The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-07-08

ing mining districts when same are developed.
quite well populated Has district shoots, stores
and hotel. (See Advertsements).
Rain, rain, rain! 1t has been ram
ing here for the last three weeks and
looks as il it will never quit. Crops
look fine and the range is better than
it has been for the last five or six
years.
Mr.. Bates came in from Bear creek
this morning and reports that the r
K surveyors are getting along fine.
The people up here would like to
know what has become of the Eaves
smelter as they claim it was shipped
four weeks ago. 1t must have been
lost on the road.
Mr. Czizek and wife left the hotel
this morning for Warren, where Mr.
Czizek will put up quartz mill and
work his mine.
Mr.. Baker, of Boise, has been
stopping at the hotel for the last three
weeks and will go on into the mines
as soon rs something starts up. Mr..
Baker is first class millwright and
carpenter and will take contracts to
do work of this kind.
Our old friend Ed Lockwood is
lying sick at the hotel He is not
able to sit up.
Our merchants seem to be doing
very well and are selling lots OF
goods,
Mr.. Thomas Shaw and Jack Ors
burn came down from Bear creek
this morning and report times lively
out in the hills and say there are lots
of men prospecting in that country,
around the Devils.
Two law suits on Hornet last week
one over q water ditch and the othe
a shooting scrape, but no one hurt.
A man by the name of Potter ant
, man by the name Of Anchor from
Silver City, had trouble over min
ing claim, and Anchor claimed tina
, Potter shot him, but could not prov
it at the trial, so Justice Wilkie turne,
Potter loose
Who knows but if man wa
killed the camp might start up a
once, it seems as nothing else will
start it,
S Cow buyers in the valley ever
2 day and you can sell anything from
8 sucking calf to work OK.
Mr.. Clayburn and John Wake
L are in town buying goods for thei
sheep camps They loaded foul
horse wagon at Hancock q Cos. o
e the End and started for the Payett
lakes. Lots of sheep men in tow
every day after goods
II Parties coming in from Long vale
say there is liable to be trouble bt
tween the sheep men and the settler;
Mr. Clay burn was ordered to tax
his herds and leave but he told I'll
parties lie would leave when it suite
him and not before. There are thol
sands of acres Of fine grass CROWN
in the Long valley country and it
doing no one any good, and it woul
look much better to let the stock ei
2, it than to let it rot. The settlers
p Long valley have ordered Edwai
Orsburn to take his cattle out of tt
valley, and he has lived in that cou
a try before there was rancher
W Long valley.
% Mr.. Anchor came in from t
ri mines TO-DAY and will stop with |
friend Johnnie Hancock until aft
the Fourth.
. Mr.. Anchor is thinking of movi
s' his family to Council as he has sol
fine properties in the Devils and e
poets to stay with the camp.
nc Messrs Smith & Burnett, of But
81 are still in camp and have got Sol
n' fine properties and will go rig
ne ahead with their work.
'o' The town is lively today, we ce
brate tomorrow. Parties are conf
his in from Salubra
Marsh, the photographer, put
10 his tent this evening. l think
70. i'll have a nice time.
80, Several of the boys are down FRI
iii the mines and lots of sheep n
ca coming in. The hotel is about
ce. but Johnnie says there is alw;
room for one more.
" July 4th.