HUNTING AND PROSPECTING IN IDAHO! 



GEO. F. WRIGHT. 



There are thousands of Recreation 

 readers who go to the hills each year, and 

 after a day's hunt or so get tired and wish 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY G. F. WRIGHT. 



NEAR MONUMENT CREEK, IDAHO. 



they were home. I've seen many such 

 people, and for their amusement and my 



own have talked mining and prospecting to 

 them and have shown them a few samples 

 of rock. In 5 minutes they would be all 

 excitement. During the rest of their stay 

 they would be out prospecting all the time, 

 and for them game became a secondary 

 consideration. What man or woman in 

 the East but will eagerly read any glowing 

 ad of a mining outfit? And doubtless many 

 wish they were in the hills with a chance 

 to discover a fortune themselves. 



It is not necessary to have experience ; 

 some of the greatest finds have been made 

 by tenderfeet. And, by the way, tender- 

 foot is a term I've never heard used ex- 

 cept by some Eastern fellow whose West- 

 ern experience consisted of a few months' 

 hanging around a railroad station, 

 wearing a pair of chaps and a set of fluted 

 biscuit cutters for spurs. A textbook or so 

 and a few weeks' study will make a novice 

 more competent to prospect than some old 

 moth-eaten mountain rat who is always 

 looking for a grub stake to take out and 

 eat up. Why? Because for the old- 

 timer the conditions must be just right. 

 The formation must be the same as it was 

 in Leadville or California basin, or some 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY G. F. WRIGHT. 



MIDDLE FORK OF SALMON RIVER. 

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