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IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS VOL. ai. NO. ii ORANGEVILLE, IDAHO COUNTY, IDAHO, THURSDAY, AUG. 16, 1906 $2.00 PER YEAR NEW Fall Qoods ARRIVING DAILY E are daily receiving many lines of new fall goods, particularly the latest fall fashions in Women's Ready-to-Wear Apparel, Men's Clothing, Hats, and Men's and Wo men's Shoes, of which we have w very generous as sortments, even at this early date, in fact quite enough to justify your coming down to look them over. The Foremost Fashions Always Found Here First It's our ambition, as it has always been the aim of this store to show the very latest and most exclus ive styles in Grangeville and to show them first. This year we have made extraordinary efforts and are now able to show you style novelties of a class never before presented in this city. Prices and styles will meet your highest approval we qre sure and we cordially invite your early inspection of the new things. Rlexaiidei-FieiilBiiiiGli Go. I LIMITED I fJKS&A |New Goods| § Arriving Every Day§ » - ---- - — ~ ^ ({New Dress Goods, Trimmings,« s Prints, Ginghams, Percales Û z Flannelettes, Lace Cur H tains, Etc. \ The bulk of our stock has arrived or will be here in the next Ten Days. 1 / 'T' HIS year we are especially proud of U I lines. Even in the face of stronger prices on ^ cotton and woolen goods, we are able to show n you better goods for less money this fall than ever be W fore. We are always pleased to show goods whether Jjj X you wish to purchase or not. our new & Û I New Kimona Cloth, handsome Persian pat- OQm Q terns, per yard. fcliW j)J Prints, plenty of them at £ per yard. ' - - £ SPECIAL —Axminister and Smyrna rugs; we bought II just 100 from a manufacturer who was more anx V ious for business than profits. ^ 0 The Smyrna is an extra heavy, all wool reversible jjl ll rug, 30x62 inches, cheap at $3.00, our 0O OR / « price.. • j 7 V The Axministers come in two sizes, 27x52 and 30X ll 72 inches, nice variety of patterns, the 0C QQ V V prices, each $3.00 and. iPlfalils ^ 5 5c g Û W e will continue to m _ 1 close out our summer |J Lawns, underwear, etc., at even greater reductions. ^ Only a few fancy Lawns left worth from 12 to 15c, * 8 Summer Goods: § g Choict 8c Choice of our Sunbonnets, worth up to 35c.... Parasols, steel rod, good quality top. Burt L. Crosby Co.J HRRMAN VON BARGEN. Vlc« President Lewis wyldk, obier HENRY K OTHER, President Denver State Bank INCORPORATED CAPITAL, $ao,000.00 HEAL ESTATE 1.0 A NS JSS A StrloUiINDIP^SE^MAÄ §ES i, Denver Peop.e. Patronise Home Industry. DENVER. IDAHO abstracts PulM Building BULLION FROH BUFFALO HUMP Tbe Cracker Jack Makes a Nice Little Clean-ap MANY OTHER PROPERTIES WORKING General Conditions in Camp Show Much Improvement. Geo. K. Reed, president of the Cracker Jack mining company, B. J. McRae and W. J. Ramey, both of Nez Perce, E. P. Coles and E. M. Scofield, of Philadelphia, Geo. D. Smith, of this city, and Robert Jones, of the Central Idaho De velopment company, left here "Sat urday for the Cracker Jack mine. Mr. Coles and Mr. Scofield are engineers who are investigating the proposition of furnishing power for the mines, and also the probable tonnage from the mines. R. W. Hawley, secretary, came out last Thursday and brought with him 81,100 iu bullion, the result of about 2^ stamps for tbe month of July. They didn't get the raise through till July 25, so were not able to operate all the stamps. In addition to the 81,100, Mr. Haw ley received 8170 from the mines Friday night. This was tbe result of three tons of couceutrates put through the chloriuation plant of the Jumbo company. There is considerable work be ing done at the Cracker Jack in timbering and preparatory de velopment work. In speaking of the mine Mr. Hawley said: "Ore bodies so far encountered are very flattering aud seem to be extensive. Tbe great drawback to operations in Buffalo Hump is its lack of sufficient power. The water supply this year is lighter than any previous record. Springs and streams that have been perennial previously are now drying up. But the Cracker Jack company ex pects to get in a dam and utilize its 100 feet of additional head before affected. I hear that a 100 foot contract has been let on the North Star group of mines, aud that work is to be commenced at once on the Del .Rio and Colonel. And also that work is to be commenced on the Wise Boy. The Mother Lode, at Concord, still continues develop ments on rich ore upon the 300 foot level.'' WILL ISSUE BONDS. Electric Road Meeting for That Purpose August 23. A special meeting of the stock holders of the Lewiston and South eastern Electric railway company and the Central Idaho Develop ment company, bas been called to take place in the office of the two companies in the Weisgerber build ing at different hours on August 23. President Thompson, of the two companies, stated last night that the meeting was called for the pur pose of submitting to a vote of the stockholders the proposition as to whether the directors of the two corporations shall be authorized to issue first mortgage five per cent gold bonds to the amount of 83, 000,000 in the first corporation and 82,000.000 in the second. The notes are to be of the denomination of 81,000 each, dated August 1, 1906, and made payable August 1, 1936. The bonds will be secured by an indenture of mortgage or deed of trust on all the property and the franchises of the two cor porations. The bonds are to be issued and President to in the mortgage given, Thompson states, for the purpose of enabling the two corporations— one to construct, complete and lines of railroad and equip branches, the other to construct and develop the power plant on Salmon river. The call for the meeting records an important development in the electric line and power plant mat ter, for it indicates that the officials are determined to initiate the work at as early a date as possible and a rushing of the line to an early com pletion by the Scofield company, of Philadelphia, which has the con tract for the construction work.— Lewiston Tribune. Summer Schedule. Commencing Sainrday morning June 16, stages for Stites will leave Grangeville at 2:45 a. m. and will at Stites 6:15 Idaho Transportation Co. H. C. Jackson, Manager. Notice to Advertisers. Copy for all ads must be in by Tuesday night. PUBLIC PARK FOR GRANGEYILLE Old Cemetery in East Part of Town In cluded in Site Chosen. OTHER GROUND IS CONTRIBUTED Council Also Take Up Question of Sewerage. of of of of be to its its on At the adjourned session of the city council last Monday night there were present Mayor Batty, Councilmen Wiltse, Pfeufer, Hock ersmith, Hall and Parker, and City Attorney Fulton The session was a long and la borious one and some important business was transacted. Bills amounting to 81022 90 were al lowed. A proposed ordinance, providing for the licensing of bill posters in the city and specifying their restrictions, was presented and received its first reading. A few minor questions of water mainB and sewers that were brought up by citizens were referred to their respective committees. A petition for the construction of a general sewerage system was presented, discussed and turned over to B. C. Wiltse to be circu lated among the citizens of tbe town. The petition asks that the city construct the sewer system and that the expenses be defrayed by a direct tax upon all taxable proper ty of the city that is benefitted. The first proposition is to ascertain whether or not the citizens want a sewerage system and are willing to pay for it. A plat of a city park was pre sented and accepted with the pro vision that the proper deeds be executed later. The plat shows tbe proposed city park to cover the old cemetery in the east part of town with tbe addition of quite an area donated by adjaeent land owners. The park is to contain about four acres of ground and is beautifully located. It will be en tirely surrounded bystreets, which have been donated by Messrs. Evans, Ketteobach and Von Berg. It is proposed that the bodies from the old cemetery be moved to the Prairie View cemetery, where space will be donated by the city for their re-burial. The proposition of a city park has been under dis cussion for some months past'and now that tbe plans are taking definite form it is quite likely it will develop into a reality in the not far future. FLORENCE STRIKE. Miners Rush to Gold Fields— Good Samples Brought Out. Flattering reports are continuing to come from Florence concerning the recent gold strike there. Much interest and excitement is shown among tbe miners of this place. People from far and near are pas sing through Grangeville every day on their way to Florence. Reports received from that place are to the effect that miners are rushing to the scene of the gold strike from all parts of the country. Many miners have left Grangeville in the last few days with the gold fever. Because of the fact that most people are going into the Florence conntry and but few coming out at tbe present time reports of the ex act conditions there are not ascer tainable. The rich strike there is in tbe immediate vicinity of the old placer mines from which so much gold was taken iu the early days. When shown some samples from the tunnel in which the first strike was made, John Jones, of the firm of Jelluin & Jones, assay ers, of Lewiston, said: "The ore samples are rich with small gold nuggets and the decom positions makes the quartz ore absolutely free milling. If the other samples are richer than these and the ledge contains as large a pay streak as reported, this strike is one of the biggest that has ever been made in the west. of be a of »» Concord Mines. R. A. Parker, of Denver, Colo., left with James A. Eldrige, super intendent of the Concord company, left for Concord Saturday. Much development work is being done on the Mother Lode No. 2, the prin cipal property of the company. Mr. Parker goes to expert the mine in order to decide what work should be done. This property has a 300 foot shaft and several thousand feet of drifte. Tbe Concord com pany, so we understand, are con sidering the proposition of patting in a plant on the Mother Lode No. 2. by COMMENCE WORK NEXT TUESDAY' Northern Pacific Establish Camp West of Town. CONTRACT LUMBER AND SUPPLIES Can Complete Grade to Cot tonwood In Three Months. That a railroad construction camp will be established on tbe Freidenrich place, just a mile out of town, is the pleasing informa tion given to a Free Press reporter last evening by Q. A. Carlson, who has tbe general superintendency (or Porter Bros. & Welch, of the construction work on the Northern Pacific's line from Culdesac to Orangeville. Mr. Carlson, accom panied by E. Ennerson, a sub-con tractor, visited this city yesterday afternoon, remaining here only for a couple of hours, during which time they purchased lumber for the construction of a camp and ordered supplies from local merchants for their crew and stock. All the pre liminaries for establishing the camp next week were atteuded to. Mr. Ennerson lias a contract for the grading of the first three miles out from this place. He left late last evening witii Mr. Carlson, on the return trip to Culdesac, but will be back to this place the first of next week with a crew of thirty or forty men and about twenty five teams to be put to work imme diately on grading. In speaking of the time requited to complete the road, Mr. Carlson stated that he and Mr. En nerson had just ended their journey over tbe new surveyed route, quite a good deal of the time having to walk in order to follow exact survey, and that in his opin ion the road would be completed in tbe spring. He said it would per haps take three months, with the available force, to do the grading between Grangeville aud Cotton wood, and that this work would most likely be completed this fall. They expect to soon have 300 or 400 men and 100 or lf>0 teams at work on the road this side of Cot tonwood. Mr. Carlson says that at the present time it is hard to keep men on account of the great demand for laborers in the harvest fields. Later in the season they expect to be able to secure farm teams on the grading. Home farmers near Cot tonwood have already taken some small contracts. Sub-contrats have been let for nearly all the grading between here and Cottonwood. A up a a be of an is en the for it the of a WILL IMPROVE ROADS. Commercial Club Will Spend Money on Roads. At the regular monthly meeting of tbe Commercial club last Tues day night, 8300 was voted foi the improvement of the Pearson road, just west of (own. This sum will be used in conjunction with 8500 worth of work to be done by the county on this piece of road. The question of a street fair wae brought up and quite thoroughly discussed, hot when voted upon it was found that a great majority were in favor of not having a fair this fall. The chair was authorized to ap point a committee of five, two from Grangeville and three from other parts of the county, to form a county fair association. This com mittee is to be named at the meet ing of the executive board next week. Clearwater Placers. Matt Gilbert came in from bis placer mining property on the Clearwater last Sunday, lie lias a small force of men at work there and reports flattering results. He has been surveying for a new ditch to be 4 feet in width and 2 feet deep. The present ditch is only 3 feet wide aud 18 inches in depth, and will not furnish power enough for the new hydraulic elevator which is soon to be installed. His property produces from 81 to 83 per yard.' As a rule the gold is quite fine, bat some pieces go over a dollar in value, says he has received good news from tbe Marshall Lake district. His company there is using water from their 100-acre reservoir, the water in which has an average depth of 12 feet. on 300 Mr. Gilbert All Night Service. The Wiltse House, this week inaugurated an all night service in the grill room and tbe best of every thing to eat can now be had at all hoars, day or night. r? |<^ Your OPPORTUNITY ANNUAL SALE OF Blankets Quilts anJ The customary August sale. A sale that will not have a rival in value-giving. Woolens and Cot tons are taking a soar to high prices; these were pur chased when prices were normal, hence the greatest values and the greatest opportunity the fall season can possibly present. Take Our Word For it The Big Buffalo W. F. SCHMADEKA ORANGEVILLE'S GREATEST STORE L* Soda Days Are Here Good soda is not only gratifying to the taste, but does good as well. We serve good soda, using absolutely pure water, rock candy syrup, pure fruit juices and pulps, and the best materials of all kinds. Our soda is delicious and HealtHful We conduct our fountain as we think you would were positions reversed. Come when you can and try the delightful beverages served. We believe you will decide that our soda is in a class by itself, and that it is worth going out of your way for. THe RigHt Drug Store Where Yuu Get Better Qoods end More Change Baek Phone 163 Now is the Time to JÉ v P Paint if 7]i ■ f Buy Your Paints at <5 Rudolph Bertsch's HARDWARE AND HARNESS STORE m>> Grangevillo »4 Meadows Stags Line Good four-horse wagons and careful drivers. Leaves Grangeville every day except Monday, at 6 a m., and arrives every day except Tuesday, at 12 KARE —Grangeville to Meadows, —Grangeville to White Bird, Only three days from Grangeville to Boise over one of the most picturesque routes in the west, and no night rides. For further information call on E. R. CAWLEY, Agent, Orangeville, Idaho $9.00 2.00 Contractor Builder I A. J. Turner in Frames, Porch Columns, Brackets, Turning and Scroll Sawing any style, Saws gummed, Filed and set. PRICES CONSISTENT WITH GOOD WORK. ' '