The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-05-24
the Hsyhoras Country
[salt Lake Tribune.l

Perhaps there is no other sec
ton in all the country where MN
eral abounds to a greater extent
than it does in Bayhorse canyon.
This narrow gorge, hemmed IN
as it is by high majestic noun,
tains and cliffs, commencing at
Salmon river and running almost
due west to Ramshorn hill, is
literally alive with mineral, con-
sisting principally, if not entire
ly, of silver, copper and some
lead.
To our own citizen-Hon. .. j.,
Salisbury-perhaps is due more
credit than to any one else, the
development of the mineral re-
sources of this immediate local
ity. The Ramshorn group OF
mines has been worked for a
number of years and is we'll
known throughout all mining
circles. 1t is probably the best
developed proposition in Custer
county today, and while no par
ticular effort is being made to-
ward the taking out and ship
ping of ore, the property is being
developed in systematic and
miner-like manner. Vast ore
bodies are in place, and when
that time arrives when an adj
ministration is ensconced in
power which will feel it a duty
to give to the people that simple
justice, without which there can
be no prosperity, and which the
whole country is so much in need,
and not until then will the we'll
known camp of Bayhorse again
come to the front.
Whenever silver receives the
recognition which will agair
make of it money of ultimate re
demption, then a thousand hap
by and contented men will fine
employment and prosperity in
plenty. The recognition of sill
yer would once more start in ac
tive operation such famous pro
ducers as the Ramshorn, the
Beardsley, the Excelsior, the
Riverview and a score of others
When those mines were all run
ming every man had money tC
spare. Relics of those prosper
Gus days can be seen on every
hillside, where millions of tin
cans, which at one time contain
ed fruit and every conceivable
kind of food for the hardy min
er, lay around and cover acres o
the earth's surface.
Long tunnels, with their T-rai
tracks and deep shafts, are to b.
seen everywhere. Log cabins
formerly the happy abiding pla
ces for many hundreds of sturdy
good-natured men, can be seel
from every point. Fine, costly
machinery, and every conceiv
able character of equipment
representing many thousand dol
lars in value, lie around tn
abandoned mines. Huge char
coal kilns stand alone aud IN
noticed. All is silent, and Their
is nothing to relieve the awful
silence but the ripping stream
which courses its way through
the narrow canyon and lose
itself in the limpid waters of tn
Salmon.
For one to seriously think wha
an irretrievable wrong and ex
IRENE hardship has been brough
to so many in this one little spec
of the.earth' S circumference, onl
magnifies the infamous plot g
one Grover and few 9th
ers, when they deliberately dc
livered the final death blow t.
silver and the cause of humanit
in 1898. One can scarcely CON
prehend the enormity of the aw
full crime when he takes into cor
sideration the balance of tn
country as compared to what ha
been done in this one small car
yon.
There is no longer any neces
sity for the eastern manufacture
to send US his machinery. hi
picks, drills and shovels; his tin
cans filled with fruit and boxe
of food products. We no longe
need his shirts, collars, cuffs an
clothing. We have no use fo
shoes, socks and hats.
Some little work, however,
being done. The Ramshorn an
Skylark are each working a fore
of about twelve men.
w. j. Treloar, who is operas
ing the Democrat, is taking OF
some fair ore, and will make
small shipment in the near futr
re.
l. B. Christensen has a goo
mine in the Silver Brick, but h
is doing nothing but develor