The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-12-19
Letters from Smoky.

Letters from Smoky.
OewEao, Alturas Co., Idaho, J
December 9, 1891.
Ed. KEYSTONE: Seeing your item
in last weeks issue that you ex
pected to hear from your Smoky
correspondent soon and knowing
that he is laid up with sprained
wrist, | thought I would give you
q few items. Not being a literary
chap you will have to arrange mat.
tiers 80 they will be printable.
We have had some quite severe
weather. In the absence of Their.
mometer, we thought it must have
been about zero.
We had a little excitement in
King gulch last Sunday evening
occasioned by the supposition that
Mr. Wilson { Press Burners father
in-law) was dying, and the miners
gathered round with the usual ex-
preston ofsympathy they are noted
for. The old gentleman revived,
however, and is improving.
We have quite a burg over here,
i. e., Carrietown and King. In Car
rietowa are Frank Oliver and VIM.
Turner, who have lease on a por-
ton of the Carrie mine, and are
doing "right smart" as the Missou-
rian would have it. They have
shipped out considerable ore and
expect the teams in again, as they
have carload on the dump ready
for shipment. Well-informed men
tell me they have plenty in sight
to fix Frank all o K. We say good
for Frank and Billy.
Jim Quinn, Tom Fenton and Tom
Brennan also have lease on por-
ton of the Carrie and are cross
cutting for the ledge to tap it deeper
than Oliver and Turner have it, and
we hope the boys will get there, as
they are all workers from away back.
Tom Covert, we hear, has lease
on the Potwrestler. Hope Tom will
strike it rich; he's one of the boys,
you know.
Dave Jones came over tonight to
mail some pulp to Daft for assay,
and showed Us some rock; says he
has two feet of it. If so he and Dick
West and our old friend Collins,
who is now resident of Shoshone,
are fixed in good shape. The sam
pies showed PLENTY of native and
considerable of ruby silver. Dave
says the leasers on the Isabella have
a fine body of at least 5000 ore.
Not being familiar with the ore,
they got Dell Sherer to sort it and
he put up so sacks in one day, and
says they have plenty more equally
as good. Dell is doing develop
ment work on his claim adjoining
that of Jones, West & Collins.
James Brewer and Ed Norris
costitute the force at the Star.
The King of the West is looking
as though the company intend to do
something. Sam Friend, the su-
perintendent, has pushed things
this fall. He did not get orders to
commence operations until October
and had over 1000 feet of water be-
side old slopes to pump out, get in
his winter supplies, wood, etc., but
by energy and push, for which Sam
is noted, he has everything in apple
pie order. l find here James P.
McCarter, foreman, and our old
acquaintance, Thad Bellinger, who
is running the hosting engine and
pumps. Thad says he pumped the
mine out in just seventeen days.
He further said Smoky was going
democratic next fall, and he ought
to know; he was defeated there at
the last election. l also found Lou
Sherer, Geo. Tucker, James Young,
c. J. McLennan, Frank Anderson,
Ernest Worswick, Norris Worswick
and Ralf Necham employed at the
King. The boys are all looking
hale and hearty and all apparently
feel we'll. Sam feeds the boys we'll.
At the Sunday mine l found two
Burners and three Wilson's all hard
at work developing their mine.
Where they have the ledge it looks
we'll.
On the summit, toward the Galore
Stormant, l found Alphonse Barn
cor { Barney hard at work develop
ing a claim of his own. The ledge
looks we'll and very promising.
At the Galore / found Mike Ryan
and John Kane, who have lease
and are doing we'll.
When we arrived at the Tyrannis
the smiling countenance Joe Ready
greeted us. Joe is also doing some
developing work on the Tyrannis.
He is one Of the owners and James
P. McCarter the other.
Adjoining the Tyrannis is the
Flagstaff, where we found Scott
Myers, John Patterson and Antoine
Alexson, who have a lease and are
getting out quite a considerable
amount of the shining metal.
If Congress does anything for
silver this winter Smoky will be