The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-12-22
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To one and all, Merry Christmas!
School closes this week for the
Holidays.
George Ellis was over from Pah-
samaroi last Saturday.
The second club dance will be held
in challis next Friday night.
The Lemhi Herald got out a very
creditable Holiday issue last week.
Miss Martha keenan, returned last
Friday from a visit to the Lost river
schools.
Mrs. Jos. Rodgers and children,
and Miss Monte Hallaran are expected
home this week from their visit to
New Orleans, La.
"A dance was held last Friday night
at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Hamil-
ton at Ellis. A number of Challisites
were in attendance.
The C. E. Society of the Congrega-
tional church will hold a Watch
Night" prayer meeting from 1880 to 12
o'clock New Years Eve. All welcome.
Sunday, December eth at 1880 p.
m, the Challis Sunday School will
give an 'old fashioned" sacred concert
at the church. A cordial welcome is
extended to all.
Maurice Christensen was in town
the fore part of last week having just
arrived from Black bird, where he has
been for some time doing the annual
assessment work on his claims.
Send postal card for a sample
copy of the Semi-Weekly Salt Lake
Tribune. Then you will be sure to
accept it's remarkable offer to send you
the paper twice week for almost a
year and a half for S1.5O.
-Rumors of gigantic land frauds
were declared by the republican press
to be eKaggerations. The President
says in his message to Congress by
various frauds and by forgeries and
perjuries thousands of acres of the
public domain, embracing lands of
different character and extencing
through various sections of the coun-
try, have been dishonesty acquired"
The FIRST issue of w. R. Hearst's
new paper. the Los Angeles Examiner,
appeared on the morning of December
18th with circulation of IS, 900 copies.
The labor unions had big parade and
demonstration at night to celebrate
the event of the new paper, which will
fight the Los Angeles Times and give
support to the typographical union to
the amount of $50, 900 yearly in the
shape of wages to printers.
Some excellent specimens of ore
are being shipped to Enos Watson
who in turn will deliver them to Mr..
Mcbride, Idaho's Mineral Commission
er for the Worlds Fair. The ore is
from Custer county mines. Last week
Mr.. Watson received a fine 4s-pound
specimen from the Good Friend mine,
recently discovered near Clayton by
John Smith. The sample is very rich
and is said to assay about 5000 to the
ton in gold, silver, lead and copper
silver values predominating, although
copper glance is plainly visible, and
the ore, which from appearance is
float, ought to yield good per cent in
copper values. Some other fine samp-
les have also been sent down from the
Myrtle group on Centennial Flat.
Not until the other day was IL
known that phonolite existed in Gus ter
county. Mr.. Enos Watson has had a
piece of phonolite in his cabinet since
1881, aud all this time he and others
pronounced the specimen petrified
wood, but when Messrs. Hunt and
Williams saw the specimen last week
they said it was phonolite, and they
are familiar with this character of ore.
The specimen is about two feet in
length, and does resemble a piece OF
petrified wood, but under a glass it
sparkles with free gold. The piece OF
phonolite was found on Estes noun
tain in the year 1881 by Mr.. Estes at or
near the Montana mine. 1t is now
believed that ledge of it exists at the
Montana mine. Phonolite is a COM
pact, feldspathic, igneous rock con-
tanning nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin
slabs give ringing sound when it is
struck-hence "phon"olite. 1t is also
called clinkstone, and is often very
rich in gold and silver. Perhaps this
ore is found in other parts of the
county and has been thrown aside as
valueless, because the finders did not
know what 1t was. 1t is our candid
opinion that many kinds of valuable
metals exist in Custer county but are
not utilized because our mining men
do not know the metals or their values.
This was the case with the piece of
| phouolite which was cast aside aud