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Show BOISE HAS A CINCH Holds Thunder Mountain in Its Grip. THE CHIEF OUTFITTING POINT Storo In Idaho's Capital City That Tins Not a Thunder Mountain Department De-partment Is Not In It-Hotels Aro Crowded With, Speculators Anxious to Oet In, on around rloor of Any. thinR That Promises Well-Croakers Howl Because They Do Not rind Oold on Top of Snow. Helse t la June IS -Holse Cll) Is the metropolis of tho Thunder mountain countr) nnd although It nny be ncces-sary ncces-sary tn go via Welier )et ftolio pro-dominates pro-dominates b) lenson ot Its being the biggest clt) In Id iho I.lkc Colorado Hpiliigs' hold on Ihe (ilppl.i Creek dlstrl. t. owing tn Its cnpltnl and nttrnc tlons as a dwelling place for wealthy thy persons so Hob holds the Thunder Thun-der mountain country In Its grip All the hotels are crowded with speculators who arc anxious to get In on the ground floor of an) thing thnt piomlses to be a good Investment Nellber are Ihe merchant slow to catih on and nearl) all lb" stores havo laige ilacards In their fiont windows, reading Thunder Mountain .Supplies'' .Sup-plies'' -Thundei Mountain Htuft for Hale Here" "lhunder Mountain Outfits'" Out-fits'" The store that has not 11 Thunder Thun-der mountain department Is "not In It." CltOAKHIlrt Anil MHT. One meita iroikers coming out (or whose 1 nergy prevented tliem ever getting get-ting lu) vi ho decry the Thunder mountain moun-tain lioom Many of these started too early and when they camo to a swollen stream did nnt have the gumption to make a temporary bridge for their park trim by felling two big trees across the stream nnd luylng a Hip-ling Hip-ling between them, so tin ) came bick and howled I.Ike Crlpplo Crei k Ctcede, the Klondike and Nome In Ihelr e-uily dn)s, there were men who teturned by the thousands and pronounced these camps a failure hnow miijAi nn piiospncriNo Whatever the outcome of Thunder mountain. It was known list fnll that there were enormous bodies of low grade, free milling gold lock and the Dewey mill of ten slami will be Increased In-creased to lno stamps as soon ns a wagon road tin be constructed fiom Umiuett to the- mine. Prospecting could not be carried on with ten feet of snow- on the ground so Ihe "croakers' "croak-ers' have onlv their folly to blame In expecting to tlnd the gold laying loorc on top of the snow dhovhs or Pitospi.-crons. Now that summer has come the boom has sent hundreds of piospcds Into the hills nnd If there nre uny rich le.uli In that great country of thren hundred miles squaic they will llnd them M010 prospecting will bo done thli summer than would havo been done In twenty )ears without a boom. And the nilneis who llnd and locate prospects of any promise will hive no trouble In disposing dis-posing nf them tn good udvnntage for the speculators with capital behind them uro Just na anxious to get In on the ground floor us the proipector. WHAT CONCUNTUATION DOES. After all It la a good plan to select a district eaih ) ear and to concentrite nil tho energy on Ihat section In this da) of concenttntlon Is It not a grand sight to see a thousand men go together to-gether to accomplish a greut purpnsei Instead of a single proefiector entering the wilderness nlone nn army Is seen building railroads nnd wagon roads und towns In what wns a wilderness nnl something la bound tn come of all this cfrort, 111 spite of the croiken. WniHIHl THAHe llllCOMMn.S'DIH) Ono of the first men met by 'Ihe Tribune Tri-bune lepiesenlutlve hero was Phil Guldlcl. who had Just returned from the Thunder mountain, und ho Is no novice, having male, six trips during tho past winter and spring Hnvlng had sucli large cxpcrlcmc, he wus ut once asked particular I) about thn trails He without any hesitation, recommended the Welser trail ut present pres-ent ror the reason thnt the snow la nearly all gono und where then Is mi) allow the tiull has been shoveled out I'rom Welser jou go to Council by rail and from that place tn Halmon .Meadows hy stage, a disunite of ihlrly miles This leans )ou -35 miles from 'lhunder mountain All of this trip nitist bo m ids on horseUark or on foot While this mute Is longer than the othirs, It Is the must reliable trail ut I resent Later In the season, when the snow has all disappeared nnd tho ireeks are not swollen with high waur unv of the shorter trails rnnj be taken! VIITHHN HltN'DlIi:!) PIIOKPHC. 'IOHH ..i!r filidlcl estimates that there are 1500 peoplo In tin- 1 bunder mountain lountry at the piewnt time He m t .'60 homos In a sin tih of nine miles from the mouth of Hnilth mil, to l.ik eieek summit. Ho also met throe nai k trains going t 'ihundir innuiitaln i"L.J. ,n "k i"1" ',"". '"id he iliink,, them will bo ample provisions i subtly sub-tly all tho people who will go in n tho puck trains will be kept puking nil minniei. At Hmllh c rei k he met the llrst pack train. 11 Colorado ouiilt wllh thirty head of mules. He n. it ine ."J1';' ""'''""Ighly-lUH miles dls tnnt from Thunder iiiuiitiiln nvo m, k irnlns one. or twenl) lice mul-a , one of (Ig liteen he,,.!, Ik.ii, ,,,,, f IpplfeT 1"""" """" I'" Id.ig ill UlUMiPIt MOPNTAIN TllWN IildLd"!',1'" ' iV." ",y ""'".lent that !iT.i,.ic". " d.V" "'" 'liuu.lir inoun- Iii iL i "'" ""ly ' e- voit is one. m,d one half miles west or the liewey mine und lias lno K'stiii -'""' '"'J 'l""n and a number of lablns Pour mile num, nf i,in,; wi!",1,1"' ,",1"l,r Mounliln tnwnslie vv llo lln. miles ei.t Is Marble I y Willi a store saloon and leatiiurui t veil' ,.'" uTr""1',' 7 ru" """" veil Is the Imvnalte or HulKr i'il cede 'w "' f"" or Mnnuinc.,1,,1 eieek two and one half mil, .,,. -J frnivihxr-i ger'r'"..; """hlru '"''!"" HMMIITT A I riMl.vn TOWN A champion nt the Numpa 10111, m,i thut Hinni.it was n coming low,, oon aa the Dewoy wagon load is con, fletiKl there will b no olhc ouif r tlolso ieopl, Hminell ho and 1, ,a ,1 great futuie In feH y,a, b. shipping as lull h wool as ". , ' some of tin hlgg.at slice nm.ii, 11 Blale are locate" tl,,re And l,"s ?' a ,','f !!'9'"lll1,"!,llni camps nem it. v., rl' which hua soviial nc-uln shippers ' "tuut |