The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-04-07

from May last week.
Mrs. Chas. Minear, of Stock
ton, Cal, arrived in Challis last
Tuesday.
Mr.. Ferguson who is represent
ing an eastern publishing house
is in town.
Work is being pushed on Small
Brothers large irrigating canal
in this valley.
The Board of County Commis-
sioners meet in regular session
next Monday.
George Gebhart and John
Gosch were over from Woods
ranch last Saturday night
Hon. Willis Sweet of Idaho
will probably be appointed At
torney General of Porto Rico.
Young Corbett knocked out"
Terry McGovern in the I1th
round at SanF'rancisco on the
31st of March.
Mrs. s. p. Jones arrived on
last Tuesdays stage from Salt
Lake City where she has been
for medical treatment.
VIM. Buster has the founda-
ton completed for warehouse
and law Office. adjoining his meat
market on the west. When com
pleted will make four buildings
owned by Mr.. Buster in what is
known as Busters Addition to
to Challis.
1--WE have been told that the
man who squeezes a dollar never
squeezes his wife" In looking
over our subscription books.
says an exchange, we are led to
believe that some awfulIy good
women are not getting the at
tention the deserve.
Dan. Murphy came up from
Indian creek the fore part of last
week, and after remaining here
one day departed for his Stanley
Basin placer mines, where he
and his associates own some
valuable claims. Mr.. Murphy
returned TO the basin early In or
der to be at the mines to com
mence operations as soon as the
water starts.
We often hear people say.
Where Cotton is King in re
ferring to the southern states,
while again they refer to some
of the middle states as Where
Corn is King" and we might just
as appropriately refer to the
state of Idaho as Where Gold
is King" In fact. when speak
ing of this little state so lined
and intersected as it is with
mountain ranges and streams, all
of which are so thoroughly i'm
pregnated and interlined with
the precious metal, we could
truthfully refer to it as the king
dom of gold. Nature and her in
visable forces seems to have com
bined together and to have, in
this particular part of the world.
shook and heaved the earth, pro-
ducing veritable chaos from a
geological point of view. The
result is that the gold, which at
first was in unusually rich and
well defined lodges, extending
throughout the mountain sys-
TENS, have been heaved, tossed
and ground about by some very
violent internal force which has
entirely disarranged natures or
iginal plans Hence gold is to
be found almost anywhere; al
though. of course, not always in
paying quantities. The water
courses, which for thousands of
years, have been eating at and
wearing their way through the
mountains and valleys. changing
their courses, but always bear
ing with them quantities of the
yellow nuggets and dust have
succeeded in rending from the
mountains much of their wealth
and depoSiting it along their own
pathway. When occasionally a
mountain peak was toppled per
haps by an earthquake shock.
ovea into the rivers bed, neces-
stating it TO find a new channel.
unto wealth has been buried be-
meath the debris of earth and
rock which the prying hand of
man is continually unearthing at
this day. Still our rivers run
gurgling, singing and moaning
TO the sea while hidden beneath
their cold bosoms is gold suffi-
cient TO buy a kings ransom.
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