Show PIONEER DAYS RECALLED James Iverson Tells Of I Gold Rush Days On Snake River I I ugh an lev with James 3 I horon I erson 1661 1 avlue th Ih the 1 twin In r 11 County t n hUl Its t w l Or o life In In- In t SO 50 veils 1 R ago dur- dur durIn dur durIng In I the he tulle time gold ws a ws mined In i Ih the Snake River valley alley in til the lc lcm It of Shoshone Palls Falls Fall JUnI Jumps B Iverson Iveron who ho ho has been ben a ies dent of ot Ogden Ogdon tot rOt care carea a a pioneer Ioner or of soU southern ern Idaho was Ie He w s Inte Interviewed le leed ed hy by l y C S al- al who ho ho t i I compiling a history of th the southern Idan Idana country The Inlet lew as was Tilt 01 in II In the T TIn In lolla pap na lie folo follows os s sI I 1 r w M born n 12 1 1845 on a little 1 Atre 10 O-M O rp tann of or poo land SOl come t two to 0 Jl 1 q Inland l ti Om the coast or of o my ni was wO va n a tail In charge ot or a ismall entail maH tiling ailing ship to a 1 n B n rare care careful tul UI management of or m nil ma moth e kept the th wolf olt lorn the door From th age or of or 7 7 to 11 I 1 I i I we e e 0 It t t ti tl in tile lie v Inter and In tie Pie ummer II 0 ked for tho larger farmers I herding aT ar ar eat cattle tie At tilo tho I age alte of C o 16 I r n Cm convened eo to 10 the theMo lh Mo 0 mOn Ion faith b some Bome 1 I ho ho nere ere ou hood who tout told me inc of o lila order fill order order- ml hll ind nd ni of offered In the land of ZIon Itah Ilah I II I tool took up n on but was called bv by the chur church ll and for or toni oui I ears earl travelled tra as a for tor forthe the IhA 01 mon church The itter ears rs ot of TO m mission I as t as hen nhen both m wife ar 1 I 1 long longed I 10 II go to Lo the future ZIon Salt Lake LakeI I cit We 1 left Copenhagen I JUll June 14 1867 tr travelled across I nyland to Liverpool I b jiom om th e eI eon eon I on the Manhattan I Sand end ing In ew ew York harbor July 4 I f by I lall all ail and steamboat to Omaha Neb ob h heie 1 e v vc e found out OUI means man exhausted ork buti lork d plentiful and to me rne the tho ages agea d sery try f y good In 1888 1868 I bought a tem team ot of o mutes wagon an nd harness and In June started starlett I the plains landing In Salt Lak Lake City about September 1 After ACter 1 afew t few tew diya In the tho ho ZIon Xion we e ent to 10 Hydo 13 Patk I where here here my wife Ife Ke had I 1 went ont to 10 work nork on the of o the U r P I railroad then building I Sj S j vaa IS a present when the golden spike aSS nas on 1 May 29 1869 at Utah Ulah connecting the tho Union Pacific and the lh ih Pacific I Rill RitO M I nm now flow a I member of o the Spike i so c I GoLD In the spring K of ot 1170 I heard the ery of gold cold 1 In Snake the on can southern Idaho fhe er d In tn Jul 1870 I Ilet tr re got ino mo ar and l on Snake let left Corinne id a river one s sevAn or da a Ia I ge eral eral hundred tor ter hel 0 I found s men mining up and down the river from sho Sno hone Falls all to 10 the tho mouth of Dry creek Every EHry day brought In new men and at th the peak peal of ot cx- cx ex excitement x- x ment there thre were between to I and three men mining In Inthe inthe Inthe the ran an on There were Ie eral to tons ns on the river the first just I of Dry creek bo abose e th the mouth o caned called Dr Dry Town tho Iho only thing I dry at at- Di Dry Town Ton wa was the th water and there zerO ere two general stores here everal se eral saloons restaurants and nd blacksmith shop Lower do down n nat at Twin Falls FaliS there two 10 gen gen- gener gen general er oral eral 1 stores tores one kept by Stevens to situated on the top of the rock rim rock rIm rock and one olle on the flat near tha river operated by a man byth bythe by byh th the h name of Reddin There were also niso three saloons loons with dance halls balls hail Lin In This Thle tOl town ton n was vis called Shoshone Bho ln In the of tot 1171 1871 Steen Stevena Hasling flailIng mo moved moed ed their star stor to town D which Is la situated a out I I I halt half a mile 1 below elow where her the Ian sen bridge is now Tn This became the of o the river rl Th re were wre several se genal stoics the largest larget I of which Mch was I iun un by IG i c cI I Botzet There Mere re vur saloons I I and dance halls halts a 0 ferry to take men and gc goods to the nOl th fide pido of the rh ri river er There was consider considerable able gold geld taken from from tile small mall ma bail hat bal Ih the miners made about 10 Sl I per la da dav or 01 ot looked for tor better belle 11 OU nd I l I t 1 went ont ent In to partnership with I an old 01 1 friend reter pter An eon ant I 0 opened up a about half It Ita a n between Shoshone Falls Fals Twin T and fo n e orl- orl P this claim for tor several eral months month 1 I LI taIL fall nit wo klif or II I t two tiso I men nten me I In- In besides ourselves I 1 Bold m ani and joined Yo m Ite who had com come ouT our from I Ithen then a II on 01 the a shoil e above e Spring Spring- I to tO town U II Ou OUt Oui lIU girl was thee true Y all ale old anti anil 0 only chill 1 In InI Snake el can canon on I w was In the thet thi t hs Ia laws IV of ot the ehe mining district as asI a I diali 11 n b bi the T i 1 clause clausi for for- forI for I i anyone to 10 sell their ground lo 10 a Chinaman In Irr 1871 an elec- elec election dec tion was ass held to I this la law but was as sa lot t I oil b bv b a t large larte f I In 72 I went bent nt to CorlOn bought I R a little bunch of ot ow cows drove them their back to Riser RIter valley va lip and an l 10 I cald a ranch on Cotten the mile went vest of Oakley station Thi I was wa a I Ilio he w-ond w lanh ianth I 1 In the I all Loter Io and had located a lanch anch on Warm reek creek three miles west nest est of or me ie sometime I before Alnut Al out this thin tine the tanch now Itow ll JnO a as OS L IAh Construction I I lanch and on flock Hoel cree creek was al located I b a man h t bi the nam nami j of ot lna Cana I van an oni crop crops were re barley barlev spuds and ha hav o e thought v e could not notral raise rale c DIllS Barley sold sohl for tor about 2 3 etnis c ST around 4 cents h ha dell dellel el ed edt at t the stage blage 1 IC IQ 16 per r r ton Our trading post wn was Hot k Crek Crp k store kept bT by Ia JamesB James I B l om later hv by Herman Sta St Icker CHILD IS II I on M Mv 1 son on James was stolen on pil I 1 1875 1878 when uon he nas as as 3 old We e could ouid find nd no lace tiace ot of him hint fo foi tOI 13 ears ara 01 ot until 1888 h hen n through h the aid of a frIend he he was f found fund und usIng with vitI IL a timily In In Ilah and was as as I and a aI I happ affected This I is a along Ion long sometime I will alIt tell tel It to to ouI ou I 1 the he settlement on Rock Fock creek grew f fate tel th than an the other othor settle settlements ments and soon all the land on Iho the n creek was as as located 1 h mines on onI i I I Snake Ivel went ent dow i and got In into i ito to the hands of or the i Th There re was as 38 little or no m l maike k and an anIt lit It was as as flit nip and tuck with the tha set set- tie for tor eal S the only chance to t sell any was vas as the stage sins line freighters and Immigrants Immigrant But a gl giett elt Chango change took place property t almot almo l like 1110 magic 0 oer- oer er- er took this settlement In 2903 1903 the settlement at Hock Kock Creek that hat themselves poor had hai ben been made rich On tl 0 sear vear nr the th talc tai roll showed sho Ihil th-t Ih this settle paH pali the t ta ax per cap cap- capit cap 1111 it ill ot of any like Settlement nt In the tate 1 believe the th ie a as not 1 i iman man who lee h e hi his mail at nt Creek Creel and who vrho was aas a th lh eid eld of a and an actual settler that Va was rated ess than 13 Theis Thet e a was sag a au caus c-aus toi tot this Ihl Through the untiring energy of o I I I J 13 n PerrIne the dam an I 1 the Ibe big ditch construction had furnish furnish- cd ed a markt market with aith goo gooc goor prices priced fot fOI ail ad their produce and theli and holdings had In value alue Through the en cn ergy of ot this man it St wi made madeI I woith h for the Orgon Or gon hort lAne to 10 build a 11 an 11 line Into TIn TV T In PaIls aile alley The Ali to-Ali of T Twin TIn In rails made the most Iro th from I I sage age age brush to city of any tural town to In the United States I I almost almol rivaling tonic some e of the eary ery da da mining camps campI alt all he- he heI beI I causa caus I 1 B R r I a drca drean of uniting soil and Snake river riser water ater ha hai haq materialized nen I 1 visit our beautiful country I 1 I sometimes onIe it If the Ille goo good l lI I people of thee the th rain r In Fall Falls tract fully appreciate whit tills tale man has hasdore hasdore dore dorc |