The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-30

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election time.
We would Judge from reports
that the matrimonial epidemic is
raging at Salmon City.
Pete Albert, a pioneer placer
miner of Loon creek and Stanley
Basin, was in Challis last week.
]. L. Ebberts has caught the
building fever, and is adding an
other story to his residence in
Challis.
We are informed that the Mac
kay and Central Idaho Stage Co, j,
has bought the line from Challis
to Salmon.
d. W. Shanafelt went down to
his Iron creek ranch last Satur-
day to spend a few days with his
family.
Some of our ranchers have
commenced haying. The crop
will be up to the average, while
the grass on the ranges this year
, is abundant.
Michael Maier of Lemhi county
has been to Custer returned to
Challis last Friday evening. Mr..
Maier owns a one-third interest
in the Fissure, one of the best
mines at Sheep Mountain.
Herman Fischer and family,
and Chas. Anderson, of Gibbons
vile, were in town last week en-
route to Loon creek. Mr.. Fisch-
er says the once fiourishing town
of Gibbonsville is now but a relic
I of its former days.
5 Report has it that an immense
4 gold strike has been made Oh
Beaver creek. northeast of Ketch
um. in Custer county. The veir
is about three feet wide and de
velopment so far shows that i
. extends several hundred feet, anC
the ore runs from 500 to S15C
per ton, and the indications are
: that it will develop in extent a,
!, the work progresses.
D Next Saturday is the glorious
Fourth of July, and everything
5 is in readiness at Challis to havl
5 a grand celebration. From al
t reports people are coming Il
celebrate in Challis from all dir
4 ections. The young and the old
: the rancher and the miner, anG
9 the young man with his "bes
e girl' are coming to Challis to en-
d joy themselves.
d. E. McCallum, County
e Commissioner of Custer county
It Joseph Cristo and Mr.. and Mrs
v Halford, of Mackay, were in thi
{ city last week on land business
S Mr.. McCallum says that the ney
r superintendent for the Whit'
r Knob company has arrived, ant
l. is expected that the big smelte
: will be put into operation withi
:, the next forty days. The com
o pany at present are giving EN-
). ployment to go men.
A Mackay correspondent of tn
6 Pocatello Tribune says: "Ther
= is evidently something in tn
= rumor of railroad extension fror
) : this point. Ore that is ready 70
: shipment from Salmon rive
: points has been ordered held o
i the mine dumps, and there
, talk of consolidating the bi
= mines and the building of a ne1
Il smelter at some place on Salmo
!, river, to be the railroad termil
- us.
IS The new postoffice buildin
" aud equipment in Challis will /
Sc modern. All of the postal boxt
1t will be lock- boxes, constructe
N of bronze metal, and each box
'e have a plate glass in it so that
er person can see if he has mai
x and thus save him the trouble ,
ne opening the box if he has L
w mail. The boxes will be of tv
e, sizes-large and small-and wi
or be rented at the price as nov
lg There will also, of course, be Il
up the general delivery windov
as There viii be seperate compar
rs ment for the money order bus
d. ness The entire front of ii
a building will be postal lock bo
ne es, and the front door of Il
We Office will be open at all times
ut the day and night, so that pc
to son having a lock box can go
. and get their mail at any hou
as The general delivery and none
al order windows will open on
ho during the regular hours as r
er, quired by the postal laws, so
N. will nav Won tO rent a lock bO