The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-05
Walter Ewing Foster was down
from Custer last week.


Quartz location blanks for sale
at this Office. Price by the dozen
so cents.
Miss Lizzie Thompson return
ed from a visit to Idaho Falls
last Tuesday.
The Democratic State Conven-
ton will be held at Coeur d'Alene
City August 9th.
Mr.. Stevens is here endeavor-
ing to organize a lodge of the
Modern Woodmen of America.
Miss Beatrice O'Neal of Pah-
attended the Commence
ment exercises at Challis last
Friday evening.
T. r. Jones, representing the
firm of T. r. Jones & Co., real
estate dealers, of Blackfoot, ar
rived in Challis last Saturday
evening.
Five times has Governor Robt
l.. Taylor fiddled to Tennessee
for the Office of United States
Senator. 1t is now time to pay
the fiddler"
A large amount of supplies are
being taken to Parker Mountain
and both companies are working
on good ore, ahd pushing de-
velopment work.
VIM. Casio was out from Gus
ter last week. MIR. Casio was
working in the tunnel on the
Daisy mine for the Sunbeam
on Jordan creek when
the rich ore strike was made.
The prophets who own up to
having predicted the California
earthquake, ought to be invited
to take a guess at the date of the
completion of the Panama canal.
They would never live to see it
verified.
A newspaper publisher offer
ed a prize for the best answer to
the conundrum, why is news
paper like a woman ?' The
prize was won by woman who
sent this answer Because
every man should have one of
his own and not run after his
neighbor's." F."
An Idaho teacher was explain
ing TO a class in the first grade
the damage that had been done
to fruit trees by worms, and then
told how the English sparrows
had been imported to kill the
worms, and that the sparrows
had increased so in numbers that
they had become as bad as had
the worms. Noticing that the
boys were not very attentive,
she said to one of them: Willie,
which do you think are the
worse, the worms or the spar
rows 2" Il don't know" said
Willie, I never had the spar
rows.
There have been three sur
veys made, according to Mr..
Place, one of the directors of the
proposed Butte and SanFran-
cisco railroad, for the line from
the Snake river northeasterly
through Idaho to Butte. One of
these passes through Boise and
up the Boise river, across to the
Salmon and thence to the Mon.
tana line. This line entails, as
shown by the preliminary sur.
veys, a tunnel 5000 feet long,
which would be very expensive
to build, or a long climb on q
steep grade, necessitating the
use of helper engines, which
would be very expensive to op
crate. The other two routes pass
up the Payette valley, one com.
ing in to Boise and thence bach
to the Payette valley, and the
third directly up the Payette
valley from the crossing of the
Snake. No decision has beer
made as yet, or will be made un
til definite surveys are made, as
to which of these routes viii
finally be accepted. It is o.
course the through traffic thai
will make the road pay, and thai
will be the object really aimed al
in the construction of the road
There viii be no local traffic tC
speak of for the first few years,
and it is believed that a consid
cradle local traffic will be de
veloped in the course of a few
years, no matter what route is
accepted. There now seems nc
question but that every dollar Of
money required for the construc
tion of the road, or at least tha'
section of IL between the Snake