Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-12-26
County commissioner Frank

Brown arrived out from the Jumbo
asst week, bringing with him
three gold bricks of the value of
b, 900. He reports the mine look
ing as we'll as ever, with nine feet
Of ore in one stope and eleven feet
in the other, aud every pound OF
it is being milled.
B. w. Jarrett is in town from
the Cove and informs us that he
has constructed u race $50 feet
long and Is feet deep to drain his
placer diggings in that section.
Everything is now ready for a
spring run as soon as the water
starts, and from all reports these
are as good as the best in
the county.
Mrs. w. II. Bennett, Of Elk City,
arrived in the city yesteday, from
Portland where she accompanied
her husband to the Good Samaritan
hospital. Mrs. Bennett desires to
thank the Grangeville, Lewiston
and Portland camps Of the Wood
men of the World for their great
kindness and assistance rendered
her in the care of her husband.
Lewiston Tribune.
The furnish syndicate now owns
between 700, 900, O0Oand l 900, 900, :
600 feet Of pine in Potlatch basin,
this including timber purchased
from both state and private owners.
This timber the company will work
up as soon as a market can be found
aud arrangements as to locating of
mills and transportatiO from for
ests to railroad c)nnec tons can be
made.
V. Holz aud son have purchased
from M. Cambridge seven acres OF
the old Cedarwild ranch one and
one-half miles north OF town, and
are making arrangements to burn
$50, 900 brick early in the coming
season. There is particularly
fine body of clay on this tract which
is pre-eminently adapted for brick,
and the gentlemen promise to tnrn
out next spring the finest brick
they have ever manufactured on
Camas Prairie.
The state land board have leased
80 acres of land adjoining the grea,
Shoshone falls of Snake river to an
eastern syndicate who will erect an
electric power plant of 100000
horse power capacity at cost Of
1926, 900. The power will bt
transmitted to the mines on Wood
river and eventually to the Con
tact, Nevada, copper mines. An
electric railway will also be rur
from the town of Shoshone to the
Falls.
Curly Brewer, Of Warrens, il
packing the mail from that CAM
into Thunder Mountain this winter
the miners paying him each two
dollars per month for semi
monthly trip, and the Dove,
company contributing enough t.
pay him 500 month for tn
arduous task. He takes the oil
Elk creek trail by way Of Loga
creek, the same route which wa
outlined in the FREE Pass re
G entity as being the only practica
BILE way into the new camp.
Grangeville Camp FOG, Woodme
of the World elected the followin
officials Monday night to serve &c
the ensuing year: r. Bertsch, {
c.; G. G.. Fem. Advisor
II. Amber, clerk; John Norwood
banker; A. Markham, escort; "
Hohaus, Waterman; G. A. Arnolt
sentinel. The new officials will b
Installed early in the new yeal
when the order will give banqut
and entertainment to the member
and their families, further particr
lars OF which will appear N du
time.
William Mcdonald, the ex-popu
list judge of the superior court {
Whitman county, WASH, now IL
Gated at Orc Elmo, Idaho, has in
statement as entirely devoid {
consistency as was his record q
judge, announced his affiliatio
with the republican party. II
calls himself a "Teddy Roosevelt
Populist'' and at the same tim
claims that he is still a believer i
the principles of populism. In &C
cepting the republican creed, whic
does not contain semblance {
populistic faith, the erratic e,
judge proves his own insincerity
The democrats of this state al
to be congratulated that he has ne
fallen on our side of the polite;
fence Mcdonald bears the uniqu
distinction Of having been indicte
while on the bench for attemptin
to coerce jurymen into rendering
verdict in accordance with his vie
or interests in the case at bar.
j. A. Whitaker is out from Eel
City and says that great deal Q
quiet development work is goin
on all over that camp in goo
many OF the quartz properties, an,
in nearly every instance good re
suits are being shown up. Tb
closing down OF the Alamance