The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-03

e. Grampp, owner of the For
est Rose mine at Bayhorse, was
in Challis last week.
Custer Lodge No. 21,I.O OF.
last Saturday evening elected the
following named officers for the
ensuing term
n. G.-Geo. E. Keyes-
V. G.-Robt. Morrison.
Sec. G. Finnell.
Treas. "A. G. Bomar.
On Sunday last it rained in
Challis nearly all day. If it does
not end with a heavy frost we
will be fortunate.
The outlook for heavy fruit
crop in Challis this year is ex-
cellent.
A man attending a revival was
pressed hard to repent. and a5
last got up and said Dear
friends, | feel the spirit moving
me to talk and tell what bad
man | have been, but l can't do
it when the grand jury is to be
in session next week" THE
Lord will forgive you p shouted
the preacher. Il guess that's
all right, said the man, ''but He
amt on the grand jury"
Some fine specimens of gold
have been brought in from new
discoveries made at old Moses
place, short distance from
here. says a Stanley Basin cor
respondent for the Capital News.
A district was formed called the
Stanley district, and Captain
Renner, formerly of the Sacra-
mento mine of Utah, was elected
recorder. A large force of men
left here today bound for the
Fisher mine on Fourth of July
creek N Custer county. They
will start up the Fisher mine and
mill Immediately. The Fisher
mine is a high grade gold pro-
position and has yielded largely
in the past.
A report has reached here that
! McGowan's pack train, from Sal
mon City, lost ten pack animals
by drowning while fording one
of the streams near Salmon riv-
er.-Boise News.
The above report is not credit
ed in Challis. McGowan's S train
is from Challis, not Salmon.
Enos Watson of Challis has in
his possession as fine a pair of
mountain sheep horns as one
would desire to see. They were
brought in last week by Richard
West. The horns weigh exactly
IA pounds.
! A party of surveyors in the
employ of the Oregon Short Line
is quietly working around in cen
tral Idaho seeking to locate a
line into the Thunder mountain
region. While this is nominally
the primary object of the survey.
the Short Line is prospecting all
through the central part of the
state with a view to beginning a
systematic campaign of develop
ment for that region. Leaving
aside the Thunder mountain
boom, it is believed that central
Idaho contains the richest un-
developed territory in the west,
and many railroad men who have
been investigating the subject
believe that the metropolis of
the state will some day be locat-
ed there.
Reports from men who have
been making a thorough investi-
cation of the conditions in cen
! trail Idaho are to the effect that
{ some day there will be a big city
at Salmon, Challis, Cape Horn or
Thunder mountain. Perhaps
each of these places will become
of importance. OF the four
l towns. Salmon has the best start,
and with railroad facilities 1t will
always be place of Importance,
according to the reports. 1t has
j the advantage of being in the
heart of good agricultural reg
ion, but it has the disadvantage
of not being in the heart of the
, best mineral district.
Challis also is close TO good
mines. but it is not in the heart
of the mineral belt. 1t has some
good agricultural country in the
vicinity and men familiar with
the situation say that it is bound
to be place of some importance.
Salt Lake Herald.
!, Mrs. VIM. T. Oster. of Custer,
is visiting with relatives in