The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-06-15
The Bayhorse Region


man. who was driving one of the
finest bay teams you will meet in
days travel. Our company
guessed it was Mr.. McGregor
coming up to look after the Keno
group of mines-no, it proved to
be a Catholic priest. Surely he
was a professional man; for if
there is a class of men who make
their acts of life a profession it
is the priesthood and the minis
try. No other profession is so
entirely devoid to their work as
are they. And the resultof their
labor is most wonderful. Some
times in peace; sometimes in
blood. The world is in mourn
ing just now and no thinking
person can help rejecting some
times upon the good and the bad
that is left strewn in their rear
wherever they have made path
way. Let US all hope that it will
turn more to peace and less to
war In the future than it has in
the past. Ii is so strange to us
that those who claim so much
devotion to the humble Nazzarine
should have made such a dark
cloud in the worlds history.
With all their good. we can but
think they could and should have
done better.
But this is saying very little of
Bayhorse. for there are a great
portion of thepeople there whose
lives are of just as great impor-
tance in the great account of
Gods creation as priest. Each,
we suppose, fills his or her place
in His slain of worlds, and who
shall be able to tell what is the
most important to Him who
doeth all things well ~
What few of the old-timers are
left here, are well. The two
stores of olden days are running
SLOWLY running-still. Nick
Millich is again keeping the
Nevada Hotel in the usual good
style and has just got it painted
and fixed up fresh and new
Nick has turned artist and is a
success. Sandy" Gilbert and
Nal Branca are on hand with a
full supply of wet goods, cigars,
etc. Tom Paul, we missed. VIM.
Treloar, Steve Wilcox and a few
others left while we were there
for Washington Basin. 1t is re-
ported that Dave Fale, an old.
timer of '79, and others have
made a grand sale of their gold
mines there, and it is causing
quite an excitement in the minds
of men who have faith in that
kind of property. Good fol
Dave He has staid faithfully
with his Washington property.
But the object of our visit was
not to speak or write of the
people on other mines than those
in the immediate vicinity of Bay.
horse.
Early on the morning of the
10th, Nick Millich and myself
took passage on Foot & Walkers
line up the old Beardsley road
direct up China gulch SO as to bt
as near olden days as possible
The first landmark we met wa:
the old slide for conducting spar
to the wagon road-all gone tc
ruin. Next the ore chute and
ore house for storing and load
ing Excelsior ore; although in q
passable state of preservation,
there is no life there. Next We
passed the Excelsior Office anc
boarding house-that is where
they used to be--all a wreck now
Next the Beardsley and all it
surroundings-all desolation-
dead. From there we proceeded
up the creek on the old road owe
the mountain towards Challis fol
: some distance and then took ;
trail along the side of the noun
tain above the Hood mine-nov
deserted but will come again-tt
the big lime point just over tn
town of Bayhorse. On this poin
we discover unfailing signs o
carbonate ores. but no one work
them now. Here we have a viey
of the mountains. all covered
with green and blossoms wher
cliffs are not projecting from
the mountain sides, and the val
leys aud town below. Larg'
: buildings in town appear al
children's play houses from thi
. point. Our trail, here. turns 4
, 1.-THE west along the side of tn
, mountain-still rising up to tn
| Democrat. Silver Brick, Fre'
) Coinage and Forest Rose mines
In fact. long before we turn tn
J point, going south to the farther
est west and north of all tn