Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-10-06
IAN ITINERANT RAKE "
1t has been one Of the nal
Of Idaho Territory that L.

Of Idaho Territory that u. Was
penchant for nursing its eneaia
Men have come mere with iittle +
other rccommendation than cieaa
clothing and clipper tongue and
ingratiated themselves into the good
graces of residents and property
owners by whom they have been
treated with the kindest considera-
ton only that they might turn like
the torpid snake that had been
warmed into life to strike at and
poison the sympathetic hand which
in it's far-fetched reach of charity
had felt an interest in preserving
the reptiles existence. Our Rocky
Bar correspondent, last week, al
ludes to one Of these. The whole
relation was designed in spite and
green-eyed jealousy and the pur-
ported facts the wild imaginings of
an alcoholic, disordered brain. This
"Itinerant Rake" as our CORE
spondent is pleased to designate
him, writes to the Engineering and
Mining Journal" published in New
York City, as follows:
ALruRAs GOLD : Not paying expenses; no payday
TOR n VAT. unft pNin he ms tf,nt
foated the MINIS ami is reported 10 have "stood in
with the expert from London is at Rocky Bar, with
agentleman from London; affairs very iatch mixed;
likely to shut down before winter; unless they sink
and And quartz they will be compelled to close this
month, I'm fact July ore only Melted - per ton
This is a statement OF conditions brief as ii is dis
heartening, but what is the of trying to keep
people from making asses of themselves. | sounded
an early note Of alarm in your journal. The day OF
reckoning is at hand.
The utter absurdity of the fore
going is apparent to all Of our read
ers in Western Alturas. The COM
pany in question have paid their
help with regularity each month;
their checks are as the gold in
Mountain Home, and there is no
mine in Idaho whose employment
is more eagerly sought than at the
Alturas works in Rocky Bar. All
accounts agree that the present pro-
duct of the mine has exceeded any
thing that has preceded it, and it
really seems as if the "dishearten-
ing" circumstances of which the
respondent speaks must have
aeen rather that sadness which at
morning follows the debauch Of the
preceding evening.
But this enemy Of Idaho is not
content with attacking the Alturas
property. His vindictiyeness to-
wards certain gentleman who has
done much to develope Idaho of
late, not only in mines but in other
matters of public concern and in
terest, is such, because an occas-
ional small check is not put be-
tween his itching fingers, that every
interest with which that gentleman
is connected comes in as point at
which his poisonous arrows should
be directed. In speaking Of the
Wide West he says: Nothing in
sight-yet a 20-stamp gold mill is
being erected" The correspondent
of the Mining Journal resides
some eighteen miles from Red War
rior gulch, and pretended that he
did not know that the Wide West
mill was completed when he ad
dressed the New York paper, not
withstanding the event was made q
cause for public festivity. For eyi
dent social reasons he was not in
vited. He complains that there is
not enough water in Red Warrior
yulch to meet the demands of The
mill in question. The public know
ing this fellow as well as they dc
will naturally ask: did he evel
make a complaint ere this of thu
scarcity Of water?' He did no
say, as was the notorious fact, tha'
more than two thousand tons o
rich, assorted ore lay upon The
dump, and that it was upon such
that the mill was doing its work
he did not tell that in the first 9lt
feet of the Wide West tunnel fiv'
good, rich paying veins had beer
struck. Such, however, is fac
well known all over Western al
turas.
The impotent malignity Of this
poor fellow is terrible. Passing ovel
the confines of our fair county, III
next appears as the tradueer Of thu
well established mines Of Owyhee-
those that yielded their millions
when the journal" correspondent
was driving stakes for railroad mel
in Canada and making a desperate
effort to become initiated in The
mysteries of transportation. While