The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-11-26

INJURIES Itself.
Keep off an honest mans toes
and he will be true friend.
If man is too lazy to begin he
always says it is never too late
to mend.
Men have a dozen thoughts of
one thing. and women think of
dozen things at once.
Mr.. A. G. Bomar departed last
Wednesday morning on a bust
ness trip to Custer.
China is Li-less. but it will be
a long time before she will lie less
if we are not mistaken.
Caswell Bros. last week sold
eight mining claims to Colonel
Dewey in Thunder mountain for
the sum of 100000.
The case of Lemhi VS.. Custer
county came up for trial in the
District Court at HALEY this
term, but was continued.
At dance the other night, the
caller sang out: Swing the
girl that bakes the pies; swing
the girl with goo-goo eyes ~
It's too bad something can't be
done to remedy the breach of
those confidential communica-
tions that has so worried the alb
ductors of Miss Stone.
The Jeffries-Ruhlin prize fight
that came off in SanFrancisco on
the 18th inst, was fake of the
worst kind. Rubin did not at
tempt to fight, at least that ap-
pears to be the idea that one gets
from reading the press dispatch
es. Jeffries won in FIVE rounds.
The pension rou now amounts
to $40, 900, 900 and more a year.
paid to nearly a million people.
Twenty per cent of all the sold
iers in the Spanish war have ap-
piled for pensions. although not
two per cent saw any active serv-
ice. How long is this thing TO
go on, anyway
Con. Doty, who spent the sum
mer mining and prospecting in
Stanley Basin, was in the Mes
SENGER Office last Thursday. He
informed US that the mining
season at Stanley was quite ac-
tive, but improvements were not
made there as much as he had an
ticipated or hoped for, yet. on
the whole. the mines yielded bet
ter this year than ever before,
and the claims that are develop
ed are looking better than usual.
Mr.. Doty feels confident that
next year the Basin, with the
companies organized, and the
old companies working, that por-
tion of Custer county will be the
scene of considerable mining ac-
tivity. The dredge has been sold
to Chicago capitalists who will
either build new boat or re-
modle the old one by putting in
new machinery. AS for the
ground this company owns. the
two seasons run of the dredge
has proven it to be very rich.
The Valley Creek mine, says
Mr.. Doty. which is located in
Stanley Basin, is looking very
good, indeed. This is a free
gold quartz proposition. and is
owned by Mr.. Lyttleton Price of
HALEY, and others. This mine
has a ledge 100 feet in width. but
the ore is low grade, but it will
all pay to work on large scale.
The winter force of the mine has
been reduced to six men. Mr..
Doty also informed us that he
had recently returned from a
trip to the wonderful Thunder
mountain, and he is not one to get
excited over mining booms. nor
is he an optimist, but an old time
prospeetor of good Judgment and
in speaking of the new Eldorado,
he said it was simply wonderful
and had never saw anything like
it before. The whole country is
mineralized, said Mr.. Doty, and
it is not confined to Thunder
mountain alone, for it is gold
bearing ore for a radius of 80
miles. All kinds of rock in that
locality carries gold-even TO
the sandstone deposits. and the
average values run about So per
ton. The rock is decomposed
matter and all free milling, ex-
cept the diorite. Mr.. Doty says
that it is wrongly named-it
should be called Wonder Noun
tain, instead of Thunder Noun
tain, as that name would be far