Ten miles east of Grangeville lies the principal Clearwater river crossing for roads leading to the mining districts of Newsome, Elk City, Oro Grange, Moose Creek, Deadwood, Red River and Buffalo Hump.Two women riding side saddle are in the...
Tracks leading from a underground mine covered by a snow shed at a mine in the Thunder Mountain Mining District of central Idaho. Photo shows miners, wooden buildings, cut trees.
Masonic Lodge. Eli G. Thomas, caretaker, coming down rickety stairs leading to the lodge hall upstairs. This building & stairs was unsafe and could in no way be preserved.
Mine and mill buildings and a number of waste dumps at the Black Jack Mine on Florida Mountain in Owyhee County near Silver City, Idaho circa 1900. Note the snowshed covering the tracks leading from the mine to the mill in the middle of the photo.
Founded late in the fall before the big rush to Thunder Mountain in the beginning of 1902, Roosevelt soon became the leading camp in the new mining district. Thousands of men, having heard that Thunder Mountain was destined to be the biggest gold...
