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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-14
CUSTER COUNTY.

The 1904 metal output of Gus
ter county mines exceed in value
that of 1903 by s349, 757, or prac-
tically 100 per cent. This in
crease was due entirely to the
active mining and smelling op-
erations of the White Knob Cop
per company, who employed be-
tween 300 and 400 men during
eight months of the year, but
this enterprise failed and passed
into the hands of receiver in
September.
The great trouble with the
White Knob enterprise is the
fact that its expensive smelling
plant and surface equipment
were undertaken before the
metallurgical feature and method
OF treating the ore was sufficient
/ ly worked out. The great bod
les of carbonate and oxide ores
have continued down 700 feet in
that altered condition to the Al
berta tunnel level, and expert
ence has shown that the ore
lacked sufficient sulphur for a
successful mating method of
treatment with which it has been
attempted to work it, and too
much sulphur for making base
bullion successfully.
Both the sulphur and copper
tenor Of the ore has shown a
marked increase in two short
wines that have been sunk from
the Alberta tunnel, and il the
development is followed out in
this direction and subsequently
connected with the Van-Austin
tunnel that is designed to tap
the ore bodies 600 feet below the
Alberta tunnel, and is already in
over 1000 feet, the property is
likely yet to blossom out in all
I the glory promised by its early
advocates, for it has immense
bodies of low grade, exidized and
carbonate ores, and if they fol
low the normal rule of big cop
per ore bodies, a zone of secon-
Diary enrichment is yet due to
make its appearance in the down
ward extension of the ore bodies
that should bring the property
into favorable prominence, and
eventually justify the splendid
plant with which it is equipped.
A new lead-silver mining en-
terprise is in process of develop
ment with good force of men
at the Clifton mine near the head
of Lost river, 40 miles west of
/ Mackay, where a great lode or
sheeted zone of concentrating
/ ore occurs in limestone that is 90
to $50 feet wide and can be read
iily traced on the surface for a
mile in the direction of its strike.
1t is estimated that fully 40
per cent of the width of this
great zone is ore-ore that will
carry average values of So per
ton in combined values of silver
and lead. A 600-foot cross-cut
tunnel that is designed to tap the
great ore course $40 feet below
its apex is now being run and
now well under way, the success
of which may develop the basis
of a very extensive and proftab-
le concentrating and smelling
enterprise. Diagonal dikes cut
the limestone walls of the lode
and the geological and natural
conditions in the way of water
mower. timber and chances for
GRAVITY handling are all favor
able TO the ultime success of the
venture, which is in the hands
of experienced men.
A little life was kept up at the
Bayhorse mines by leasers and
considerable ore shipped during
the year, invariably with profit
oble results. The development
Of the lower levels of the Red
Rird mine at Squaw creek have
been brought into good ore and
,,,,,tad the faith of the own
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-14


feet, and has produced a very
considerable tonnage of high
grade shipping ere ranging in
value from 800 to $1,000 per ton,
and has at this time a handsome
shoot of milling ore three to six
feet wide and hundred feet
long in its lowest workings;
there are also several other ex-
cellent ore showings on other
veins and claims embraced with
in the limits of the new com
pany's lines. The ores of this
group are free and easy to treat,
and given sufficient capital for
development there is no reason
to doubt but the enterprise will
prove a success, with the ever
present probability during the
progress of the work of break
ing into bonanza ore at any
time.
At Loon creek, the famous
Lost Packer gold-copper mine
has steadily developed during
the year and the different adit
tunnels have been extended en-
the vein and now expose and
undercut pay ore bodies that
run into the hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars in gross value.
While several cars of crude
shipping ore carrying the usual
high values of from 6 to 10 ozs.
of gold and Is to 20 per cent
copper have been sent out dur
ing the past season. Shipments
however, have been subordinat-
ed to the work OF getting in a
wagon road to the property
which the company have under
taken entirely at their own ex-
pense.
This road was built from the
terminus of the Jordan creek
road, Z miles west of Custer,
over the Mt. Estes divide, and
down a Loon creek tributary to
within four miles of the Lost
Packer, a distance of IL miles,
during the last season, and will
be completed through to the
mine early next spring. This
will greatly facilitate shipments
and the development and equip
ment of the property, as every
thing has had to be carried in
and out on mule back from Jor-
dan creek to the mine so far.
/ 1t is the intention of the Lost
Packer company to build re
duction works at the mine next
season. which will probably take
the form of concentrating and
mating plant to reduce the ore
to a high grade product that
viii better stand handling TO
market. This mine has already
shipped ore to the value of $780,
600 from development work, and
has practically paid its own way
since it was discovered two and
a half years ago. and the pros
poets of its becoming a very i'm.
portant and steady contributor
to Custer county's metal output
are very bright indeed.
The evidence of permanency.
of size, depth and values ex.
hibited by the development Of
the Lost Packer has stimulated
the faith of other operators in
the surrounding district, and
considerable interest is being
manifested in its development,
as the district embraces a numb
er of fine surface showings oi
mineral and good veins.
| At Greyhound Mountain. on
the headwaters of the middle
fork of Salmon river, the Grey
hound Mountain Mining 6 Mill
ing Co. have recently developed
a fine reserve of smelling ore by
extensive drifting onto a big
vein to Is feet wide that is said
to carry average values of $40 a
ton in gold, silver and lead.
This property is approached
from the Ketchum or Mackay
20 il,.oo1 fo,.v,fpaIo oy-,,. orood
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-14

|ooing out on the stages
|9d this a convenient hotel
Il at. as the drivers board
Il Meals always promptly
h. Located one door
Il the telephone Office.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-14


up. The menus Of high society.
IVY But nothing can get more proper ac
ce On the hungry spot meath a feIl
of Can give more comfort and sat,sfsc
We To a yearning stomach than pork
When the inner man for feed fs 80,
'n And the system is wrapped in a d
When the stomach rebels and is mi,
gx- And the teeth In anxiAt1---~-- - :
At Jordan creek and Estes
Mountain, 9 miles west of Gus
ter, important mining develop
ments have been in progress
during the year. The Golden
Sunbeam mine at the point in
Yankee Fork Mining District is
extensively opened on a large
vein of gold ore, and equipped
with two Elspass mills OF % tons
capacity that have made num-
Der of important shipments of
gold bullion during the year.
The Montana, near the Golden
Sunbeam on the steep slopes of
Estes Mountain. a lofty cone
shaped summit that raises to an
elevation of 10, 600 feet and is a
landmark in the rugged topog-
raphy of this part of Idaho, a
strong company, composed of
eastern capitalists and well
known local mining men has re-
Gently been been organized and
are now at work developing the
Montana mine and a large group
of very promising territory that
adjoins and surrounds it. This
is one of the most promising
pieces of mining territory of its
class in the state. 1t is in many
respects comparable to the ores
and formations of Tonapah and
GoldfeId, Nevada, and that the
extensive development of its
several pronounced assures will
result in rich strikes of bonanza
ore there can be no doubt.
Estes Mountain is entirely COM
posed of igneous formations,
principally altered rhyolites,
andesites and syenites with dyk-
es that closely resemble phono-
lite in the near vicinity of the
rich ore, the whole underlaid at
a great depth by quartzite slice
Gus limestone and granite.
These formations are travers-
ed by a strong system of assures
that carry rich ore but very lit
tie development; the position of
some flows of fine float ore along
the strike of several of these
veins strongly indicate that
shoots of rich mineral may be
encountered underground, while
nuggets of almost pure silver
mineral (argentite) carrying high
gold values have been found in
positions on the mountain side
that preclude the probability of
its coming from any of the ore
shoots so far opened.
The Montana mine, the cen
tral feature of property embrac-
ed by this new company has
been worked by its original loca-
tors in a very crude fashion with
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-14

Tis not a dainty the gods would relis
The name would never with erass
belIish
The menus Of high society.
But nothing can get more proner ar
On the hungry spot meath a feIl
jeans.
Can give more comfort and satfsfsr
To a yearning stomach than PORK
beans.
When the inner man for feed Is era,
Of yearn.
When, the stomach rebels and Is mi.
having
And the teeth In auxfefs. 49,. a. =
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-14

velopment that has been in pro-
gress on the property for the
past two years.
Adjoining the Red Bird tow
ards the Salmon river the South
Butte mine, owned by local peo-
pie has proven itself valuable
property that apparently war
rants extensive development,
and shipped several cars of very
high-grade silver lead ore during
8 can 90 what he pleases with it
ln IT, or cart it of, or give it away.
ne it's hissen'
IN ~, Then says l, does this here s.
rs belong to me?'
'eu Sure says she.
ne Wot's the idea Of the thing?
Ied says.
It's for luck, she explained.
W farmers think the strangers s.
~ gives them good luck. It's a Ere
Die custom All over France. in har
o time, you'll find strangers she:
gu, Waitin' for the strangers to come
NJ take them My fathers a Frenchr
'ul He interduced the custom here
't Well, sir. made over a dollar
oh OF them strangers sheaves in sa
eS fras. You bet go to Sassy-fras a,
next year."-Boston Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-14

Ind Lodging at reasonable
The tables are always
|;ed with the best the
II affords. Good aeon
hons for travelling men
be public.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-14

Sample Rooms for
rercial nlen. X X X
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-14
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Nils House :!
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.sar MORRISON, Prop.

II Challis House is strict
Birst.Class hotel, and the
1 and accommodations can
Il surpassed in the county.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20

Ia. where his traffic agents met the
agents Of the Burlington. the North
western and the st. Paul. He mas
tered the rate problem.
He followed close upon the heels Of
j. j. Hill, that master of cheap trans
pOrtation. He initiated Mr.. Hills meth
DDS. and it is said that he improved
upon them. Sometimes. by cutting
rates. he fought his great antagonist
on the north. sometimes. by traffic
truce. by a joint schedule, even by
the surrender Of market. he placated
him. Always, say the Western rail
road men, for every yard he yielded
he gained two.
Quiet, persistent. aggressive. subtle.
he spread his empire into the north,
pushing in the outposts of the Burling-
ton. the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern. He gathered traffic
from all fields, competitive and non
competitive; made markets where no
markets had been before: helped the
great desert develop; nursed Portland
and San Francisco into great power
He made the Union Pacific and the
Union Pacific made him.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20
Funeral Cakes.

There Is grimly humorous anec
dote Of the dying Yorkshireman whq
asked his daughter for slice Of the
ham she had just removed from the
stove, and was refused on the ground
that Hams not for thou; hams for T.
funeral" 1t may be capped by one
found in Pages from Country
Diary" book Of sketches of English
country life.
A curate went one day to visit an
aged parishioner, a small farmer,
whose end was daily expected. Finding
him rather better on this occasion, and
propped up in bed, he proposed to read
chapter of the Bible to him. The sick
man gratefully agreed, but paid scan,
attention to the discourse, because he
was constantly fumbling under his
pillow for some form Of edible which
he mumbled with evident satisfaction
between his toothless gums. At las,
the curate stopped reading, and asked
him what he was doing.
The old man smiled shyly.
why" he said, In triumphant
whisper, "they bak't some sponge
biscuits AEGEAN moy vuneral, an hid
'em in the coopboard. but they don't
know as 'ow wound 'em, and
with senile chuckle of delight
when be gone, an they come 10
luke for 'em, they wunt vaind non.
on 'em left!'
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20

New York is as easy city to learn
as any in America-untl you get
down on the lower end Of Manhat-
tan. Above Eighth street you deal
almost exclusively with numbers; the
streets crossing and the avenues par
alleling the island. Below Eighth
street right angles are at a premium.
Pearl street is seml-circular, picking
you up and leaving you at Broadway,
despite the fact that you travel right
ahead on Pearl street. William
street apparently tries to see how
crooked a street can be and stay on
the map, and the fact Of many streets
changing their names for no better rea :
son than that they cross another street
makes old New York maze of mys-
teries. Cortlandt street 10 the west
end Of Maiden lane; Dey street be.
comes John street when 1t crosses
Broadway. and many other thorough
fares mix one up until he Is never
sure whether he Is where he is or
somewhere else. But, after ALL this
helps to make the New York of the
seventeenth century intensely interest
ing, peculiarly entertaining and won
derfuly different from the New York
of the twentieth century-Four-T Track
News.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20


taehed the garment Is
washed the buttons are usually
damaged In some way. To eff
fectually wash and iron wash vest
the buttons should be removed before
the cleaning process This entails con-
siderable work, which is overcome in
the novel button fastener shown here
The button must be Of special design.
having an eye which Is inserted
through buttOnhOle or eyelet hole on
one side of the garment, and the fas-
tener secured to the button eye on the
other side. The fastener Is very small
being little longer In length than the
diameter Of the button. and is made
Of spring wire to insure elasticity. The
base is perfectly straight. terminating
In coil spring at one end, the free
ends Of the wire meeting equidistant
from the coil. In the center of the
upper portion the wire is bent into n
half loop, which engages with the eye
of the button, the end of the wire be-
ing DETECTED to prevent the sharp
edges from catching in and injuring
the garment. AS well understood, the
fastener is used by passing the eye Of
the button through buttonhole or
eyelet hole in the garment and clasped
to the fastener on the other side, the
coils serving to keep the fastener stiff
and preserve its residence for indefl-
mite use without impairment.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20

The railroads furnish the express
companies cars, and carry the express
on a percentage basis. The govern.
ment pays from IS to 125 per cent
rental for postal cars and then paws
the railroads about eight times as
much for transporting the mails as
they receive for hauling the express
Puzzle: Find the cause of the def 1t
IN the Z. o. D.-The COmmOner.
1t Is noticeable that whenever Uncle
Sam launches new warship the event
Is chronicled in the European news.
papers with as much detail of the
armament and speed of the vessel as
Is given publication in this country
1t Is just another bit of evidence that
the foreign powers are coming to a
conviction that the United States is
strictly in the international SWIM
Pittsburg Times.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20
WIZARD OF PINE STREET.
View of the Personality Of X. II. Har
riman and His Ambition.

View of the Personality Of K. II. Har.
riman and His Ambition.
r. H. Harriman's recent acquisition
of control Of the Atchlson, Topeka and
Santa Fe, discloses his tremendous
ambition to control the entire COM
merce of the West. In "A Corner in
the Pacific Railroads." in the Worlds
Work, c. NJ. Keys gives the following
intimate account Of him:
In his Office at 100 Broadway, New
York, he worked as few OF the wealthy
men Of the country have ever worked.
Day after day, week after week,
month after month, he labored at his
task. At his desk in the big inside
Office he was to be found at almost any
working hour. He is small man,
very slightly built, narrowchested.
delicate In appearance.
At his desk he Is regular whirl-
wind for energy. He goes through his
correspondence and through the hun
dred reports that reach him at pace
that Is not rivaled in any office on Wall
street.-the region Of speed. His stem
ographers must keep the pace. He
has a small army Of them and, report
says, they work in relays. He can
keep them all busy. He is one Of the
most rapid thinkers in the street, and
his action is as quick as his thought
Between 1897 and 1900 Mr. Harri-
man mastered the detail Of his rail-
roads. No one who does not know
the detail Of railroad can understand
what this means. Through those years
he watched the growth Of the traffic
of his roads and all Of their competi-
tors. He learned to Judge Of the COM
parative advantages Of declaring war
and Of declaring peace with his rivals
In the Western markets. He measur-
ed with a careful eye the chances Of
successful war and profitable peace in
the rich valleys Of the coast where
his Oregon lines met the lines Of J. J..
Hill. ana out on the plains Of Nebras-
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20

Mrs. Alice Hogan Rice, author Of
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"
has organized In Louisville, Ky, Il
new national bank with a capital
stock Of $25O,OOO. Associated with
her is her husband. Gale Young Rice.
w. o. Head and l.. NJ. Rice. What
position Mrs. Rice will hold in the
new financial concern has not been de-
cided, though it is said that she will
have some responsible post. Who
wouldn't like to be the owner Of such
n productive "Cahhace Patch?'
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20
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Thorn pson of Angels.

Thompson of Angels.
1t is the story of Thompson-of Thomp-
son, the hero of Angels
Frequently drunk was Thompson. but
always polite to the stranger:
Light and free was the touch of Thomp-
son upon his revolver;
Great the mortality incident on that
lightness and freedom.
let not happy or gay was Thompson, the
hero of Angels;
Often spoke to himself in accents of
anguish and sorrow:
why do l make the graves of the friv-
Olous youth who in folly
ThOughtlessly pass my revolver. forget
ting its lightness and freedom?
why in my daily walks does the sur
geon drop his left eyelid,
The undertaken smile and the sculptor
of gravestone marbles
Lean on his chisel and gaze? l care
not o'ermuch for attention:
Simple am l In my ways, save for this
lightness Of freedom"
So spake that pensive man-this Thomp-
son, the hero Of Angels;
Bitterly smiled to himself as he strobe
through the chaparral musing.
"Why, oh, why?" echoed the pines in
the dark olive depth far resound.
ing.
"Why, indeed?' whispered the sage
brush that bent meath his feet,
non-elastic.
Pleasant indeed was that morn that
dawned DER the barroom at An
gels.
Where in their manhood's prime was
gathered the pride of the hamlet.
Six took sugar in theirs and nine to
the barkeeper lightly
Smiled as they said, "Well, jim, you
can give us our regular fusel"
Suddenly as the gray hawk swoops down
on the barnyard, alighting
Where, pensively picking their corn. the
favorite pullets are gathered.
So in that festive barroom dropped
Thompson, the hero of Angels,
Grasping his weapon dread with his
pristine lightness and freedom.
Never word he spoke; divesting himself
of his garments.
Danced the war dance of the playful yet
truculent Modoc.
Uttered a single whoop. and then in the
accents Of challenge
Spake, "Oh. behold In me n Crested Jay
Hawk of the mountain"
Then rose pallid mana man sick with
fever and ague;
Small was he, and his step was tremu-
lous, weak and uncertain;
Slowly a Derringer drew and covered
the person Of Thompson;
Said in his feeblest pipe, "Pm a Bald
headed Snipe Of the Valley"
AS on its native plains the kangaroo,
startled by hunters,
Leaps with successive bounds and hur-
ries away to the thickets,
SO leaped the Crested Hawk and, quiet
ly hopping behind him,
Ran and occasionally shot that Bald
headed Snipe Of the Valley.
Vain at the festive bar still fingered the
people of Angels,
Hearing afar in the woods the petuiant
pop Of the pistol
Never again returned the Crested Hawk
of the mountains;
Never again was seen the Baldheaded
Snipe of the Valley.
Yet in the hamlet Of Angels, when true
ulent speeches are uttered,
When boodshed and life alone will atone
for some trifing misstatement,
Maidens and men in their prime recall
the last hero of Angels,
Think of and vainly regret the Bald
headed Snipe of the Valley.
Bret Harte.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, l..

LUCAS COUNTY, NV
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he 10
senior partner of the firm of +. J. CHENEY &
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, Coun.
ty and State aforesaid, and that said firm will
pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be
cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9Th day of December. 4: D.. 1885.
A. w. GLEASON,
(ar.,l Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly ON the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for estimonials. free.
F. J. CHENEY d CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, Csc.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20
Too Early in the Game.

Hewitt-Did you hear that Gruet
baked over the marriage service?
Jewett-NO.
Hewitt-When the minister came to
the with all my worldly goods thee
endow' part. Gruet asked him why II
was necessary for him to put his prop
erty in his wife's name so early in the
game.-New York Sun.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-20

1t has been suggested that the chill
dren OF the nation. who knew and
loved the writings Of Mrs. Mary
Mapes Dodge, long time editor Of st.
Nicholas. should unite in subscribing
funds for memorial tribute in the
shape of monument.