Treasure stories of eastern Idaho

204 Pages·1991·8.1 MB·English

by  Clements, Louis J

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TREASURE STORIES
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EASTERN IDAHO
By
Louis J. Clements
June, 1991
Upper Snake River Valley P. 0. Box 2 44
Historical Society 51 North Center
208-356-9101 Rexburg, Idaho 83440
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1 - 5
How Is Gold Found? 6 - 18
Placer Gold 6 - 12
Black Sand 12 - 13
Finding The Motherlode 13 - 16
Detriments To Placer Gold 17 - 18
Gold Mining In Idaho 19 -
Northern Idaho 19 - 20
Salmon River 20 - 21
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Boise Basin 21
Owyhee County 22 - 23
Caribou City 23
Lost Mines and Buried Treasure 24 - 74
Kelly's Canyon 24 - 34
Mud Lake Treasure 34 - 36
North Fork of the Teton River 37 - 38
Lone Pine Mine 39 - 41
Lidy's Hot Springs Buried Gold 41 - 43
Lava Gold 43 - 47
Menan Buttes 47 - 49
Holdup Rock - Beaver Canyon 49 - 50
Buffalo River 50 - 51
Buffalo River 1 51 - 55
Buffalo River II 55 - 59
Buffalo River III 59 - 64
Lost Gold Mine - Island Park 64 - 74
Rumors and Sketchy Stories 75 - 90
Victor Spanish Coin 75 - 76
Lost Mine - Shoup 77
Sunset Lodge Coins 77 - 79
Camas Creek 79
Mt. Sawtell Gold 80 - 81
Leadore Idaho 81
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West Jefferson Coins 82
Craters of the Moon National Monument 82
Snake River - Hibbard 83
Arco Gold 83
Sam Idaho 84
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Uranium - Heise 85
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Kilgore Gold 86 - 87
Sentinel Rocks 87
Snake River - American Falls 88
Portneuf Canyon Coins 88
Fort Hall 88 - 90
Gold Bearing Eastern Idaho Streams (Pictures) 91 - 96
Teton River 9^ "* ^2
Falls River ^2 - 93
Robison Creek ^3
North Fork Snake River 94
South Fork Snake River 95
Falls River 96
Map - Treasure Sites 97
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INTRODUCTION
Every spring as the snow begins to melt and the water starts
to run a spirit of adventure goes throughout the land. Spring is
the time that stirs the hearts of the amateur prospector. Spring
means new run off of water that may have stripped new flakes from
the exposed veins of quartz that contain gold. The snow also
carries soil from the hillsides into the streams moving gold that
may have weathered during the winter. This gold is then deposited
in the collecting spots behind rocks and on sand bars. It happens
every spring with the promise to prospectors each year of shedding
the confines of the home (cabin fever) and being able to once again
get out into nature.
An excited miner. (Courtesy of Lost Treasure Magazine.)
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