Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-05-24
NO. 40.
Ed ltorial Correspondence.
CALDW WELL. IDAuo. Nav 1S


country is filing up with an aggressiv
and enterpr Using people, who are fas
reclaiming the desert from prime val sol
itudes and making these arid lands {,
blossom as the rose.
Politics Ore quiet ia the southern
counties and but little interest is mani.
tested in the statehood scheme.
d Joseph p. Wilson, the new U. 8. mar.
shal. is duly installed and ex.marshal
Y Baird contemplates removing to Spo-
Kane Falls. Willis Sweet the new U. S.
district attorney, is also on deck, the as
say office at Boise CITY is also in tba
hands OF new appointee, Mr.. William
Cunningham, whose commission. bv the
way was tel egraphed to him in hurry
that IS unusual in dgnified politics.
Delegate Dubois is practical politician
who believes in the good old democrat
ic doctrine that ''the spois belong to
the victors" and his best friends have
been rewarded with the best gifts at
MS disposal. There are no better men
IN or out OF politics than the men who
stay with the eir friends.
Governor Shoup is probably the most
popular public officer ever installed in
the territory. Such universal esteem
would lend courage to any man, and we
may expect IN him as independent an
administration of territorial affairs as
characterized his illustrious predecessor,
Gov. Stevenson.
Mining interests are dull in the south
ern section. The "Silver Mountain" en-.
terprise in Boise county, with its heavy
foreign back ing, was lamentable and
most miserable failure. The mill erect
ed by the company was the finest in the
territory, but not one paying run was
made. The "bloody Henglishmen"
were deceived. The mill was set up on
rock-pile that was passed ON the ten
der'feet for rich ore. It is even rumor-
ed that the mine was salted in order to
get the specimens for the assays just at
the right moment. Such frauds retard
the development of rich bona tide dis
tricts. If some syndicate like the Silver
Mountain Cd. should be guided to the.
Clearwater and Elk City regions they
would speedily have something to show
ior every dollar invested, and the result
would be the reverse of failure. The.
sheriff sold cut the Silver Mountain Co.'S.
mill last week.
Mineral district, twenty-five miles.
north of Weser, is about the liveliesr
camp in southern Idaho this summer.
The Eagan group of mines in that
camp have been sold recently to a SYM
dicate of Co lorado capitalists, and they
have already large force of men EN-.
ployed in uilding roads and develop
ing the mines, and it is expected that
the new mill will commence crushing
ore in thirty days. The superintend-
ents OF the ether mining companies in
the same district are not far behind and
will soon have large mill and reduction
plants in operation. The Black Maria
company in particular are putting up
what promises to be the best mill plant
n the territory, and there is everv in
iication that Mineral is one of the solid
bullion producing camps of idaho. The
season of exploration is over and the
of the mines is assured.
Nearly mi lion pounds of freight left
Weiser last week destined for Mineral,
md there IRE indications of good
boom there this summer.
ln the Seven Devils a great deal of
development work is going forward and
IN average Of fifty tons of ore per week
S being packed out from the Blue jack
st mine to Weiser city and shipped to
Belleville, ILL.,, under contract. 1t is
'nly question of time when that great
copper belt will be appreciated at its
rue value.
A party Of St. Louis brokers and cap
talists will visit Warrens and Alton
districts this summer, but principally to
inspect the Cleveland mine in Alton
district, viii is now being foated in
hat city. The stock is quoted at twen-
y cents per share and par value at So.
Iames Reardon and John Gagan arriv-
ID from Butte the other day and have
zone to the mine to inaugurate extern
i've development work, which will be
prosecuted now through both summer
md winter. Hitherto the camp has
'een abandoned in the winter.
A. F. P.