The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-01-05
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Election year.
Leap Year.
School convened yesterday.
Phillip Gossi was down from Clay
Ton last week.
The Hot Springs dance on the Goth
inst. was financial success.
Assessor Elder is the busiest man
in Challis now receiving tax money.
The Board of County Commission
ers meet next Monday in regular ses-
sion.
w. w. Adamson and wife and
Sheriff Bowen were down to Mackay
last week.
"A new general merchandise store
is being built at May 10y Cleveland &
Hammond.
r. N. Hull & Co., William Buster
and F Nickerson & Co of Challis, got
out beautiful 1904 calendars.
"A very pleasant party was given at
the elegant home of Mr.. and Mrs. jos.
Rodgers in Challis last Friday night.
Evan Stephens, the genial stage
man of Leesburg, is spending a few
days with his parents on Challis creek.
On page eight of this issue will be
found an able article on Bayhorse
Mining District, written by Mr.. s. f.
flunt.
Watch meeting services were held
in the church at Challis last Thursday
night. An excellent program was
given.
-Axel Olson returned to his home
at Shelley, Idaho, last Thursday Axel
is engaged in the livery and feed
stable business at Shelley.
Arthur Gayle and Felix Paul re-
turned to school at the State Academy
at Pocatello, last Friday, after having
spent the Holidays in Challis.
Last week'W. j. Lamme. Duncan
Williams and Mr.. johnson killed four
leer. Another party comprised of B.
) Brown, f. Welch and VIM. Cameron
killed five deer.
Christmas night there was a dance
and entertainment given at the Pat
terson school house, also a basket
social, which netted $4,000, which
goes to the school, Some of the bask-
cts sold as high as 5000. The school
is under the able principsiship of Miss
Maelze-
We acknowledge receipt of an an
uual pass for 1904 from f. w. Vogler
over the Redrock & Salmon and SAL
mon & Gibbonsville stage lines. Mr..
Vogler has the credit of running the
best equipped stage lines in the West.
He is hustler" and is always on the
alert for business.
"A letter received by Charles S.
Jordan from John II. Anderson, who is
working 10 the Dewey mine, Thunder
Mountain, states that there is an
abundance of snow in that section.
He thinks Thunder Mountain is u good
camp and has a bright future. He
says VIM. Pryor is foreman of the
Dewey mine, and NJ. S. Hicks is work
ing at the Dewey.
Al. Barselow and wife, and Mrs.
M. S. Hicks and daughter, were over
from Patterson last week. In speak
ing of Pahsamaroi valley, Mr. Barse-
low said the people generally were
quite prosperous. There was plenty
of hay in the valley and stock was in
good condition. lie also states that
Manager Smith of Tunsen Mining Co.,
has recently returned from Salt Lake,
and was very hopeful as to the future
of the mines at Patterson. The mines,
he says are looking we'll. Eleven men
are now employed, but the force will
soon be increased.
"A Salt Lake dispatch to the Boise
Capital News on Dec. Goth, says that
Captain Il. w. Lawrence of this city
stated that he proposes to investigate
the reported deposits in Idaho near
Bayhorse, which are said to carry
radium as soon as he returns from
trip to Emery county, Utah, after the
new year, on similar errand. He
says that the Idaho find is in quartz
which contains tungsten and uranium,
the heaviest metals now known, in
connection with which the radium
heretofore discovered has been associa-
ted. 1t was announced recently that
radium had been discovered in Utah
and that the ore had been tested in
New York and had>been found to con-
tain quite an amount of the precious
radium in it. AS radium is valued at
present in the neighborhood of 50, ,000,-
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