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NO. 179
CALDWELL, IDAHO, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1893.
TENTH YEAR ;
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A DAY ON THE IjjTREET.
Caldwell's Business Men and Business
What They arc Doing —Hoir They are
Feeling:—Their Prospects, Possibili
ties, etc.
On June the first, according to an
cient and venerable custom, the Trib
une paid the principal business men of
Caldwell a polite visit. We found
them all affable and hopeful and
straight goods.
C. J. Sinsel, of the Idaho Saddley Co.,
reports a prosperous and rapidly in
creasing business. He is constantly
adding to his stock and expects soon to
have one of the lar gest and best boot
and shoe establishments in the west.
Mr. Sinsel has not been in Caldwell
long but says it is just the place for a
live, square business man.
The affable and energetic Oakes
. Brothers are doing a first class busi
ness, and carry the finest stock of La
v dies' wear, Impôts, shoes, etc., in the
ôountry. Oakes Brothers always treat
their patrons white.
H.\ D. Blatchley, everybody knows
Mr. Blatchley as one of the pleasantest
and .best business men in town. He
says jtimes are close, but Caldwell is all
right and he has no kick to make.
W. 8. Badley, the Smoke "lender,
says his business is just right to keep a
man feeling pleasant all over without
imminent risk of becoming a bloated
millionaire.
Dee & Tukey report the hide busi
ness firm and continually looking up.
Straight men and straight methods
always succeed in Caldwell.
Miss Alice Carter speaks of a very
nice millinery business, and as she al
ways aims to please, her success is
richly deserved.
Business at the First National Bank,
notwithstanding a temporary lockout
on account of a hitch in the time lock,
is growing steadily, and the last
month's business was highly satisfac
tory. W. R. Sebree, cashier, says busi
ness was never better.
Mrs. D. E. Carter, real estate and in
surance agent has just completed a
magnificent set of abstract books and
is now well equipped for business in
the transfer line. Mrs. Carter is doing
a nice business and deserves the gen
erous support of her clients.
Charles H. Sebree's argricultural im
plement and hardware business is
flourishing and promises an Unrivaled
season.
Picard & Roberts, by keeping on
hand a stock of the choicest meats and
fish, have just closed a month of pros
perous business and look forward tq a
good lively trade during the summer.
G. H. Van Wyngarden reports con
siderable movement in the building
business and thinks the comtyg season
will witness extensive improvements.
C. J. Northrup, ntanager of the Cald
well Forwarding Co., says the forward
well Forwarding Co., says the forward
ing business is just opening up, and
the prospects are brightenii.g. Eight
cars of wool were shipped during the
week and ten times as many will be
■hipped in the next ten days. The im
mense ware houses are filling up not
withstanding heavy shipments.
Isidor Mayer «ays people complain of
hard times but he can't see it.. Ile is
doing business at the old stand and
just as prosperous and pleasant as ever.
Mr. Mayer iusists that good men all
do well in Caldwell.
The S. M. Cotlln Commercial Co., is
doing an immense business. Mr. T. C.
Egleston informs us that the
past month has beeu far better
than was expecfed and the fu
ture outlook Is unprecedented. This
firm carries the largest hardware and
implement stock in the state.
Adam & Smithson, the pharmacists,
report a good sound business aud ex
cellent prospects. They keep an excel
lent stock and always give good satis
faction. That accounts for success.
The Ceutral Lumber Co., is carrying
an immense stock of everything need
ful in the building line, and report bus
iness highly sasiftfactory. Messrs.
Stevenson and Shaw are pleasant gen
tlemen to do business with.
Stiles & Dunbar, "The Finest," say
they can find no occasion for com
plaint. They are doing a nice, round
business and think that Caldwell is
the best town on the line. People deal
at '"The Finest" became they get square
and courteous treatment.
C. W. Cooper is considerably agitated
over the political situation, but that
doesn't stop him from doing business.
He grumbles some, but any one can Ree
from his jolly, good natured appear
ance that he is aoing first rate. He
carries a good stock of lumber and
building material generally, furnishes
wood and coal promptly and is one of
the most prosperous and energetic bus
iness men in the co unty.
The M. B. Gwinn Mercantile Co. has
been rnshed for just 31 days last past.
Members of the firm report a good
month and have every promise of a
splendid season. We are not informed
of the monthly business of the house,
but judging from the magnificent stock
it carries it must be something im
mense.
M. A. Stark, at the cash bargain
store, is doing a very satisfactory busi
ness and looks for better times.
F. M. Satoris, of the Pacific hotel, is
doing a land office business and fatten
ing boarders at a dangerons rate.
Mr. A. E. Gipson, real estate agent of
the Caldwell Real Estate and Water
Co., reports considerable activity in the
real estate market.
A. A. Hoover carries an excellent
stock of furniture and says that busi
ness during the last months was all
that could be expected. He has noth
ing to complain of against Caldwell.
S. B. Dement, proprietor of the city
transfer, has been kept on the jump
ever since the 1st of May. Caldwell is
good enough for him.
Brown Bros, say Caldwell is all right.
When people want something that is
real good and satisfying they generally
call at Brown Bros.
A. L. Butts, the blacksmith, is run
ning three forges and says he has had
more than he could do during the past
month. But he is now able to accomo
date all comers. Mr. Butts is well sat
isfied with Caldwell and its prospects.
W. W. Wood, proprietor of the Em
mett stage line reports passenger traffic
on the increase. He has a comfortable
rig and takes his customers to and
from Emmett in good style.
Peter Weingartner, the tailor, does
first class work and prospers accord
ingly. Call on Mr. Weingartner when
you want a 1 clothes.
We did not call on professional men.
We shall round them up later on.
Everybody in Caldwell talks prosperity,
looks prosperous and indeed is pros
persous.
Saturday,
Blatchley the druggist.
Assessor Horn was at the county
seat Monday.
A. L. Ball came in to pay his respects
last Saturday. Call again.
Mr. Fred Hoel contemplates develop
ment work on his Willow Creek mines
in the immediate future.
Commissioner Paul was in town last
He speaks of some heavy
Saturday,
He speaks of some heavy
mining operations on Snake river as
the water goes down.
Sheriff Ireton informs us that Pay
ette is as lively a little town bs one
could wish to see. A great amount of
business is being done there this spring.
If you are in need of a good system
renovator or blood purifier, go to the,
Caldwell Pharmacy and get a bottle of
Natures Alterative and Blood Purifier,
only 75 cents a bottle. ^
Mr. Tom Little, of the M. B. Gwinn
Mercantile Co., purchased the entire*
stock of the White House concern
which recently failed in Boise. The
goods, we understand, will be placed
here and at De Lamar.
To Sanger & Lent, showmen: We
accept your (.5,000 challenge and go
you one better.
We have more Kangaroos.
" " " 111 us in Calces.
" " • " Porpoises.
" " Cordovan (wild horse).
" " " Dongola Goats
We have any qf the above made into
LILLY BRACKETT d- CO'S flue
slices. Yours for comfort,
OAKES BROS,
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Iss Bessie Venable, of Payette, is
visiting friends in this city.
For a fine opera slipper call on, or
send order to, Idaho Saddlery Co.
Some wool has sold in Caldwell for
13 cent. At least that is the report.
Mr. Frank Nesbit, a prosperous
rancher of Payette valley was in town
Thursday.
M. B. Gwinn talks of a trip to the
coast for pleasure and recreation. Mr.
Gwinn needs and deserves it.
Charley Doan, manager of the How
ard Sebree Co's big store at Shoshone,
was in town a few days this Week.
Ex Governor B. F. White, of Dillon,
Montana, spent most of the week look
ing after his interests in and about
Caldwell.
James Kinkaid paid The Tribune a
pleasant visit Saturday. He says he
fears high water has destroyed his po
tato crop.
Mr. Frank Gilbert paid The Trib
une a visit Thursday. Mr. Gilbert
reports crops very backward, but thinks
they will come out all right.
Bro. Mock of the Leader, visited us
Thursday. He says that Nampa is
quiet but prosperous. Mr. M. is one of
the best newspaper men of the state.
It gives us pleasure to announce to
the ladies that our ooze kid, red goat,
russia tan, and several other styles of
ties and slippers havé arrived. Idaho
Saddlery Co.
Wm. Cupp and Bob Aikman, honored
members of the Sheep Man's Exeggra
tion Society, were in town Thursday.
They have lots of wool and look cor
respondingly happy.
Elmer Dodd, one of Boise valley's
promising young men, who has been in
California for some months past at
tending college, came in this week to
spend his vacation with his parents.
Nature's Alterative and Blood Puri
fier is strictly a vegetable compound,
prescribed and recommended by physi
cians and can be be bought at the Cald
well Pharmacy for 75 cents a bottle.
Regular services at the Baptist
church Sunday, June 4th, at 11:30 a. m.
and 8:30 p. m. Subject for evening's
discourse is of vital Importance to par
ents and teachers. Don't fail to be
dresent.
The entertainment given for the ben
efit of the I. O. G. T., at the Athletic
hall last week was a very creditable
performance and speaks highly for the
musical and dramatical ability of our
home talent.*
It does seem as though Caldwell
ought to support a good brass band.
There are plenty of instruments and
players and some first class musicians.
A little music during the summer
evenings would add much to the joys
of life.
Don't forget to prepare yourself for
the grand dance to be given by the fire
department on July 4. Celebration or
no celebration, the dance goes just the
same, and active preparation are being
made to make it the inost enjoyable
affair of the kind ever witnessed in
Caldwell.
Charles Oakes came over from Em
mett Wednesday with a shipment of
young steers for Con Kohrs, of Mon
tana. Mr. Oakes says that there is
good prospects of an enormous fruit
crop tLis year. The report that peacheB
are killed is entirely unfounded, in his
orchard, at least.
The Idaho Citizen published at Salu
bga, has changed hands, Rev. E. N.
Elton having* leased the plant for one
year, Eugene Lorton, retiring. The
Citizen has been an excellent paper un
der Mr. Lorton's management and we
regret to see him withdraw from the
journalistic field. We wish the new
management unbounded success.
Mr. John Drennan, one of the
largest sheep owners in the state,
called at the Tribune office, Monday.'
Mr. Drennan's spring clip is nearly
sixty thousand pounds and the wool is
of better grade than last year's. The
gentleman aoe3 not take vry kindly to
Democratic ideas on tariff, and says
the threatened free wool law has cost
him several thousand dollars this year.
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Dreunan has been exceptionally
succe8s ^ u ' ' n the sheep business.
Isidor wants to see you on business
THE WEST VIEW DISTRICT.
The Willow Creek Mines and Surround
ing Country.
Magnificent Prospects—Rich
Sight—the Great Carter
Mountains of Wealth.
Ore in
Mines—
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Everybody in this section of country
has heard some mention of the Willow
Creek mines, but few, comparatively,
seem to know anything much about
them. The general impression seems
to be that they are simply some wild
cat prospects without particular value
except in the imaginations of fanciful
miners. Such ideas are altogether er
roneous and do great injustice to the
district. Placer mining has been car
ried on in the Willow Creek country
for twenty years, and there are hun
dreds of acres of pay ground that yet
has never teen touched. On account
of a scarcity of water, though, placer
mining is only practicable during a
short time in the spring. But we want
to tell you something about the coun
try and its wonderful possibilities. In
the first place, we do not own even a
blind lead on Willow creek, neither has
any one engaged us to give Willow
creek a "write up." Whatever we may
say will be strictly honest and reason
ably reliable. Going to the Willow
creek mines from Caldwell one crosses
the Boise river on the wagon bridge
just north of town and then travels up
the Boise valley to Middleton. In pas
sing we must say that this valley is one
of the most fertile as well as the most
beautiful in the whole inter-mountain
region. Middleton is a beautiful little
village five miles up the valley, con
sisting of a church and school house, a
general merchandise store, the essential
saloon, and Foote's flour mills. We be
lieve that Mr. Pat Fahy owns the store
aud incidentally conducts the refresh
ment depot across the street. Just
over the hill lies the Willow Creek val
ley. This valley is from one to two
miles wide by fifteen miles long, and con
tains the best soil, we have yet seen in
Canyon county, and that is a pretty
strong assertion, because Canyon
county contains as good soil as one
would care to see. But Willow Creek
valley has a draw back—it is short on
water. However, the water is very
near the surface and artesian wells can
be sunk at a very slight cost. There is
really no need of much water for farm
ing purposes. We will undertake to
say that three-fourth of the valley will
produce splendid crops of wheat with
out one drop of water. People who
understand how to cultivate spring
Sonora wheat would not use water on
such land if it-were to be had for the
mere asking. The soil is sandy, but
not light, and up to the middle of July
water can be squeezed out of it with
the hands. People accustomed to dry
farming will understand the soil when
told that the sagebrush grows very tall
and comparatively slender and is of a
lighter color than on dry soil, also that
blue grass grows abundantly all through
it. We have in mind a strip of coun
trv identical with this, and for the ben
efit of friends down in Oneida county
will reler to it. The Willow Creek val
ley presents exactly the same appear
ance as the St. John country in Malad
valley, under the irrigating canal; that
is to say, the soil is thoroughly sub
irrigated. Surrounding the valley is
an excellent and almost unlimited
range, presenting every advantage for
stock and sheep raiting. But we
started in to write about mines.
At the head of the Willow Creek val
ley is the West View mining district
in which over a hundred locations have
been made. Development work is now
being prosecuted on about a dozen of
the mines, but as yet we have not had
the pleasure of examining but one of
then. This one. however, is a fair
sample of the others and a brief de
scription of it will characterize them all.
The Lincoln mine is owned Mr. W.
P. Carter, of this city, and another gen
tleman whose name we have »not
learned. The first assay made of Lin
coin ore was from croppings and
showed something over ten dollars to
the ton, sixty per cent. gold. After
going down twenty feet another aBBay
was made, giving fifty dollars and sixty
three cents, with gold and silver in the
same )-t« i < rtions. A tunnel was then
"in v\ hieh taps the ledge about forty
live jeet below surface. The ledge was
Guild about two weeks ago, but as yet
no assay has been made of the ore.
However, there is every indication that
it continues to increase in richness
w ith depth, and good judges estimate
that the ore will yield from fifty to
seventy-five dollars. From all appear
ance there is practically no limit to the
amount that can be taken out. The
ore closely resembles that taken from
the Do Lamar mine and old miners
pronounce it exactly the same. The
mine is easily accessable and no doubt
shipments of ore will be made during
the summer. With a smelter at Cald
well the Lincoln would now be yield
ing tons of good ore every day. This
mine is but one of a large <group and
it is impossible to estimate the wealth
that is hidden in the West View dis
trict. At present there is a lack of
capital for development, but when once
the real character of those mines is
known, that difficulty can not long ex
ist. As it is, hardly a day passes but
that some new discoveries are made and
fresh interest awakened. There is not
the slightest question as to the final
outcome of the district. It is rich In
mineral. Placer mining is now being
profitably prosecuted and development
of quartz mines is going steadily on.
A magnificent agricultural, fruit and
stock growing country surrounds the
mines and everything points to. the
fact that this section of the country Is
on the eve of a mighty wave of jjfogress
aud prosperity.
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LOST HIS WIPE.
Last Monday morning Mr. Woslnm,
of Three Creek, turned upfn Caldwell,
a most disconsolate man. Some time
ago he gave his wife money to come on
to Caldwell tô spend a season with her
sister and brother-in-law. Something
happened to arouse Woslum's suspi
cions and he came on to investigate.
Upon his arrival he discovered that
Mrs. Woslum and a little Woslum and
the whole outfit had skipped to parts
unknown. At first Air. Woslum was
disposed to give chase, but after ma
ture deliberation concluded there was
nothing in it, and returned to his deso
late home. It is said that the abscond
ing Woslums went to De Lamar for
their health and repose. Mr. Woslum
said he didn't pine very extravagantly
for the old lady but was anxions to re
cover the child.
SbCOND ANNUAL EXERCISES.
The second annual closing' exercises
of the College of Idaho will be held in
the Presbyterian church, Wednesday
evening, June 7th, 1893, at 8:30 p. m.
Everybody invited. "Young America"
will discourse and the orchestra under
the leadership of Prof. Cox, will play.
We regret having to charge an admis
sion of 25 cents but the thought that
the money will be spent in the town
consoles us, for the printer, draymen
and merchants will be paid for their
various goods and services.
W. J. Boone.
BORN
Mr. and Mrs,
12 pound boy.
ing well.
In Caldwell, May 26th, 1803, to
Win. Ilollenbeak. a
Mother aud child do
A BARGAIN.
House and furniture for sale, best lo
cation in town two blocks from Coffin's
corner, two from court house, one from
college; high, good water, fruit trees,
etc., cheap, easy terms, enquire of
George Reed. May 27—181
sanger & lent's.
Great animal show, aquarium, circus
and hippodrome combined are as much
superior to any other circus ever seen
here as the electric light is superior to a
tallow candle.—Cleveland (Ohio) P/ain
de tier. June
mlle. bennett,
A graceful and daring equestrienne of
©anger & Lent's Big Shows, come
highly endorsed by the press of the
leading cities of the east, and from all
accounts ihe most accomplished horse
woman now in America. The great
shows will he here Tuesdav, June 13
when everybody will have'an oppor
tunity of seeing the world's leading , i
female rider. ■ *