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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1890)
WKST SHOUK. congenial climca. About 210 men remained and lived in baatil constructed log cabina on Bannock bar, which burg waa given the vcrjr original and fitting name of "Logtown." During the winter but little work waa dorie, aa the mow fill to the depth of five firt When a pring ojcncd, however, ever; man went to work with a vim under the encouragement of urh proppecta aa he had neve r ice n before. The dirt wa fabulously rich, the gravel near the bedrock yielding from a few centi to lo.OO and 110 to the pan. Ai aoon u the mow had disappeared, or lulViciently 10 to ad mit of travel, men flocked into the new camp by the thouaanda, and a city of aeveral thousand inhabitanta rapidly built up, receiving the name of "Bannock," their livei by doing o), and gamllrr and h-tlrr connived to pruro the g-dd without giving Anything in rrturn. Tlx were day. of great eicitemmt, and, ai rut-throat and totijhi of every m liun of the IVlfle coa.t flocked to the new ramp, a gfrat many murder and highway ruhUrir were committed. On the road, ba ling to Owyhee, rWh U and other mining diftrict di-vefri in hV1, Indian were very trouble me, a wrll m alng the emigrant rid In BoUe valley, a-r I'ama. prairie and along the Mala 1. On the rntlpt of the new. of maJti fr of emigrant and traveler. Mwem the lifT.-frnl ramp volunteer cmnpanlr were haitily urpnliol and uipd and ent to d al out retaliation on the r L -p which waa diarded In 8tt for the prrirnt or.e of trvublnr, IriU lU M.Im I Hl,. JcfT "Idaho City," to avoid confa.ion of mail matter with Fundifrr, wh-i A In buU a f ye,. H,, Bannock, In Kaiti-rn Idaho, now Montana. The n-w ,rad-l Kvrial rvhiH.iUa town In few month, became one of the mt rhir.e. Vl I U (-1 ' - M' teri,tic and wealthy on the iVific aid of the It-ky np.nlN duinx lU tnl Inn , jhrr. yc ( , lr mountain, Htorea, woon, rnu.Ic hall, danre Mt. i""' f ;j'fMl-j tbeatre.,eU,iprang up tlmoat hke inuahma. Kur- wl : tuneker.-merchant.,act,r,mu.Ici.n.,propria,,r on th- d f U U U.. .aUJ tj of dance hou. and theatre, Fimon HJ.d and Ufr Wv. Wr "f 1 " i-W lh each olhrr in a-uring the U.hr! of witt af " ... a I gol 1 coming out of the ground by t! hard wot k of the w'ri"i karxJy miner, whilfl men who hal tvA the canje w ' . r a , . laid carxjy miner, wbtw men wiio iii iiie nra w , . t , , ,,, aM ,jumH-tWrw!shWjrl(i.n7i:i...n-iti M K. whiw,