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iUCK AND ENERGY OF
EAGLE MINE OPENERS.
Edwardsburg, Idaho, Oct. 15.
about ten years ago Mr.
*wead 3 in a things Spokane, coane Wash- to
m-r “All
after it.” Turning to
1 Then and there 'Y'* they de- *°
,; ! 0 g0 west, with Spokane as
Mr
r, tie «*■>• “» . lle had al -
^resigned as Assistant Attorney
r Ia terior Department and as
r Roman Law in the Cath
Kversity on Washington, D. C.
at
I fe w months in Spokane, he
[ je could not be confined to
LifOJ'k 50 decided to go to the
I Wen he reached Elk Summit
Led into the region home beyond after he
U Land be had sighted
weary absence , so he de¬
ft fljvesugation ^ this valley, made care
of minerals and
■ climate and other condiitions,
claims, and after many
Js went back to Spokane to see
jjwai’ds and little son. He ex
^ to pay them a visit only, and
dreamed of allowing them to
a the hardships of the journey
ithe mountains in ice and snow
riile Mrs. Edwards had' lived
ay and suspense, mail facilities
such she would have no word
Hr, Edwards for six weeks or
His poor health, made this
When he was ready to ne
te calmly announced that she
^company him. He swore
he should not. Of course she
lor she did not know what
ang meant The nearest radi¬
ation was Stites, more than
indred miles from here, but
I their coming as Mr. Edwards
tome:
th 30th 1904 I left Spokane
j wife and five year old son
Creek country. We went by
iStites, the railroad terminus
id an eigi <ui mile ride by
ttangevilk. The black dobe
j the Camas prairies would
discount the red clay mud of
The stage was pulled by
es. The hubs dragged on
and the wheels were so sol¬
Money Talks At
In [very Department
When we bought our immence stock for the Fall and Winter we
were confident that cotton would bring from 12 to 15c a pound,
but is selling for about 9c. We are reducing our prices to con¬
form with the price of cotton. You can buy the same amount of
goods for the same money if your cotton was bringing 15c.
We are making this reduction on our entire stock of Dry Goods,
Dress Goods, Notions, Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Millinery and in fact on
everything in our big stock of high-grade merchandise.
It is a well known fact that when you buy from Cohen you save
Ask those who have bought from us and they will tell you
money We trade. We do not this in words
that this is true. want your say
only, we show you in prices. We have lowered them-can others fol¬
low? We buy in large quantities and pay spot cash.
GRlFFO^k^^CL COHEN GKUTON, CLOTHES
CUAOAMTetO. CUARAHTttO
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idly caked that the spokes were not
visible. There were four passengers,
two men and two women, besides
our hoy, and it was a ease of first
class passenger ride, second class ipas
sengers walk, third class passengers
get out and push. The men in this
instance were third class passengers.
“Prom Orangeville I rode horse¬
back 50 miles to Goff, -my wife and
son following on the stage. At Goff
we left the wagon road and started
up the Salmon River on a steep and
narrow trail, or as they would say
in the south, a path. At one place
where there was a sheer drop of over
one hundred feet to the river, the
saddle girth on the mare my wife
and boy were riding, broke. If the
saddle had turned nothing could have
saved tliern. The trail was so nar¬
row I could not get to the side of
the mare, so I had to pull them one
at a time over the tail. I then man¬
aged to get in front of her and led
her a quarter before I found a place
wide enough to repair the saddle
girth. Twelve milles from Goff we
came to Riggin’s Hot Springs, where
we spent a night. Just above this
place the Salmon river rushes
through a deep, narrow canon, call¬
ed the Crevice. To get past that
place the trail went over a high
steep mountain. It zigzagged straight
up for three miles and then down for
three miles, to make a horizontal dis¬
tance of less than two miles. A cool
headed pea-son could go through the
Crevice on foot when the water was
low, and my wife determined to make
this trip rather than go over Kelly
mountain. I sent my horse over the
mountain, and Mr. Riggins, my wife,
boy and self went to the Crevice.
Mr. Riggins took my boy on his
back, and I helped my wife. There
was no trail of any kind and we had
to climb over the rocks, holding on
by hands and feet, with a rushing,
roaring river below us and a smooth,
perpendicular wall of rock above. At
one place we had to cross a narrow
shelf about eighteen inches wide and
twelve feet long with nothing to
break our fall to the river on one
side and a perfectly smooth wall of
rock on the other. I backed across,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, Oct. 18, 1911.
holding my wife’s bawd and she came
over with the coolness and steady
step of a tight rope walker.
“After a night at Swann’s place,
we started up the mountain. Five
miles up we came to the edge of the
snow, had to abandon our horse and
put on snowshoes. My wife had
never been on snow shoes, and they
proved awkward and tiresome, mak¬
ing our progress slow. I had plan¬
ned to reach Resort that night, but
realizing we could not, I abandoned
the toboggan I was pulling and de¬
voted my efforts towards getting to
Bogue’s placer camp, but failed.
There was nothing to do but camp
in the snow, twelve feet creep. I
cut firr boughs and laid on the snow
and on top of them spread a blan¬
ket which I carried on my back.
Placing my wife and boy on this, I
built a fire on top the snow. i\Ve had
no provisions but a can of salmon,
without bread.
“Next morning I built another fire
and went to Bogue’s cainp for provi¬
sions, and returning found both peace
fully sleeping over a deep spring,
their feet hanging in—the fire had
melted the snow away. Afte^ sav¬
ing them from an icy plunge, we ate
breakfast and proceeded to Bogue’s
where we spent the day and night.
We then made an easy trip to Burg
dorf’s Hot Springs, at Resort, where
we spent a day and rested.
“Prom Resort we went on snow
shoes, to the Twelve Mile House, and
next day bad a hard trip to Warren,
arriving exhausted. Procuring- horses
here our trip to the South Fork was
comparatively easy. We still had
the highest mountain of all, Elk Sum¬
mit, to cross. We rode up Elk creek
as far as the snow would permit then
started again on snowshoes. There
was no wagon road, so we had to
follow the blazes on the trees show¬
ing the route of the old trail which
was buried under snow. Three miles
from the summit was a little cabin
built for prospectors caught on the
mountain at night. It was buried so
deep in snow that I found it with dif¬
ficulty, but it had to be our haven
of rest for one night. We had to
‘shoot the chutes’ through a hole I
made in the roof in order to get
in. Melting snow had covered the
dirt floor with about six inches of
water. I also had to cut polos and
build a bunk in one corner on wlhich
I spread firr boughs and the blanket
I was still packing. In the center
was a pile of rocks, on which I built
a fire. There was no chimney and
the dense smoke almost strangled us.
In trying to dry my wife’s shoes and
leggins 1 got them too close to the
fire and burned them. Altogether
our nigh t in the “Smoke-House”
cabin, was if anything, worse than
the might spent in the open.
“lNe»t morning we continued our
journey. My Toy objected to trav¬
eling u/p hill in the snow, so I had
to pack him on my baok. I had heavy
load of blankets, which 1 \fould car¬
ry about a half mile and drop, going
back for the boy, and in this way
got both pack and boy over the moun
tain. After a night at the Crown
mine, we finally reached our future
home on Big Creek, where we had
to live in a tent until I could cut
logs and build a cabin to shelter us.”
Wben Mr. and Mrs. Edwards came
here eight years ago there were no
mail facilities, no reading matter ex¬
cept a few ancient magazines and
two or three copies of novels.
Mrs. Edwards soon realized the de¬
sire of the people for something to
read. They came to her cabin from
all directions for .more than one hun¬
dred miles. Her first step was to
write the Ladies’ Home Journal.
This letter was turned over to Mrs.
Alden, head of the Sunshine Society,
who wrote an article stating Mrs.
Edwards’ purpose to establish a libra¬
ry for the miners, prospectors, and
all who came and went, but desired
to read.
This began a work that has grown
to considerable proportions. Books,
magazines, daily and weekly papers
poured in from all sections of this
country and Europe, except the south,
from there no one except Miss Nell
Singleton, now Mrs. Montgomery, of
Fla., made a single contribution.
Books were sent by the English and
Spanish nobility; authors, publishers,
libraries responded freely and now
there is quite a collection. Dr.
Smith, the Supt. of the Eagle mines,
who has been in the principal min¬
ing camps of this country and Mex¬
ico, says when he entered here and
saw the rows and rows of books, he
stopped, rubbed his eyes and looked
again, thinking he must be dreaming.
These contributions should not cease,
and I know the failure of the south
• to respond was because it never saw
Mrs. Alden’s letter. One man in pass
lng, packing seventy-five pounds of
potatoes 50 miles from South Fork
to Roosevelt, told Mrs. Edwards that
he could take on one pound more
and would like to have a book to read
by the camp fires while he kept his
potatoes from freezing. Every man
at Roosevelt read that book, and
months later it was returned.
In winter, when the men have to
stay rather closely by the fireside,
they come from all sections, take
books and magazines away in sacks,
bringing- them back with the melting
of the snows.
Aside from her library work Mrs.
Edwards is a pioneer in many other
things in this region of Jong dis¬
tances, of almost perpetual winter, of
infinite promise. She was the first
and only woman to cross the Crevice
without being blindfold and carried
on a man’s back; the first Notary
Public in this district, and cast the
first vote in Big Creek precinct, vot¬
ing the straight democratic ticket.
She was the first, and is still, the
only “medicine man” here; has held
inquests, conducted funeral services,
sworn in judges, and for years has
been assistant postmaster and deputy
recorder.
One thing has impressed me strong
ly since I left the train at Meadows
and came into these mountains.
Every man who can look you straight
in the face, everyone who has a
claim to honesty, decency, respecta¬
bility—to fair dealing, is a friend of
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, realizes and
appreciates the enormous amount of
pioneer and developme t work they
have done for this entire section in
opening up mines, building roads, es¬
tablishing mail facilities, interesting
capital,making mining a profitable and
legitimate business.
The plant at the Eagle Mines is
the joy and pride of all this class of
people, know-lug as they do that it
means “The Great Awakening”
this district,
Have Mr. and Mrs Edwards ene¬
mies? Plenty of them. The life of
each has been threatened many
times; for every thief and robber,
blackguard, renegade and grafter
lhates them because of the stand they
have taken, the fight they have made
and won against that element.
EMMA T. MARTIN.
If aits First Class Job Printing you
want, we do it.
Twelve Pages.
Section Two
$1. A Year In Advance.
STONE MOUNTAIN LEASED
FOR A FORTY-YEAR TERM.
Albert Weiblen, George J. Glover
and Walter F. Jahncke, of New Or¬
leans, have leased the entire Stone
Mountain from Venable Bros., for a
period of 40 years, for $22,000 per
year, an aggregate of $880,000. The
lessees will Bike charge of the prop¬
erty the latter part of October and
will operate the largest stone and
granite plant in the United States.
Some idea of the immensity of the
granite mountain leased may be ob¬
tained from the fact that an expert
has estimated that in one “boss” or
dome of the mountain there are 16,
000,000,000 feet of granite. As is
well known, Stone mountain is fa¬
mous as one of the greatest natural
phenomena of the Atlantic states.
The New Orleans lessees, who arc
expert stone and building men of
long experience and considerable
wealth, have organized and chartered
U,e Stone Mountain Granite Company,
with $150,000 capital, Judge L. Bell
granting it Wednesday. They have
the right to increase the capital to
$500,000 at will.
The purposes of the corporation as
set forth are to operate it as a stone
quarry and for manufacturing stone
products; equipping plants and build¬
ings necessary for the output of rough
cut or dimension stone, granite and
maaible; the purchase and installation
of machnery; to acquire water pow-er
to be used in connection with the
business and to furnish water and wa
ter power to other persons or cor¬
porations; to build, equip and main¬
tain stores or commissaries; build an
equip train roads; control railroads,
operate in, real bonds by trust deeds.
Jackson & Orrne are the attorneys
for the company. Albert Weiblen,
president of the new company, has
arrived in Atlanta to look after the
preliminaries of assuming charge of
•the plant.
A much larger force will be worked
there than in the past. In the deal
the lessees acquire a smal railroad
and equipment that connects Stone
mountain with the Georgia railroad.
—Atlanta Georgian.
THE FOWLER BROS. CO., SELLS A
brand of tobacco at a dime per
plug, which is worth 15c per plug.
It is PENN’S CAMHPION,—S-27-4.
