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One thing I'd add about Valpo, there were around 5000 there, and they had two large dining halls. The average cost per meal was only 7¢, not very good chow, so twenty of us got a private boarding place for $2.00 per week, and good eats, too.
Kids of today never had it so good, buses, free milk for the undernourished, etc.
I hear from Emma Jane and Bertha now and then. They worry about Phil. He has cough, maybe TB. They say he is so weak, he can hardly fill his water master's job.
You know we have always been very close since kids together. I came close to being "sweetie pie" with Jane. Went to dances, picnics and E. J. used to come down and ride the range together. I took her up Hayden Creek Way, places where there are no signs of man being there before.
What a rich life we had, enjoying God's World! We were all poor then, including you and Frank, but so rich in our destinies God has given us to enjoy.
Some time, I'll send you one of Bertha's letters. She is about perfect in composing a friendly letter.
Hope you can decipher this scribbling all out.
Be good and keep happy and well!
"The Loaners" Don J. Pyeatt
P.S. Give me an "A" for effort, Clair, Please! D"
Relative to the story in Mr. Pyeatt's letter about 'girls to the right, boys to the left'; one of the former Trustees of that District told the following about T. B. Pyeatt, also a Trustee. It seems that after a visit of the County School Superintendent to that school, Mr. Pyeatt received a letter regarding the superintendent's findings and among the things found to be necessary, was that out houses (or privies) must be built. Mr. Pyeatt mounted his horse, slapping the horse's neck from side to side, rode in haste to the home of one of the Trustees. Waving the letter in her face, he said: 'Just look a this -- Now there's forty acres of 'willers' there, and if they are good enough for my Nelie, they are good enough for these kids.'
A prank of Don Pyeatt and Ross Tobias played on George Yearian, known as 'Rabbit George' is related that George carrying the mail from Junction to the lower valley, approached the bridge crossing the Lemhi. Here he saw a hat rise up, and as it did
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the horses bolted, scattering mail and George about. The boys had placed the hat on a pole, hiding under the bridge, decided to play a joke on George. Fortunately he was not injured, but upon returning home, and being questioned as to his whereabouts and actions that day, Don stated he really 'took a whipping.' It is possible his father, T. B. had cut a sapling from that 40 acres of ' willers'!
So I bring the events and incidents to an end. If I have caused one smile, or awakened other memories, it is reward enough.
Afterword
Traveling north today on Highway 28, one sees the result of those brave settlers, who came to the Upper Lemhi Valley. Only a few log cabins, mostly abandoned, remain. In their place are modern homes, equipped with all the appliances made possible by the building of power and telephone lines through the valley. Fields are thickly dotted by fat cattle of various breeds.
The road, the roadbed of the railroad discontinued in 1939, is a far cry from the winding dirt road, dusty when dry, rutted when wet, that traversed the valley, crossing and recrossing the Lemhi River, from Junction to Salmon. People rush along, thinking very little of, or even knowing, the amount of effort put forth by those people of yesteryear. Too, there is an airport where small craft may land.
You ask about Junction. It lies quietly, with only the“ high house" standing, as tho awaiting the coming of the Reddington heirs, who now own the townsite. Probably they will build summer homes there, and who knows, Junction may once more appear on the maps of Idaho. The quietness, seemingly waiting, makes one think how very still the valley lies when covered by the snows of winter.
The upper valley is a prosperous spot, made possible by those early settlers who came with faith, labored and made life worthwhile.
Junction, Idaho
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COME TO LEMHI!
Come West -- to Idaho -- to Lemhs
County-ynuog man-men with fannlies-olen who are oot afraid to toil-come one and all.
The Lemhi Herald.
INVESTMENTS!
Splendid opportunities for invest- ors are held forth, in this part of Idaho. If you have a little copit- si, here you can get action on il.
Price, La Cente
OUR LOCAL INDUSTRIES
UR LOCAL INOUSTRIES ARE stockraising. forming and min- ANOTHER MOG HEAVEN Hog releing le making healthy Ing. For sterkgrowing. this region i headway In these valleye. The wbeat le acourpassed, Lambi being frel; or batley fed hog of Lembi county among the counties of Idaho In the ! mekms the finest pork and leed in the number and quality of cettle produced. world Mog cholate. swine plague Lattie breeding has leid the foon- or contagiun of any kind is as yel detion af meny . fortone in Lembi unknown. For yeare the pozkut bere county. The rattle berde are renged: bas sold as from $6 to $7 per ewt. on Pastured on the luxuriant
during the summer on the high bench- | foot ws and rolling foothills of the Rocky gresses and clovera, Chen fed and fet- and Salmon River Mountains, while
tenad en wheal, barley or pene, they the lower vallaye are reserved for can be relned for the minimum of winter pestore There *** 30.000 cost. There's monty In bogs, wheo
PACK TRAIN, Losding af Salmon with Gouds for Thunder Mountain. t
haed of caltis in the county. whose you can get improved land to reims market value in spprealmately $500,- them on for $20 to $36 an pere
000 Old range conditions have RAISING ANGORA GOATS
changed, homesteadare have aneroscb- In this county should becomna a popu- ed upon the public domain, the nation- Jer and prosperade Industry. Those nl forest se here, and the day of the j animele thrive well on bruch and have Immense berd In pest But the pertalt been found very effective in clearing brush land. bo hillside le too sleep
system of grazing Incogoreted by the forest burene Is for them to climb end And pastore.
NOT WITHOUT ITS ADVANTAGES. Each chimal yields from three to dve The conservation of the range resourc. poonde af. mohair per year, which es, the Introduction of new greeree! alle at from 28 to 86 cenia phr pound. with which sa renew the renge ind; and the cost of keeping e goat is very. a judletque combination of hay and smell. Their mest is fully as good as RAH.HOAO L LOMING. main raising to meet winter army- moting, and they are mark hamplech studer than that of the anine; It is suready tooch tose why And
Benzine will greatly increase tha oumb- i than sheep. After the gente here
GROUP OF SHORTHORNE, In Pastere near Salmon,
ber of cottis produced, aver the daye davoured the brush, the ground fur- when the slockman mist touched a nichas expelisot pasture for rottle. play ar mawer, but trusted to pot- Walter Gill of Agency, so far an in luck and previdence for an open win- koown, je the only one in the county ter There is more mammy in the | ralaing goats,
new regime, because there le more huabanding of resources and the loss- w era eptresponding less Cettle in Lamhi county are the best in the world and they are sa salable ne greenback+
POULTRY RAISINO PAYS. Poultry la an important Industry. cod theby people are already making money at it. There is nobody paying astensive mitmotion to it, bot many fermera are making from $200 to $600
The Shorthoen and isa graden gre; a year off the business, which they the preferred type in this locality And while some of the rapebers have
Tin simply == on sunilisty in the Tewily capanaes EgRU for these paid listle allentios to the systematie | yeara buve averaged 27 conta a dozen
Ehift of Moers at the Dhinper Hour.
upbuilding of their herds, the most throughout the yuer, and there in el- have been serupulously careful to waye a ready market for them. The Improve The result of this paisa- price of egge rouges frem 30 50 50 cente a dosan As fer poultry, the taking and somewhat expensive gye- tem hat wrought wonders in the gen. market le never well supplied, und eral resulte
IMPORTED ANIMALS
of high pedigree are found upon many runches, and at nu place in the world can una Inke a drive of a few milss and oft w inany stalwart, shapely strere and rows as to start right hora at Suimun city.
for as much as half the year it le It- possible to gel chickene et $4 and $5 @ dosen Summbody ought to some hither to help to supply the demands for poultry products.
The price of the Lastar Numhar la IG cente. Won't you want a few ?
CATTLE RAISINO. - 1. Branding Scoom at 36
2, 3, 4. Full-Bland Shorthorn Cowe, Yearlings and L. O. Walker. 5. Trie af Cow Punchern.
3000 SQ. MI. OF GOLD
RUM 1866 TO 120. the placer road projects have teken euch positive gold product of Lemhi tan high form that wearehere for as well Ma into milliona From the discovery of holdere of base oren are stimolated to Lesaburg. the ploneer camp of this renewed endeavor in the ''get ready ** part of the state, there was instinc- for the coming day of prosperity. Live life in this branch of mining and
the creeka and bers bave given lavlah- RECORD OF METAL ly of the ""pour man's gold. " The deposits of this character are not yet EMHI COUNTY ham & record of PRODUCTION metal production equelled by few aintlar acwas in the world The worked out, and every year the phecer diggings of Leesborg. Gibbonsville, Moose creek and Bohennon bet are mill afferding pronsably employment. The present year in each of these rich placet faires of Leesburg com- dietziel will witnem gevat placer st.
pose only the preliminary chapters tisity, and the yield of such gold will in a long story of contmond mining
PANHING GOLD at the Plarer Pit, Rabolt Fret Mirg.
probably eeach $500,000 for the year. operationa. The matimuted total Not until in more recent years bave yield of the gold placere of the county the prospectors turned their attention for the poet forty two years ie more Lo quarta mining. but this busibest then $42.000.000. The mines of has so advanced thet the county prom- quarta gold hate to their credit e ises te show Uncle Sam ble richest sosal at $17.000,000. The aggregate and mort productive mineral belt. And the ground le hardly scratched. The
8000 SQUARE MILES OF GOLO in Larabi in practically virgin ground. There ero miles upon mallee yet on- outpot of precious metals In Lembi county may mafply be given et til .. 000,000. The ylaid of gold for the last year was about $200.000, and ch account of wawly awakened enterpris- [es. this figure for 1908 will be more touched by the prompestor's pick, and then doubled.
the known deposits and lodges havs
Our lead mines have produced en- not been estenaively opened. We ormously. , and the promise today le have gold and copper, land and allemr. įresplendent thet the ebunty's copper --------- -------- There are fortunes la prospecting.
MOOSE CREEK OREDGE BOAT. Owood by John E. Mulle.
The mineral is bees, ready for the other minerala The discovery and finding. Each year . Daw mining development of coal onvar Salmon elty district is bevught noticeably and ne- will be no emall factor In the attsin- tably te the front Each year some magt of this wbulneome result. prospectors are relieved of their hold- MINERAL PRODUCTS.
inge by men with means to operele, Within the county are mines of gold, silver, lead, copper, sungutan,
and thus many fortunes have been made A few dollars will hoep. . prosector in the mountains the entire working year, with the probability
nickel, tip, cobalt, arog and etal. Accessory to theut are found bigruth, platinum and tallurium. Extensive
that he mey by diligent observation [ placera of brich clay. limestone and and search And a competenre the re- "the cholcust building stone are found at variaue plares mainder of bis days There +@ pp Precisua epale ere found on Panther creek, gem garnata ere plentiful in more feteinating pureuit, none thet pase better than inteligent prospect-
HYDRAULIC MINING. Giant at Work an Richardson Plerers, Leesburg.
ing for mineral voloe There's! Blackbird, and come excellent moje money, los, for the Investor 10 own- and water ugotee are found along the milnes. The Mines and prospects Salmon river Somme of the Onet gvh
atones in these minerala have been
of Lenthi will beat investigation
During the past year the Intrepid cut from the local product It is Isester has been quite conspicuous all thought the apal industry of this along the line New locations by the county haa a glowing future.
thuumand have found apere on the Porcelain clay, kaolin, of Ane qaul- record, it not ore la place, and the | ity is abundant et Salmon city It past year in the county has kept up # |cumprisen a stratum 26 10 16 feet sort of unalschoned whirl. The reil- deep, underlying the coal On analy-
GREAT DIVERSITY OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES
ENHI COUNTY, [OAHO, con- |in this regard has been retarded by | Improvements planned and provider tatotes a ' miniature empire. abernes of facilitise of treoaportatico. for withis the seat few years fullr And neither ie It m very arinleture, But the
warrant esab a view of the situation.
of Connecticut. Here within it 6you when it arrives, the county uf Lomnhs
aquare Inlisa may be frond e wonder-
tel variety of resources, seosty and commerce sod popaletten na te out-
alimata In these respecta It is ol- most as varied as the asssa. In ite towat valleje the vegetable producte are almost subtropical. They reise
proches, melona, ewest potatoes and
all the maure sender segatables and
barrow. Here la weter io abundance made. The map ia drawn on a seale
fruite About Salmon elty are grown the floest apple, peare. plums, pruden, cherries, grapes and all the going in westa from your La year. Lerin products of the temperate zone. Farther op the valleye grain, bay. puislose and besta are in their con- population fer In sacses of any simi.
be. the county will mutate a farming
genial alime, and although the sum- ler ursa of the beasted Mistlasippl
met deye are long and many. In all parte of the county the nigbta are and campa afford . ceovenient home almost invariably cool and pleasant, market,
The scenery is also varied There THE BEST MARKET
sre long atresebes of fertiis preirie lo the world, for all the farmer pro- there is no limit so the possible out- valleye and benches, Immensely fer- durea, and as soon as tom railroad has put of the eight foot vein
tale and productive. There are thelt- „Worded a feasible cotlut for the win-
sred tribasary valleye, farming nooke, wral produet, the etltwoina te farming and relling foothilla While higher and tanching will he signal and 10- op the mountains are desp canyans, precipitous cliffe, pipa-clad elopos and
Ne, we do not think this amber of the Herald is perfect. In fect, ww know it Is not We we many Lanse Farme which can onw be pur- chered for (26 and $35 an acre will sowsting rocky commits of ultra-Al- quickly double and treble in value. respecta in which it could be Im- The provad. But it is the best thing of pine grandeur, on whose northern sutn- mite anow Hogere for quite the year OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTMENT around. Isa kind ever Issued, and if the public will sely halp ua in distribota it, get in such property is now, for the ceal it wbere It will do the most good, The population in 1900 wne 3440 growth of Lambi county hes pot yat our chief alm will have been accom- and it ke now about 4000. lis growth i begun, and the vaat anterprieva and plished.
Salmon . le the coal metropolie of
velley. The adjacent mining inwne Idaho The King coal mine here
produces annually 4000 tons of coal for local consumption. With a reil- road this would be 400.000 tons, for
. A GOOD MAF.
A rocd may of Lembi county show- Ing post offices, wagon roads, compe. eresks and trails le found in this lesue. By reference th it, the roadar con fully acquaint himself with the local geography and the location of sach district in which reference la
of 16 miles to the lach. Study the
description.
Properly utilized, se it will surely |map in connection with the grepbic
All our industrial enterprises are simply In their Infancy. Ireigestion la only begun, end thousands upon thousands of acres of the chesrest land are yet to be touched by the plow or
will moke auch stupendous growth in
strip all the bithurts more favored portions of the interior northwest.
A FEW FARMING SCENES. 1, Stacking Hay on Shenon Rasch. 2, Robert Wilson, Teat and Load of Has. at the ** 3 - W " Ranch. 3. At MeKmney Ranch, Osts in Check, 06 Bushele par Messured Acre 5, On thụ Snenen Ranch, Winter Wheat Jont Before Narveat, Standing diz Feet High See Horse, Buggy and Map Stand-
ing among the Grein. Twenty-Eight Acres Yielded 15du Besbela 5. Poultry Showing, Gray Purrell's Ranch.
Val. VIII, No. 17.
SAIMON. LEVHI COUNTY. IDAHO. APRIL. 23. 190%
Celvpe of the C. G Mathewson
Pages of this special Easter Edition of the Lemhi Herald of April 23, 1908 tell part of the upper Lemhi and Junction story. Thanks to Opal Reddington, the news of that day can be shared with you.
RABBIT FOOT MINE
A COMING COEUR D'ALENE
[7] NILE GOLD PRODUCTION, 1907 gave gold $16 50, afivar BE m. ary ore bodies are likely to ba repeat- owing to ste frebibilsty in and lead 15 per cant. ed with plhere at depth until the per-
Isolated districts, hus in the past ic- The AHlie is a close corporation manent water level and primary ore
Pupind the center of the stage, of re- owned by Edgar C. Rows of Dubols. Pa , and the Nyde cette af Ridge-
cont yeara the yield of leud has been crowding upon the footlights. until to.
day, an Important hanter of mineral He rupoecs great faith in Lemhi coun-
attrestien Is found in the carbonate lead distriete of the upper Lemhi tiv-
se. In this cone of mineralization, there and several districts of operat- lon, which has the pool year ylelded consderable wealth RIDGEWAY PARK GROUP
terest in property near Jonelion, now fellowad down on a dat dip of about under development. 15 degtons to the 100 feet, where it was cut off by a fault, beyond which
THE GILMORE MINE. Mr. Jas. H Rom of Ridgeway.
The Gilmore ming, Beat the center Pa., bought two elalma of John Strom The Sheer brothers bave a Ane
near Gilmore, and added thereto eight group of iron-lead claims, a short dia of first eless ore costelning as high as
of this Isad belt, has maintained = steady these years record of product- lon, until today it is the most Import- known es Lhe Ridgeway Park group. | been long bidding for poblle notim. per ton, bemdes moverel handred tons
other elalma, ten In all, which are tence north of the Viole which has 60 ounces miver and 60 per cent Ised 30th an regard to your special issue.
eni minerel producer to the eponty. A flom commodious cabin) ban been | They have blocked out e vaat quantity
It lo quite extensively developed on # built, treils constructed[to,the vielona of ere, and find the body at least 800
The developmente show
thousand tone of ore blocked out and
ready for atoping to other woeda,
there is enough ore In sight in the
Leedville mina ta tuyey the purchase
prieo end all costs of development to
date, and de this four or five Limes
The Jewel Consolidated Co. in went
sver of the Idabe Con. This is the prop- erty in which Jos. M Hoors of Salm.
Several cora of the ord hea been
un is heavily interested Mineral in-
marketed in Pittsburgh Fer the year
1907 the average returne received along the contact, and the Jewel Con. teom the ore shipped to the smelter group la confidently expected to devel - op into a large mlon.
are as follows First eless ore. gold, $2.00. miver, 46 ounces per ton and Adjeining this on the west le the lead 38 perceet. Second elem, gold, property of Rny B Karodon and omg-
$1 00, silver, 20 oumeus per ton end elates of this city They also have a Ined 30 per cent. vary promising prospect.
The determinating and reliable test Te the weel of this again la the
of one values is always the welter Bunker Hill and Mckinley groop.
returns, and by the foregoing ceport property of John E Ress. E. Stroud it is clear the Junction Mioen Co. is and others. They have ao exceeding- warranted lo carrying on the entere ly promising combination of 10 claims,
ive development already planand J. and are now doing some Intelligent E. Boas is general manager of the Bobterranean work.
Emmapany, and much of the stock le The Grizzly Hill group of nine held in Salmon. John H Padgbam elsime ot the head of Yourian esnyop In a stockholder and attorney for the is being opeand op hy extending the campany tunnel ahead under contract. They
A railroad Into the district .III
[Tistly facilitate and Lasten the de- the surface is a besoty to the mioing eslopment of . large Minnage, as the eye. Sliver sod lend oru the com. present developments chew positive tenta, and they have some excellent
GREAT COPPER-IRON MINES OF SPRING MOUNTAIN
HE NOST NOTEWORTHY prop- | yaera, with baraje tonselty until the priy In all Spring Mountsio in noble fellow was killed la an covident last sommer. The property is now la the Brucw-Stone copper-Irun holding. This prodigy in cuineretisation alanda out unique in the mioing world of Idaho. It presente » mammoth de. poelt of 60 per cent fran naids, carry . IDE gold, copper and allvar, and the
wesesì hundred feet In length, mas ba eren for many allse It la paral- lelled evar an entanglen arun by other
bere would give 1000 fuel of depth, and it looks today em if it could be monster iron body would be found to worked Into another, perhaps grestas. overlay copper values of considerable Importance Ber a. T. Anaconda micu The claims komen Brocw | as the Rellanca, Terror and Joker alou worked and held on for the peal 27 ; present most important showinge.
HABITAT OF GAME AND FISH
THE WILD and pleturesque por. j the open season is one of peculiar dr L008 of thia county abound in light People coming from caste wild game and ite stresese are well stetes, where the reinfall Ma fresh stocked with fish. Black toil deer, then beto, EOn scarcely realise the es A wild goat, mountain sheep. elle and joymant ces han in camping out . same moose and antelope constitute our mountain streama. Tente MI the larga gama, while mountain lion needed only to secure Fuerony he cougar, lynx, panther and bear ere open air, under the starlit manop; frequently the hunter's trophisa with plenty of blankele, la all t2 Grey wolf and coyote ard a post to shelter required. Our almost elus the ranch country, and hundreds of lega sommer and Butonin thies m them are kilind every year A few cool alghte and the lavigorating air € wolverine are also found. Praires our higher elavations bave La there
ben, mountelo grouse, Mge beo, charm which the reduns sf leme" for phessant, wild dock, wild goose and ored localitise little realizes. it yo feel enervated and wore out, come :
There is plenty uf shooting fce los+ con ut outdoor life. occasionally crans, brant, loon end FRED are the wild fewl. Lemhi county, Idaho, and enjoy a ese [oru of the sport, and camp life doring
LEAD MINING NEAR JUNCTION
At and cour Junelion, on the Leot-
CHARTER * *
Tt ANDREWR VKP PIN RAY EDWARDS CaMint
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
SALMON TROUT. - Caught by the editor con motoing before breakfast
prospeela The Liberty Mibing com- H. L. Fisher of Bores having Inter- pasy, also lo that vicinity in fraught estad capitel in the move. The hopes of the district, soce this is going. will be vastly illuminad, and it Js
with promise. THE ALIJE MINES.
The Allie Mining Company, Ltd.,
has & group of 15 patented and four unpatented cialma, Immediately sur- Founding the fire patented claims of the Pittsburgh & Idshu, ar Gilmare mines. The property lia equipped with general shop buildings, bunk and boarding houses, engincet's office, assay office, officiel houses, 3000 feet of water line conveying water to all pointe of operation. A 0-horse power gasoline huist and 300 M. feet of lum- ber and mina timbere in stock
They have apant $40,000 In organlt-
ing and developing the ground. The based on world wide experience, It is
THE LEADVILLE CROUP.
The Leadville, one of the group of elalma ewand by the Junction Minas
WM. C. 37
Pres Qlmore Mriribatila Co.
New Railroad Point
The new station of ARMSTEAD brings the railroad several miles nearer to Lewhi coonty. Passeugers going from, or comuog into the county will find it advantageous to travel yis the new station. Good hotel and stable accommodations. Buy your tickets direct to Arinstead, from all Lembi county points. For further information,
ask local agents of the Mantaos & Idaba Stage Co
TAKE E TH HERALD
ABOUNDING FAITH IN LEMHI |
letter Written by Hon. W. A. McC'atcheon, Prea. G. & P. R. R.
In any public ages sa our valley, and og pierd Bine work, the power of the press la pre- which will repay development with eminent, so I wish you God-speed in' soch prodigality In mineral resoure- your efforts to waken the people to a RI it stands unequaled, lead, s.lver. around them at thele doorn. You nf most cheering. gretolatory letter in knowledge of the boundless wasith all, and gold abounding everywhere. and | nowhere else between the Missouri and the osant 19 there a valley no ed- courer know of our great property at wken of the promised enterprise. Mr. MeCutebeso in president of the Gll-
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