Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-04-05
NO. 43.


Wm. Pierce. our accommodating mail
, carrier, made the trip from Clearwater
, in a day and half, on account of one
, of our quartz miners having two picks
come by mail, and he would not have it
said that he delayed the work on
mine.
WIN. Ryan, who has band of stock
on the upper Red river meadows, says
this is good enough country for him
and will remain with us.
A. t. Reynolds and Pierce Mooney
are both going to add extensively to
their improvements on the lower Red
river meadows. Their barns and houses
are well built and comfortable.
j. c.. Young is repairing his fences
and will soon be making lots of butter.
All the stock is looking fine.
Lee Mar, our enterprising merchant,
has his splendid store finished and it is
great improvement to the town. He
is doing splendid business, and de-
serves it.
Elk valley is free from snow and the
grass is coming up nicely. The wealth
er is perfection for stock men, but death
to miners.
With our well cared for district rec
ords in the accommodating hands of j.
c. Litchfield; our fautless postoffice in
the hands of B. B. Stuart, and the boss
hotel in Lon Sears hands, we feel hap
py, and why not. ROBIN.
Elk CITY, IDAHO, March 26, 1889.
EDITOR PREss:-Referring to the item
in your issue of the 22nd, signed "Mn-
err" would ask space in your impartial
paper for few words, to save from mis-
representation those miners who toll
winter and summer alike, and who
hope by that toll and expenditure of
money to make Elk City the banner
quartz camp of the northwest. We
need all the assistance we can get at the
hands of honest, toiling prospectors, and
IN order to get them we must offer in
ducements. The most important is to
have we'll kept district record in the
hands of an accommodating person.
why, say prospector comes here and
goes out into the hills and finds a no.
tice or stake marked, how is he to find
out If it was ever recorded? Miner
would have him get into an envelope
and 90 out to Mt. Idaho or face the ex-
pense and ride 120 miles, only to have
the same thing to do over again
The majority of white men have con-
Guided that with rare exceptions Elk
City as placer camp is worked out,
and that quartz has the call, and all of
us that are and have been working
quartz for years back, say there shall be
district recorder, and when we are
not able to pay for record, we are GER
tainly not able to work a claim, and
ought to travel. Our petition to the
county recorder for the appointment of
district recorder will show who is who
and fhinlE thot - 90
ed that petition are well satisfied, and
on examination will say that the rec
ords were never more carefully kept,
or In more accommodating hands.
There is thrust made under cover of
this question at quartz mining. Here
at least two claims that have been
worked this winter have produced
many tons of pay quartz; in fact, waste
rock has been the exception, and both
of these claims have put in circulation
some gold bullion. We think we can
detect IN miner" great deal of envy,
selhshness and much ignorance. and
would advise him to sing slow and con-
tine himself to his own business, or at
least approach others in legal way.
We have our blessings and our curses;
the former in climate, resources and
bright outlook, and the latter in the
shape of cranks and tramps who love to
get off something like Miner, or to take
tragic position and get off "what do we
want of wagon road? give us a mine
and we will soon get road" Trace
these same parties back and they never
had anything but living and never
will have. Our motto is "every man
with the true interest of ELK City at
heart put your shoulder to the wheel; a
long pull and steady one will get us
on top" LIVE AND LET LIVE.