. ml-ncis. Tin urn Kino mliin wereoptnid, then those nt Pierce Clt) ftnd Klk c'lt) I'Llll'KHD SOHTHWAltD Liter the crowd stampuled tovvinl the south nnd dlseoviri I the riimoii mines ot Pimento Toward full James Wnrrens lm nted Warn ns's diggings. The dlsinvtiv nt Plonnio enuseil tre-liiendous tre-liiendous cm Itement. The camp divil-oped divil-oped Into one of the toughest places In the entire Wist, thlrt) men being killed tlm llrst ),ni. I'lour sold for Jl n pound lint mi lly,, butter $3. sugar $125, gum UmtH J10 a pair and tvery-llilngilsi tvery-llilngilsi In piopnrtlou In a newspaper newspa-per puhllshel nt Wall i Wnlli at the llmo nciurs the following piece of news A N-i:VTAI'i:i! Afcrii'NT. "S P Led) ird nulvel last i veiling from the Kiliuon rlvir minis, and fiom him It was learned that some nno luiiieis w mil winter thuo, thai some Son had gone tn tho smith side of the river, wlun two snuuns bend tint imply Into Hie Salmon, some thirty mllis Boutin ist of the present imiip nurse gold Is found, and as high ns IKio a di) to the nnn lias bun t iken out Tin big mining cl ilm nf the ol I lniullty lidoiigH to .Mr Wilsel of Oie-gon Oie-gon finm whli li JJi;,f was taken In one da) with imkiri) On the following du) Iijih wns ink, n out with the nun, nn-chlnis nn-chlnis nthi r i latins weie paving from two to ilv, iniinds u dny I'lour has fallen I, Du nts a pound, and beef nt 81 rents Is to bo hnd In iibundinie Most of the mines are supplied until Juno Ihi Mi I.edvaid met between Mate ir.,k and Walla Walla en unite loi tin- loin, k .ml packs and S10 bend or heir i ml, Tin "nni lu.vspnper, under dnte of Di 1 1 ml. i Ii ici, gives the following account of ihi 11HH diggings KI.PiiillH Ol ItirilNr.hB. 'Th' lib of emigration tn Salmon rlvoi flows xiuullly unwind During the vveik i ivt not less thin J."i pin k niilmnlh luiulv Inden wllh provisions hive I ft w ,n i Wnlla for Hie minis, If tin mlii s ne ono-h.ilf as ihli as liny an i- ,1 ',i be, wo may safely uil-iiilin uil-iiilin Unit miiiy of these tialns will leluin ii h, nily Inden with gold as tluyaii now with piovlslons Th, late news limn s luinn river si i mn in luivi hlvin th ill fi vii lo en i) body In this ImmcJIate nclghhnrh od A number num-ber of persons from 1 loicnco have arrived ar-rived In thn pi i e during tho week, ind ull bring the most rxtravaganl reports re-ports ns to the rlchnes of tho mines, A leport In illation to a rich strike made by Mr. Hildges of Oregon City seems to come well authenticated. The first dny he worked on Ids claim near Huhoose guli h he tool. 57 ounces, the seiond da) 157 ounces, tho third ill) !U ounces, nnd the fouith diy 200 ounces In two hours One gentleman infoiius us lint diggings huve been fount on the bars t Salmon river which )leld fiom 2 tents to J2 50 to the pan, nnd that on claims In the Salmon river diggings dig-gings have been found where ouncaa won't describe them, and where they say the gulches aie full of gold Tho dlscoveiei of Haboose gulch arrived In this ell) )esterdn), bringing with him slxl) pounds of gold dust Jacob Wclser Is on his way In with a mule loaded down with gold dust." TO JJOISi: HABI.V. The Jacob Wclser spoken of li the man nftei whom the Piwn of Welser Is niimrd The amount of gull exported ex-ported rrom l'lorence the llrst season was fl I'lOnoo. During Apill 160!, SOOo pei ions left Portland for the mines, and b) the end of Ma) 25 000 persons hnd passed over the trail. The amount of gold accounted for during 1V62 from the dlstilct was J7,000.000, and much more vvmt out of the country, coun-try, so that no nccount could bo kept of it. The crowd of miners kept puhlng south, nnd came to the mouth of the Ileilse river. The) went up the sticnin tn the t resent site of the town of Dolse, and then Hoveled exactl) north, camping in what his since been known n the llolse basin. One nf the p irty named Crimes wns killed lis nn Indlnii and his srave can still be rccii nn thn banks of a rreek that br irs his name. Tho cieek soon nfteiward became famous fa-mous for the rlrhnos of Its rlncer mines. That was In the full of li,l Tho death of Clrlme dlscnuingid his companions, nnd lliey went to Wall i Walla for the winter. The spilng of lSRi found llolse bnsln swarming wllh prospectors Hefore the llrst da) of the )enr 1SC1 theie were 3100 men In the district The towns of Centervllle, Ploneervllle, Placervllle, Granite t'retk nnd Idaho City sprang inio existence. Idaho City, formerly called Ilinnock, because the metropolis of the bisln country, nt one time hid n popu-latlnn popu-latlnn of 10 (KW Us piesent population Is probably about son In Ma), lv5, the town was destioved by (lie, only one building lielng left stniiding It was rebuilt, nnd two )enrs I iter was burned again The second disaster wns mine serious thnn the first, nnd the Place wns never rebuilt. The whole llolse bisln wns lined with gold Its. dimensions nre thlrt) miles In length, wllh nn nveniKo vvllth of llfieen miles Molo thin flSOOOOO,) was tnken out ot the hiMn, and ono placei mine Hits seiisnu produced JI0 00O It In owned by llrogun fi Lent) who operate with lt)draullc machinery, wood nivKit and conim DALKNM'S. The mining hlstor) of Idaho 1 ton long a stor) to tell In detail After the ruidi nf the earl) Gns the excitement Mihldd, until In 1SH1 the mining lu-iliislr) lu-iliislr) of the State wns at a low ebb. In 1S7 new mines weie discovered In CubI, r count) and cltlOTns of Salt Like bu ime Interested In several of them, notiibl) the Charles Dickens mine Till mine produced J32 0OO In two m nubs The Wood Itlvcr excitement came on a few )e,irs liter followed by tho Cocur ilAleiio stniu;ide In lss Thl was n t,old stnmpede tint resulted re-sulted dlsnstrousl) The Cocur d All no rounliy. bnwivcr It mlRht bnve failed In the production of gold Ins since given tn the world one-fourth nt ull tho lead used In the commerce of nations na-tions HOPi: FOP. ItAILltOAD. It is the fond hope of thoie who live lu the Isolatid sections of central Idaho that n. railroad will some diy be built from Unite lo San l'rnnclsco, opening the mltuinl ivHouices nr u vast iiiuiilry Hint nud only the ndvantigcs of transposition to develop Us raie ilch- |