The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-02-16
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last Thursday and Friday.
John s. Altham came out from
Morgan creek last Tuesday.
DIR. G. P. Huston returned from
Boise last Saturday much improved in
health.
Attorney N. H. Clark of Mackay
was in Challis last Wednesday on legal
business.
Born:-In Challis, Idaho, on Thurs
day, Feb. 11th, 1904, to the wife of
James McLerren, a son.
Last Thursday actual war existed
in Challis-three fistic encounters took
place on that date Who says Challis
is not a lively town ?
Vim. Buster is always up to the
times He has just added new writ
ing desk to his Office, and his market
is always supplied with everything inn
aginable in his line.
james F. Wilkinson came down
from the Valley Creek mill last Friday,
where he has been working at his
trade since last September. This is
Mr.. Wilkinson's first visit to Challis
for about three years. He expects to
depart for HALEY tomorrow.
News comes up from Mackay that
an s-foot ledge of ore was struck in
one of the mines owned by the Horse
shoe Copper company last week. The
ore was struck in the upper tunnel,
and we learn runs fairly we'll in cop
per and is of grade that will pay to
smelt. The owners are elated over the
new discovery.
Here is problem by a Kansas ,gen-
tlemau joker that puts the How Old
. Is Ann" poser away back
, ''If Jhonny Jones has seven dogs
And every dog is white;
And fourteen cats come chasing round,
! Each one as black as night;
And each two cats has eighteen lives,
: Less three destroyed by rats,
: How many lives must three dogs take
Before they kill eight cats ?"
u Hon. James n. Hanrahan of Ante
= lope was Challis visitor last Wednes
!, day. He says his end of the county il
e very lively now. In speaking of oul
poor mail service of only three mRil'
= per week, Ex-senator Hanrahan in
forms us that four counties are inter
: ested in the matter, viz: all of Custe
county aud portions of Lemhi, Ere
mont and Blaine counties are depend
ent upon this route for their mail, an
Mr. Hanrahan favors a mail servic
by stage daily in preference to ou
Z present inadequate system.
/ DIR. James E. Talmage of the de
partment of geology of the Universit
N of Utah has just completed an analyst
l. of samples of opals and opaline mil
~ erals from the deposits of the Leml
Opal company, located at point
miles distant from Challis, and say
the results afforded most favorab
comparison with the opals OF the bes
commercial quality. The opals SUI
mitted, says DR.. Talmage, in the Sa
Lake Tribune, comprise wide rang
as to variety aud quality. OF the
kind, they are all relatively pure
homogeneous and compact as to stru
ture. The stones valuable as gen
!. are the "precious" and fire" opal
lie. i OF these, the specimens submitted a
rich in color, intense in fire, and
color and iridescence compare fave
ably with the best Hungarian opal
G although the recent samples were
ferior in size and in quality to mum
er of opals previously submitted, b
~ which were withheld for treatment
the lapidist. Some of the stones y
in the matrix present undoubted e
"a dence of surface weathering throul
nS exposure for long periods of time; y
among these are some of the best
the precious" and fire" opals. III
affords conclusive evidence of cou
of the capacity of the stones to p
serve their color and fire. In his juC
An ment, the samples submitted are
high quality AS gem stones, and
~ commercial quality ought to comma
~ a market at considerable profit. "W
such promising material, the comps
20 would be justified in prosecuting
tailed field examination" conclu'
DR.. Talmage. The samples rev
many delicate colors, rich and pie
ra;1 ing, with reds and greens as we'll
~, ,",, the Harlequin sub-variety. The
'oH opal shows hyacinth red to hol
10. yellow with frey reflections, while,
addition to this, are the milk-opal,
resin-opal, hyalite and girasol.
intention of the company, which in
organization includes Thomas Mari
eaux, w. L. Cook, A. III. Birrell, {
is Wells, S. R. Thurman, Samuel A. Ki
Ills, and j. A. Brown, is to proceed
get systematic work as soon as the sea
YOU opens, while fine collection will ado
Mt the witcheries OF the mineral exh