The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-01-15
THE LOCAL NEWS.

received at Sweeney's.
Mike Jordan of Reynolds, one of the
pioneers of this section, is in Silver this
week.
A new supply of Kitchen lamps and
Washboards at Philips. tf,fs|
JAS. Menefee has been under the
weather with an attack of La Grippe, but
is now much better.
The Metallic VI. s. M. Co. win renew
operations as soon as the manager, John
Miller, returns from California.
Mr.. Dennison, of the Federal Mining
Co. will be here in few days to attend
to business matters, that demand his
attention.
Several communications came too late
for publication this week, on account of
the delay in receiving the mail, which
will appear in next weeks issue.
A letter on county division from one
that Nampa is trying to get, will appear
in next weeks paper, as it came too late
for publication this week.
During the last week we have had Ill
kinds of weather: sunshine, rain, snow
etc. Wednesday morning the stage could
not get over the summit of the mountain
and had to return, so that we did not get
any mail that day. For the last "a hours
1t has been raining and the snow is thor
oughly water soaked and if it does not
freeze up soon there will be a flood.
The latest news from Wilson is that
the report that Miss Carrie Chapman and
Guy Givens were married is erroneous.
AS we don't wish to publish any state
ment, especially of this nature, that are
not correct we must ask our correspon
dents to be very positive of the facts before
communicating them for publication.
On last Tuesday evening the X. p.
Lodge of Silver City installed their officers
for the ensuing term and gave a delight
tul entertainment to number of in
vited guests, dancing being the main fea-
ture OF the occasion, in which they in
dulged until about O'Clock the next
morning At IL O'Clock they were in
vited to partake of sumptuous banquet
prepared by the Idaho Hotel.
j. M. Morgan, general manager OF
the Wennersten mining property. re-
turned, this week, from London, Eng,
where he has been for some time in the
interest of his company. The stock of
the company has been taken off the
market and from what little we can
learn the property is now practically
financed. Work on the tunnel is pro
crossing rapidly, and it ia now in about
230 feet.
We are Informed that the Banner
tunnel is now in over 500 feet aud that
the progress being made is record one
for the camp. At this rate il will not
be long before the ledge will be Ell.
countered. The Banner property, with
the excellent equipment they have, will
soon be one OF the permanent mines
Of the camp.
The question of annexing portion of
owyhee county to the proposed new
county of Nampa is not meeting with any
encouragement in that part of Owyhee
county that the Nampa people want.
The Nampa people sent an agent over to
Wilson, Enterprise and Homedale, who,
we have been informed, promised to
build several bridges across Snake river,
make macadamized roads from each
mans ranch to the courthouse door in
Nampa, erect county buildings, etc., etc,
all at the expense of the town of Nampa.
1t is said that he furthermore promised
that w per cent. of the county officers
would be selected from that part of the
new county taken from Owyhee county,
and that peace, prosperity and happiness
would hereafter be the lot of the fortunate
settlers OF this particular region, in which
an assessment or tax receipt would be a
thing unknown only thing neces.
sary for the said settler to do to bring
about this state of affairs was to sign the
petition to the Legislature for the creation
OF the County of Nampa. The residents
of that locality wisely concluded that
there was too much ''Hot Air' in circu.
lation and too much corral DUST in the
air, that the, said agent was offering toe
great inducements. and that he conldn'i