The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-09-17

money to back them.
We hear no very satisfactory
news as to the new mill coming
for the Estes mountain, and we
regret very much to say this; be-
cause it would aid in making
Yankee Fork again what it was
before, and it would also be
point of success to an old man
who has spent much of his life
to reach that successful result.
We hope this mill will yet come
this fall-we know the day is
coming that Yankee Fork will
ring with life and reap reward
of wealth it never has seen, great
as was the bye gone day. Take
courage
Messrs. Greene & Co. are get
ting stock of general merchan-
disc in the old store building that
was put up by Facet & Barto,
but owned and occupied later by
]. w. Burton. Ed. Jones has
also quite a lot of general mer-
chandise, of the more substan-
tial quality, or leading articles.
Also Mr.. Booth, who has been
bringing goods and selling from
wagons in former years in this
country opened small stock in
the old Levinson & Wust store.
The Nevada House and one res
taurant is all in that line. Bon
ANA maintains the meat market
and the big hotel and that is all.
Nearly all other business has
fed, and the population does not
increase as rapidly as in Custer.
CLAYTON
is not making any boom-moving
like Mark Anthony, right on
and on" You do not begin to
know what a fine smelter Supt.
Greene is getting there, If you
have not examined it carefully.
They have everything nearly in
readiness to start it up, when all
will hear of better work than
was ever heard of in this part of
Idaho. There is a new smoke
stack SO arranged as to take all
the poisonous fumes away from
the feeder, and they have asheet
iron or boiler iron floor around
from which the feeder shovels
his charges with ease. Then
there is draft pipe reaching
high above, which takes the
fumes away from the workmen
drawing off the Stag. There is,
also, a large pipe at the bottom
of the dust chest so nicely ar
ranged that all dust can be drawn
with care and safety from the
lungs of workmen. They have,
also, set of scales SO arranged
that almost an idiot viii know
how to size his charges. And
they have a machine for shut
ting off the water from the Tur-
ban wheel, which runs the plant.
This, Mr.. Greene is pleased with
all but the price. $500 is rath-
er expensive for cast iron piece
of machine furniture about as
big as small sized trunk; but
Messrs. Fraser & Chalmers, of
Chicago, had nothing less in
stock, and this little ingenious
affair saves a vast amount of
steps in course of a year besides
safety. The rub of it all in rela-
ton to price is, it could be pur-
chased SO much cheaper if one
vas down in Mexico. This ought
to make our muddle headed, carry
idiots ON tariff look up and re
fleet. But then-party you know
must be maintained-though the
country becomes wreck. From
beginning to the end this plant,
now, is a little gem. Under the
new arrangement no ore is mixed
for the furnace with earth or
other base; it is worked as easily
as is possible, and there is far
greater safety to the men who
operate it. We always advised
our friends that the scriptures
were wise that said What
profiteth a man if he gain the
whole world and lose his own
soul ? Which, truly interpreted
means his life; and we have al
ways told, whoever of them ask
ed us, that we considered that
passage of scripture was counsel
enough to keep any sensible man
from working in those dangerous
places now redeemed by these
new improvements. We are glad
for humanity's sake. Our country
is improving, although on hard
lines. yet, when the present
grasp at our throats is taken
away, then. with the progress
made by skilled mechanism and
the natural resources of our be-
loved and fertile and rich miner
aled Idaho, we ought to be the
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