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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

Der Of mines are being successfully
worked, and generally with salts
factory results, while late accounts
from the long celebrated North Star
mine at that place are to the effect
that regular bonanza is being un-
covered there at a depth of between
200 and 800 feet. This report is
regarded as reliable, and if so will
stimulate further prospecting by
assisting as it will do to dissipate
the theory that the mines here are
all on the surface. Wherever good
deposits of metal have been found
on the surface we believe-and our
observation and experience bear out
the belief-that as good or better
deposits have been and will be
found deeper down, and Wood Riv-
er, when prospected will prove no
exception to the rule. Immediately
around Ketchum, and on Warm
Springs creek, at Galena, Sawtooth,
Smoky, Seafoam, Sheep Mountain,
and Germania Basin, good shipping
ore is being taken out in profitable
quantities. At Ketchum, Boyle
Mountain, Trail creek and about
Elkhorn, a number of mines are
being worked, some on leases and
others by owners, and all, we are
informed, will ship ore. This is all
favorable, and the restoration OF
silver next winter will be followed
by good times on Wood River.
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Personal Mention.

John Cox was in from Germania
Basin Monday last.
Fred Phillips came into town
Thursday evening from Challis and
left by Fridays stage for the Idaho
mine at Germania Basin.
Daniel Hawksworth was in from
Germania Basin few days ago but
made no report except that all out
there were we'll and at work.
w. c. Purdy made a brief bust
ness visit to Ketchum this week.
He and Mrs. Purdy are now resi-
dents Of the picturesque mining
village of Sawtooth.
A. J. Crook, a prominent mining
and business man of Clayton, and
Lester Eels, Esq, of North Platte,
Neb., general manager of the Clay
ton Mercantile Company, passed
through town this week on their
way from Salt Lake to Clayton.
Their stay at Ketchum was very
short as a team was in waiting for
them when they arrived, and took
them over the mountain the same
day.
Robt. Wheeling, after an absence
of six or eight months in the Ceur
d'Alene country, returned to Ketch-
UNI last Friday to look after his
interests here. This attended to,
he, accompanied by T. B. Mulkey,
left town Wednesday evening OF
this week for North Idaho. They
will visit Warrens and Elk City
and possibly other points north
and expect to locate permanently
in that favored region. We wish
them health, wealth and long lives
Hon. J. G. Fox returned from
Salt Lake this week and has gone
to his home in Challis. Charley
Jordan, who went with Mr.. Fox te
the city of the Saints to procure
medical treatment, sent word to the
KEYSTONE by Mr.. Fox that hit
health was so suddenly and com
pletely restored on his arrival al
Salt Lake that he forgot all about
the doctors and is in the best OF
health and having a good time
which his many friends will be GLAD
to hear.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01
Don't Mortgage Your Farms.

In q conversation with q farmer
this week, after grasshoppers, late
frosts, low prices and high tariffs
were overhauled, the subject Of
mortgages was approached. Said
the farmer: when get so can't
keep q mortgage off of my farm,
will let it grow up in weeds, and
seek some other occupation than
farming" "For," he reasoned, ''it
| cannot keep q mortgage off my
farm when I have it of, how am
to get it off if l put it onP Prices
are not going to be any better ;
crops are not going to be larger, and
if wages are a little lower, the diff
ference will be so small as scarcely
to be felt by small cultivators. /"
And this is a matter, as we think,
worthy the attention of such as till
the soil. Half of the farms in the
country are mortgaged. Not one
fourth of those mortgages, put on
without consideration or fore
thought, and when times were much
better than they are now, will ever
be lifted, because prices are declin-
ing and money more difficult to
procure. Nine out of ten of these
mortgaged farms, therefore. must
go to swell the accumulations of
the usurers, and their present own
ers must become tenants instead of
proprietors. But had they refused
to mortgage and sought other occu-
pations, they would, to be sure,
have been poor and dependent, just
as they will be when the mortgages
have eaten up their farms, but their
farms, though unproductive, would
still have been theirs. The usurers
would not have been enriched by
spoliation to the extent they have
been and are being, and ten million
idle farms in the land which were
not mortgaged, would set our legis-
lators to thinking about how to
relieve, instead of how further to
tax and Cypress the farmers. Until
a change takes place il the trend OF
legislation, it were better that the
farmers lived as day laborers, as
miners, prospectors, or even as
tramps, than that they mortgage
any more of their farms, for the
mortgage only postpones the day
when he and his family must be
servants or tramps, unless the law
is so changed as to give them ar
equal chance in the struggle with
other classes.
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Promising Mines.

The mining district of the East
fork Of the Salmon river, which en-
braces the mining properties in
Germania and Washington basins,
seems to be attracting considerable
attention the present season in con-
sequence Of the high-grade ore that
is being shipped from there. In
general, all the mines that are be-
ing worked in that locality show
improvement and apparently no
diminution in the quantity of ore.
At present the mine-owners of this
important district are laboring un-
der many disadvantages on account
Of being obliged to have their ores
packed considerable distance with
pack trains. But as the mines be-
come more developed, good roads
to and from the various mining
properties in that locality will be
constructed as a natural conse'
quence, and thus obviating the Ia
borious loading and unloading OF
pack trains and changing to freight
wagons. The district embraces
large scope Of country and an ex.
tensive mineral belt. New finds,
and claims that have been located
and worked at different times for a
number of years, are looming up
and coming prominently to the
front. Among which is group OF
claims owned by Messrs. Blackman
& Erickson, which are nestled in
the low hills beneath the high peaks
and castle domes of that region,
and at the head of what is known
as Fourth of July creek, a tribu-
tary of the main Salmon river
Here is a section of country that
very few persons have ever visited
and yet, in that solitary basin, sur
rounded by the highest mountain
peaks of the Salmon river range
the parties above mentioned-when.
ever their circumstances would per.
mit-have been prosecuting work
upon their locations for years, and
now every indication points to 9
brighter future and a just reward
for their untiring perseverance
Their lodges are large, we'll defined
easily worked and carry a gooo
grade of silyer-lead ore.
We were shown some samples O
ore brought in by Col. Brodhead
who visited that locality last week
Some of the specimens has more
the appearance of pure metal thar
ordinary ore. When struck by any
thing, has the ring similar to a bal
of bullion. The average assays rul
from 80 ozs. to 100 ozs. silver. 81
gold and from rs to 80 per cent LEAF
per ton
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A Delighted Visitor.

Below We publish a very excellent,
as we'll as complimentary, letter
written by DR.. Miller to the Omaha
World Herald on the day of his
arrival at the Guyer Hot Springs.
DR.. Miller is a newspaper man of
extensive experience and observa-
ton who has the happy faculty Of
expressing the Impressions he re-
ceives of places in language that is
at once simple, attractive and elo-
quent, and he seems to have been
we'll pleased with Ketchum at first
sight. We regret that his stay with
US was so abruptly and unfortunately
terminated, and hope he will come
again:
KETcHUM, IDAHO, July %.
When the Omaha Herald had but
one name and / was its accredited
representative, when writing of
these interior regions of wealth and
beauty it was a custom with me 70
use its columns in painting word
pictures of these everlasting noun
tains, endless valleys, wonderlands
and scenic grandeur, dealing, be-
times, incidentally with the material
resources which are to upbuild the
Omaha of to-day into the greater
Omaha of the future. l ask your
permission to mention the fact that
l am spending day and writing a
note from a spot in central Idaho
in the Wood river valley to the
World Herald to call the attention
of its readers to one of the most
beautiful regions in the world and
to particular place in it, which
every visitor to this part of the west
ought to see. l am sitting under
the shadow of the Wood River
ranges of mountains, which rise in
their fir-c]ad majesty to the height
Of 10000 feet above the sea, and
at their base are the Guyer Hot
Sulphur Springs. Their waters are
remarkable for their natural high
temperature of 1875 degrees, and
already have considerable reputa-
ton for their medical qualities. My
party are testing the various baths
as l write.
This is a beautiful land. It's in.
terests are silver, lead, wool and
-stock. It's charms are it's superb
scenery, its grand old mountains
and crystal streams, which are alive
with spotted mountain trout, first
cousins and actual family relatives
of the speckled trout of the Adiron'
dacks, where l was born.
The Omaha tourist, the trout
fisher, the invalid, the lover Of the
beautiful in nature, the man OF
woman who would listen to the
music of the most lovely waters If
all the world, should come here
A days ride from Salt Lake city
the great Shoshone Falls in TIL
near vicinity; Silver creek valley
en- route, the greatest known trou
stream in the country occupying :
central place in it, will enable tn
visitor to know all about it. Fo
further particulars inquire of n.y.
distinguished friend John NJ. Thurs
ton. GEORGE L. MILLER.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

and are correspondingly happy
N. NJ. Ruick, Esq, brought his fam
lily from Oregon, Friday, and will
make HALEY his permanent resi-
dence. He may be found at the
Alturas hotel.
Statesman: Died in this city,
July 26, Mrs. Esther A. Kingsley,
wife Of the late Calvin S. Kingsley,
Esq, and mother of Charles S.
Kingsley. T. Smith and c. B.
Wood, with Governor Wiley, are a
committee to locate a spur of the
state wagon road from Mt. Idaho to
Salmon Meadows. The spur spoken
of is a branch road from point at
the lower end of the Payette lakes
to connect with Boise Valley
One Of the most interesting devel-
opments of intelligence manifested
in the animal kingdom may be wit
messed near the Statesman Office
each evening. As soon as the arc
lights begin to burn the toads hop
out from their hiding places and
take their stations under the lamps
so as to pick up the falling moths
and bugs of all kinds.
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No. 1876.
Application for a Patent.

U. 8. Land Office. Haley, Idaho, I
November IL, 1890. !
Notice is hereby given that Charles Wade
Stickney, whose postotfice address is Butte,
Silver Bow county, Montana, has this day
filed his application for patent for fifteen
hundred linear feet OF the
"RED STAR"
Lode mining claim, situated in Warm
Springs Creek mining district, county OF
Alturas, State of Idaho, and designated by
the field notes and official plat thereof Oh
file in this office as Lot Number 81, being
more particularly described as follows, to.
wit:
Beginning at corner No. /. whence U. 8.
Mineral Monument No. 8 bears N. $50 49,
w. distant 2275 feet; thence s. 80 e. GOO
feet to corner No. 2; thence n. 80 z. 1850
feet to corner No. 8; thence N. 80 w coo
feet to corner No. A. thence s. 80 west 1900
feet to corner No and place Of beginning,
containing 2O.661 acres.
The "Sky Rocket" lode claim adjoins the
west side line; "Croesus" lode claim, sur
vey No. S42, lies about 1900 feet westward:
Containing an area of 2O.661 acres; OF
survey.
CHARLES WADE Sr1cKNEY,
Attorney for Applicant
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing
notice of application for patent be pub
lished for period of sixty days ten con-
secutive weeks u in the KETCHUM KEYSTONE.
a newspaper published at Ketchum, Altu.
VT. RILEY, Register.
First publication, November %, 1880.
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OMAHA, July %, 1891.

OMAHA, July %, 1891.
To the Editor Of the Keystone:
cannot tell you how glad | am
to receive copy of the KEYSTONE
which contains such an accurate
account of the deplorable accident
which occurred to Miss Briggs dur
ing our short stay with you at
Ketchum. 1t affords me a much
coveted medium, through your con-
tinued kindness, to publish to your
people most earnest and grateful
expression of the thanks of each
and every one of my party, and of
my own deep sense of obligation to
Mr.. w. H. Greenhow, Mr.. Frank J.
Stone, Agent F. J. Collins, and all
the good people of Ketchum who
SO generously assisted us in the
hour of our danger and distress.
Words utterly fail me to express
what we all feel in our hearts, and
will never fail to cherish in memory,
for acts, as we'll as words, of kind
ness at a time when we, as strangers
among you in painful emergency,
stood in such great need. Miss
Briggs, who is, I believe, surely re-
covering from what seemed at one
time to be fatal accident, joins
most warmly in this expression,
although she has no recollection
whatever of the accident, or of what
followed it.
/ had intended to spend a day or
two in your town and vicinity and
to learn more Of your country and
people, but I know enough now OF
the people of Ketchum to be able,
as l am willing, to say that there Is
as much good human nature to the
square foot in that lovely spot as
can be found in any population Of
the same number on the round
earth.
l send you a little slip from the
Omaha World Herald which was
written during the afternoon OF my
stay with Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart al
the Guyer Hot Springs.
"God bless you, every one!'
GEORGE L. MILLER.
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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

THE time of year has come when
it is considered fashionable and
pleasant to visit the celebrated Saw
tooth lake. This lake is situated
in the Sawtooth range of noun
tains, As miles from Ketchum, and
is accessible by good wagon road
leading up Wood river to Sawtooth
and thence over a mountain wild
of loneliness unsurpassed anywhere
to the lake, which is gem set in a
forest. Sawtooth lake is beyond
question one of the finest and most
delightful summer resorts in Idaho,
to those to whom outdoor life, hunt
ing, fishing and boating are attrac-
tons, as they are to most people
who so out from the business cares
and from the follies, jealousies and
malice of social life to find rest.
peace and renewed health and vigor
amid the rejuvenating scenes and
sweets of primeval nature. To this
class we repeat, Sawtooth lake Is a
summer paradise with scarcely a
rival. And for the convenience OF
such as may visit the place, we will
state that Mr.. T. J. Reid keeps a
house at Sawtooth where campers
can find shelter and refreshments,
and he has also put boats on the
lake, the use of which can be had
for a nominal hire, either for fishing
or for pleasure excursions. The
mountains around the lake are
plentifully supplied with timber
which abounds in grouse and other
wild game, including bear now
and then, making hunting a delight
as we'll as something OF an adven-
ture, while the lake itself is filled
almost to overlooking with reddish
trout and others of the fnny tribes
A visit to this locality will not be
regretted by any lover of beautiful
scenery or of the excitement of fish
ing or the chase.
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STATE NEWS.

News Miner: It is reported that
a three-foot vein of ore was struck
in the Queen of the Hills 9 few
DAYS ago.-The leasers OF the
Star mine about a mile south OF
HALEY, have struck nice body OF
ore from eight inches to a foot vide,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

The mining outlook on Wood
River We believe can now be truth
fully said to be more favorable than
at any former period since the ex-
citing times Immediately following
tho extensive silver discoveries in
this region. Beginning at Bellevue
general prosperity is reported
among the miners. At HALEY more
mines are being worked more men
employed, new claims opened up;
more ore taken out aud shipped
and more money made than in any
former year in the history of the
place, and labor is developing there
some of the finest mines in tn
State. Among these are the Rec
Elephant, the Red Cloud, the Wa
Dance, Porter Brothers mines ane
others. On East Fork quite = mum
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

The Messenger says the Silver
Brick mine which was sold last
winter for $4,000 could not now
be bought for 100000. Yet people
who ought to know better persist IN
saving there is nothing in mining.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

GREESHow Il RUMsEY received
81 invoice of crockery and glass
ware this week, in which was a
double compartment shaving mug,
an article we think entirely new in
,bjs market. They are designed to
eonomize soap.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

Doc Griffin was in town Thurs
day morning. Wednesdays rain
wet considerable amount OF nay
for him, but not enough to damage
it to any extent.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

rur snow has almost entirely
r... Inn from the Sawtooth
o asae and a few more days of such
, ia, Weather as We have been having
III. III, week will bare them of their
winter coats.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

Tar fire company have lumber
, ,hs ground to build house for
on. :Df hose p cart, hooks, ladders, ETC.,
sn Dd rrank Lemon is putting it into
s a.a near Pat McMahon's store.
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a. A. II.

Veterans after the camp fire at Detroit
can enjoy trip to the famous Thousand
Isles of Lake Erie-Put-in- Bay. SEQ that
vonr tickets read via the Union Pacific.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

o,r Of the curiosities Of this To-
,.'. : ,be fact that Elkhorn gulcb,
ss u, I'll II tributary of Wood river,
5 s; sh'I only a highwater outlet, is
s,,l If gpeckled trout.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

JOHN EAsLEY, who is carrying the
alsil from this place to Sawtooth,
informed, mic, US this week that O. L.
Miller and party of surveyors were
Up IN that region looking out the
ues. route for road. They passed
" Tue Smoky and thence over to
"SW!ooth, and from thence would
~ wa Vienna to Salmon river. The
, wa II built, will open up one OF
sus oest mining sections of the
.'a'e now without a road, besides
"saaS,e,fs'ng an immense timber belt
s sua tapping the Salmon river valley
:, .'a u Will be an invaluable adjunct
~ 'ne improvements of all of the
, rSO . River, South Boise, Smoky
'"u salmon regions.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

When is itl August 3rd to 9th, 1891.
Where is itl Detroit, Michigan.
What ia it7 25,h National Encamp.
''I How do you get there1 Union Pacific
AGENTS vii! tell you.
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You need not return at once, but visit
the Sandusky or Cleveland, after attend
ing the G.. A. r. Encampment at Detroit
Mich. Go via the Union Pacific.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

DURING the latter part of last
week grasshoppers got to be thick
enough about here to constitute a
Nuisance; but Saturday morning
the town was struck by a cyclone
Of blackbirds and the grasshopper
has almost entirely disappeared.
Did the blackbirds eat up the grass
honnars2
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-01

AgRAKEMAN named Edward Sny-
der was knocked down and run over
Al Sboshone last Tuesday while
coupling car. The car passed over
The lef, leg at the ankle fracturing
The bone, but the doctor does not
think amputation will be necessary.
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Comrades.

An excursion up the st. Clair river and
Lake Huron would be refreshing after a
six days session of the G.. A. r. in De-
troit. Call on the Union Pacific Agent
for rates.