Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-11-17
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News Items.

News Items.
Our town has scarcely gotten over
The election. On Friday night last
band with flies and drum
turned out to serenade John Van
The Hon. John greeted his
friends Ms is usual upon such occas-
ions. Van is a universal favorite with
the people Of the Bar. Bontires were
made in front OF the postottice and
Jake Ulrich's saloon in honor Of Du-
bOis and Harrison and gay time IN
dulg"d in generally.
Monday evening we received no
mail until late hour and the papers
were not distributed, but Young
America had been in anticipation Of
favorable news for President and WAS
not to be thwarted by any such cir
as the non-receirt OF po-
litical intelligence. As a consequence
thereof they ignited certain pitch bar
rels and made big blaze. We pre-
sumo this will be the wind-up.
On election day morning your cor
respondent visited Jake Recser's mill,
where IS tons of ore had just been RON
through from the Mountain Goat lode,
yielding about $500 to the ton. The
plates and I'LL the appurtenances
around the battery that had been
charged with quicksilver were fully
loaded. This mine is wonder and
we hope it will continue to pay rs il
does at present. 1t is in charge OF
Major C..vanah, n prince among those
who ,rofess . knowledge of mining
not only first-class mining engineer
hut . gentleman having a varied
knowledge OF the oftimes singular
freaks of nature in the breaks, dips
and angles OF mine as we'll as in re-
ducing il to the yellow metal through
the manipulations incident to amalga-
nation. The mine is in splendid con
dition and presents body Of ore
which has warranted the leasing Of
the Reessr mill, which ia one Of the
best pieces of property in the county.
Reeser owns the entire water power
Oh Steele and Bear gulches about his
mill, aud with the Improvements that
have been recently placed upon it by
Major Cavanah is capable of running
twenty aud We do not know but thirty
stamps. 1t costs SO little to run this
mill, having no fuel to pay for and no
engineer, that it must pay an enor-
nous profit. One who knows told
your correspondent this morning that
the sulphurets saved by the amalga-
mating machines would pay all ex.
pcnses-that they were worth eleven
dollars per sack, and that the ANAL.
gam was clear profit.
The editor Of the BULLETIN would
scarcely know our town ut the present
time. although he was here early in
July. Additions to the old and new
buildings would greet him at every
turn. All the lots are taken up be-
tween Reeser's mill and the Alturas
mill excepting such as where it would
be necessary to dig into the mountain
to set house, and even some of these
are taken.
Carpets and furniture for the new
addition to the Alturas Hotel has ar
rived. 1t will be remembered thai
Mrs. Gilman went TO Portland for ,hi.
merchandise some weeks ago.
Much merchandise has been laid in
for winter, but the necessary article o.
-four has been neglected. This is be
ing shipped in from Boise City il
quantities sufficient for all purposes.
The Wide West and Alturas ART
running to their utmost capacity, boil
making seventy stamps, on good ore
They run day and night and will con
tinue SO to do all winter.
Jake Ulrich has his new brewery
about completed. Jake is IN enter
prising citizen, good man, and cal
culated to make coin. With the ad
vantages he now hat he ought to bs
able to make superior article OF beer
and we believe he will.
c. w. Miller of Atlanta was in towr
last week, on his way east. He say.
he will put in twenty and perhaps
thirty new stamps in the Tacoma mil
next spring on his return
Aleck Simpson talks of going cas-
soon to visit his friends in Brooklyn
N. Y. He is one of the best bushes,
men in the country, from keeping the
books to selling a nickel's worth o
candy. He has friends al the Bar ant
in all the surrounding country VIII,
like him as we'll AS II man as a trader
There is about foot OF snow on thu
summit between this town and At
lanta.
Henry Swanholm has recently re
ceived large amount OF goods. Hi
storehouse is full to OVERLOOKING.
DR.. Wright seems to be doing ,
good business at his drug store. Pro
fessionally he has always been sue
cess.
Mayor Jake Reeser received tn
pipe for combining the water to b.
used in his mill last week. He is nov
anxious for the pipe to be used Il
drown out any fire that may occur ant
will never be happy until it arrives
Mr.. Reessr has lived here u long time
over twenty years, and takes grea
pride in all new improvements mad
in this town.
G. ID. Golden, our worthy postmas
ter, is doing an excellent mercantil
business at his store.
Jim Miller, recently NINE boss a
the Alturas, has been assisting in tn
fiqing up Of the Reeser mill. Ate
the work on this mill shall have beef
completed it will tend to remind on
of the boys jack-knife; he first OF
tanned new blades and after time
new handle, but after all he called