The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-03-16

sale OF the mining properties at
Shoup is about consummated.
Although it was immpossible for
him to fully examine the various
mines on account of the snow,
Col. Jeffries, the London expert,
expressed himself as fully salts
fed with what he saw. The price
is half a million and the Roths-
childs are the purchasers. Sal
mon Recorder.
Major Mckinley wrote for the
dinner party of sound money
men that poor money can not
make any one rich, and sound
money cannot and will not make
any one poor" We endorse the
eminent wisdom of this maxim,
and would only ask the single
question: What will no money
make any one ? That's what is
the matter with Hanna-and Nc
Kinley. What nice thing to
have some prominent man say
something and look wise for
fools to repeat like parrot.
An earthquake shock was very
plainly felt in Challis last Thurs
day at $50 a. m. The shock was
so great that many of our people
left their places of business and
rushed into the streets, thinking,
perhaps, that the buildings were
going to fall. The large rock
store of r. n. Hull & Co., was
shaken, but no damage done.
Other buildings were also treat
ed in a like manner. Some type
was knocked down by the shock
in the MESSENGER Office. At
this time we have not been able
to learn where the earthquake
was at, but probably many miles
away.
| J. o. Swift passed through
here recently on his return from
| Blackbird mining district. He
was accompanied by a couple of
mining men, one of whom came
from Glasgow, Scotland-who
/ came to examine the property
bonded by their company. They
expressed themselves as greatly
pleased with the proposition and
; the deal, which is for $3.50, 600,
has been consummated.
The machinery for the new
dredge boat of the Prairie BasiE
placer company is at Red Rocl
and will be brought in as soon as
possible.-Salmon Recorder.
The following is a warning to
laborers to keep away from the
Black Hills
Ito the Officers and Members OF
Terry Peak Miners Union
I'VE, your committee appoint
ed to investigate the condition Of
the labor market in the Blacb
Hills and the effects of the per
: sistent booming now carried on
: by newspapers in the interdst o.
townsite companies and specula
tors and also by irresponsible
correspondents Of the eastern
press, who appear to vie with
each other in reporting fabulou:
strikes of gold bearing ore which
exist nowhere except in the vivit
imaginations of said correspon
, dents.
{ I'VE, your committee, find tha
l the Hills country is overrun witt
men seeking employment which
is impossible to be had owing t.
: the overcrowded condition o
S the labor market.
4 1--WE find that there was ;
i much larger number of men hers
' than could get work before th,
new crowd brought here by The
boom literature began to arrive
Consequently there is much des
!, titution and distress amongst tn
! new arrivals, many of whom ar
being fed by public charity.
"We find that at Ragged Tol
(the most persistently boomet
o section of the Hills there ar'
t only twenty-five men on the pa,
e rolls of the different companie
S working in that camp and th
d number is not likely to be in
l. creased for some time to come
Ii Besides strangers here out G
It work there is about 20 per cen
e of the residents in enforced idle
ness.
Committee-John l.. Scofiel6
;, Mike Conner, Chas. Estes"
The Idaho Falls Register he
!. discovered the real cause of th
# Bunting failure. 1t is not due t
the election of Mckinley and tn
it approach of the wave of pros
It perity (?) which we can all hea
It rumbling in the distance. No,
isn't that at all. We are told b