The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-27
Porto Rico wants to know
where she is at.

where she is at.
Wilson Ellis was up from Ellis
last Friday visiting his many
friends in Challis.
The Lord tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb and sends the
shad season in Lent.
M. G. Royson, of Pahsamaroi,
was made a member of Custer
Lodge No. 81, 1. o. o. F. last
Saturday night, and he treated
the lodge to fine banquet at
Mrs. Strands hotel on that oc-
casion.
Robert Bell arrived in town
from Salmon last Friday. Mr..
Bell was accompanied as far as
Pahsamaroi with Prof. Oaklund,
of Battle Lake, Wyoming, who
is the inventor of vein-finder
machine. Mr.. Bell saw this
machine put to the test, and says
that it shows remarkable afin
ity for fissure veins. The mach
inc is constructed of wires and
forms a combination of electric
batteries. 1t is delicately sensi-
tive to electrical or magnetic at
traction, and works on the prin
ciple that the earth is magnetic
field, and that fissure veins are
more regular tracks or courses of
electric currents, hence their in
fuence on the indicator. Prof.
Oaklund has been remarkably
successful in tracing out veins
with his instrument, and made d
good deal of money out of it. He
intends to test its merits on the
Yankee Fork and Stanley Basin
mines as soon as the snow goes off.
Hon. D. r. Miller who is now
in Boise, speaks good word for
the wonderful resources of Gus
ter county, as published in the
Statesman. OF the mining in
dustry, he only tells one humid
redth part of the story. Such
renowned districts as Lost River,
Garden creek, Centennial Flat,
Poverty Flat, Warm Spring
creek, Custer, Bonanza, Jordan
} creek, Estes Mountain, Stanley
Basin, Seafoam, Sheep Noun
tain, Loon creek, and other dis
tricts, which are rich in miner
: ais, and only await better ship
ping facilities to make them
great producers, and of the many
mines in each of these districts
; Mr.. Miller does not mention. He
: only speaks of the following
mines in Custer county
Beardsley mine, lead 30 per
! cent, silver so ounces per ton.
: Redbird, lead, 40 per cent,
!, silver 40 ozs. per ton.
Forest Rose, silver, lead and
copper ore, assaying $500 ton.
a Ramshorn, one of the biggest
t properties in the state, silver 500
: ozs. per ton, copper Is per cent
t There are IL miles of develop
, ment in the property.
4 Skylark mine, adjoining the
3 Ramshorn, native copper ore
v rich in silver.
# Excelsior mine, 60 per cent.
= lead, 80 ounces silver.
v At the Bayhorse smelter there
e is fully 800, 900 of speiss on the
It dump that cannot be shipped be-
cause there is no railroad COM
munication.
n Golden Eagle, 20 per cent.
IL lead. 80 ozs. silver.
J. Silver Rule, 20 ozs. silver, 81
/ gold and so per cent. lead.
y In addition to the mining stat
J istics gathered by Mr.. Miller be
S has ascertained that 400, 900 head
n of sheep and 100000 head of
{. horses and cattle Craze III the
Is section tributary to the road as
IL projected, and that there are
le many fine valleys containing
"a acres and acres of rich agricul
tural land.
N A recent ruling of the Second
n Assistant Postmaster Genera
as will be of especial interest tx
in residents of this section wht
N wish to bid on contracts for car
w rying mail on star routes. Th'
in decision is that men who do no
le live near the mail routes canno
to furnish a proper bond for tn
at faithful performance of the sta
nd route contracts. This is direc
v blow at the big mail contractor
he in the east who take western
re mail contracts and then suble
as them. If the new policy is con
lis tinued it is going to be of mater
IN ial advantage to local resident
ce to feel that they are the onl
ey competitors and that some out
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