Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-07-21
EDITORIAL CORRESPOND
ENCE.
Notes From Elk city, Important
Quartz Discoveries ia Dirie.
PrOspectOrs U'dnted, dc.
ELK CITY, July -, 1898.

to enliven the otherwise mOnOtOn-
GUS trip over the trail to Elk City.
The first new departure is at the
embryo town of Brownsville, at
Clearwater bridge, where Il two
story building is under way, and a
saloon operated by Wimpy & Glib
son, late of Wallace, is in full blast.
Owing to existing financial condi-
tions the syndicate are alta stand
still. At Riebold's the same excel
lent meals and Accommodations are
furnished travellers at hard times
prices, only $125 being charged for
supper. breakfast, bed and horse
feed. Four miles beyond the road
surveyors are camped. l am told
that it will require 80 days to COM
plete the survey, and the indica-
tions are, that, unless a special ses-
sion of the state road commission is
convened to act on the survey, no
thing will be done towards build
ing the road this year, further than
to let the contracts for it's cOnstruc-
ton. 1t seems that the expense of
the survey is not taken from the
appropriation of $4,000, but is to
be paid out of a fund of $15, 900 set
aside for incidental expenses. AS
there are eight men in the party
this is good thing, otherwise a
great big hole would be made in
the $4,000. Great snow drifts still
linger on the shady side of old
Baldy, and the trail is still sloppy.
At Newsome Greek j. S. Chcsebro
has opened store and eating
house, and provides excellent meals
for hungry travellers, and is well
pleased with the patronage he re-
ceives. A good hot midday meal
on cold and wet 40 mile horse
back ride over a mountain trail
lightens the fatigue of the trip to a
very great degree, and hundreds of
travellers will rise up and call Mr..
Chesebro blessed for his enterprise
and sagacity for locating at this
convenient point.
We made the Buster mine at
4.3O p. m. Thoroughly wet and
mighty glad to get into dry fan
nels and outside another square
meal. At the Buster they milk
their own COWS, make their own
butter, and kill and eat their own
chickens and hog meat, and alto
gether have more than their share
of this worlds comforts in the
camp. Spring beds, too, are an
other of the luxuries to which the
boys treat their partners.
During the night the clouds and
mountain mist cleared away and
we went down to the city. In five
minutes we had received enough
invitations to dinner to last two
hungry men a week but having
accepted one from Mr.. and Mrs. G
l.. Rice had to decline the others
The old town is practically un
changed. The new hotel being
erected just below the Stuart resi-
dence and Post Office by Pettibon'
and Welch, and a large cabin fol
M. L. Murray are the only new
buildings in actual construction
The hotel is "a x 40 feet, and tive
stories high !; it is expected to opeI
by Monday next, July II. Mrs
Welch is already in camp awaitin,
the arrival of the train with th'
furniture &c. There will be ter
bedrooms upstairs. Jack Anderson
has lumber drying for frame sa
loon building to be put up whel
the weather settles. Mr.. and Mrs
G. l.. Rice are running Il boarding.
house with a good custom, an
treat their patrons white. Mr.. an
Mrs. Brigham Young still run tn
same old Idaho house and set tn
fat of the land ON their tables
Mrs. Young is 67 years old, but a
vigorous and active as woman {
middle age. She is an English
woman by birth, born in the in
mediate neighbourhood of Somel
setshire county,in the west of Eng
land, where they raise thorough
bred men and women. She cam
to California in 1916, and can Civ
the oldest of the old-timers poin
ers on old-time history on the Pa
ific coast. Brigham himself is
Hoosier, and while not related
the prophet-of the great Salt LAX
got his name from old association
with the old priest of Mormondo
in the early '40's. Blaine an
Cummings have this spring opent
the pioneer white mans store
this decade, and are doing a GOO
business with a well selected stot
of general merchandise and miner
supplies. They have cur thanl
for honorable treatment. ia.
Anderson and ii. Turner both ha'
. saloons on the business thoroug
fare, and--has established
barber shop, and are all doing we
Elk City looks more like ;
agricultural settlement than
mining camp. 1t is surrounded
lovely meadows over which wand
cattle aud horses, fatter than al
On Camas Prairie, while there
not a trace of any mining opel
tions within sight of the tow