The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-08-05
Coroner NJ. O'Donohue is very

Coroner NJ. O'Donohue is very
sick.
For good photograph work
call on Wolverton.
DR.. r. w. Philips is at Mackay
on a professional trip.
Our hot weather still continues
last Saturday it was 90 degrees
in the shade.
What has become of Tracy /?
Some one said he was seen in
Challis last week.
r. N. Hull departed last Satur-
day morning for Seafoam to look
after his mining interests in that
district.
Attorney Spofford, of Boise.
spent few days of last week in
Challis. He had just left Stan
ley Basin, and speaks very high
ly of the future of that portion
of Custer county.
Republican convention for Gus
ter county to elect delegates to
the State convention, will be
held at Challis next Saturday.
and the Democratic convention
will be held at Custer, Aug. Is.
The copper mines on Morgan
creek owned by Dennis & Wald
are showing better and better as
development work progresses
They have completed the assess
ment work on four claims, all of
which show good ore bodies.
One ledge has ten feet of clean
ore carrying high per cent in
copper and some silver.
Governor Frank w. Hunt is
the popular candidate for re-
nomination with the laboring
classes in Custer county. That
being the case they should see
that only Hunt delegates be sent
to the Pocatello convention. In
order to do this they must at
tend the primaries next Satur-
day and elect pledged delegates
for Hunt to attend the conven-
tion at Custer on the 18th inst.
Discussing Thunder Mountain,
Robert Bell said it was receiving
attention to the detriment of 9TH
er regions and gold producing
sections of the State.
The most important discovery
made in Central Idaho, said Mr..
Bell, is that of quicksilver mine
on Sugar creek, about fifteen
miles west of the Dewey mines.
This deposit has no development
beyond a few ten-foot holes, but
it bears the earmarks of a big
thing. The mineral occurs as
cinnabar sprinkled through a
nearly vertical dike-fissure of
quartz porphyry that has been
very much altered by solfateric
action. The dixie is contained in
a series of quartzite and sand
stone beds, OVERLAPPING a granite
formation. 1t is fifty feet wide,
stands nearly vertical and crops
very plainly over a mountain
spur for a distance of 5000 feet.
A string of very rich float accom-
lpanies the dixie, but the average
value of its whole width is con-
servatively estimated at not over
9 per cent, or forty pounds of
quicksilver to the ton of ore.
This, however, would be an i'm
portant average on such large,
well-defined body, as this variety
of mineral is said to be easily
treated. And the development
of this deposit promises a new
and important mineral resource
for Idaho.
In the granite formation south
OF Sugar creek the VlSluOr re
! ports the discovery of some ex-
tensive deposits of antimony ore
of very fine quality, almost pure
stibnite, that may prove of con-
siderable commercial Importance
if the region ever gets railway
transportation.
Mr.. Bell passed Loon creek or
, the way out, and saw some OF
J the newly discovered ores of thai
district, of which he has a very
high opinion. He also visited
the Ramey mine at Silver creek,
which has the unique distinction
5 of producing both gold and gem;
from the same dixie. and wa:
shown selected samples of alter
! ed rhyolite that panned fine free
: gold at the rate of $500 per ton
| also some small specimens o
, beautifully iridescent opal gem
ctano Nf tho hvrlrOphanp variety