The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
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Fruit trees are in blossom at Mt.
Home, Idaho.
District Court meets in Challis on
Monday, April 4th.
Some of our ranchers have com
menced ploughing.
-Chas. S. Jordan has been very sick
the past week with La Grippe.
George sewell and family came out
from Custer last Thursday.
Arthur McGown was out from Gus
ter last week on business trip.
Garden, field, flower and all kinds
of grass seeds for sale at Busters.
Hugh C. Wood departed for his
home at Ogden on Monday, the 14th.
Nick johnson and wife were down
from their Salmon river ranch last
Tuesday.
Albert Honey who is at hospital
in Salt Lake, is getting along nicely
from his operation.
-Chas. Mately, foreman of the Wood
Live Stock ranch at Goldburg, was a
Challis 'stor last week.
George French came up from Sal
mon last Wednesday, and on Friday
departed for Baker City, Oregon.
Tommy Atkins of Salmon is in
Chaliis and has employment in the
Stage company's blacksmith shop.
-Rodger Brasseur departed Friday
for Canada, he having received tele-
gram that his mother was seriously i'll.
The White Knob Copper company
at Mackay has closed down for a period
of from thirty to sixty days, caused, it
is said, by one of the engines breaking
down.
Carl Malm, Maurice Christensen,
Walter Black and Jack Lafever, came
out from Custer last week on account
of the closing down of the Lucky Boy
property.
In the Garden of the Gods are
found strange monuments, the work
of the hands of nature, towering aloft
and assuming curious shapes that
stimulate the work of man; but all of
these, so remarkable as they are, do
not rank with the singular and perfect
/ Tar
Monument, which rises in the noun
tains of Idaho ten miles down Monu-
mental creek from the town of Roose
velt, in Thunder Mountain. 1t was
discovered number of years ago by
some prospectors, and was reported as
a gigantic monolith, made by prehis-
toric men; and its appearance would
justify the assumption. Yet the col
umn is the work of wind and weather.
The monument is over seventy feet in
height, of commanding proportions,
and can be seen against the sky for a
long distance. 1t is nearly eighteen
feet in diameter at the base, and rises
in almost perfect proportions, being
near the summit ten feet in diameter,
sixty feet from the ground. The crown
ing feature of this stupendous column
is what appears to be cube of solid
rock poised artistically upon one of its
points-a position which would be a
masterpiece of engineering to accom-
!, plish by the most skilled appliances OF
man.
This American Pillar of Hercules
stands on the edge of a deep canyon
filled with pine trees, and is an object
lesson to the student of geology as
we'll as to one interested in the fantas-
tic in nature. 1t stands as remnant
of the mountain, which has been cut
away by the constant washing or rains
of untold centuries. At first cloud
burst, possibly, formed channel; this
:, became a canyon, and as the sides o.
the mountain washed away, a column
shaped mass, which was more resistan
and harder than the rest, was left
Accident made the top of the column
larger, as chance shaped the lowe
portion. This monument, due to th'
disintegrating power of nature, i
formed of rough conglomerate which
!. but adds to its attractiveness, hug
blocks and powders clinging to it
sides, standing out in such relief tha
it is almost possible to use them a
stepping stones and climb to the sum
nit; yet so tall is the pillar, they ar
not seen at distance, aud do not in
! terfere with the regular outline. o.
the right side, part way up, are pre-
iecting powders which weigh sewers
tons, and the strength and nature Q
the entire structure can be realized b
the size of the surmountiDg cube
10 which shows from the point of vieV
a. two level faces, and which it is est
r. mated weighs one hundred tons Q
t. more. Marvellous as is this pillar, it
te known to fame as "Sheepeaters Mont
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