Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-10-31


Co. will expend $4,000 in developing
one of their ledges in Elk City this
winter Mr.. f. C. Spedden, of this
place. has charge of the Company's
properties.
Mort s. Martin brought us yesterday
bottle of sorghum syrup manufactured
by himself from cane grown on his own
land near Grangeville, which effectually
dsposes of the idea that cane cannot be
raised on Camas Prairie. The syrup is
as clear and good as any we have ever
seen, and was extracted from the Amber
variety of cane. Mr.. Martin says there
is no reason why cane should not be
produced here, as the present year.
with its late frost, was very unfavora-
BILE season for its growth, and yet 1t ma-
tured early and produced heavily.
Roy Gully and his family are out from
established hotel there this summer,
and the transient travel in and out of
Elk City has increased at such rate
that a stopping place at Newsome is GO
ing to be money making concern, and
we ere glad that Mr.. Gully has decided
to continue the experiment again next
year. Travellers over that trail should
make point of stopping at Newsome.
not only on account of the live, and let
live" principle. but because they get full
value for their money in excellent
meals, as we know from experience.
Mr.. Dillinger arrived out from Dixie
diggings last week and will, in all pro-
liability, spend the winter here. He
has done very well out of his placer
claims this season. and he has, besides,
some valuable quartz locations which
promise to be worth millions when de-
veloped. Dixie is thirty miles southeast
of Elk City, and is situated in basin at
the head of a tributary of Crooked river.
which puts into Salmon river fifteen
miles above the Wire Bridge. Mr.. Dill
linger knows that country about as we'll
as any man living, and he says it is
rich mineral belt that will make name
for itself in the fulness of time.
A. B. Galloway, of White Bird, was
in town last week and left US sample
jar of sorghum syrup manufactured by
himself from cane grown on his own
land. The syrup was of excellent quail
ity, and shows what can be done in this
county, if people would but half tEy>
sample stalk of the cane eleven feet
high can be seen at this Office. Mr.. Gall
loway has also raised first rate article
of tobacco on his ranch. That region
will develop some of the finest ranches
in the state, when it is surveyed and
settled. The soil is very fertile, and the
climate superb, while wood, water and
horse feed are everywhere abundant.
NoTIcE.-We will let the painting of
the Methodist Episcopal church of
Grangeville, Idaho, to the lowest res
ponsible bidder, we to furnish all paints
and oils. All outside work to have two
coats in solid white. Waincoting to be
oiled and vanished; ceiling to be paint
ed. Pews to be painted and grained or
stained and vanished, as the committee
may decide after opening the bids. AN
bids to be in by November Is, 1880.
Specifications can be seen at church
building or by calling on Rev.A. Maxey.
Bids to be handed to J. F. Mclean. G..
B. Sanders or Rev. A. Maxey. building
committee. Committee reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
A. MAxEY, Chairman.
If fsome day the newspaper man should
print the contents of his waste basket,
there would probably be riot. There
would certainly be trouble in many
homes; arrests in some directions,
shotguns in others-trouble all around.
But the patron never sees the waster
basket. He only glances at the beauti-
fully printed pages; complains if one
letter in $4,000 is upside down; growls
his disapproval if one name in 500 has
happened TO 60 wrong; kicks because
his communication, signed Taxpayer"
has been condensed into respectable
English; frowns because the editor
didn't take his advice about publicly
warning a neighbor against throwing
more melon rinds in his alley, and ID
generally disgruntled. not SO much al
what he finds as what he fails to find,
He knows his share of the waste-bas.
ket. but if he could have one thorough
look at the contributions made to thai
receptacle by his neighbors and friends
f he would thank God for the existencs
of man with sufficient intelligence ant
, courage not to print all he knows, and
, to temper even that which he doel
} print.