The Owyhee nugget., September 21, 1906, Image 1

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OWYHEE NUGGET
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SILVER CITY, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO, SEPTEMBER 21, 1906.
NUMBER 19
VOLUME XVI.
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were, however, two prizes awarded, the
first of $10, giveu to Mr. and Mre. Can
ter, and a second of $5, won by Miss
Nellie Johnson, of Reynolds, and Mr.
W alter Langford of Black Jack.
Mrs. Thomas, widow of the late John
R. Thomas, and Mis. Breamer, daught
er of Mr. Thomas l>y a former wife, left
here for their home in Hailey, this
morning, after having paid a visit here,
muoh appreciated by many friends,
Mrs. Breamer, whose husband is a bus
iness man of Ilailey, was born on War
Eagle mountain, and went up there to
visit tiie scene of her childhood days
and the grave of her mother, at Fair
view cemetery. Both the ladies also
visited Boouville, where Mr. Thomas
so long employed by the Trade
Dollar company as foreman and where
lie aud his wife resided for a number of
years. We are pleased to say that Mr.
Thomas left his widow and grandson a
pleasant home in Hailey. She had
tnauy pleasant things to report of for
mer Owyhee people now making their
homes iu Hailey.
THE LOCAL NEWS
Short Items of Interest for Nugget's
Many Readers
Just received a full shipment of Jap
a Lao, glass and family paint, at
Philpp's.
Merrs. Keuneth McKenzip and J
Bernardo, South Mountain ranchers,
were iu town Wednesday, transacting
business in the probate court.
For Sale or Rent:—The Julius Isay
house near the bridge, and the small
paint shop on Jordan Street, Silver
City. Write W R. Helm, DeLamar, Ida.
Dr. Heer will go to DeLmnar Oct. ),
to remain several days, and asks that
those requiring dental work done here
should call before lie goes
Mining shovels, Pickhaudles, Limps,
an! Lanterns will be sold at cost at
Philipp's Hardware Store.
Mrs. H. B. Hurd, who has been quite
ill since her return from Boise, the first
of tiie mouth, we are pleased io report,
was able to be up yesterday, aud is now
better.
A chicken dinner with accompani
meats, every Sunday from 5 to 7
o'clock, at the Idaho hotel. Try them.
Bring your family.
The Bachelor Girls Club will give an
early closing dauce at Lower Masonic
hall tomorrow night. A general invi
tation is extended, and is made special
to eligible young geutlemen. "Why
dou't you try?"
Any person knowing the address or
present location of Alphonse de Mey,
a Belgian speakingEuglish and French,
wiio worked at the Booueville
and left there some three years ago,
will confer a favor on anxious relatives
by informing Nugget.
W. D. Evans lias again located his
family in Nampa, to give his girls ad
vantage of the schools in that place,
and lo, on the 14th instant a seventh
daughter was born to him aud Mrs.
Evans, which William asserts is tiie
flower of tiie flock.
mine.
I lank Share, tiie very black sheep of
a highly respected family, who has
brought a world of sorrow to his aged
aud respected parents, was arrested aud
brought here by Sheriff Duncan fro
Nampa yesterday, on a charge of steal
ing a horse, preferred against him by
Oscar Brunzell.
He was taken to
Reynolds this morning to have a time
set for the preliminary hearing.
Nugget has been requested to correct
a slight mistake in its report of Labor
Day ball last week
It stated that Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Canter of Reynolds
had been awarded a
prize of $5
for being tiie best waltzers. There
was
Kodaks and Kodak Supplies at |
Rowett's
Mrs T. D. Fry, who has - been very
critically ill for several days, is now
reported t,o be in a much more favora
ble condition, with strong hopes en
tertained of lier speedy recovery.
Fred Bingham, who left here for
Nome a year ago last May, arrived
home Wednesday . His wife and chil
dren, who have been living with lier
mother, Mrs. Phoebe Spencer, were
not expecting him, and she had started
t liât morning for their ranch on Mead
ow creek, to meet her brother, Jap,
from Brunean, and a beef buyer, to
dispose of some cattle, and is not home
yet or apprized of her husband's arri
val. if she could see the many rare
and beautiful presents and Alackan
curiosities her husband lias brought
her and the children, she would let the
beef selling go for the present. Mr.
Bingham will remain here during the
winter but will return to Nome iu the
spring.
Wm. H. Malier of Soldier creek and
Wm. H. Malier of Soldier creek and
Pleasant Valley was up here during the
early part of the week getting acquaint
ed with his youngest grand-daughter,
the little Miss Eew is, born last week,
and incidentally to take M>s. Maher
back home. It was interesting to get
him iuto a discussion with other old
timers as to which of them came to
Silver City first, aud who buiLt tiie first
house in Silver City. There is Wm.
Humphrey, William Gabriel, George
Gilmore, W. H Townsend, W. H. Ma
her and the venerable Peter Conners
ami tiie two Mesdames Grete, and per
haps several others still iu the county
who came here as early as '65, aud all
of them have excellent memories of
early events, but will not agree as to
who built the first house here. Wiiat an
interesting Btibjeet it would be to have
oue of them write out the early history
of Silver City.
William Joues, a man who has been
w orking abcut Dewey for several weeks,
was arrested dn compiaiut of John
Olson, who runs a saloon at Boone
vi! le, charging robberv. An examina
tion was held before Justice of the
Peace Murphy, who committed him- to
the district court for trial fixing his
bond at $....—. which lie was not able
to give, and lie is now in jail.. The
complaining witness and one J. M.
Baltazor tes ify to his having appeared
at tiie saloon with a gun and compell
ing them to give up about $40 in mon
ey. The accused mau's story, which
he, however, was not permitted to tell
iu the court, puts quite a different
phase on the affair. He says that he
had received in all about $80 for work
done about Booueville, and the saloon
and gambling room aunexed had got it
all except seven or eight dollars. Fi
naliy, the day before, he had gone into
tiie saloon and played seven-up with
Olson at $5 a game until he was ahead
nine gam. s, no money being put up hö
cause they were in the barroom aud
someone might come in and see the
money on the table. Then he went
into the back room aud played stud
poker at Baltazor's table until lie lost
what change he had. He ttien came
aud asked Olson for the amount he
owed him on the seven-up games, and
Olson welched, lie thought of it all
night and went and collected it next
day with a gnu, less $6 which Olson
claimed he owed him for driuks. There
are likely to be some gambling prose
cutione grow out of all this before it is
all over. Jones avers there was more
than $300 in tiie sack out of which Ol
sen paid him, and if he had meant to
collect anything more than was due
him he might as well have had it all.
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MINING
IN OWYHEE COUNTY
Potosi.
Work is being pushed steadily on tiie
l'otosi mine. The old shaft which had
a twist in it, lias been straightened and
all the limbering in it repaired. At
the 200 level a drift lias been started
south, with three shifts working it. It
wes know n that a very ricli shoot of ore
had beeu found on level No. ], about
80 feet south of the shaft aud had been
stoped out above that level, and it was
to find this shoot on No. 2 that this
drift was started, expecting to catch it
at about the same distance south. But
iustead, scarcely five feet had been run
when 16 iuohes of high grade ore, which
continues to grow wider, was found,
showing that tiie chimney of ore was
either longer at lhat depth'or had
pitched north. Au electric fan lias been
put in to ventilate tiie bottom of tiie
shaft aud this drift.
When Mr. Swaine visited the new
California copper camp iu Inyo county,
he says the first man he met whom he
knew was Judge Mitchell, who left De
Lamar two months ago to try a venture
iu the Goldfield minium camps. Mr.
Swainesays Chimney looked prosperous.
Thomas J. Walsh of Deuver, presi
dent of the Standard Miuiug company,
operating at South Mountain, arrived
here, Tuesday, and weut over there the
following day. Messrs. Clemmens aud
Lewis were over here Monday, but left
the morning before Mr. Walsh's ar
rival. It is the first time "Bob" Lewis
had showed his handsome phiz here
since his departure East last fall, tho'
lie returned to South Mountain early
in the summer.
The latest scene of mining excite
ment is the copper discoveries in Inyo
c uiuty, California. Mr. Charles Swaine,
of DeLamar, arrived here from there
last Saturday, and describes the locality
as being formerly known as Greeuwa
ter, in the range of mountains over
looking Death Valley, aud almost as
desolate as the valley itself. It is 55
miles from tiie Clark road from Los
Vegas,with stage fare$ll0 for tiie round
trip. It is 25 miles from the nearest
water, and the water which is warm and
brackish, is hauled from stauding pools
iu tiie Amargosa river. Arrangements
are being made to pipe this water to
the camp, three pumpiug statious be
ing required, tiie water to be raised
3500 feet. Water now sells for 20 cents
per gallon iu the camp aud flour at $6
per sack. The veins of ore appear to
be immense, running from 15 io 50 or
more feet in width, and tiie ore averag
ing about 15 per cent copper. Several
big miuiug meu are paying fancy prices
for aud have begun development work
claims whicli have beeu located, among
them beiug Aug. F. Heinze, the Butte
copper king, Patsy Clark, the Caur
d'Alene lead man, aud Schwab, the
steel trust magnate. A son of Dr. F.
L. Clemmens, of tiie Standard M. Com
pany, of South Mountain, is there as
assayer for Mi. Schwab, and writes his
father that the South Mouutaiu pros
pects for making a great lead-silver and
copper eamp, taking into consideration
all the conditions and surroundings,
look good to him by comparison.
The Enlargement of Swan Falls
Electric Power Pleint,
I he salvation of the mining industry
in Owyhee county has been the Swan
Falls electric power plant. The cost of
fuel to operate the mills and mines
here had become almost prohibitory,
when the Trade Dollar Company came
to its own and others'relief by harness
ing the power of Snake river by build
ing ac 08 tily dam at Swan Falls and in
stalling a tine electric plant, supplying
power sufficient for present use at all
the mines and mills, and lights for all
the towns in Owyhee, and for the in
tertirbari railway now beiug built iu
Ada and Canyon counties, north of the
river.
And, by the way, it is only fair to
give the credit for the conception of
this grand enterprise to the par'y to
whom it belongs, Captain J. R Del.a
r, who while owner of the DeLainar
mines proposed a pow.-r plant at the
same place and went to the expense of
having preliminary surveys and esti
mates of the cost of construction made.
And quite as much or more credit is
due to Hon. Joseph H. Hutchinson,
Lhat the enterprise was taken up and
carried out by the Trade Dollar com
pany, iu whose employ he was duriug
its construction. The writer personal
ly knows how and when he proposed it
to the company and how diligently he
worked for it until his plans were car
ried to completion.
Now the company is finding so much
demand for power that it is increasing
its capacity from two units now used
to five, by adding more turbine wheels,
for which, happily, provision was made
when tiie power house was built. To
construct the bays for the wheels and
put them tu place involves a very
heavy additional expense, with much
new material to be provided. Instead
of delivering the material and machin
ery from Orchard, on the Short Line,
all the freight will be delivered from
ey
to
a
to
of
at
Murphy, involving tiie construction of
wagou road down the bluffs on the
This tiie com
a
south side of tiie river,
pauy is now having done.
Married.
A quiet weddiug was so'emuized by
Judge Perkins at his home at.DeLa
mar last Monday evening, 17th iust.,
Mr. Joseph Bouomi and Miss Mary
Quarrel! being the contracting parties
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Forney aud
Miss May Larson tiie only invited
witnesses. The bride is the daughter
of Barney Quarrell, formerly interested
iu the Sugar Loaf mining claim, and
tiie grqom a nephew of Mr. Forney
The happy pair paid a brief visit to
Boise, returning yesterday.
The Rebek&hs Entertainment,
That the ladies and gentlemen of
Silver Citv eau produce a really tine
*how was demonstrated last night by
the performance given by the Daught
ers of Rebekah. A eomedv entitled
"Frank Glynn's Wife, or au American
Harem," was staged and played by a
troupe of married aud single young
ladies and gentlemen, with such humor
aud graoe that it elicited unstinted ap
plause from a well packed hail. Be
tween the acts were a number of vocal
and instrumental musical selections so
charmingly rendered, as well as a couple
of recitations, that an appreciative au
dience cheered and encored every num
ber. A shadow picture, in which the
entire troupe, one at a time, "got off
the earth," concluded oue of the most
pleasing entertainments it has been our
pleasure to attend in many a day.
Why not the same people give us a se
ries of such entertainments during the
fall and winter evenings?
The German Emperor has given his
personal approval to the art of 'dowsingj
—that is, tiie use of the divining rod or
forked stick for finding hidden springs,
veins of ore, and buried treasure
President Roosevelt has come ont as
an official aud officious advocate of spell
ing reform. If one of the great irre
pressibles passes up on the use of the
hazel twig and the other on spelling, why
should not one or the other of them
1 10 y,j 8 ] a gt,, and other people to their
| proper buisness.
pose as an authority on ladies' hats aud
babies'food? Let the shoemaker stick
REYNOLDS.
Wm.
Maxwell of Murphÿ visited
Reynolds Wednesday.
Elmer Armfleld was down from Dew -
ey the first part of the week, on busi
ness
Mr. and Mrs. Hariison are visiting
relatives at Nampa.
James Brown leftfor Dewey Wednes
day, after having spent a week here.
There waB a social dance at Murphy
last week and several young people at
tended from here.
Robert Noble went to Boise Tuesday,
to be absent several days.
School opened here last week, with a
good attendance. The teacher. Miss
Chapman, is a youug lady from Merid
ian.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed MatbesOU and
daughter Edna returned from their
Drip to i.a Grande, Sunday. They had
a pleasant visit.
The republicans held their primary
here Saturday aud O. F. Brunzell was
was elected delegate.
Mike Jordau was elected delegate by
the democrats at their primary.
Frank Johnston went to Silver on
Wednesday. Of course he will visit
DeLamar before returning home.
Eli Barnum, tiie horse buyer, came
over from Caldwell Tuesday and is in
specting the range horses here.
Mrs. Wm. Slattery of DeLamar
passed through here this week on her
way from Wilson, where she had been
to attend the fuueral of her mother,
Mrs. Lofgren.
the sad news reaclisd here of the
death of Mrs. Lofgren of Wilson last
week. The lady had attained her
eighty-eigth year and was the mother
of John Arvidson of Nampa. The fun
eral took plaee Sunday, with interment
at the Wilson cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. F Scott and family
drove to Silver Wednesday. Mrs. S. .
will attend a meeting of tiie Rebekah
lodge.
While on his way to Nampa Sunday
witli a baud of saddle horses, Ed Share
had the misfortune to have his leg
brokeu, his horse falling with him at
Sign Board Hill, a point between here
aud Wilson. Tiie unfortunate boy had
courage to ride to Nampa witli his broth
We have not
er, who was with him.
learned how serious the accident proved
to be, but 1)is friends here hope for his
speedy recovery.
Frank and Ernest Noble left Satur
day for Moscow, where they will re
sume their studies at the university.
Th- ir sister May accompanied them as
far as Nampa, on lier way to Boise, to
again enter St. Margaret's school.
A Word to Delinquents.
A number of names have been drop
ped from Nugget's subscription list
this week for the very sufficient reason
that the persons have failed to respond
to as polite a reminder as we conld de
vise, that it takes money to run a pa
per, even as small as Nugget, in this ex
pensive camp. Some of these are for
given wiiat is due, because Nugget fell
heir to their subscriptions through hav
ing taken over the old Avalanche in
January of last year. However, if they
did not intend to pay for the paper
they should have refused to take it
from the postotfice, an act which the
law says makes their subscriptions col
lectable. Well, goodbye, old delin
quents! Many of yon will not have a
chance to read your only county paper
after this, uuless you borrow, steal or
subscribe for it. Nugget is getting
along pretty well and its circulation
growing rapidly, without you.