The Owyhee nugget., December 01, 1905, Image 1

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VVYHEE NUGGET
as
SILVER CITY, OWYHEE COUNTY,. IDAHO, DECEMBER 1, 1905.
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 28
LOCAL.
Velvet Candy at Rowett's.
Vanity Bags at Mrs. Mills' millinery
parlors.
Ladies' fancy work baskets at
Rowett's
Waterman's self-filling fountain pens
at Rowett's. No trouble to fill. No
inky fingers.
Ladies' purses, collars and a great
variety of holiday novelties now being
received at Mrs. Mills' millinery par
lors.
O. P. Benrud, of Parkland, Wash.,
has accepted a position in the store of
L. S. Honstead. Mr. B. is a former
Minnesata friend of Mr. H.
Tremewan is receiving a fine assort
ment of fancy candies, in boxes, for
holiday presents, and a great variety
of ornaments for Christmas decora
tions.
A card from Rev. Father Dempsey,
announces that he will be in Silver
City Christmas Eve, ar.d will hold natal
day services at the Catholic church st
midnight.
Mrs. John M. Brunzell arrived home,
Tuesday, from a protracted visit with
her daughter, Mrs. Catlow, at Stein's
Mountain, Nevada. Her son, Fred
Allen, of Stein's Mountain, brought her
home, coming the 150 miles by team.
In Hawes' bazaar, one can see a
great vrriety of the prettiest hand
painted, gold-bordered, plates, dishes,
pitchers, bowls, etc., ever seen Owyhee.
They make dainty holiday presents.
Hawes has not marked the up to fancy
prices.
Nugget's thanks went out from their
Thauksgiving dinner to Miss Mary
Paul, of Sinker, for a fine, fat turkey
which they enjoyed yesterday. May
that young lady ever enjoy good din
ners, Thauksgiving and every day iu
the year.
Rowett has stocked up both his jew
elry store aud candy, fruit aud toy
store, with elegaut assortments of holi
day goods. One can get anything
there from a diamond ring to a sack of
peanuts. A dolt ticaet goes with every
two-bit purchase.
The county commissioners met last
Monday and opened bids for the con
struction of a bridge across Lower
Rejuolds creek, iu Wilson precinct.
John Keith, being the lowest aud best
bidder, the contract was awarded to
him at $275. The brid e is to be a 30
foot span.
Silk Unbrellas with detachable han
dles, an elegant line, with gold-mount
ed and pearl or fancy wood handles, at
prices ranging from $3 to $10, at
Rowett's. Can be packed iu a trunk.
The handles are interchangeable; you
can select the haudle to please you.
Look ot them.
Peter and Mrs. Steele are now iu
New York. A burnt leather postal,
with a picture of a distracted cat cling
ing to a fence, with bottles, boot jacks
aud chunks of coal flying iu the air
and the words, "Things are coming my
way iu New York," told their friends
here of their whereabouts.
Mrs. Louis Davey of Dewey, was a
pleasant caller upon Nugget this week.
From her we were pleased to learn
that her mother, Mrs. Liudberg, who is
suffering from a paralytic stroke re
ceived some weeks ago, is so far recov
ered that she is able to walk about the
house, aud has partially recovered the
use of her right arm.
Col. J. I. Crutcher, after negotiating
a deal with Lee Bunch upon him Eta
pire mine, left here, Sunday morning,
for Lewiston to join Mrs. Crutcher,
aud they will return to Boise to make
that city their future home. No in
formation has been given out regard
ing th • deal with Mr. Bunch.
The flue watch included iu the diaw
iug which was held at Rowett's Satur
day night, was won by the late William
Lucharity, who recently died at Touo
pah. But as he h,<d left orders before
going from here that if any of the
prizes fell to him they should be given
to Mrs Morgau, the watch will go to
that lady.
Miss Maud Lyman, of Emmett,
rived here Wednesday eveuiug and will
have charge of the telephone exobauge
for the next two weeks. Miss Newell,
the regular operator, will leave next
ar
week for her two weeks vacation, which
the company grants its employes once
year, intending to spend the greater
portion of that time visiting her par
ents, who reside at Three Rivers,
Washington.
Since the fire which occurred a fort
night ago, the Owyhee Brewery has
undergone ^extensive repairs. New
walls have been built around the furn
ace; a new chimney and stack put up;
all the wood work near it been replaced
by walls faced with iron; new doors
and windows put in and the entire
building renovated and put iu
thorough repair. The brewery is now
in shape to keep the trade supplied
with as fine beer as cah be procured
anywhere, the same as it has done
heretofore.
Boise has at last got past the dÿ 1
when a stranger had either to go hun
gry or be content with Chinese cook
ing. Heretofore there have been only
a few little chop houses where a chink
did not reign in the kitchen. But the
improvement begun at the Capital
Hotels spreading to other establish
meuts. That hotel, a short time since,
adopted the European plan, after hav
ing secured for Messrs. Kline & Fergu
son the store room formerly occupied
by The Mode, aud fitted up there a
really attractive first-class restaurant
which they call the Boston Grill.
These gentlemen are famous caterers,
and have displayed great skill aud
taste in fittiug aud furnishing their
place from the handsome waiting room
iu the trout to the kitchen iu the rear,
with every equipment up to date. Here
an individual or a large party of ladies
aud geutlemeu can feast on the very
best the market cau supply, prepared
by white chefs who know how to make
all their dishes palatable; and the
prices are not extravagaut. A door
opens into thi s fine restauraut from
the offioe of the hotel, making it
convenient for the guests of the Capi
tal as was its former diuiug room.
Dow Dunning of Wickahoney, was a
caller upon Nugget, Tuesday, leaving
wampum for a couple of years sub.,
aud imparting the pleasent informa
tion that Mrs. Duuuiug had so far
covered from the paralytic stroke
received while at Bruneau last spring,
that she is able to walk about and at
tend to light household duties, aud her
physicians have hopes of her complete
recovery. Mr. Duuuiug also gave
more satisfactory information regard
ing the stutus of the Little Valley
reclamation project than we have been
able to obtain elsewhere. He says that
work has been temporarily suspended
because of an attachment for debt
against the contractors for the
structiou work,
the status of the compauy which has
the great enterprise iu charge, further
than causing it delay, as the company
has been paving for every yard of dirt
moved, aud only indicates mismanage
meut oti the part of the contractors.
Mr. Duuuiug also says that the
pany's engineers have made surveys
aud have fouud a way of taking water
water out of the Bruneau, thirty miles
up the cauyou, aud leading it into
their reservoir. As there is a
amount of fine lands below the
voir, this scheme w ill add greatly to
the magnitude of the enterprise.
Hotel Perrine.
While at Twin Falls the other day,
the writer had the pleasure of being
shown through the new Hotel Perrine,
then receiving its final equipmeuts
and furuishiugs, wiih the expectation
that it would be ready to receive guests
today. It may be marked down
of the handsomest, aud most perfectly
planned, equipped,and finest hostelries
iu all Idaho. It is located ou the
ner of Blue Lakes and Shoshoue
nues, the front entrance being
alcove set back soum distance from the
former street, facing a plot of ground
for a lawn aud flowers, the wings of the
building extending on either side to
the street line aud presents a very
vitiug appearance. The buildiug is
constructed of handsomely mo ded
cemeut blocks with ornate trimmings
and cornice, giving ii a most attractive
appearauce, viewed from either street.
It is three stories high above a well
lighted basement. The interior finish
is elegant with steam heat iu every
room; with electric lights and local
and long distance telephones in every
suit of rooms, aud closets and bath
rooms conveniently located in every
part of the building
For the present i)he buildiug will be
equipped with power for electric light
iue, but this will be discarded as soon
as the great power plant at Shoshone
falls is completed. All ;the furniture,
carpets, etc., in the buildiug are as line
as can be fouud iu some of the finest
metropolitan hotels.
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MINING
IN OWHYEE COUNTY
J3he Banner.
The directors of The Banner M. & M.
Co., at their regular monthly meeting
November 24, advanced the price at
which the capital slock would be sold,
on aud after January 1, 1006, to 50
cents, and have advised the subscrib
ers for the stock of their action. Of
course this arbitrary advance in the
price of shares, the directors well
know, will have no effect upon their
real value, but in conntiug up the
number of shares already disposed of
the directors found that sufficient
money had now been realized to meet
all the payments upon the properties,
aud to continue development work un
til well along into next spring. The
shares were originally placed on the
market at the extremely low figure of
20 cents to iusure this result, although
the meu who organized the compauy
had a guaranty from capitalists that
money would be advanced them to
meet any shortage iu the payments,
before a share was offered for sale.
Now that enough stock has beeu sold,
the directors feel warranted in holding
the remainder at a figure nearer its
real supposed value, thus insuriug a
greater sum for developing the proper
ly, buildiug a mill when it will be re
quired, etc.
The compauy has had a good board
ing house built on the property; a
blacksmith shop built; suowshed
placed over the track on the dump of
the crosscut tunnel uow being ruu;has
about 2uOO feet of steel rail for car
tracks uow on the ground aud all t he
timbers aud other supplies laid in for
the wiuter. The crosscut tunuel now
being run, which will cut the ledge 300
feet below the surface aud 215 feet be
low the present developed rich shoot
of ore, is uow iu a little more than 30U
feet, with about 370 feet further to be
run to reach the Banner ledge. It is
claimed, however, by miners familiar
with the ground, that a vein which
shows up further south, kuown as the
"coffee" vein, will soon be encountered
iu this tunnel. 4 he tunnel is now be
ing pushed ahead by two shifts, expect
ing to have it completed by the time
the roads cau be opened uext spriug.
this will be the extent of the work
done during the wiuter. Should the
ore shoot where encountered by this
tuunel prove nearly as rich as it is
where developed above, the prosperous
futvre of the property will be fully
assured aud the value of the stock will
go kiting, aud the compauy will put up
a power plant aud begin running the
proposed working tunuel to cut the
ledge 2000 feet further south, at a
depth of 700 feet, which tunuel will
have a length of 1700 feet with its por
tal on Long gulch, with a good road to
town aud a mill site aud water close at
hand.
A Deal for the Commoner.
When Lee Bunch left here, last
Saturday, he carried with him a con
tract for the purchase of the Common
er miue, the property of Messrs. Nu
g*nt, McLeod aud Hogan. The amount,
aud terms of the deal have not beeu
made public. For several months past
while McLeod aud Hogan have beeu
workiug ou it, the Commoner has beeu
the "specimeu" miue of War Eagle,
more chunks of ore "lousy with gold,"
have been shown from that miue than
any other on the mountain. It lies
just beyond the west side line of the
famous old Golden Chariot, parallel
with it, aud the ore takeu out reminds
oue of the ore takeu from the "jewelry
shop" in the Chariot. It will not re
quire much ore of this character to
pay for the property, unless the price
agreed upon is a very big oue.
***
The Pioneer Mines Compauy now
has all the wires strung and all the
electric machinery iu position, aud is
only awaiting the arrival aud "cooking"
of more oil for the transformers, to be
ready to turn ou the juice at the Cum
berland miue aud mill. The long de
lay has about ended.
* *
The Stormy Hill company took
the bond on its property this week and
the company is uow iu full possession,
aud has partially completed a shaft
house over the shaft, awaiting the, ar
rival of lumber to finish. The old shaft
will be retimbered down to the level of
up
the^drift. Mr. Hill will leave a compe
tent man in charge of the work, and
will leave for the east in a few days.
Dow Dunning cgme in from South
Mountain, Tuesday, where he had been
doing assessment work on the O'Keefe
mine, aud went on to Boise the follow
ing morning, expecting to close a deal
on that property with men who hed
recently sent an expert to South Moun
tain to examine that mine and the
properties belonging to Sonnemann.
The Sonnemann holdings consist of 15
pateuted claims, comprising nearly all
the more important ones on the cen
tral aud western part of the mountain,
except the O'Keefe, the most centrally
located one and considered a key to the
situation, which Mr. S. was unable to
secure. It is therefore surmised that
the parties who are negotiating for the
O'Keefe are buying this miue as a part
of a deal which is"to include all of Mr.
Sonnemanu's holdings. It is hoped
here that this may prove to be the case,
for the present owner has left this very
important property idle for years,
while all who know it believe it might
be developed into one of the greatest
silver-lead camps iu the west.
When Mr. O'Keefe was ill in a Boise
hospital last wiuter, he willed his miue,
as well as his 640 acre ranch near south
Mountain, to Ins daughter, Mrs. Dun
niug, aud appointed his friend Thomas
( ahalan, Esq., of Boise, his executor.
Hence Mr. Dunning's interest iu the
matter.
REYNOLDS.
Rev. Jukes held Thanksgiving serv
ices at the school house Monday
evening.
Mrs. H. N. Goble, who has been ill, is
reported betier.
Mrs. U. J. Bernard has been iu poor
health for |some time. She returned
from Boise, recently, where she had
beeu for treatment.
Word was received here that Mr.
Church, an old pioneer of this county,
had died at Bernard's ferry ou the 26th
ult., aud was buried at Lower Rey
nolds. He had long beeu a resident ol
this county aud was about 85 years of
age.
Robert Noble returned Monday from
Boise, and other.places, where he ban
been attending to business affairs. He
expects to go to Boise again Wednes
day.
Miss Auna Bruuzell aud Miss Bevins
came up from the Giveus' Warm
Springs, Friday, to atteud the dance
Mr. Wm. Harrison was their escort.
Mrs. A. B. Crocberon and childreu,
who recently moved to Nampa, are ex
pected home to spend Thanksgiving
with Mrs. C's pareuts
Miss Burns came over from Nampa
last week to visit her sister, Mrs.
ris, out teacher, aud to be present at
the Odd Fellows' ball. The young lady
returned to her home Suuday, her sis
ter accompanying her as far as Mur
phy.
J. A. (Lex) Bruuzell, of Nampa, and
Miss Bertha Frazier, of Emmett, were
mariied iu Boise on the 22d ult. He
aud his bride came over here on the
following day to visit his brother aud
family, amt remained until after the
dauce, goiug back to Nampa Suuday.
A jolly crowd of Silver City young
people attended the bail here Friday.
The party consisted of Messrs. Lang
ford, Shea, Breedlove, McDouald, and
Misses Myrtle aud Carrie Hastings,
Miller and Challis Mrs. B. F. Hast
ings chaperoned the y iung folks. All
have a cardial invitation to come ag.iiu.
Tfce Odd Fellows' ball, Friday night,
was well attended. Silver, Murphy,
Nampa and the Warm Springs were ail
well represented, aud a merrier crowd
of dancers never before graced our hall
aud tripped the "light fantastic" to the
sweeiest of music, until the wee hours
of morning. Oue of the maiu features
of the evening was a skirt dauce and a
Spanish waltz by Miss Carrie Hastings,
who did splendidly. The Odd Fellows
know how to entertain, and they never
do things by halves. The miduight
luncheon, furnished bv the families,
was excellent. Takeu altogether, it
was a happy gathering, and all those
present had a good time.
A friend lof L. A. Stanford, who,
siuce May, has been a resident of
Skibbereeu Sask, Canada, receutly re
ceived a letter from him stating how
well pie sed he is with that country,
and that it is the only place he has
ever seen for stockraisiug. Grass grows
in abuudauce and cattle thrive all wiu
ter on the range.
Far
TheL.r\ksgiving.
Nearlp eve>ybudy in Silver City and
in all Owyhee had ample occasion for
giving thanks yesterday. Like ail of
Idaho, Owyhee has experienced a year
of prosperity. In our mining camps,
our "going'' mines have held up well in
production, and hove opened
bodies which promise much for the
future. Prospectors have made many
new discoveries and located
ground. Mines which are being devel
oped have shown new Jore bodies and
have as a rule come quite up to the ex
pectations of the
put i heir faith,
their labor aud
them. Mauy important mining deals
have been consummated during the
year, especially the latter half of it,
and the coming year gives promise of
being one of unusual activity. Our
livestock aud wool men have beeu
new ore
new
men who have
and expended
capital
on
un
usually prosperous, carrying their
flocks through last winter with a mini
mum percentage of losses and receiv
ing fair prices on what they have mark
eted. I heir bank accounts have grown.
An unusual dry season has cut some
of our ranchers' crops down below the
average, but advances in prices has
made up foi shortages. Several im
portant laud reclamation enterprises
have beeu inaugurated Jin the county
which give promise of greatly increas
ing the opportunities for homebuild
iug. Our schools have been well at
tended and well taught. But little
sickness has visited any of our com
munities.
We venture to say that no person in
Owyhee was deprived of an ample din
ner yesterday because of want Our
hospitable aud prosperous people did
not fail to look after Jthe homeless or
comparatively destitute. Therefore,
ail Owyhee people, as well as those of
every other portion of the natiou aud
state, had ample reason to be thankful
to the Giver of all good for manifold
blessings vouchsaled.
K. °J P. Election.
The uomiuatiou aud election of offic
ers of Silver t ity Lodge No. 25, Knights
of Pythias, took place at their hall
Tuesday night. The following named
officers were selected:
Charles Kingsley, C. C.
John Swanson, V. C
C. ( Hedum, Prelate.
J. B. Paratta, M. of W.
John Grete, K. of It. and S.
John Nslaou, M. of F.
O. Ü. Brumbaugh, M. of E.
Mike M. Hausou, M. at A.
C. G Harrison, I. G.
W. B. liurd, O G.
A movement is on foot to hold a
joint installation of Silver City aud
Florida Mountain lodges.
Red Men in Silver City.
The War Eagle Tribe No. 20, organ
ized by Col. J. G. Albright, theddeputy
great iucohot.ee, starts out under most
favorable auspices, with 50 members.
The chiefs elected on Monday uight
aud raised up ou Thursday uight, are
as follows: The highest honor was
conferred upon Paul Newmau, who
from the beginning of securing peti
tioners for the charter was untiring in
his efforts to obtaiu an excellent per
sonal for the tribe, aud therefore was
appointed by Col. J. G. Albright, the
great chief, as the first representative
to the convention of the tribal dele
gates, which will elect a state great
council, Following were elected:
Sachem—Ralph Farquhar.
Seuior Sagamoro—Thomas Fry.
Junior Sagamore—Harry Moss.
Keeper of Records—A. W. Smith.
Collector of Wampum— K. J. Haulon.
Keeper of Wampum—Frank D. Hall.
Trustees— O. O. Brumbaugh, 18
moons; Herbert Blackman, 12 moons;
Otto Pettit, 6 moons.
First aud Second Sannap—Lisle
Iseuhart and A. H. Rickets.
The Four Warriers— O. D. Brum
baugh, J. T. Shea, C. G. Breedlove, W.
Langford.
Four Braves—Sam Sloper, Herbert
Biackmau, Silas D. Maxou, Richard
Hawes, Jr.
Mystery Men— E J. Burroughs, Jr.,
Johnuie Hawes.
Scouts—Claude Burrough aud An
drew Swan.
tiuardofthe Wigwam—Otto Pettit.
Guard of the Forest— R. S. Hawes.
The ladies of St. James' Guild will
hold a sale of faucy articles and needle
work, cakes, etc., contributed by the
ladies, and serve coffee, cake aud
cooked food, at Houstead's hall, Satur
day afternoon, December 9, the pro
ceeds of the sale to go to the support
of the church.