Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-01-08
STATE NEWS.
Cleaned From the Columns of Various
idaho Exchanges.

Cleaned From tho Columns Of Various
Idaho Exchanges.
We are in receipt of reliable infor-
nation to the effect that ledge or vein
Of coal has been discovered near Vol.
mer. Within few months, or as soon
- spring opens the prospect will be de-
veloped. The indication and speci-
mems are the most fattering.-Moscow
Mirror.
Seth L. Baker will open out saw
mill in Idaho Falls the coming spring.
The contract has already been let for
the delivering Of logs and the necessary
one thousand dollars guarantee to the
loggers is now on the way from Chi
cago The mill is to cost $4,000 and
viii indeed be quite an addition to
our booming city.-Eagle Rock Times.
Yesterday the completion Of the
canal Of the Boise City and Nampa
Irrigation, Land and Lumber company
10 Nampa, distance Of nineteen miles,
was signalized by the water being
turned into the first six miles of the
canal. The water is creeping to Nampa
now ut the rate Of three quarters of a
mile day. The canal is sixteen feet
on the bottom, twenty-five feet on the
water line, and at present carries a
depth Of four feet Of water.-Boise City
Statesman.
The new Black Jack mill will be
completed ready to run about the 10th
Of next month. Delays in getting
some Of the lumber required has been
the cause of the mill not being COM
pleted by New Years Day. The ma
chinery In this mill is all new in pat
tern and the 125-horse power Corliss
engine IL the finest one in the county.
Much credit is due to r. H. Dewey,
the efficient superintendent, and to T..
w. Jones, the contractor, for the work
done on this splendid mill.-Idaho
Avalanche.
The Nampa people have organized q
vigilance committee to protect them
selves against land.jumpers. II there
IL any case where a vigilance committee
Il justiflable 1t lie for the purpose Of deal
ing with land.jumpers. It is very exas-
perating when q family have put in
nom two to ten years Of hard labor on
. fArm In good faith, to have the ques-
ton Of compliance with law forced into
ooart by some idle sharper who seeks
- i've ~ tricks Of that kind; and 1t Is
1etat III modifying to their feelings to
discover after they have been dragged
into court that no decision will be
reached until long after both their
money and their home have been eaten
up in hwyers' fees and costs of court.
--Ketchum Keystone.
Asssrs. Fulton and Bates, president
and secretary, respectively, Of the
Seattle, Boise City and Salt Lake rail-
road company, left yesterday for Salt
Lake, where they will spend the holi-
days. Upon their return they will put
men In the field to locate the line down
the river, across the belt Of sage brush
land lying between this and Payette
valley, across the Payette and Weiser
1ver and on to the Seven Devils min
ing district. The line has been located
fora diatance Of eight miles down the
valley, and men are at work now on
the grade on the other side Of the river,
opposite the city. Work will be prose-
cuted vigorously until the ground
freezes, and II the ground does not
freeze to any depth work will be
continued all winter.-Boise Sun.
A new town has been plated In
the Seven Devils district. tits called
Helena, and is located within one hum
dred yards Of the Old Peacock mine,
which. Is conservatively estimated to
have seventy-five thousand tons Of
thlrty-ave per cent copper in sight.
There 10 on the dump, sacked and
being shipped, five hundred sacks of
ore that will average ~ per cent copper
per ton. The Old Peacock, White
Monument, Blue Jacket, Copper Cres-
cent, Mountain Queen, Legal Tender,
Helena, Calumet and Norma, are all
patented claims and were sold by
Albert Kleinschmith and Samuel
Hauser, Of Helena, Montana, to q SYN
dictate for 81, 900, 900 cash, besides a
largo block Of stock, and are now In
corporated under the name Of the
American Mining Company, and cap
italised at q, 0OO, 900, John c. Rodgers
being the resident manager.-Idaho
World.
J. g. Rogers, Of Seven Devils,
SHOWED US q specimen from the
White Monument mine that II prop
efIy exhibited would almost set the