The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-05-11


hcitiLg subscriptions for a Fourth OF
July celebration.
kendrick Times: The business men
OF Grangeville have concluded to com
plete the Elk City wagon road without
outside aid The business men Of Ken.
drick will have to act likewise concern
ing the Canas prairie road if it is ever
to he completed.
The penitentiary orchard at Boise is
doing well. The officials are looking for
ward with interest to the time wher
the trees will begin bearing. Their,
is large variety Of trees, and they vii
he the means Of materially reducing
the expenses of maintaining the insti
tuition.
W. 7. Sawyer and party Of IS frou
Cripple Creek, Colo, camped across tn,
river Saturday on their way to Jack
sons Hole, says the Silver Hammer o.
St. Anthony. We are informed tina
some 300 more are on the road. The,
expect to engage in stock raising ant
farming and are said to he well d,
people, a desirable class of people 70
any community.
Articles Of incorporation of the Wei
ser Valley Fruit Tract Cultivation Com
pany have been filed in the Office of tn,
secretary Of state. The company is cap
italized for $1,000, all of which is sub
scribed. The incorporators are ii. T
Randall, president; c. S. Fosselman
secretary; c. J. Selwyn, treasurer; L
Sommer, W. +. Sommercamp, NJ. Nc
Gregor, A. Sears and n. F. Kimball.
A little 5year-old daughter of Johr
King, postmaster at Lapwai. while
playing with some companions las,
Friday fell into an open well that is fif
teen feet deep and contained five feet of
water. The little child, however, clung
to the pump pipe while the alarm was
given, which was soon responded to by
l.. NJ. Fordney, who rescued the child
from its precarious position.
Major Cavanah has just located for
the state 200 acres of land near the
asylum at Blackfcot, which will be in.
clnded in the selections under the grant
for that institution. lie also closed a
deal for the purchase Of 36O acres for
the asylum, the consideration being
$500. This gives the asylum 2,1OO acres
OF land. 1t is all near the asylum and
all under fence. Two hundred and forty
acres are already under cultivation
and 100 acres more will be under cult
walton soon. This immense farm will
in short time make the asylum almost
IL not wholly seifsustaining, it is ex-
pected.
The Albion Busy Bee has the follow
ing: George Burroughs and Dan Hor-
an are up from the river. From Mr..
Burroughs We learn that his boat ma
Chine is past the stage Of experimen t
and is now an assured success. The
pump has no trouble in raising the sand
and gravel, and with the burlap plat .
In use nearly all, at least four fifths of
the gold is saved. Just how much the
gravel in wich they are now working
yields in gold per square yard they have
rot fully ascertained, but it is in SUM-
Gent quantities to pay them, and they
are now set for whole summers run.
The fuel used is sagebrush, Of which
they burn about five cords a day. and
in the operation Of the machine the ser.
vices Of four men are required"
The rich discovery made in the Hope
mine at Basin was by the merest acct.
dent. Workmen were engaged In put
ting In timbers, which would soon have
covered this rich pay streak, when one
OF the men in digging hole was struck
by the appearance Of the ore, which he
took to be some kind of iron ore. The
foreman being close by his attention
was called TO it, whereupon he took
a hammer and attempted to break it.
Instead OF breaking it bent, and fur
fher and closer examination proved it
TO be almost solid gold. 1t is estimated
that 5000 worth Of specimens were car
Tied out Of the mine the first day; but
IT IL different now. The men are search
ed as they come from their work, and
canvas catches the smallest particles Of
the ore