Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-21
W4RRENS NOTES.
EDITORS Observations or Men
Things and Occurrences
IN the Wdrrens
Basin.

other beautiful flowers.
The air of Warrens is very favorable
for sleeping, and by retiring early and
awakening late all hands manage to
dispose of the time very comfortably.
The mail service between Mt. Idaho
and Warrens ought to be increased to- a
semi. weekly.
The camp has purchased a twenty foot
flag and will erect an eighty-foot liberty
pole from which to float it this fail.
They are already talking of having
grand celebration next Fourth of July,
and the writer of these notes has been
asked to come in and yank the British
Lion by the tail on the occasion.
Henry r. Grostein is assisting Or.
Ford in the Grostein d Binnard store,
and Walter Brown is clerking with Ben
son & Collins.
Geo. Brown and Mr.. M. Haynie re-
turned recently from prospecting trip
to Chamberlain basin, but made no i'm
portant discoveries.
The pack trains are expected from the
prairie next Monday, and will make one
more trip, after which they will go into
winter quarters.
Messrs. Robinson and Gully have
taken charge of the Warrens hotel and
are giving general satisfaction by their
management. They have fine open
ing to build up prosperous business in
growing camp, and from the way they
start out. it seems as though they were
determined to avail themselves of the
opportunity. The former proprietor,
James Edwards, will remove his family
to the prairie in week or two for per-
o.t~ do, A
unites in wishing him prosperous ca.
reer in whatever business he may en-
gage in.
John Babion (Towhead john and
Pony Smead are prospecting the Fool
hen lode, the float from which is very
rich. A small crushing last summer
yielded A or bar of bullion
Some of the Weiser prospectors who
have visited Warrens this summer have
plastered the camp all over with loca-
ton notices, of which the majority have
never been recorded and are therefore
worthless, besides being a detrment TO
the camp by preventing bona fide mi.
ners from prospecting and developing
what may be really valuable claims.
The entire country adjacent to the May
flower and Martinez claims, is Thus
parties who never intend to prospect tile
claims and who know no more about
quartz than yaller dog knows about
the procession of the equinox.
Mr.. Ellis B. Edwards, brother of our
jim. paid him an unexpected visit re-
Gently, and although they are as much
alike as twin babies. Jim failed to recos-
nize him. Mr.. Edwards is manager Of
tho Now VorL opI Nortborn
and in conversation with the writer
hereof, said that the era of railroad do
velopment on this coast had but Just be-
gun and that they would soon be pena-
trating wherever there was any produt-
tive country.
Bailey Chamberlain reports that up TO
September of this year he had disposed
of ten more beeves than he did last
year to the same date, the extra demand
for beef coming from the prospectus
and other numerous visitors to the camp.
Notwithstanding two severe losses by
absconding Cinnamon from two of the
defunct China claims he is doing well,
and expects to make another drive Of
beef cattle before the season closes.
Bailey is gambling heavily on Harrison
and Morton, and il he wins will have
hats and boots enough to start a store
while if be loses he expects to go bare
headed and barefooted for the balance |
of his life. There is no mugwump fool |
ishness about Bailey Chamberlain.
Mr.. V. Hexter and family will shortly |
leave Warrens for permanent residence |
in the lower country, where his nnmer. |
GUS friends hope that prosperity NAV |
still continue to follow him. |
The geneal opinion in Warrens is that |
the best route for wagon road is I'd
start from Florence and take down tho
old "Knott trail" to the river, crossing
at French creek, where there is good
place for bridge; thence up French
creek to Fork creek and thence TO the
present trail to Shearer's ferry. 1t il
said that the approaches to the river
from both sides on this route are the
best that can be had along the who4
course of the stream. and that in addi-
ton to the easy grades thus gained tho
road can be built and the river bridred
for less money than at any point on any
other route, all of which must be deter
mined by surveys-as soon as we of
Camas prairie awake to the necessity that
exists of making wagon road connection
with Warrens.
Col. b. NJ. l. Brown is SO glad to be
back on his old ''illahe," and SO reluc-
fant to leave it that he will probably not
return to the prairie.
Geo. Brown, Frank Smith and Ed.
Brooks have found some astonishingly
rich float away up Smiths guch above
The Little Giant, and although they have
assduonsly and terraced the
1ill with cuts and crifts they have not
'et been rewarded with the sight of
anything like ledge. A ditch runs on
OPP of the hill and if they fail to find it t
bis fall they propose to pipe off the
,illsides next spring and thus solve the
mystery" which they propose to call it !
When found. The boys say that one
on of rock as rich az the float will salts
y them. but that they propose to have
he ledge. if a ledge exists.
Warren L. Lockhart and VIM. Chase
ave made what promises TO prove val
BILE quartz discoveries on Martinez hill.
which they have named the Warrantee
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