Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-01-18

: Buy farm on Camas prairie.
Iron clad notes printed to order.
Mining location blanks for sale at this
Office.
, Vollmer & Scott loan money and buv
county scrip.
Frank Brugemon lis building a new
, house at Cottonwood.
For letter heads. bill heads, envelopes
and stationary call at this office.
Weller & Wax will pay the highest
cash price for county warrants. If
Geo. lIawley returned from visit TO
Walia Walla and Portland Thursday.
The Oregon legislature is in session
and will re-elect Dolph to the U. s. Sen.
ate.
Twenty inches of new snow have fall
len on the Elk City trail since our last
issue.
Now is the time to advertise yonr
stock brands. Apply at this Office for
rates.
Oar young people have famous sport
conSting on the hill east of town these
fine nights.
The winter has been very pleasant ND
TO date, and some of us are already look
ing for spring.
The editor moved into a new suit of
fine clothes last week and talks of inn
porting plug hat.
The brass band has reorganizsd and
Will soon give grand ball. Full par
tlculars next week.
Mr.. A. j. Carlson's team ran awav at
Cottonwood last week and crippled q
line horse belonging to the team.
FouND.-A letter already sealed and
stamped. but without an address. Los
er can have it without charge by prov
ing property at the office of this paper.
MIR. +. w. Bell is daily receiving new
invoices OF furniture of all kinds, and
can supply you with sets from $32 to
$40. His show rooms are worth in
specting
The best saddle mule in Jas. Welcb's
pack train got its leg broke by being
kicked by another mule last week. and
he was reluctantly compelled to shoot
the animal.
Y Rnssel Hogan and Harry Shissler are
carrying the mail on the route between
MT. ltaho and Warrens and they report
the snow as only averaging foot deep
on the trail.
Look here stockmen / will sell so
tons of good timothy and wild oats hay
cheap, or it can be fed out on the ranch.
Come and see me about it.
J. Ii. ROBINSON.
The joint lease of the o. r. an. Co.
Is at last consummated, and much as we
regret to say it, our prospects for a rail-
road to Camas prairie anywhere in the
near future are not bright, unless the
Idaho Transit company comes to the
rescue. The joint lease is for ninety
nlne years and If II railroad does not
come before that time some of us will
not live TO see the iron horse shaking
his thirst in the crystal streams of Cam
as prairie.
The finding of water on the Wood
plot, east of the race track, ought to
build up that end of town and right
mere We want to say that those of our
citizens who have been contemplating
building in this town for several years
past but have been deferred from doing
so through fear of railroad develop.
ments, should delay no longer but 90
right ahead. Grangeville is all. right
and will be in the future what it is to.
day-the best town on Camas prairie
railroad or no railroad.
The latest news from Warrens is to
the effect that two new lodges have been
struck. one of which is supposed to be-
the southeast extension of the Little
Giant and the other, on Smiths gulch,
called the ARIZONA" and "'S9" respect
lively. They were discovered by Mr..
Sedgwick, of the Patchem mine and are
both rich in free gold with some silver.
according to the assays. Capt. Hawley,
OF the Jersey House, owns third inter-
est in all three of them and will take a
trip to inspect them as soon as the trail
Is open. Mr.. Mason, one of the part
ners, has gone east to visit bis sick wife
and Will not return until spring.
Col. r. r. Spedden, ex-county clerk
Of Clatsop county, now of Pomery, w,
T., it seems has not been idle since his
departure from Astoria. He is now in
terested in some of the most prosper
| ous mining enterprises in Idaho, among
which is the Mammoth Lode Mining
Co., lately incorporated. The mine is
near Grangeville, Idaho. The directors
are II. X. Spedden, president. G. G. Aus
tin, secretary. and Capt. j. G. Hustler,
the Astoria agent of the company. As
says made in San Francisco and Port.
land range from SOL gold and Sol silver
to $3.50 gold per ton, eight feet below
the surface. Machinery for a mill is
now being made. The capital stock of
| the company is one million shares at
one dollar a share, re,non-assessable. Capt.
Hustler is full of dips, spurs, angles and
lodes; talk with him about it.-Astorian.
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The Commissioners