The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-02-04
asusJoR DEPzRTMENT-~AAs


there was much talk in reference
to this proposed road, which it
was intended should connect
Casper, Wyoming, with San
Francisco, a branch road being
promised from Eureka to Red
Bluff. While quietness has reign
ed the men have been at work.
After the people of Humboldt
had subscribed $5OO,0O to the
scheme a committee of Humboldt
men was organized to look after
her interests and see that road
is built. This committee has
been hard at work ever since it's
formation. When President
Bassett, of the California, Ore
gon and Idaho railroad was last
here he placed in the hands of
the local committee $500 to be
expended on surveying. To this
end the committee set to work
and secured rights of way and
selected route for several miles
out of this city. Engineer Rust
and crew of men have been
busy for month and a half, but
have now stopped work for the
winter on account of snow in the
mountains. The local committee
is now in possession of map of
the survey and all of the data
secured. The surveyors began
at the land of W. S. Clark and
others in Eureka, and finished
seventeen miles up Mad river.
They have deposited with the
committee their field notes, maps,
copies, profles, etc. While out
they located the sections and
placed stakes at intervals of 100
feet over the entire route survey
ed. Work will be resumed as
soon as the snow melts in the
spring. Two crews of men will
at the same time be put at work
at Bee Gum pass to work each
way. The people are not talking
very loudly about the railroad
scheme, but they are all expect
ing it to be sure thing"
The Rocky Mt. Ne,0s contains
| the following truth 1.-THE ma
tional conference of bimetallists
2 at Washington have adopted a
: declaration of principles that
3 rings across the continent like
the blast of a war bugle. 1t
2 points out the infamous wrongs
inflicted upon the people by
stealthy blows dealt upon the
people by traitorous misrepre
sentation to whom was commit
: ted the legislative power. 1t
: hurls unanswerable accusations
at both the old parties places a
brand upon the fatuous bond
selling policy now being follow
i, ed, and upon those executive
6 officers who refuses to obey the
= law and use the option to pay
: out silver on coin obligations. 1t
. calls for union upon the financial
issue of all who would see pros
. perity restored, prices rising, the
burden of debt decreasing and
= the sunshine of confidence, con-
= tentment and progress once more
y shed upon this land.
" would that there were an
>. arch-angel to go through the
= length and breadth of the Union
y to rouse the people to full under
standing of the truths contained
20 in this declaration, to fire their
q hearts with generous resolutions
v to strike the blow that will make
q them free to clear away the
: sophisms with which designing
y Williams seek to obscure the rein
k ing truth, to put and end to pal
ar try and tinselled partisanship
# and to re-establish the beneticent
Al monetary system designed by
r the fathers of the republic tc
te stand through all the ages. 1
N is upon the one over-shadowins
Iv issues that this battle for nation
n al salvation must be fought.
10 THE conference has acted
d wisely in calling convention fol
re the Populist national convention
le and we hope that reformers o.
to every shade of thought and belle
$ will recognize the necessity o
al the two bodies agreeing upor
A. presidential candidates. 1t woul'
s i'll befit any who easnestly ano
in Loyalty hope for redemption from
n the manifold evils that have com
rv upon the country to place ever
tv so much as straw in the way o
e. the execution of programme
re that has within it the possibilit.
10 of successful campaign upon th
to predominant and all-essentia
Te question. The harmony and de
votion that have marked the de
liberations of the bodies who's
er labors have closed during tn
IN past ten days give promise tina