The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-09-10
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past two months. The starting
of the Lucky Boy Gold Mining
Company has put much new life
into this portion of the old dis
trict.
From the day that Col. Nick.
Treweek and Major Stanton set
foot in the camp all has been
hustle and hustle. The mill had
been idle SO long that a thorough
overhauling was necessary. The
mine for several years, untouch-
ed, required timbering and re-
pairing in many places, and a
shaft from No. 4 tunnel to the
surface had to be completed be-
fore the hoist could go up.
All. these things have been
done, and in the meantime ore
was being taken from the rich
slopes to have supply ready
for the starting of the mill. The
hoist building is nearing compile
ton, the hoist machinery having
at the beginning been brought
from the old Charles Dickens
mine to the Lucky Boy. Soon
we will hear the old familiar
whistle.
To do all this has required the
services of many men and teams.
Scores of these arrived here al
most as soon as the management
appeared upon the ground. This
came about by the publication in
the Salt Lake papers and the
Ketchum Keystone that the Com
pany's agents were on the way
to Custer to start the Lucky
Boy.
The camp woke up suddenly
as out of a dead, dreamless sleep.
There were very few men around;
not a team; not a woodchopper;
not even an ak was there for
sale in the two towns, and not
many goods. Most Of the little
necessary things of life, such as
clothing, dry goods, etc, had
been coming through the mails
ia limited quantities. Behold the
change in these two short
months Heavy Ireightwagons
loaded with everything needed
have been coming in for weeks,
and wood chopping and wood
hauling are two of the chief in
dustlies.
The old towns of Custer and
Bonanza rubbed their eyes and
looked twice to be sure the boom
had actually appeared. Where
the grass was growing in the
streets and weeds, now the dust
is almost bottomless and the air
is full of clouds of it. More veh-
icles of various kinds have found
their way up the Yankee Fork
and over the hill lately than ever
seen in these parts for five or
more years past.
Everything seems to be new
since the new start of the Lucky
Boy. New men, new horses,
new wagons, new goods; and
even the new woman has not
been left behind; but she did not
come on the cycle and in ''knick
ers," with divided raiment fitting
in the Yankee Fork breezes, but
by surer and more artistic way
on the way-bill of the G. G. 4
G. Stage Co. But the best of all
new things that have come with
this new break of day is the new,
crisp checks of the Lucky Boy
Gold Mining Co. Between thee
and four hundred, great ano
small, have already appeared
You will notice, if you can get
one, that Il has the signature o.
former business man-Theo
Wust. He was sent out for by
the new Company to California
to take a position in their Office
Quite a number of professional
people have been in here of late
no doubt attracted hither by tn,
, hurrah that usually follows th'
, starting up of mining camp
First came Gypsy outfit, ped
ding soft solder and instruction
: to mend your own tinware. This
, was useful, as the bottom wa
about out of everything. The
, we had a canvassing corn docto
= and a worm doctor, (most peopl
have corns and many hav
} wocms), and a doctor of rheuma
} tism, all doing well with thei
, different wares. Next came a
| eve doctor, with speciacles an
, eye glasses galore. These wer
} also useful, as many of the ole
: timers bad become near-sighte
3 looking for change in the a
e fairs in the camp. Then ther
e also came Satan with q monke
: show and a hand-organ. TIL
0 show had been in Challis, an
S the MESSENGER said that of q