The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-07-07
THE LOCAL ROUNDUP.
Latest Happenings in Canyon
County.
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.
News that Everybody Ought to Know
A Little Of Everything.
is it hot enough for your

We guess there will be no doubt
about marriage notice next week.
Mrs. o. T. Graham has gone to De
Lamar to join her husband in that
camp.
Miss Hattie Bilderback returned
home from visiting friends at Boise on
the Fourth.
Mrs. n. " Mason who has been in
disposed for some time is convalescing
rapidly under the care DIR. Z. Clymer.
All parties wishing dental work
address me at Emmett.
o. II. DAVENPORT.
ANY one having a good milk COW
which they desire to trade for a good
saddle pony will please call at this
office.
Anyone having secondhand sad
die which they desire to dispose of can
find trade by calling on Z. c. Blan-
chard.
John Carter is putting in a new dam
at the head gate Of the Central Lumber
Co. ditch. II will be twenty five feet on
the bottom and seventy five yards long.
We have no particular excuse to
offer for being late. This was Fourth
of July week and we were entitled To a
little rest and pleasure as well as anyone
else.
The Symons water elevator is being
experimental with as we go to press. II
is located just above the bridge at J. NJ.
Martins place. Full particulars next
week.
-Johnathan Moulton sent in some
gooseberries Thursday that measured
p inches in circumference. There was
two gallon OF that size on one small
bush on his place.
Some people predict that the United
States is again about to become involved
in the worst war ever known in the
history of the world as a result of the
present labor trouble.
The INDEX is favored with some
samples of rye which grew on Joe b.
Riggs place on the north side of the
Payette river without any irrigation
whatever. The heads are large and
well filed with plump grain.
The oldest son of Thomas Catalan a
pioneer of Emmett. at present one OF the
leading attorneys of the State, was acci.
dentally killed during a fireman's drill
in Boise on the Fourth. He was ran
over by hose cart while going at q
high rate Of speed.
"A few weeks ago the Mckinley Bros
Of Duluth, Minnesota, dropped into
Marsh and after few days prospecting
bonded the well-known Marsh & Iretor
ranch for $50, 900, presumably for placer
mining purposes. The ranch comprise
eight hundred acres of as fertil,
where. Gold has been found on nearl,
every acre of this immense ranch anC
the whole country round about is stakes
off into placer claims. The McKinle,
! a
perienced ship builders al work con
structing a scow which will require owe
100, 600 feet of lumber in its construc
tion and which will be equipped with ex
pensive placer mining machinery. Thi
machinery will be used to extract th'
gold from the sediment in the bottom o
the river as well as the ground along il
banks which they Will also be able 4
work by dumping the tailings into th'
river and then into the canal which vii
be made by taking out the dirt as th'
scow gets out from the main channel O
the -iver. IL is a new and evidentl,
We 'ccessful plan for working low
grour. In addition to the McKinle,
Bros. Denver company is planning Il
begin operations on an extensive scal'
on ground little further down the riv
er and there are number of individu
ais who have claims some of which havl
been paying nice dividends for a mum
Der of years although operated in mos
instances on small scale. A represent
ative of the INDEX and Mr.. S. A. Patti
son visited this section which has sucl
. a bright and promising future a few
days ago but our stay was so limited W
did not have an opportunity to see an'
writeup that section as we expect to il
the near future. We were too blsy ol
that occasion psrtsking of the hospitali
~ of MesSrs. Marsh. Ireton and famil,
70 pay much attention to anything else
Such excellent people in this world ar
like an oasis in great big desert.