The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1898-04-15
The I4....o 1.o,el Gina s,s Hands.

Away back in the later sixties the
most prominent and popular hostelry
in the Owyhee was the Idaho, in Silver
City. When the stage coach rolled VI
to its doors from Winnemucca and the
passengers alighted on its porch they
felt at home. In those days the East
man brothers owned it, and there those
gentlemen laid the foundation for the
comfortable fortunes they are now en-.
joying. When the Eastmans went to
Boise and took charge of the overland
Mr.. Tim Regan became the proprietor
of the Idaho. He too retired from it
with u fortune of no mean proportion,
made in the hotel and very largely in
creased by lucky mining investments.
Mr.. S. I. N. Smith purchased the prop
erty from Mr.. Regan, seven years ago,
and now it is his turn to retire, COM
fortably equipped, to loaf along the
sunny side of easy street for the re
mainder of his life, and if the good
wishes of his friends can make it so,
his days will all be happy ones. Now
Messrs. Timothy Shea and NJ. M. Get
chell, the former for years partner of
Mr.. Smiths in the sheep husbandry,
and the latter nephew, who has been
with MIR. S. a number of years, and is
now postmaster at Silver City, will as
sumo tho responsibilities of keeping
the establishments reputation up to
high water mark.
Every person who has ever run that
hotel has been lucky. In fact every
one Of them has been a smart man and
has forced luck to come mis- way. 1t is
safe to predict that this combination
has not been been broken by the pres
ent change Of proprietorsh.p Two
more men will be able to retire, fixed
as the others have been, for the senior
one Of them is pretty well along that
way now and the younger one both
clever and thrifty. They will continue
to run the house as it has been run for
q third OF "a century
1 dc i1dUp uoSSi 10 uOJ du lnlpOoi1b,
modern structure. It was constructed
first to SUIT the emergencies of a boom
ing mining camp and kept growing for
decade and then came to a stand still
when the boom broke in rs, to begin
reconstruction and additions again in
80 and kept on at 'em until the present
It is neither handsome or convenient
bu; it has suited every emergency, his
clean, comfortable and neatly furnished
rooms and, especially under Mrs
Smiths regime, they have been kept rs
clean and neat as Pennsylvania Qua
ker's wifes spring house.
We nov wol Ter whers Shsa & Get
cheli will begin making improvements!
Electric lighting probably.
What delightful task it would be
for some genius to write the story of
that hotel 1t would embody all the |
lea ing pictures of the rise and fall of |
Il great mining boom; of the desuetude |
and departed glory of a partially de-
serted camp and of its resurrection and |
present substantial glory. 1t would
tell many pathetic stories. Some that
were tragic and others in which all the
better instincts of humanity would
shine. Manse Eastman, Tim Regan
and THAI Smith ought to get together
and call 20 their assistance some Brette
Harte and give him the material they
could supply aul refer him to the men
still living who could fill in details.
who now stands at the desk
n the hotel, has memory which reaches
pack over a considerable of the period,
md John Hollenback, Dave Adams
aud Frank Huiett could help nightly.
It will be too bad if that history is nev-
,r embalmed.