The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-09-28
CUSTER CORRESPONDENCE.
CUSTER, IDAHO, Sept. %. 1889.

~A~-AO~A'Ay AOOnVN IVA W al
to by our residents, and consequent
st ~ everybody is rejoicing. The roa
m is not entirely completed yet, bu
when It is, and court has adjourne
is In Challis, our citizens, united wit
Is those of Bonanza, will give som
kind OF celebration in common
m Grafton of the event that will b
4, suitable to the occasion. One ad
vantage afforded the camp is al
o ready illustrated by Boise frui
n vender, who was the first outti
If over the road, viz the selling o
fruit at $500 per box that invaria
e bly,, heretofore, has cost US from
e 5000 to 500 per box. l sight this
S incident as one of thousand that
Will accrue to our benefit, and all
: on account of set of county com
t mlssioners who have the interests
of this part of the county at heart,
and the stamina and push to work
for that which best subserves the
interests of their constituents.
Since my last the Dickens Custer
Company has resumed operations
in earnest. The familiar sound of
the whistle and the rumbling noise
occasioned by the dropping stamps
reminds US of the past, and is also
encouraging as to what we can reas-
onably expect in the future. For
nine years past the General Custer
mill has been slowly grinding away
till its output is something over
~ 100000; with the mines now
showing better than ever; with new
strikes being made daily, and with
cheaper transportation-one can
not help but think that Custer and
the Custer-Dickens Company are
commencing on new era that will
rebound to their benefit, and the
existence Of the latter will there
fore prove of incalculable benefit to
Custer and Alturas counties in par
ticular and the new State of Idaho
in general. Old Custer county has
already proven herself the banner
republican county Of the territory,
and her output for 1890 will prove
her to be the banner producer of
the State.
G. B. Baldwin and Nose Slower
are in from Seafoam and report the
seasons development as generally
satisfactory. Having some interests
IN that country we naturally like
to hear encouraging news from thai
quarter. But then we passed sem
tence upon Sheep Mountain and
Seafoam last season and our conf
dence has not tlinched a particle.
Nose is here for the winter and we
hope to see Baldwin remain also,
because George is quite talker at
times, and 1t needs some such a
person to stand off.
The Lucky Boy force is already
increased to so men, and increasing
daily. The Dickens is working 10
or II men, the Washington abou, ;
10, the Fourth of July about 50,
with Is men on Estes, and several
others scattered on different prop :
critics. The MCGOWAN Brothers and c
Banjo Bill have opened fine prop 8
erty at the head of Five-mile creek, =
and are preparing to work all win y
ter. Parties who have seen it re-
port eight inches Of 1902. ore for "A
80 feet long, and growing stronger +
in breast of drift.
Pete Johnson's crew have finished a
framing the timbers for the mill +
and are now on the hill erecting Il
the same. If the weather permits II
this mill will be dropping stamps Fl
yet this fall. I"
Charlie Raine and Billy Swan +
are still at work on their bonanza. n
They are pushing ahead a tunnel e,
hat they run blind several years CO
ago, the breast of which was within "
iorty feet of possible millions. ANY C
shift now is liable to cut the vein
It depth of Is feet below discov- r.
'ry. Should the vein of ore inter I,
ected above continue to this depth r;
he boys can easily calculate on r
everaI hundred thousand in sight. 2,
or % feet of 6O-oz. milling dirt is F
'ard to find these days, and the G.
'oys certainly have that. h,
Bomar, of Bonanza, is blowing q,
ike blazes these days; but then bt
II. is rather heshy for work, and il !,
3 keeping him busy to fill his or b,
ers for lumber. H
James Motherwell, from HALEY, X
as been doing Custer for the past
eek. Jimmy seems to be looking W
'r a place to locate, but presume
e found all branches of trade we'll -
epresented and possibly overdone r..
ere already. Parties from dis 81
ance looking for an opening or sa
ork had better remain where they III
re. The road gang and the Ex- 49,
ectation Ditch Company gang will Of
lrnish all the men needed here ,e
his winter, although most every re,
ody is at work now. Many of the
ID hands at the mill and mine re- ~,
ained here all summer in expecta- ..-r
on of the works starting, and there, ter
re they are granted the preference. air
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