Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

any Ticn property, were discover
ca py Hon. G. M. Brown and Th0s
walker. the groupings above grount
the ton.
me next famous discovery was thu
IolaDug lode, by George E. Butler
q, Crabbe, A. e. D%ickensheets, H. NJ
Iesky and s. d. Irwin. Assays O
. ledge struck 90 feet below th'
surface show free gold of nearly 500
to the ton.
AS a result OF these discoveries IL
ioeatlons We're made in the new dis
eIict IN 1903. The territory was or
canned as the Black Warrior dis.
lrict, and G. G. M. Brown appointed
mining recorder.
development work in the Minerva
mlne. Atlanta, uncovered ore o.
Wnlch samples assayed $1,000 and
over per ton.
AT Rocky Barwork was pushed
along in the Elmore, Vishnu, Noun
tam Coat, Ophir, Richmond, and
lockwood Con. with most satisfac'
tory results.
4. Mining and milling at the Frank
I'm, at Pine Grove, continued with
profit. A new ledge was discovered,
samples from which assayed away up
lnthe thousands. The mine is now
bonded to a wealthy company and is
proving one OF the best gold produc-
ers in Idaho.
Development work as we'll as new
locations went ahead in Skeleton
Creek district with pleasing results
TO the owners of the good properties
all over that rich mining section.
AT Glenns Ferry, the divisional
terminus OF the Short Line railroad,
a new system of sidings was laid to
replace the old tracks laid in 1886,
as well as to enlarge the yard. A
new steel bridge at the west end of
the yard to replace the old wooden
structure which was built there dur
ing the construction of the right Of
way. The old wooden buildings used
as round house and shop, which had
been removed there from Eagle
Rock tnow Idaho Falls) in 1886,
were demolished to make way for
substantial rock buildings, thus in
surfing permanency of the division
terminal at Glenns Ferry.
In the latter part of the year, the
Stockton house, the pioneer hosiery
of Glenns Ferry, was destroyed by
fire, the work OF an i%ncendiary. One
OF the inmates were burned to death,
the rest barely escaping with their
lives. A hobo named Gamm, sus-
pected of the commission Of the act
for the sake of plumber, was arrest
ed. He was held to answer by
Judge Mullany and arraigned in the
district court on three counts, but
the state failed to convict on any
one of them, although the trials
were a heavy expense to the tax
payers of Gilmore county.
CHAPTER XII
The sun that set on the night of
New Years eve of 1908 closed a year
of activity and unusual industrial
brightness in Gilmore county. When
it rose the next morning it ushered
in a new year Of bright hopes and
good promise in the line of industry
for 1904.
BY the exertion of Hon. G. NJ.
Brown, Hon. L. N. FRANKIE, and r.
J.. Conroy, a prince of mining pro-
moters, a company was organized
and capitalized for the purpose of
working and developing the newly
discovered mines in the now famous
Black Warrior district, and a big
block Of shares was bought up by a
Pittsburgh syndicate. The putting
up of a large stamp quartz mill will
doubtless be the next movement.
Work on the Long Tom reservoir
was suspended during the winter, by
the Great Western Sugar Beet Com
pany, to be resumed so soon as the
deep SHOWS at the damsite disappear
ed, with the determination of com
pleting the Long Tom reservoir be-
fore another winter.
Work continued throughout the
in the Atlantic mines. In the
early part of the year the entire
community of that busy camp was
shocked by the tragic death of SUI
perintendent Spaulding of the Old
Chunk mine, by being buried while
asleep in his home close to the mine
)y a snowslide.
The sorrowful death Of Joseph D.
Helfrich, e~x-assessor OF Gilmore coun-
", cast a gloom over the entire com-
nunity. Genial Joe Helfrieh was
liked by d great big majority of the
For some months previous
lie had been residing in Boise with
lis family, but came back to Noun
ain Home to take a position with
Helfrich Mercantile Company.
IN fine goth of February, he left on
he night train to visit his wife and
hid ut Boise. AT Nampa, by mis-
AXE. he boarded the west bound
rain, and in getting off while the
rain was in motion, he fell under {
he wheels and was instantly killed.
rhe funeral services were held in
Boise at the residence OF his father
Law. ex-Judge J.. r. S%prague, and 3
vas largely attended by old friends s
rom fillmore county. May the soil I
,ress lightly over his body, and may
lis soul rest in peace. S
An encampment of the Independ- {
Mt order of Odd Fellows was or
at Mountain Home the fore
art az 1904, and Is reported to be {
i as flourishing a condition as is s
he subordinate lodge OF that order.
The arrest and subsequent confess !
in February Of this year Of Will |
lam Kunnecke Of the crime Of will ,
N murder in South Dakota (he be- !
a brother of August Kunnecke
+ Mountain Home) caused quite a s
In Gilmore county, where {