Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-14


as the Elkhorn mine. Everybody
busy, and a vast amount of work is
being done there. Hugh Turner will
have his mill ready for crushing in
three or four days. He has twelve
men employed.
Sweet, Williams and Smith, own
ers of the Gladstone, have their tun-
mel in no feet and according to sur
vey will tap the ledge BY running
eighty feet further.
The Oro Fino, owned by Mitchell
Bono and Naz Carpenter, is very
mine. Main tunnel in 325
feet, and run of twenty FIVE or thir-
ty feet more will tap the old Orc FL
no vein at depth of $50 feet. A
raise from main tunnel to old works
-eighty-6ve feet-cut through a
body of tale and quartz seams twenty
feet wide, which if run through mill
would pay handsome monthly divi-
dend. The location Of this mine is
one OF the best, with water power
sufficient to run fifty stamps, and an
abundance of timber within lines of
claim. Neither Mitchell nor Car
penter are blessed with very large
bank account, and are therefore com
PEELED to go slow for the present.
Ben Wilson will have water turned
into his big ditch, north side of
Grimes creek, IN a week or ten days
and will operate in Garden gulch.
John Dempsey is using Lewis gulch
water on ground on the south side of
Grimes creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Dempsey are
visiting relatives in Haley.
Miss Mary Youren is guest at
Meffert's hotel.
Letters received from James Smith,
who left here several weeks ago seri-
ously i'll for Boise City to consult a
doctor, state that he will return in a
few days fully recovered.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. K. Goldtrap are
spending the summer at their country
residence, Warm Springs, in Garden
valley.
| A. G.. Church received two four
horse wagon loads of merchandise
yesterday.
A self-styled professor somewhat
under the influence of electricity Oh
something else, appeared before oul
County School superintendent, Lip
pincott, on examination day, and al
most demanded a certificate to teacl
without being examined according Il
law. Mr.. Lippincott kindly INFORMED
him that he must comply with tn
law and gave him few questions t
answer and problems to solve. H
scrlbbled on a sheet of paper for
short time, and oh. such scribbling
1t would drive the ghost of Horac
Greeley to the mad house, could b
look upon it. He naturally failed i
every instance, went to the saloor
took drink of cider, returned an
threatened Mr.. Lippincott with polit
) icsl annihilation and disappeared
, Drunkards should not be given Gel
, tifcates, under any circumstances, Il
matter how well qualified. Schot
trustees, in selecting teachers, shoul
by all means give home raised teaci
ers the preference. Girls who hav
passed examinations are competent
n teach in any of our county school
$ should be given positions first an
a outside applicants fill vacant place
2 There are quite number of your
d ladies in our county born and raiSs
# here holding teachers certificates
present unemployed waiting MEGA
, ber like for something to turn u
and if that something don't turn |
soon they will perhaps be driven
desperation and blight forever the
happy lives by marrying some tie
dollar man.
"a The huokleberry party that met
10 Charlotte's gulch near Grimes Pa
10 and spent four or FIVE days of Is
w week so pleasantly were certainly
"a jolly crowd. They gathered in t
~, nelghborhood of one hundred g
Ions of the luscious fruit. The tai
"a feet long was lined by hung
D. huckleberry pickers at meal tin
be The girls made huckleberry pies a
he Fred Dolioux, q celebrated Dut
On oven expert, baked them beauti
ne brown. A place was levelled
mt 20x24 for dancing, and sure enou
Of tba Japra want marrilv on ea