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TREASURE STORIES OF EASTERN IDAHO EST"- DS^iito ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H^HU^pKT^^^^V oBSmr^BSf^^mA^ "^^1 ^ .<«<4m^y. • *' .. • .• •* -IJ •^^>"^ ^^ v5^ ^"''v. / * -• -JO f -» / _ . f ^ -I'll • • , - « '^^^^^V^BB^^^^^^^^R GR ' 110 lems^ €%€M€MZ^ 3 .12 T7 1991 C.2 DAVID O. MCKAY LIBRARY ||ll|lllll|ll|llllll!|lllll|lll|ii|nii iiiiiiiii iiiiiMKi 3 1404 00709 9846 TREASURE STORIES OF 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 p^q-r. ,,._, 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 e 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 , West Jefferson Coins 82 Craters of the Moon National Monument 82 Snake River - Hibbard 83 Arco Gold 83 Sam Idaho 84 , Uranium - Heise 85 . ^T'- >; T'l^' MY ;.;d- J* '.-^.I :r:UCtOi Rumors and Sketchy Stories Cont. 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 i}A-> Digitized by the Internet Archive 2011 with funding from in Brigham Young University-Idaho http://www.archive.org/details/treasurestoriesoOOclenn 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.) iCi'.?:•>: