Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-11-08
Eggs arc very scarce at 20 cents

Eggs are very scarce at 20 cents
per dozen.
Mrs. Juessen was out from Elk
last week en- route to Lewiston to
visit her sick mother.
The Denver Planning mill will
furnish doors, windows, holdings,
and all kinds of mill work as cheap
as they can be bought in Spokane.
Only a few more one quart fruit
cans left and they must be sold !;
at 80 cents a dozen. Remember
this is below cost.
STEINKE & DAY.
Try THE BRID0E SroRE.-Oliver
& O'Bannon having put in new
stock of general merchandise at the
Clearwater bridge, are prepared to
sell you new and staple goods at
lowest prices.
Linn Smith il out from Relief
creek to spend the winter. He has
been editing the sawmill all sum-
mcr for the Relief Milling Co, and
is highly pleased with the outlook
for the Cleveland group next year.
U. S. Mint returns show that
the gold from Florence quartz is
.G67 fine, or a fraction over $14 per
ounce. This is a dollar an ounce
better than the placer product Of
the same camp, which shows a
high percentage of alloy.
Tom Bolleman is in town from
Dixie and informs us that Samp-
son Dillinger is getting $40 per
ton out of the ore he is grinding
in his arrastra. Please remember
our prediction that Dixie is going
to be the banner gold quartz camp
of the State of Idaho.
Messrs. Eaton & Co, of Floreuce
will put in five.stamp quartz mil
equipment in Florence as early al
possible next spring. They have
already contracted with j. w
Murphy, Of Grangeville, for the
delivery of a 35-horse power engine
and boiler to run it. The presen
two-stamp mill is inadequate t.
crush the increasing supply of ore
Messrs. w. E. Thompson ant
Youngberg, owners of the Com
stock mine, adjoining the Fourtl
of July on Blowout mount tain il
Dixie district, are in town. TIL
Comstock makes gratifyin,
showing. They say the ledge i
four feet wide, with a 14-inc
streak of very rich ore matter wit
gold showing all through it.
The Hallett pack train whic
loaded here some days since fo
Fred Hallett's placer ground o
the north fork of Clearwater, cam
to grief in disastrous shape. Th
animals were contrary, and th
packers tied them head and tai
and in passing over a ridge on
horse fell over and carried the er
, tire train with it, killing fiftee
and injuring as many more.
S. w. Smith, superintendent
the Relief Milling Co., was in tow
last week shipping in about 1906
pounds of supplies for the comir
winter and summer. The comp
ny's quartz mill and concentrate
is up and ready to start, but owir
: to short days, cold weather and il
d in the bitches no effort will
Q made to run it until spring. II
winter will be spent extracting o
j. for steady run next year.
/ Messrs. N. B. Pettibone, Sa
It Irwin and A. D. Dorm will put
the winter running a tunnel thu
l. a bluff in the Newsome creek ca
It yon below the wagon road whi
+ will enable them to work a ha
mile of the creek bed which h
never been worked for lack
r dump. The creek makes a ha
g mile bend at this point and t
y tunnel will give them plenty
; fall. Mr.. Dorm showed us Sol
d coarse gold prospects last mon
is which he had obtained from Il
" ground, and the indications IL
they will develope a good thi
70 are very encouraging.
70 Charley Cone, Of the Goldt
OF mine in Florence was in town I
week outfitting for the winter.
confirms all that has been s.
u, concerning the quartz prospects
ia the camp. and gave us some p
"A. ticulars of bis own experience
his own claim which is worth
cording as illustrating the richn
be of some of the ore of the caI
ro They had milled 20 tons of &c
,ts bug ore, which realised S35
or ton. This ore the boys had
10 through a rocker before MILL
. and had washed out gold at
q rata of 423 70 ner ton. The