Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-06-19
Keuterville. June 13, 1891.
District cour t next week.

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Publication Of this issue was delayed
a day owing to non-arrival of paper.
Sherwin Bros. sold 200 head of cattle
to Mr.. Sears, Of Wallace. this week.
John N. Rice returned from Moscow
Monday where he went to buy new
hack for his livery stable here.
Mrs. McCrcady Smith has opened an
ice cream parlor and candy store in the
Gordon building, and will be glad to
have her friends give her call.
And still the rain keeps pouring down
and clouds dim the light Of day. 1t is
noble summer and everybody reioices
at our magnificent harvest prospects.
E. D. Lock wood sent us out word by
Sam Jones that he had made several
new strikes Of rich ore in the Snake
| river country above the mouth of SAL
mon river lately.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coston have leased the
Cottonwood house and are now in full
charge. They are experienced people
in the hotel business and their guests
will find them very accommodating folks
to do business with.
Sheriff Wood left Monday to meet
Gov. Wiley at Warm Springs. They
Will proceed To the bridge site at French
creek across Salmon river and mark out
the approaches and other work for the
guidance of the bridge contractors.
A lively half mile race took place at
the track Monday between "Caddie
Day." a horse owned by Bay Clark,
and an animal from Camas Prairie. The
purse was $50 and Caddie Day took it.
Moscow Star.
Pony Smead and Pete Mallich came
ont from Warrens Tuesday with train
OF twenty packs which they are loading
at q F's with merchandise for Kelly
and Brown, who have bought out the
benson store "a that camp. They will
start on the back track to-day.
The copper discoveries made bv one
armed Donnelly last summer in the Big
creek country. on the middle fork Of
Salmon river, are making stir among
mining men outside, and some of the
heaviest operators in Cour d'Alene are
going In this summer to see the lodges.
The latest novelty is the new Charter
OAK stoves at G. G. Bunnell's. They
have the celebrated GAUzE door for ovens.
Have you seen them? Call and examine.
No more burnt pie crust. No more
nnderdone biscuits. Everything baked
to turn by d carefully distributed heat.
A petition is circulating PRAYING the
county commissioners to appropriate
S37 5O per quarter from the county trea-
sury Tor the rent or purchase of an Ar
mory for Company G. The commission
ers are given authority under the law
TO make the appropriation if they see fit,
TheagricuI Itural implement warehouse
looks IKE circus had come to town.
with the stacks of machines all picked
out in red, W bite and blue paint. n ia
the largest assortment of farming i,nple.
ments ever brought here, and the pro-
prletors are evidently anticipating great
harvests and railroads to carry awav the
surplus. They have also laid in several
tons OF binding twine.
A rich copper strike has been made
on the Little Salmon river, a few miles
below Salmon Meadows, by S. Lewis. an
old time hunter of that country. Besides
copper the ore carries gold and silver.
me speclme ms are certainly the richest
In copper we have ever seen in this
county. 1t has been known for long
time that the Little Salmon river conne
M never been thoroughly prospected.-
Weiser Leader.
We were shown In Lewiston Last
week some rock which we took to be a
caolnet specimen, it was so rich; but the
gentleman who owned it said it was a
piece of ordinary ore from a newly d;s~
covered ledge on the south fork of the
clearwater, but the exact location of the
strike we could not learn. The rocL
was not quartz. but n snecies of tran
thickly i'm pregnated with white iron
and carrying in the honey-combed in
terstices of its matrix clusters of wire
silver as pretty as we eyer saw. If all
Is true we Heard about the ledge its pro-
prietors have got sure-enough bonan-
"a ten times over. But We have grown
sceptical OF these maryelously rich dis
coyeries in mysterious localities. We
boom no more quartz until we know
the mine itself.