Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-07-24
Quartz location notices at this office.

oatutuay, July ~.
+. A. Shearer went to his ranch at
Shearer's Ferry, on Salmon river, Mon
day, to harvest his hay and fruit crop.
One of the Jewell boys was over from
Salubria this week hunting feed for his
fathers sheep. He will range them on
the Little Salmon.
Ii you want a frst-class patented
Steel Point Crayon portrait, which cam
not be obtained from agents, call at
the Moscow Art Studio.
Mr.. Ready writes us from Northwood,
North Dakota, that he has not yet dis
posed of his horses and will not return
until he has done so.
Messrs. Parkman and Barker, of Ana
cortes, arrived on Mondays stage and
left the next day for Elk City in COM
pany with D. III. Summers.
Are you thinking of fencingP Ifso,re-
member that G. C. Bunnell furnishes
the famous Glidden Barb wire. There
is none better. none cheaper.
The agents of the Union Pacific Sys-
TEN are provided with railroad and
steamship tickets to all points east, as
well as to and from foreign ports.
Elmer Kings team attached to his
meat wagon took a spin without dri-
yer last Friday, but finally brought up
with no other damage than broken
pOIa and ainUla traa
Go to j. Fl. Robinson's, when you
visit lewiston, for your harness and
saddles. He employs large force of
skilful workmen and uses only first-class
material. Patronise home labor.
Messrs. Frank Aclor and Matt B.
Kelly, engineers of the Northern Pacific
railroad company, have been looking
over the Prairie this week. The object
of their visit can only be surmised.
Harvey w. Teft has been appointed
agent of the FREE PRESS at Keuterville,
with full authority to transact all busi-
ness on behalf of the paper the same as
if the editor were personally present.
A great many boxes of peaches and
other fruit arrive here daily on the
stage from Lewiston. If we had a wa
gon road up Salmon river we could eat
Salmon river fruit and keep our money
at home.
The corner opposite the printing of
flee looks like lumber yard, with the
great stacks of lumber ON it. 1t is all
for Will Schmadeka's mammoth new
building, on which the carpenters will
begin work about September /.
There will be an entertainment, con-
sisting of Cap Party. dialogues, decla-
nations, ETC.. and lunch at Union school
house, district No. IL, on Saturday July
%, 1891, at 700 o'clock p. m, for the
benefit of the school district. All are
invited.
DIR. Boston arrived from Lewiston on
Saturday on his annual visit and is dom.
iciled at the Jersey House during his
stay. He is prepared to do all kinds of
dental work and parties desiring to
avail themselves of his services should
call on him early.
Eggs are very scarce here this sum-
mer. Some say it is owing to the PRO
lection" given the American hen by
the Mckinley bill, which shuts out the
product of the foreign pauper hen. But
the fact is that our hens laid all winter
and they are taking deserved rest.
Messrs. Birmingham and Heppnei
went to Elk City during the week to
purchase claims. They are hydraulic
miners, and if they get the ground they
want. they will make the dirt fly at {
rate that will prove old Elk to be very
far from being played-out camp.
Frank Vansise was over on the Cot
tonwood side Sunday setting up head
er, and on his way home he gathered
few heads of Egyptian wheat. a ne1
variety which L. A. Bruner is expert
menting with. This wheat has seve
heads, the outside ones being abor
half the length of the central head, an
all are bearded. The specimens W
saw were filling nicely and promised |
make wonderful yield. He also cut
few heads of new variety of barle
from Mr.. Eckert's ranch, which grow
great heads, and looks to be plump an
very productive. Crops on the Cottol
wood side are much more forward tha
they are here, having had much LEI
rain than We have. The yield, both
product and acreage, will be by far tn
heaviest ever harvested in the Cottor
wood district. All of which is indee
cause for rejoicing.
The Teller of last week had a highl
imaginative description of the wonder
full curiosities of lately discovered
cave on Salmon river. This is the oil
and well known hole in the ground /
the limestone belt between John Da
creek and Amos Carver's ranch. Th
cave is about ten feet square. and th
water seeps through the lime formatio
overhead and collects in pool just in
side the entrance to the cave. The WI
ter is so charged with silicates that
soon transforms everything saturate
with it into petrifactions. The ladit
and children on the river frequentl
visit the cave in the summer for til
purpose of petrifying leaves, ferns, etc