The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-11-02


Where he last beheld two smelters,
four boarding houses, five saloons,
two stores, meat market, two bar
Der shops, dozen teams hauling ore
and wood and hundred men at work
and every man in camp with money
in his pocket, he now beheld the
shadow of evil and treachery falling
| gloomily on the picture of one smelt-
err, one boarding house, one saloon,
one store, one lone team hauling ore,
two dozen miners at work and men
hard up and disheartened. The fin
ger marks of monopoly are on the
town and the spirit of the admins
tration policy sits enthroned on the
eternal hills, CHASTITY grinning down
on the people and asking twhere's
yer boosted prosperity gomez" But
the leering spirit takes care to stay
on the hill side, for if it were to come
shopping down into the vacant street,
how Tom Ryan would swot it until it
sneaked off into the yawnlng mouth
of some deserted tunnell
Honest Tom Ryan! He stands at
the door of Mineral to challenge in
stentorian tones all who come, and he
has big pot of tar and barrel of
feathers for the man who comes there
to uphold the confirmed policy of the
two great parties on finance. "Crazy
Tom Ryan" someone remarked.
Vast mistakel Probe Tom Ryan's
pate and you will find it one of the
deepest and most prolific old noodles
you ever ran across. The gray mat
ter in his head is the richest of soil,
in which is stored a vast fund of
knowledge, born of years of reading
and study. His intricate knowledge
of the whole vicious and threatening
trend of legislation for more than a
quarter of century, causes him to
contemplate with awe and horror the
dark dangers on which we as nation
are bordering, and a lifetime as one
of the common people has filled him
with love for those principles of
government which are for the COM
mon peoples welfare and a hatred of
those who plot against it. Humble
Tom Ryan, humanity would receive
more from one such spirit as yours
than from dozen Groversl
The Maria company expect to keep
the Mutual smelter running until
Christmas, although the profits at the
present price of silver will be utterly
insignificant. Since commencing the
present run, nearly two months ago,
the company have been unable to pay
the men dollar, but the miners are
patient and the returns from a car
load of matte, recently shipped, are
daily expected, and they will then get
their money.
The jeff Davis was the only mine
visited, where Mr.. Gray was found
taking out fine lot of ore which will
run seventy-five ounces a ton. The
Maria company are not handling any
but the product of their own mines,
the Maria and Black Hawk, but will
run Mr.. Gray's ore through shortly,
it being of such an excellent huxing
quality that they handle it for S12 a
ton, whereas none other custom ores,
when taken, are handled for less than
$l4. The Davis is fine mine and
the owner is offering it for sale at
figure that makes it a magnificent
Ss>A o"'h W. eeii } OhO.
Martin White, of San Francisco,
has bought the Enterprise and Kit
Carson from Peck & James at a |
handsome figure. The claim is now
being surveyed and patent Will be
obtained, and as soon as conditions
justify it, Mr.. White will erect his
own works right on the mine and can
handle his own ore independent of
anyone. This is big piece of good
fortune to the camp, and the addition
of another smelter will be grand
thing, for although the clouds of
darkness are hanging over Mineral
today, we all know that it cannot last,
that silver sooner or later must be
recognized from the very nature of
things, and the moment the way
brightens she is ready to Jump back
to renewed life and redoubled pros
perity. The camp has passed the
stage of experiment and doubt. The
Silver Bell, Black Hawk, Maria,
Transit, Egan Group, jeff Davis, Kit
Carson and Enterprise, are mines that
are alone sufficient tn keap holt q