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Show ' summer came and the snows melted', prospector, often needed a thirty-foot ladder, to rVath their mining notices wbicblhey 1 tind attached during the winter to tres. k : ' . "Well; that's all past now and -there is even some doubt as to the famous. U00.OO0 check which passed between Col. Dewey and the Caswell boys for the original Thunder Mountain claim: Boise" In 'now a -city of 25.O0.0 . people and Is Imoniing In every subo of the word. .The agricultural resources of that region are wonderful, and slnee the opening up of great tracts of laud under the government irrigation project pro-ject known as the Bolsc-Payetto project pro-ject the agricultural population In the Boise district has been Increased by many thousands. "Vc have built two new suburban lines of electric road, and the rural districts tributary to Boise have redoubled re-doubled in a remarkable way The period of mushroom growth In Boise is a thing of the paat, and from now on agriculture will bo the basis of our prosperity. "I can also see a ery decided change in the general appearance of Ogden since my last visit here, and I have no doubt that this section Is enjoying Its share of western development." BOISE PIONEER OGDEHISITOR James A Pinny, the pioneer capi- Idaho, was a visitor in Ogden today, being a delegate to the Masonic conclave con-clave In this city. Mr. Plnney is familiar with Ogden find its history, nb he Is with all tho northwest, having come to this region In the early days and locating at Holse when that prosperous city was h mere hamlet, struggling between the diverse elements of stendy healthful growth based on agricultural resources and the. mushroom growth Incident with the gold hunting fever. In those days the grent gold discoveries in Boise basin had attracted the attention atten-tion of prospectors and mining men Irom all over the world, much In the manner that the Thunder Mountain excitement uf a few years ago drew thousands to that region on a quest for sold. Regarding the Thunder mountain district, Mr. Plnney stated that it had berotue a thing of the past, and that In Boise, today, one hardly hears the district mentioned. "At that time." said Mr. Plnney, 'Boise considered Itself upon the threshold of a gold discovery which would equal those of Cripple Creek, California or Nome. Mining meu rushed there from auch distant places as South America. Australia and South Africa. ; Every city within a distance of two or three hundred miles from the c Iftlms of tho . Caswell boys laid out u "best route to Thunder mountain," moun-tain," and soou thousnnds were floundering floun-dering through the deep snows of the mountaln trails, with pack outfits and, prospecting equipment, Intent upon niakiDg their fortunes. Claims wero staked out In the deep snow with blazed trees for corner posts When |