The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1905-08-18

Judge Leonard appointed Mr.. II. j.
Burrough as clerk of the Probate
Court. The clerk will receive and file
such papers and documents as may
come before the court during the
Judges absence.
Isn't this glorious weather9 is the
common greeting one now gets on all
sides. And indeed it is, under the
bright sunshine and cloudless skies Of
the Owyhees, these August days are
as cool and comfortable as they are at
any spot on the round globe. If it
could always be the "good old summer
timev here, neither the Rivera nor
Southern California would be patch
ing to it; but it isn't all good old sum
mertime here
j. E. Mcdonnell, assistant manager
went from DeI-amar this morning.
For the past six or seven years the
family has been among the most pleas
ant residents of that camp. After a
visit to the worlds fair and among
Oregon friends, Mr. Mcconnell will
locate his family in some town where
his children will have better school
advantages and then return to the
mines, probably getting back there
early next month. 1t is with sincere
regrets that the better people of Della
mar see this pleasant family take their
leave.
A request sent to change the address
of his copy of the Nugget, brought the
information that John G. Brown, form
erly in the livery business in Della
mar, then here, then the possessor of a
fine Pleasant Valley ranch, which be
sold to the late William CIegg, remov-
ing thence to AIDA, Washington,
whence he removed to Spokane, is now
located at Calfax in that state, where
he is keeping hotel. Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown keep going some, but they are
the right sort of people and leave
friends behind them every time they
move. OF course any person going
from Owyhee to Calfax will hunt them
up.
Our old friend William Thomas, the
Dewey mill engineer, has been taking a
lay-of, his stomach and bowels being
out Of sorts, and is spending the week
with Mr.. and Mrs Stevens and child
ren. If he feels better he will go to the
Portland fair next week. Ii is safe to
bet that the most of his time there will
be spent in the machinery exhibit.
Billy, as all his many friends call him,
was locomotive engineer on the u. p
in earlier days, until he got his feet
crushed. He loves an engine almost as
we'll as he loves little children He has
been away from the railways so long
now that he has never seen one of the
modern monster locomotives Oh, my
but his eyes will stick out when he sees
one of the big ones now on exhibition
at the fairl
@. f. Lambert was up from bis
Sinker Creek ranch Saturday. Mr.
Lambert's ranch lies just below the
proposed site of the reservoir, fol
which surveys have just been com
; pleted by Messrs Childs, Barnum ct al
: AS the surveys are made, lines run anc
stakes set the proposed dam is to bt
about 100 feet in hight and will store
body of water covering the Crocheron
Bews and Manuel ranches. Below il
} on Snake river plains, there are al
! least 25,000 acres, needing only watel
J to make them fertile as other Idaho
} sagebrush lands. Sinker Creek, drain
ing War Eagle and portion of Quick
silver mountains can supply this land
, Mr.. Lambert is confident. from th'
, manner in which the gentlemen are ex
pending money on having thorough
surveys made that there is more thar
; hot air about the proposition.
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