Rockhunting near Pearl!

Between Eagle and Emmett, ID.
Pearl, Boise County, Idaho is the postoffice town of the West View Mining District, more commonly known as the Pearl District. It is situated ten miles east of Emmett, twenty-five miles north of Nampa, and four miles north of the Boise and Payette power plant, situated on the Payette River. This power company has its poles et and wires run an is now ready to transmit power to Pearl and install electric lights, thus giving the mine owners the best of power at a much less cost than steam or gasoline. Teams from Pearl can reach five different sawmills in one day's drive.

This district is comparatively a new one, as while placer mining has been carried on for a number of years, not until the year 1895 were even the crude methods of quartz operations undertaken. Within the past two years concentrators have been introduced into th several of the mills of the district with the most satisfactory results. The camp now has a few steady producers and has shipped more ore and bullion than any mines of Southern Idaho. Hitherto all this ore has been hauled to Boise, but since the completion of the Idaho Northern railway to Emmett, this place has become the distribution point of the Pearl district. Already one carload of concentrates is shipped each third day from the Checkmate mine via Emmett and Nampa.