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JESDAY:::::::AUGUST 18, 1885
buuil-ujr JofttUiffts,
John Barry left Boise City a few
ivs ago for Portland.
t Mus. Chas. Kingsley has been
|iitc ill the past few days. She is
prier treatment of Dr. Zipf, and was
[little better yesterday.
[Received at Mrs. C. Marcus', Cash
Overshirts, Overalls, Suspenders,
pys' pants, Socks, heavy flannels,
|d, white and blue, boys' pants cloth,
il les, etc.
.To Robbins went up to Summit flat
psterday with Wm Oliver, who came
3 wn a few days ago. Mr. Robbins
as been employed to work in the
rift that is running to tap the old
[olden Era ledge, owned by Mr. 01
[er and Thos. Ed. and T. R. Barry.
A correspondent of the Demo
[at says Carter, of the firm of Coe
Carter, was seriously wounded by
iie accidental discharge of a shot
an, at Soldier, on Camas Prairie, on
be 12th inst. The contents of the
an entered the hand and passed up
jnd into the arm.
Dave Smith, and a man named
(Varner, who has been at work this
Paso» in Plowman's placer claim, are
hembers of the prospecting partv
pat left here last week for the head
f Snake river. One of the party,
rho gave us the names, overlooked
nese two.
Chief Justice Havfs visited Boise
pitv last week. The Democrat says
lie is a gentleman whom it is a great
Measure to have met in a friendly
[ay, and that he made many acquain
jances in Boise, and no one ever went
Jiere who created a more favorable
npression."
•Tas. Davis, who left a few weeks
Igo for Custer county, writes to Jo.
jbbins, of this place, that fie is em
[loyed by the Custer company, mak
bg pipe, and that he will soon be
yielding the blacksmith hammer for
^lat company. Jim says he will not
I e 'nain there long—is anxious to get
(ack to Boise county.
SrrvK Pikkok, of Horseshoe Bend,
[ho, with his family, is visiting Hon.
jin Pierce, of Boise valley, and the
r'nily of K. P. Plowman, of Boise
k'ty, informs the Democrat that he
ost about a thousand dollars worth of
iorses last year by disease, but that
le had lost none this year, and that
ill stock in that section was remark
ibly free from disease.
^ 1 he U. S. Land Office at Boise
►nty a few days ago received a letter
rom a wealthy Englishman of Lon
lon, who wanted to rent one hundred
thousand acres of land in Idaho, and
md lie had property in several west
irn cities that he wanted to swap for
lad lands at five cents an acre. The
democrat suggests that Idaho might
t'vap him a little patch or two of lava
leid.
Jt'iHiR Hart related to us a queer
dectric phenomenon, which was wit
'essed at the residence of Mr. and
d's. Nelse Darrah last Sunday. An
loetric blaze, or what is supposed to
' a ' e been an electric blaze, shot out
r otn a stove-pipe that runs through a
Partition, and is surrounded by zinc,
-''cry little while a rattling noise was
leard, produced by the current of
1 ectricity passing from the pipe to
e No fire has been in the
ltcn e , from which the pipe leads, for
'eeks. 1 ( le J ut ]g e says j s t j ie fi rst
e ctiical exhibition of the kind he
' er "itnessed. The air must have
*. een Ver y heavily charged with the
ectrie fluid. The Judge said the
azo Uas Ühe that of a candle, and
ün tinged, almost stationary, for
onje+ime.
Henry Gottch came down from
aimer two orthree days ago. Henry
says the Elmira company has run fur-1
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the drift and stopes in all that dis
tance ran through good ore, butin the
ther east in the 400-ft. level than in
the level above. A distance of 700
feet was run in the 300-ft. level, and
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east end appearances indicated that
the end of the vein was reached; but
Mr. Brown, President of the compa
ny, as well as the miners, still had
faith in the extension of the ledge
and the pay further east, and that
dred feet in length and still contin
Charley Kingsley, Len Logan,
Edgar Wilson and Frank Simpson
returned a few days ago from their
hunting and fishing expedition on
Payette. The fish were not in very
much of a biting humor, but by pa
tience and perseverance the partv
managed to catch enough for several
feasts. They met two or three bear,
but having only shot-guns and pistols
could no more than tickle their hides,
and see them gallop off unharmed.
It's hardly right to repeat what has
been told on the party—that they
kept a fire going every night 'till
broad daylight, because it might not
be so. Fire, hunters say, keeps the
bears away.
Nation.
Ralph Goodlifek, of Banner, came
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down Sunday evening and returned
t • T-. i i
yesterday morning
Banner mill will resume crushing in
will soon be made from the
running steadily, putting throng
from forty to fifty tons daily.
faith was based on the fact that at
the surface, directly above, there is a
"break" in the vein, and east of the
break the vein continues on. The
fact that they have gone further east,
in the lower level, than the poini
where the ledge appeared to "fizzle
out, and the vein is perfect and the
ore rich in this level, proves that the
end of the pay chute was not reached
above. The pay chute is seven bun
The Golden Era ledge, in Summit
b lat district, and for which a tunnel
is now being driven, was worked near
the surface many years ago. The ore
was packed to the Goodwin mill,
about a mile and a-half. Five hun
dred tons were crushed and milled
about $100 per ton. After going
down a short distance with an incline
the vein seemed to have been broken
up, there being a number of small
veins with granite between, so that
the expense of getting out the ore
was too great and work was suspend
ed above, and prospecting tunnels
■un to tap the ledge at greater depth.
At a rough estimate we put the total
length of tunnels run at over one
thousand feet. One vein was cross
ed, carrying ore that would probably
pay to work with a mill at the mine,
hut the main vein was never tapped.
If the drift that is now being run
taps the ledge the owners will have
bonanza if the vein is not broken up
at the depth at which the drift will
strike it.
the
Inter-Idaho: Joe Wheeler,
horse thief, who was shot at Rock
creek, Cassia county, and taken to
Albion for treatment, died on the 30th
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ult. He was a partner to Wm. Land
who was burned to death in the jail
at Baker City. This ends the career
of two noted characters, and should
be a warning to others. It is reported
Q i j ir j r
there are heavy rewards oflered for
J
Wheeler, alias Palmer, for depreda
tion commited in I exas and the Indian
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Ralph says the
me crushing ma
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week or two. 1 he furnace needed
repairing, and of course pending the
work of repairing the mill could not
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The Houston Press says that a ten
thousand dollar shipment of bullion
' ''"ff
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elter. The reduction woiks are
n
---voung,
A very interesting letter from Jas.
McCurdy appears in this issue of
Wohlp,
I The County Commissioners met
I yesterday as a board of equalization.
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VjrKEEN corn has been selling here
at 16 to 20 cents per dozen ears.
Dk. M. Pkffkrle, Dentist, will
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v * s it the Boise Basin August 24th.
Al. Miller was
creek last week,
limit ikiiiivii viu'hoiu^ nt uiiiu
ville, last Sunday morning, the
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up from Squaw
Homer Stuli, attorney for the O.
L. company, wants to be Governor
of Idaho, so report says.
Mr. and Mrs. M
G. Lunev return
ed the other evening from their trip
to Wood River and Salt Lake.
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M". ßowras, o f Boise valley, and
' ier ° ame thr ° U * h llere last
Week their wa ? <° Sheep Moan
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Misa Hattie Stone accompanied
her father, G. F. Stone,.County Com
missioner, up from the Bend yester
day<
The mountains have been envel
oped in a dark blue, dreamy haze the
PaSt T^' * ivin ff a11 nature a far '
a ' Vav ook '
Hell by any other name is just as
hot. Therefore you can't modify the
weather by saying, "It's hot as slieol
these days."
I omatoes have been selling here
at ten cents per pound, and apples at
six cents. The prices will not be so
high-toned in a week or so.
Mrs. R BEitr Sidebotham, of Hai
ley, and Mrs. Lewis, of Boise City,
arrived here last Thursday, on a visit,
and are the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
krank Cooper, of the Warm Springs.
In the list of Grant's relics, and "to
kens of honor" presented to him, all
of which were recently turned over
to the Government, we notice a "gold
handled knife preseir.ed by miners
of Idaho Territory."
Juins Lixstadt and Lawrence
Garrecht returned last Thursday eve
ning from their prospecting trip near
Rocky Bar. The boys didn't fi*d
the bonanza they went to look for,
nor any other. They found plenty of
game on the mute, but killed nothing
larger than a bear.
J. S. McQuade arrived here the
other day from Boise City, where he
lias been the past three months, and
is visiting the parents of school chil
dren to see what encouragement he
can receive to open a private school
next Monday. Mr. McQuade called
on the \\ oitLD yesterday and showed
us numerous testimonials from pro
fessors of the leading colleges of Ire
land and England, where he has
taught, all speaking in complimenta
ry terms of Mr. McQuade as a schol
ar, teacher, disciplinarian, and of
his good moral character.
Kensington rainting
Will be taught by Mrs. Robert Sideboth
«ni at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. S T.
Davis. Price for teaching—$5. Three
lessons will be taught. Three hours for
each lesson. The class will meet at Mr.
*7"' 'T ** Mr
an( * Mrs. Davis' residence next Wednes
day morning at 10 o'clock.
Mrs. Sidebotham and Mrs. Frank Coop
er called on the World yesterday and
s,inw ccl us several beautiful specimens of
Kensington painting This style of paint
ing which is executed on silk, plush, and
mg which is executed on silk, plush, and
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other kinds of line cloth, is very beautiful,
and ornamental. Call at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Davis and see specimens of
the painting.
A man named Morton shot a
îan named Crawford, at Emmetts
.ille, last Sunday morning, the ball
striking near the center of the fore
head - A man passed through here
Sunday evening en route to Banner
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for a brother of the wounded man.
He left immediately after the shoot
ing and learned nothing- of the par
ticulars of the affray. He said Cran
ford was alive when he left, hut could
not live long. News reached here
yesterday that the wound is not seri
ous " The did not penetrate the
bone, but glanced oft'. Several shots
UUIICj Dut HitlllvuU. Ull. ot Vcidl bllOlS
were f ire d, both men having pistols.
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Crawford was on horseback. Mor
ton has a family, and Crawford is a
single man. The Crawford
brothers are from Wood River. Have
the!learned nothing as to the cause of
j tho difficulty.
K"B Waii Chi>i has been sentenced
to be hung at Hailev on Friday, Sep.
18th.
CEKTEItVILlii: LETrEK
Centerville, August 15, 1885.
Ed. World: -Weather during- the
,
ay a itte too warm, nights cool
enough to sleep comfortably under a
couple pairs blankets. Our crops,
owing to the early and frequent rains,
promise a greater yield than for many
years past On the ranches of Messrs.
Dempsey, Goldtrap, Young, Havird
and Baker every foot of available
land is under cult,vat,on and bloom
mg uke the rose, and the owners are|
jubilant over the prospect of excellent
crops. On the ranches of Ah loy,
Ah Yow and Long Bung, situated on J
the north foothills of Garden gulch,
three crops of China cabbage have
already been harvested and threshed,
1 hey say they are sure of two crops
more and possibly three. Our new
school house, built last winter, is an
ornament to the town-20x32 feet-jp.t
12 feet from floor to ceiling-neat
commodious, and cost the small sum
o live hundred dollars. Miss Lizzie
Redway, of Boise City, is employed
as teacher, and parents are delighted
at the progress their children are ma
king under the supervision of this
young lady. Our placer mines, that
is, those situated under both of the
main ditches, are nearly worked
The bedrock is peeled from the heads
of these ditches to the bend on Gritnes'j
creek. Recem, discoveries in quartz
give us hope that brighter days are
dawning- for Centerville and its inhab
itants. Hank Thompson and S. K.
Goldtrap will sink the shaft on the
Bon Ton, fifty, and may be, a hundred
feet deeper. The depth of the shaft
is at present sixty feet. The ledge is
from 10 inches to 4 feet wide, assay
ing from 818 to $1,700 per ton; silver!
predominating. It is free milling ore.
The great quantity of water that hns
to be hoisted makes it a very expens
ive mine to work. With necessary
machinery the Bon Ton can be made
one of the best mines in the country.
The Isidore, owned by Sweet & Gun
derson, shaft 35 feet deep. 15 tons
of rock from this mine, worked at
Jackson's mill, payed about $25 per
ton. Delilah property of Hugo Bay
house, tunnel in 50 feet and within a
few feet of the ledge, shaft 40 feet;
good rock in the bottom; last crush
ing done at Jackson's mill, from that
shaft, payed $30 per ton. Sweet
Home, Hank Thompson owner, pros
pects well as far as worked. Pioneer
property of Oaks, Havird & Co., tun
nel in 160 feet, with two rich «earns
from 2 to 6 inches wide. On Lewis'
gulch there are five locations. East
ern Queen and Little Turtle, owned
by A. B. Morrell, of your city. Mr.
Morrell has completed a wagon road
to his mill site in the gulch, built a
boarding house for his men, graded a
mill site, and a great deal of other
necessary work in a very short time
and at a very small expense. A tun
nel from the Eastern Queen will be
so constructed that rock taken from
the mine can be dumped into the mill,
thereby saving considerable cost. A
v.iv-iv-jr oavii^ uuusiueraoie cost, ü,
few hundred tons of pay rock can be
taken from the top of both of these
mines at very little expense. Admit
ting, as some of the croakers have it*
that these mines are not deep, there i
is rock enongh in sight to pay hand
somely for all the work that is to he
done. These belly-aehers (take that
all back, for it is wicked—croakers
is a hitter application) not only sav
there is no quartz in this part of the
country, but have the assurance to ;
find fault with the wagon road. Said j
it would cost $o,000 when it does not 1
cost half so many hundred. Certain
ly the road is not a trotting park nor,
a turnpike. One thing sure, it is by
far superior to some of the mountain
roads, and it is not necessary to I
roughlock saddle horses to insure saf- !
ety in traveling over it. The Calu-Lith
met mine, discovered by Carey &
Lamherton a few weeks ago, will rank i
with any ledge in tho Basin. They|
have about a ton of extraordinary
rich rock on the dump, and by the
time Morrell's mill is in operation
will have enough to make a crushing.
Storm King mine, owned by Smith,
Cartwright & Co. The tunn-el is in
between 30 and 40 feet, and as the
work advances the ledge, which is IQ
"u'mira me xiuge, which is 11/
nc hes wide, continues to, improve in
Lohnes, and width. The Monarch oF
the Mount, found and owned hy
C. Chichester, shows up well. Rock
taken from the shaft 12 feet deep,
would mit] not , ess than t50 per to „*
Tunnel run 30 feet and within a few
fee t of the ledge. This old gentle
man has done aU hjg Qwn * ^
a8sistance frotn any one> de#erve9
muc h credit for his perseverance and
industry, considering his age, of
course. By the way, a few brief
though interesting incidents in hi*
life might not be out of place right
here. He was born-oh, ever so long
ago , at Newtown, near New York
cit y ; was intimately associated with,
[George Washington and his brother
Lafayette, Susan B. Anthony
many other distinguished persons
of revolutionary fame; bought whisky
with continental money in the city of
New Y ork while British and Hessians
were slaughtering brave Americans,
at Bunker HilL, Lexington and Con
cord; waded through blood up to his
eyebrows hand in hand with Jackson
at. New Orleans; in September '4&
out.'sailed from New York for San Fran
cisco in ship Thos. H. Perkins, with,
Col. Stevenson and 3.00 men of his.
renowned regiment; ships Susan,
Drew and Loo Choo sailed about tho
same time, carrying the remainder;
arrived at San Francisco March '47.
He bujlt at Monterey the first circu
lar saw mill run on the Pacific coast;,
located first mining claim on Mormon.
Island. Sam Brannan, John Bidwell
and Jim Lick were his hired hands
played a social game of draw with
Col. Mason, first American Governor
of California, for $250 ante and pas*,
the buck—you know what that means.
Has resided in the Basin 20 years or
more, and, too, is as young in action
as a man of forty, and as nimble as a
foot-rag. Henry Beery, the young
man who was struck by lightning six
or seven weeks ago, ;s all right agaii\
and at work. No huckleberries on.
Lewis gulch, therefore "a lack of wo
men's cursing, a dearth of women's,
sneers." It's a pretty place to live—
purest of air and water. One can bo
suited with any kind of a stream he
or she could wish for; the babbling*
rippling, murmuring, h— 1 roaring
such as the poets sing about. Tho
hills are full of ga,me—deer, grouse*
pheasants, mosquitoes, horse-flies*
gnats and all kinds of bugs, except
bedbugs. Society is not graded here;
we all move within the same circle;
rules of fashion and etiquette are dis
regarded; napkins and finger basins
are not used; wash every Sunday;
can go about here with our knees out
and elbows hanging out and no ex
ceptions are taken.
J. B. McCurdy.
The residents of Laibach, Germa
ny, were astonished the other dav bv
a shower of bloody rain. It subse
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c l uentl - v was ascertained that a wind
storm J ust ^ e f° re the rain had caught
& ^ ar 5 e mass °/ red d - ve stv *ff at a
^ c ^ or N hi the neighboring village of
^heuhrunn, and the dye, mingling
with the rain, transformed the droDs
of water into seeming drops of blood..
When Dexter made his mile in 2:
17£, all the world thought the acme
of trotting speed had been reached;
but the record has constantly been
lowered nntii the Ilant little Maud
e
S. has brought it to 2:08|, and now
horsemen are speculating on the pos
sibility of a two minute gait. It i*
a wonderful age wo live in.
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Some Western towns are overrun
idle mechanics. Richmond
nd ., has 1>0 00 put of work. Therù
are man }' 1,1 Columbus, Ohio,
Eouis and Louisville.