Show THROUGH THE NORTH bonanza city w f U IVeal lh V cor to be JUNCTION the distance from challis to bo is about forty miles hence this by two hundred miles from blackfoot the nearest railway point custar is tiro mile further up the gulch towards and both custer and bonan lia ore located on the ORK lork l which i lucli at this point tanni ogden river at its mouth gulch or alcer mining has been done on this stream for several years and it boly two years ago that quartz codex were first discovered up to last november a wagon had never entered thi locality and all supplies had to be brought in prior to that time on pack animals ON LEAVING CHALLIS the road passes up the canyon of bardner creek several miles then over a divide and down into the canyon of Challis creek a stream fifteen or twenty miles long passing through a canyon that is impassable and impracticable for a road cionca he toll road afi at begins from that point winds up the side of the mountain going step by step in bariou directions ions and upon and over nuner oua points and terraces until it reauben a point way up of the mountain from whence VERT EXTENDED are obtained of a country composed of immense mountains From thence llie road passes along parallel with challis creek up and down grades and through a dense forett of fir and pine trees in many places these trees ibave had to be removed to make the road and to travel for miles in such dense wooded country was a new sensation for a utah man alio had not been amid so much grand timber for many years but as we travel on THE IS BEACHED and en excellent dinner enjoyed before corn men crop the descent int yankee fork much of the gamt class of scenery is passed while we are al the while getting lower down am the valley the road passe along celoso to the river until reaching here the first seven miles ol 01 the road has been improved by mutual exertion of interested persons and is a green highway thus far bul the other thirty three miles b the work of n corporation composed ol 01 R C chambers president fred phillips diw president J E dooly treasurer J F clasby secretary fred movers superintendent jame wm A norton aleace i goldborg and fred J kiegel thoe nien have shown in expending about in baak irek n good road for all classes of teams through a country that was not passable otherwise with anything pack animals and even difficult tor them without this roid it would thin th in been impossible to have brought in the ponderous machi nry of fh custer chills or to have erected ruch milf as will become numerous here in the near fatek pO fAK CITY con lams fully four hundred chabi of whom are minor or actors yet many classes of bus on here merchants carry very heavy locks of goods anc gel large ariee a they have to esti mate silao ten cents arp ca V f U AU the here are located in porphyry which is the best lion of GOOD aap yEa AXEr t one incident will the difficulties and success attending mining here wm A norton cam here in 1877 and engaged in placer mining and in 1878 discovered the lode now known as the charles dickens fred phillips of malmon city waa tr him with grub states and bortan felt that ho waa almost hopelessly in debt and proposed to give phillips an interest in the mine laughed at the idea bald li want any such claims but boull let have wha grub he want norton we back to pie mine dug ore through he day and with a mortar improvised fay a quicksilver lank in two ho pounded ot pro at night using a drill head for that purpose lu one month he thus pounded out ELEVES rive and went to salmon city ana pia billa and mrs phillips a deed for one third of the mine the next move was to put up an ar astra ani an I to do this all the irona had to bo carried on animal over one hundred miles from salmon city but this was done a race byirt lo 10 war power and two arr ere in operatis opera tim in a good building abot lyv ilmet square alua m act tots of ore are worked each twenty four jfe runa the ar astra only through the proceed ley an p pensive road up to the and ran in two tunnels and mule other important improvements end about ten thousand collaw apo th of bullion per month and this is dona by pack train over one hundred mile bf lail before caty n worked is rich to results and yet they have piled up stout oy that a agay nearly one lars because of imperfect appliances for properly reducing mine anel rn feel and JI olance ia in good ore one hundred feat below aliis another junuel has rea cluad feet and all ditt except eoma fiete n or twenty feet ii in good ore where the lode is well benned denned and is froc thre ao tw lv feet in which aipa lr ton while streaky ain yay up into the thousands they about fica tow ot good ore on alio dulip and lire pushing the nel and r jthn out ahti iff imf A ind ua known adiong the important of the atwi nl owners atre W abort n erful J bakr A indication i ilund in tho poet that the lode be bomes wider i nd deeper a it descends for int anpo in the upper funnel where the vein H o feet it i eit aust f th adl plo hundred feet below ahe upper tunnel i aln lev hundred 1110 about aveo fret above the wn hoffr 1111 marcs near here fully rab W affus nicke i tt la but fey re o work dono upon braf ty wy J country could not bo better adopted for this is in point of the rich supply of timber and water two very important features the blackfoot and bonanza stage line make daily trip avith commendable promptness bringing in communication from tho outside world thus making one feel not ao isolated as it othen viso would bo prices of supplies labor etc range proportionately high ALL HEAVILY the following is a partial lit of prices stonemasons er day carpenters miners laborers on all goods there is a tariff of four cents per pound from blackfoot to this place and it requires about twenty days for a train to come in and ten to go out empty so that freighters calculate one month as quick time for a round trip not withstanding this isolation from the outside world this camp is destined to become very active in production of bullion and many fortunes await the enterprise of CAPITAL AND LABOR the toll read referred to has the following schedule of rales of toll one anan and wagon eich extra animal 50 cents each pack animal 50 cent each horseman each hog or sheep 15 cents each trail wa goul the road is well built and required good engineering skill last winter the now filled up on this road from six to ten and was impassable but with the daily stage and occasional teams the route will no doubt be kept open in the future it will be seen by the various names given in this letter that atah HEX take an important part in yankee fork affair and I find them almost every turn wherever I travel in idaho and among such are numbered many of the most successful in these new districts BONANZA CITY idaho sep |