Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-10-13
IDAHO NEWS.


taken an option on the Buckhorn mine,
in the interest of Illinois parties. The
option calls for bond of $50, 900, and
nearly 500 feet of development work
is provided for.
The Idaho intermountain fair Is now
an event of the past. 1t was a grand
success throughout After the fair
had ended, two carloads of fruit was
loaded and sent to the 0maho Expos
ition, to be displayed on Idaho day,
October 12. The race meet in connec-
tion with the fair was most successful
Many of the horsemen pronounced the
track the best 10 the northwest.
The Populists have finally gotten
their state ticket in shape, and it has
been filled with the secretary OF state
The ticket as finally arranged is: Con-
gress, James Gum; Governor, j. H.
Anderson; Lieutenant-Governor, Tan
mis- L. Miller; Secretary of State, }. ).
Bonham; Attorney-General, /. L.
Glenn; Auditor, A. &. Whittier; Treas
urer, Lucus c. Rice; Superintendent
of Schools, Miss Permeal French;
Mine Inspector, David Farmer.
Indian Commissioner Jones devotes
a considerable portion of his annual
report to the financial difficulties OF the
Idaho Canal company, contractors for
the construction of canal at the Fort
Hall reservation. Chief Inspector
Graves, in charge of irrigation work,
has been directed to make a report.
The commissioner expresses the opin-
ion that legal proceedings will proba-
ably be necessary to protect the inter
ests of the government
In the case of the Tyler Mining CON-
pany against the Last Chance Mining
company, it was ordered remanded to
the lower court and Judgment for
damages modified. The companies
disputed the right to certain land in
the Shoshone mining district in Idaho,
and considerable litigation followed
in the State, Federal and United States
Supreme courts The present action
was over certain amounts allowed for
damages to the Last Chance Mining
company, the Tyler company having
filed bond pending the hearing of
an injunction suit to restrain the Last
Chance from continuing work on the
mine.
John Storer, prominent farmer liv-
ing about eleven miles northeast of
Idaho Falls, and brother of G. II.
! Storer, state treasurer, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the head. He attempted to shoot one
George Smith a neighbori thinking
that it WAS his brother, Robert Smith,
one of the commissioners of that county
1t is reported that Storer was accused
of burning, or causing to be burned,
the wheat stacks of Orin Lee, and also
the property of Commissioners Smith
that was myseriously destroyed by fire
recently, and in a fl of desperation,
excited by drink, made the attack on
George Smith and afterward destroyed
his own life.
The II. j. Reiling company of Chi
cago is building the largest gold dredg-
ing plant that has ever been con-
structed, on a fine tract of placer
ground purchased from David McNutt,
of Boise, last spring for s15o,ooo. The
plant is of the New Zealand type, with
all the heavy parts annealed steel, and
has daily capacity of 800 cubic yards
The boat was floated last month and
the machinery is all on the ground and
being rapidly put in place. The com
pany expects to have it completed anc
be able to make a test run this fall be
fore the ground freezes up. This prop
erty is situated on Moose creek, four
teen miles west of Salmon City, anC
has been worked by Mr.. McNutt TO
the past twenty years by hydarulicinG
from one to three months each year
as the irregular water supply per
mitted, during which time he took on
something like S75, 600 This mine PFC
duces what is probably the purest gol'
that has been found in the state o
, Idaho; it is worth Sf9.75 per ounce a
( it comes from the ground. The pa
streak is 200 to 300 feet wide, az
! twelve to twenty feet deep, and aver
ages 60 cents per cubic yard. Th
gravel is fine and the bedrock sot'
,, crumbly granite. There is several mile
: Of the ground on the creek still III
: touched. This enterprise is being pc
sonally managed by II. j. Reiling, WI
is the father of successful gold drede
|. mining. This gentleman built the
e l.. Graves and A. f. Grader boats {
e Grasshopper creek, near Bannoo
l. Those two boats have been mimi
i steadily since last April, making a n
o profit of from 81, 200 to 81, 800 day.
X The Indian commissioners repo
IS that the Fort Hall Indians have agree
d to surrender a portion of their rese
n vation to the United States, but tn
te congress has not ratified the agre
IN ment. This may be done at the ne'
session.
The board of pardons will next WEE
oi | 4a1.o ,,r +ba case of aDiamondfiel,