Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-28 | Page 1 | Old Trapper Startled by Progress as He Emerges from Idaho Wilds

Old Trapper Startled By Progress As He Emerges From Idaho Wilds BOISE. Ida., June 28. "You know It hno always been a mystery to mo to know how all the people you sec ln a big city like Uoise make a living,' 6aid lhi,i wl. pioneer trapper of Idaho, who came to Uoise Tuesday night, afui an abseiic of l years Mr Lewis his not been in the .pilot city since 1N7S. He W told iiihi the many offices of the olty provided I employment for the city's Inhabitants to which he answered thai his office i for the past 60 years has been the I wild for. sts and his living ha, been : tht wild animals inhabiting hi- ''office." ''of-fice." Mr. Lewis lives on Big creek, about 120 milos northeast of Cascade beyond be-yond the Thunder mountain country. 1 Big creek is a tributary ot the Salmon Sal-mon river. I With ihe exception of two years. 1 90S - J 0. spent .-.! Whiteblrd, the vst- . eran trapper has not been out of his forcL't hoine lnrc 1900 le never saw or rode In an automobile until I two years ago, anil Tuesday, when he rode from Cascade to Boise, was the 1 third time he hud been n. a car. He was brought to Boise by LRoy LrfSenby. a deputy game warden who Intends to show him the city. All Mr. Lewis con remember of Boise Is a building which he referred to as the Pioneer Hotel" and a little postof-1 postof-1 flee.