THE WEST SHORE.
dig through tho snow with lictter success in smirching for
(im. The nntivn Imv in excellent, hut liieern in now ex-
J r
t''!!r'irc!y rn ivnfed. Tlii i cropjwd three or four ti iiioh
n year, mid yields Iroin eight to ten tons to tno ncre.
Sheep raising ltriH already made a niunlx-r of men ricii.
An instance of this is 1'nlriek Hailey, who began n few
years ago with almost nothing, mid now counts his Hheep
hy the thousand, nml has a coinfortahle mnount plnt-od to
Iii'h credit at the Imnk. ()thern might ho mentioned, hut
it is Hiiflicieiit i wiy tlmt every mini who lum given his
hheep proMT attention Iuih found tho business inimeiiHely
profitable. Jluttcr making on u huge scale Iuih just heen
eoiiimeneed liy the Hurting, near Knglu Rock, of n crcnm
ery, supplied with the, most approved niiichinery and nil
needi-d facilities. Alxmt KM) cows are kept, ami the but-U-r
finds a ready sale at forty cents per ouiid.
Ml NINO.
IVotn where Snako Eiver deliouelies from the moun
tains it cut it way through a continuous bed of gravel,
from ten to fifteen feet deep, for many mileHof its eourHO.
In fact, nearly the whole valley ih one immcnso bed of
gravel n lew reel lieneatli tho top will, throughout which
fine flour gold is unite evenly distributed. Almvn (I...
ground produces hbiiudaiit eropH, below it holds in its
embrace the precious metal. It in estimated that a strip
two milen wide mid IKK) long, containing IIIH.OOO acres,
will pay 1U00 to the acre, or n total of SfllH. lOO.OOO, and
it is lielicved that workable ground extends from the
lower canyon to ti, hcad-v-.tcrs of the river, a distance, o
WKI mill's. 1'or some veins ehiiins lmvn lw..n u-,.il,..
near Shoshone Falls, where one gravel claim was recently
noei ior n ,1,000 ui an ineoi crated company, with n eapi
tal stock of r.HUMK). upon which nin,.....f it ;u
handsoi.m dividends. Further up the stream miningwas
... k- u.mi mo past season, when n new departure
was made. Kry ,wt npriiiK three men, named Edwards,
y... .., v,myie, leii the Imrs near tho falls and located
three claims of twenty acres each. ,,.,.,.. ..n i i
aw, a bove l.aglo lUk, and convenient to the Snake
nner n iner l oiupany s canal. I digging ditches an,
getting ready to work they have n.rossarily W.i to i
considerable exis'iise not rtsininid nn..n,.. i
... ' j'", vi'i our-
. h p.u.t season they t.s.k out 212 ounces of Hd
k bout (NX 1....H... .i
, '.' . "icy cxjicei to realize $2,500
mwee.y an aero was worked over to produce
"r1":. T,W they employe,!
mm KTiuly to the dutno. All ,1..., .... . , h . n
" rH.Wi with burlai., over which ,
for that pn. At R,anM W, near ' I
nmchmery that yt thouMnuls of doll, J 1"
uns simple c,u.H;:4,,:ri"r;,i,,.cast
beon nicrtMis.l by the chm Tl ani,,'d have
Irr .,. i. ,.,: jl ' -
of acres have been taken up. The prospect that prosper
ous mining camps will spring up along the course of
KnnVA T?ivir is nrnmisincr. and that thev will be rjerma-
. ....... - . O" V JL
nent is assured by the fact that 10,000 men could not
work out the ground in fifty years. '
Twn imnnnnina linva Vippn nrrfnni7efl wnrlr nn n
largo scnlo one in Chicago and the other at St Paul.
Tho latter has expended $2,000 on a ditch to tap the
main ennui, imrl will beirin active operations in the snrinc.
They sent out an expert who has had practical experience
in niiniiiL' lieht cold, whose report was sufficiently en
couraging to induce them to undertake the enterprise.
ilie gravel beds as they now lie, including boulders,
rocks and earth, contain some twentv-five cents to the.
cubic yard. The quantity of gravel that can be worked
depends upon the supply of water and the number of
machines employed. One machine will gather about $45
per day if properly attended to.
In Southeastern Idaho quartz mining has been little
developed. Many prospectors have soucht in the moun-
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uiins ino source or the cold found m the vallev. but as
yet without success. Some float quartz recently picked
up near the Tetons, which nssnyed . from $10,000 to
!?20,000, indicates the presence of the rich ledges that
have scattered their treasure over such a vast region of
country. Over tho low range of mountains bordering the
valley on the east numbers of quartz claims have been
located, but none of them develoned. On the woef. oiMn
i vuv . UAVW
of the river, fifty miles distant, is Little Lost Kiver, an
exceedingly promising mininc district, in which tho fW
claim was located last spring. The rock, from several of
the leads, assays well up in the hundreds. Th rn,'0
Mack has about 1,000 tons on the dump, and has made
arrangeiiienis ior erecting a smelter in the spring. The
Alice, Ingersoll, Bonnincton and Endo TWIt nra npninio
ing locations partially developed Big Lost Eiver, still
further west shows some rood lrvlrrot.
attraction at present being a huge lead of copper.
KAILIIUADS.
The Utah & Northern narrow rmnaa U ki :
he Union Pacific, runs north, through Eastern Idaho,
from Ogden to the Northern Pacific at Garrison, and the
Oregon Short Line, belonging to the same company,
passes wes ward through the valley of Snake Eiver, from
Granger, Wyomunr. to f!..U,n nii. t- .
'JpI?' t,U8 ycar 10 a section with the 0. E.
it .N. (Jo. nt Mnrnf T?:- ... 1 . ., ...
P,.;n ti u Iorm a tlirogii ime to the
lautic, l"Pre is a prospect of vnt j
ijpon. especially a branch line (o the NationafPark of
Z S 7. T, 1W0 cnPnies have had sur
veyors in the field the past. fi' . , ,
west ront,. ti n t . TOU"8 ior ea8i ana
west routes. The C, B. & Q., Central Pacific and Denver
lK.o Grande are all feeling i this direction.
T1 EAGLE BOCK.
ihe centre of the
vnlloy is Eaclo TCZTT1?"
slimw .j i til i ' 10 0X0 me extensive machine
W00 famd,ie8 h Ued within twenty five
miles of the town, nearly doubling the Nation lii