The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-01-19
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Wliiiam brhnca was down from
Clayton last Friday.
Harry Brockman came out from
Custer last Saturday.
John Burns has returned to Custer
county from Oregon.
Joseph Rodgers was on the sick
list last week, but is now on the mend.
Miss Maud Ebberts is learning the
printers trade at the MESSENGER Office.
Mrs John S. Altman departed on
Wednesday last for her home in Boone,
Iowa.
II. C. Fox is down to Maclay look
ing after the Horseshoe Copper com
pany's mines.
DIR. Huston expects to depart
shortly for Salt Lake to receive med
ical treatment.
There are good prospects of get
ting daily mail train over the branch
road for Custer county.
Jack bradbury expects to depart
for Salt Lake this week to undergo an
operation for appendicitis
Mrs. Chas. Colvin is reported verv
ill., Her husband being informed over
the phone departed for Salmon at
once.
Henry SturItey has sold his inter
est in the Challis g. Sturkey placer
claims at Stanley Basin, and has re-
ceived his first payment of $500.
Martin Joyce is down from the
Skylark mine for a few days. He says
the camp is rather quiet. few of the
mines are being worked, but small
force of men are at work on the Demo
crat and Turtle group. At the noted
Ramshorn there is not a person en-
ployed. not even watch. He says
Willis Chambers, who lived at Bay
horse so long, is now in Arizona.
Arrivals at the New Challis House
for the week ending Saturday, Jan.
10th, 1903 :
C. e. Eddy, Salt Lake. Utah; E. B.
Curtis, Goldburg, Idaho; Frank Uehren,
Dickey, Idaho; George Hosford. Clay
ton, Idaho; Z. Macbeth, Custer, Idaho;
John Carr. Mackay, Idaho; j. H. Bak-
er, May, Idaho; Joe Short, May, Idaho;
L. w. Sorenscn, Custer, Idaho; John
Mullen. Custer, Idaho; Harry Brock
man, Custer, Idaho.
"A miner arrived from Thunder
Mountain few days ago, with nearly
81 900, earned during over a years
mining at the famous gold camp. He
went into Coles store and bought him
an outfit of clothes, including every
thing from stockings to a necktie, and
paid for it with bill peeled from a
| tatu
morning the man called on Mr.. Cole
for % cents to pay for his breakfast.
He had seen the boys during the night.
HALEY Times.
Col. James A. McFadden returned
one day last week from Salt Lake
where he had been down to get the
deed in escrow for the Yankee Fork
mining property, which was cancelled
on January lst, the Hartford company
failing to make payment on the mine
on that date of $1,000, SO the Colonel
is again in possession of the property.
He says the mine is looking good and
there is good body of high grade ore
in the lower workings. There is a
scarcity of miners in the camp, he in
forms us. at least fifteen good miners
could find employment at the Yankee
Fork mine.
&C. E. Eddy was in Challis last
week fresh from Loon creek, where he
had been to look over his mining in
terests. He is now giving his whole
time TO mining, having sold his inter
est in the Custer Prospector, all except
the heading of the paper which he re-
tanned, which he hopes to launch a
paper in Thunder Mount tain next sum
mer of that name. He says he has
made deal whereby Park City mining
men have agreed to by the Crackerjack
group in Loon creek, which comprises
six quartz aud two placer claims,
which are located about one mile from
the Lost Packer on Grouse creek, aud
is supposed to be an extension of the
Gold Dollar claim which is very rich
An S0-foot tunnel has been driven on
the Crackerjack group, and with 25
feet more of tunnel it is expected to
tap the s-foot ledge.
Con. Doty came down from Stan
ley Basin the fore part of last week.
MIR. Doty spent the summer at the
Basin mining and prospecting. He
says there was two feet of snow at the
camp few days ago when he left.
Speaking of the mining outlook, Mr..
bright, indeed. At the Valley Creek
mine and mill there was about forty
men employed, and the company hope
to commence dropping stamps at the
mill the latter part of the month. The
mine is looking good. and there is 20
feet of milling ore between the walls.
George NJ. Smith is doing some work
placer mining in Joe's Gulch, aud has
taken out s5 cents a pan in drifting.
Ever since placer mining commenced
years ago at Stanley Basin, more or
less cinnabar float has been found in
the diggings, which plainly showed
that there must be ledge of it in the
immediate vicinity, but no one seemed
able to trace to defined ledge, al
though many attempts were made to
do so, but all efforts avaiied nothing
until short time ago when MIR. Ii.
McAdair discovered 20 foot ledge of
cinnabar ore on Stanley creek which
goes per cent in quicksilver. The
ledge appears to be well defined. and
it means "a new era of mining in this
centraI uortion of Idaho IL is The Hrst