The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-19

Saturday to make up for lost
time.
Last Saturday morning, May
10th, snow fell at a depth of 8
inches in Challis.
T. J. Paul is making arrange
ments to start a saloon at Stanley
Basin and another at Loon creek
this summer.
From the spelling and general
form of writing the Challis cor
respondent of the Mackay Tele-
graph, evidently is some child's
work.
School trustee election in Chal-
lis June 1st. Mr.. Gayle's term
of Office expires. He has made
a good officer and should be re
elected.
The humble cabin illustrated
in the Mackay Telegraph as the
county superintendent's Office
costs the taxpayers of Custer
county $50 a year for rent.
The MESSENGER says that on
Tuesday S. w. Egan passed
through Challis on the way to
Custer to work on the Prospec-
tor. This being the case he
must have passed through Mac
kay but none of his many friends
remember seeing him. -Mackay
Telegraph.
1t is not necessary for a per
son to pass through Mackay to
reach Custer. Mr.. Egan came
up on the Salmon stage, as do
nearly all the passengers from
Montana and northern points.
In the eighties the Greyhound
mining district, Sheep Mountain,
although handicapped by its in
accessibility, did f1ourishing
business. Ore was mined and
packed out over rugged mountain
trails on the backs of mules to
Ketchum at a cost of $40 per ton
for freight. At Ketchum the old
Philadelphia smelter reduced the
ore, at a price several times high
er than is now charged, and yet,
with all these large expense bills
the mines made money. Silver
was then worth better than 81. 90
per ounce and the Greyhound
veins were very rich in that
metal. After the decline in val
ue of silver, work was suspend
ed and the district was idle for
several years.
Recently miners have again
begun to exploit the rich lodges
and as a result some valuable
discoveries have been made. S.
M. Smith of this city spent most
of the winter in the district. He
returned to Boise several weeks
ago. He reports that on the Bull
Dog group of claims, owned by
Ike Daily and Charles Crane, they
are now driving a cross-cut tun-
mel to cut their main ledge at
considerable depth. The vein is
from 10 to 25 feet wide and is a
true fissure between we'll defined
granite walls. Openings on the
ledge have been made in shallow
shafts and in open cuts. No
where has a depth of over %
feet been attempted, yet the av-
erage values are better than $50
to the ton, mostly silver with
some gold.
A nice showing has been made
on the John Henry location, own
ed by John Biggs and Jas. Hays
of Boise. They have opened the
ledge and secure some high grade
ore.
The Morler property has a fine
showing of very rich ore. This
property was located years ago
in peculiar manner. As the
story goes, and it is verified by
Joe DAILY. Joe and his brother,
Ike Daily, were out hunting deer.
A fine buck sprang up on the op-
posite bank of Josephus lake
from where Ike Daily stood, gun
in hand. He fired but missed the
deer and the two went over to
where the animal had been stand
ing to see if they could find any
blood spots, as they thought it
must have been wounded. In
looking around they saw where
the bullet had struck a moss
covered rock and had broken off
a small piece. A glance showed
it rich in silver. The claim was
located at once and a little later
$1,000 was taken out in shipments
made to the Ketchum smelter.
The old property has been re-
opened and will start in on new
record soon.
John Mullen of Custer has a