The Owyhee nugget., May 08, 1908, Image 1

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OWYHEE NUGGET
OFFICIAL
COUNTY
PAPER.
BEST
ADVERTISING
MEDIUM
VOLUME XVII.
SILVER CITY, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO, MAY 8, 1908.
NUMBER 52
THE LOCAL NEWS
Little Miss Florence Petitt, not in very
good health—it is thought the altitude
Short Items of Interest for Nugget's
Ma.rvy R.eaders
effects her—went to Boise last week to
spend some time and try what change it
will make on her.
The leading stores in town, as will be
seen by a card in this issue, have resolved,
beginning with next Monday, to close
their doors at 8 o'clock p. m. This is as
it should be in every town.
Mrs. Weston has ordered a new assort
ment of hats and a lot of other summer
finery for her store, which she expects to
have on display by next Monday, and
ladies are invited to call and inspect.
Yesterday, last night and today the
weather up here in the mountains has
been cold, snowy and blustery. It is to
be hoped that the cold has not extended
to the valleys as it would be a serious in
jury to the fruit crop.
Charley Simmons bought the Stewart
house, this w r eek and is having it torn
down and removed to Booneville and put
up as an addition to his Roadhouse.
The burning of the buildings at Dewey
has largely increased his hotel business,
requiring additional room.
The Idaho hotel people have purchased
the Royal lodging house, and are having
it refitted and refurnished for additional
lodging accommodations for their hotel.
.Mrs. Spencer, who has been occupying it,
removed this week to the building form
erly occupied by Nugget.
We have the honor and pleasure of
notifying you that Holy Mass will be
read at the Catholic Church, Silver City,
on Sunday, May 10th, at 8:00 a. m., and
at 10:30 o'clock a. m. Evening devo
tions at 8:00 p. m. Kindly invite your
relatives and friends to be present.
Paul Nelson is distributing cigars and
other good things with a liberal hand this
week, for the good and sufficient reason
that the stork presented a twelve pound
boy at his family residence at six o'clock,
Wednesday evening. Paul is proud and
Mrs. Nelson and baby are getting on
nicely.
The county convention to select dele
gates to the Wallace convention, called
for next Tuesday, to choose delegates to
the republican presidential convention is
now in session in Silver City,
believe, not largely attended. It will
doubtless instruct its delegates to support
Taft for the presidential nomination.
The night watchman at the DeLamar
hotel, accused of making derogatory
marks concerning a lady down there, got
a head put on him by a young man of
the town. The watchman, when down,
pulled his gun. but had it taken
from him by a third party,
watchman got his discharge from the
company, and another man is now doing
duty in his place.
Mr. E. J. Burrough, of the Big Store,
is in Boise this week, selecting a stock of
dry goods from samples displayed there
by eastern salesmen from houses with
which their firm deals. The stock of
samples which the salesmen carry is too
bulky and heavy to be carried away from
railroad points, and they prefer to pay
their customers expenses for coming to
meet them and make their purchases.
Ray C. Bernard, up here today to at
tend the republican county convention,
a Taft man from the word "go," says
that he does not think the frost has done
any injury to the fruit crop along that
portion of Snake river, except the apri
cots, which were far enough advanced to
be caught a week ago by the frost which
then occurred. The peaches, apples and
cherries, he thinks, are alright at present.
It is, we
re
away
Result,
One of Jim Goble's big freight teams
made matters exciting in DeLamar, yes
terday. Starting from the mill yard it
ran across the bridge and up the street
until the wagon collided with and knock -
cd a corner off Wilkin'« residence, then
ran down through the lower town until
it got tangled up and one horse fell down
while going up a grade, and a man caught
and quieted them. But little harm was
done, but some narrow escapes were
made.
I We clip from the San Jose, Cal., Jour
nal, of April 24, the following, relating
: the death and burial at that place of
old gentleman who a few years ago was,
\ with his family, a resident of this place,
One of his daughters married Lockey
Bowman, then of Black Jack, and an
Mrs. John P. Nugent, of Boise, and
her son, Ainslie, left last week to spend
the summer with her sister, Mrs. Dr.
Perrault, in San Francisco. They were
there to enjoy the festivities attending
the arrival of the big war fleet. Mr. Nu
gent is left alone to continue his battle
against the Dubois anti-Mormon faction,
seeking to control or bust the democratic
party in Idaho, but with the help of
Perky, Paine, Flenner and others, his
chances for success are more than good.
William A. Austeon, the oldest and one
of the best working miners in the camp,
who for several years has put in the win
ters at the Trade Dollar mines and his
Bummers developing some promising cop
per properties which he owns over the
line in Nevada, about 20 miles from
Three Creek, Idaho, took his departure
from here Wednesday, for the latter
camp. He has his properties now opened
so they show extensive and valuable de
posits of the red metal, but the trouble is,
they are so remote from the lines of travel
that it is difficult to get mining men suf
ficiently interested in them to go so far
out of the way to see them. However,
the construction of the proposed railway
from Gooding to Wells, Nevada, will
bring a line within 30 miles of them, and
make this new mining district in the Elk
mountains sought after.
Mrs. John Slattery received a telegram
last week, Wednesday, from her sister,
Mrs. Paguin, of Goldfield, Nev.
moiling her to the bedside of their father,
James Doherty, very ill at Mrs. Paguin's
home in that camp. She started for there
the following morning, and since arriving
has written her husband a letter stating
she had found her father somewhat bet
ter but looking awfully bad, and she had
very little hopes of ever seeing him up
again. He has heart trouble, and his
physician says he is liable to drop off any
minute. Daddy Doherty, as he was
familiarly called by his friends, was a
well known personage in DeLamar, where
he resided for a good many years, with
his wife, since deceased, one son and two
daughters, since married—one Aggie,
now Mrs. Paguin, and one Mrs. Slattery.
The old gentleman is now in his 64th
year.
Commissioner Brunzell returned yes
terday, from a week's inspection of the
public roads in the western and north
western portions of the county. He went
from here to Trout creek and the state
line near Jordan Valley; thence to Dairy
and South Mountain; thence via Flint
and Cottonwood to DeLamar; thence to
Homedale via Cow creek, Rockville and
Succor creek ; thence back, through Poi
son creek precinct, Enterprise and Wil
son, to Murphy. He says he found the
roads generally in better condition, at
this season of the year, owing to the lack
of rain. A large amount of wool is being
hauled to the railroad from this portion
of the county and from Jordan Valley,
for storage. The fruit crop on Succor
creek and about Homedale and along the
river, he thinks, has been considerably
injured by recent frosts.
sum
an
■
other one is now school superintendent
in Blaine county:
"The funeral of the late James B.
Kinggold will take place tomorrow mor
ning from the family residence on Stone
avenue at 10:30 o'clock. The interment
will be at Oak Hill cemetery.
"The late James B. Ringgold was born
in Baltimore, Md., December 2, 1831.
He came to California in 1849, crossing
the plains. He lived in the Sacramento
valley and various towns in the northern
part of the State for several years. From
there he went to southern Oregon, then
to Virginia City, Nev., and the rest of his
life was spent in that State and Idaho
until a year ago, when he came to San
Jose with his family. He was married in
1875 to Miss Ida Negus, whose father was
at one time a resident of San Jose.
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AGREEMENT TO CLOSE
STOR.ES AT 8iOO P. M
We, the undersigned, do hereby agree
to close our respective places of business
at 8:00 p. m. sharp, on all days except
Saturdays, beginning Monday, May 11th,
Signed,
The Bibbins-Myer Co., Ltd.
Silver City Supply Co.
C. M. Caldwell.
Silver City, May 8, 1908.
1908.
REYNOLDS.
Mrs. Frank Scott has been quite ill for
the past week, but is very much improved
again.
John Turmes passed through here last
week enroute to San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Johnston visited
in Boise, last week.
G. A. Bergh came over from Nampa,
Friday, to look after liis mining interests.
He has several men at work on the Sun
ny Side mine and reports everything
looking fine.
Mrs. J. Babington has been feeling
very poorly for several days.
The Leap Year Ball given at the Odd
Fellows Hall, last Friday evening, by
Mesdames Goble and Brunzell, Misses
Sisk, Johnston and Jordan, was quite
well attended and every one had a good
time. It is resolved that the ladies know
how to run things.'
Ö. F. Brunzell made a business trip to
Nampa, last week, after a load of freight.
HOT SPRINGS ITEMS.
Mr. Calkins, who is living on an island
about a half mile below the springs, has
purchased a gasoline engine for irrigating
purposes.
Mr. W. W. Bartow is preparing to
move his dairy outfit to the hills for the
summer.
Again that vaquero from the hills vis
ited the springs. With his jaw set in
determination, he prepared to carry off
our beloved sehoolma'm, but again he
went back to the hills downhearted.
Blood-curdling murmurs have been start
ed on both sides, but she asserts it was
"nay."
Guy Givens visited the springs last
night. He returned to the corrals this
morning.—April 30. .
Mr. Walker has finished his cellar and
Mr. Stewart, who has been helping him,
returned home.
R. J. Givens is working on an engine
that, if it proves successful, will revolu
tionize the mechanical world.
A good crowd of people were spending
a day at the springs last Sunday.
Send your Capital News Coupons to
Charlotte Bergh, Nampa. We are help
ing her in this neck o' the woods.
—Givens.
MINING
IN OWYHEE COUNTY
POTOSI,
Work was begun on the construction of
the Potosi mill on Wednesday of this
week and several big freight loads of the'
timbers are now on the ground and more
are arriving every day. All the machin
ery and equipments for the mill, as well
as all the lumber required, are expected
to arrive here as rapidly as they are need
ed, and the work will be rapidly pushed
until completed.
The new tunnel to open the ore bodies
in the mine, above the shaft-house level,
was started this week. This tunnel runs
from the west, and will cut the old drift
run years ago about its face, and save
cleaning out and re-timbering this old
drift, now badly caved, besides making a
new dump for the waste. The vein is
quite wide in the face of the old drift and
contains a larger percentage of silver. As
it is extended into the mountain it will
gain in depth quite rapidly, and it is
hoped, will cut into rich shoots of ore
known to be located further south. It is
known that the Potosi vein extends south
beyond the limits of its ground and shows
in the rich prospects on the Getehell
claims beyond the summit of the hill.
No work is now being done on No. 3
drift north, the power drills being taken
from that drift for use in the shaft-house
level tunnel.
Mr. D. C. Nevin, president of the com
pany, visited the mine yesterday and was
well pleased with the manner in which
the work is progressing and favorably im
pressed with the prospects.
THE BANNER..
W. S. Sterling, a traveling man for a
Portland wholesale house, making his
22nd annual call at Silver City, spent
Tuesday here, visiting the Banner mine
and mill, he having been among the first
subscribers for stock in that
company.
In company with Manager. Steele and
Mine Superintendent Jones, he went
thoroughly through all the workings in
the mine, and expressed himself surprised
at the amount of work done in its devel
opment and the showing made. After
being shown through the mill he declared
equal gratification, saying it was the most
substantially constructed mill for its
capacity ho had seen, and he has no
doubt about its ability to work the ores
of the mine very economically and make
close saving of values. In other words,
as he expressed himself to a friend, he
was pleased beyond measure with his
visit. In his travels he meets a number
of the stockholders in the company, and
he will leave with them all a favorable
impression of their investment.
The only regret Mr. Sterling had to ex
press, was that the company had not
started and run the top-of-the-mill cross
cut tunnel to cut the mine at greater
depth and by so doing, had obviated the
necessity of building the gravity tram, by
dropping the ore down to this tunnel
from the level tram and delivering at the
mill through the lower tunnel. It was
explained to him that this had been.
thought of, but had not been done be
cause of the time it would take before
ore could be delivered at the mill.
The trestle work for the gravity tram is
now nearly completed, and lumber and
rails for the level tram are now coming
in. The company has ordered supplies
of quicksilver, lime, salt and bluestone
which will arrive by the time they will be
needed.
A connection is now being made be
tween No. 4 drift north in the mine and
the winze started in No. 3 north, sunk
Indore the present company took posses
sion of the property. The upraise is now
up better than 50 feet, in a body of good
grade ore and is expected to connect with
the winze when raised only a few feet
more.
The incline upraise from No. 1 level to
the surface is now nearly completed.
FRANCIS E. ENSIGN. DEAD.
All Owyhee old timers remember Fran
cis E. Ensign, a prominent attorney who
came to Silver City, practiced law here
and held a conspicuous jjosition in Owy
hee affairs, from 1876 until 1878, when
he removed to Boise and remained four
years and then went to Hailey where
death overtook him last Monday.
Mr. Ensign was born in Painesville,
O., in 1829, and came west to California
in 1854. He was married at Silver City
in 1876. We are not informed as to what
family he left, except we are informed
that one son is now prosecuting attorney
of Blaine county.
Many pleasant things are said of the
deceased concerning incidents which oc
curred during his residence in Silver City.
HOMESEEKERS RATES FROM
COLORADO TO IDAHO.
The Oregon Short Line officials have
completed arrangements by which a
homeseeker's rate of one fare plus two
dollars will be put into effect May 19, and
continue until Dec. 1, from all Colorado
points to Idaho points. These tickets are
good for twenty-one days, thus giving
homeseekers ample time to look over all
the desirable farming localities in south
ern Idaho. It has been several years
since there have been any homeseeker's
rates from Colorado and it is believed the
rate will bring many Colorado farmers
here. They are a particularly desirable
class as they are already familiar with ir
rigation and do not have to learn it.
A TAFT WEEK.
During the past week some notable ad
ditions have been made to the Taft list of
delegates and any doubt as to his nomi
nation on the first ballot has been re
moved. He now has considerably over
300 delegates instructed for him with a
reasonable certainty that a good percent
age of the uninstruefed delegates are for
him. It is, however, immaterial whether
any of the uninstructed delegates are for
him or not as he will have more than
enough instructed delegates by the time
the convention meets.—Nampa Leader
Herald.
If the Idaho Statesman would only say
what it wishes to be inferred respecting
Senator Heyburn, it would be the more
manly course to pursue. Its manage
ment tries to leave the impression that it
is friendly to biggest brained man who
ever occupied a seat in the U. S. Senate
from Idaho, while on every opportunity
giving some of his actions or opinions ex
pressed just the intimation of a slur of
disapproval. That the senator, while
disagreeing with some of the policies of
the administration and openly opposing
them, still continues to maintain its good
will and regard, as well as that of its
friends who do not always view affairs in
the same light as he, shows that he is a
big man. The Statesman knows this,
but refrains from saying it for some ul
terior reason.
Rowett has just received and placed
on his shelves a consignment of Eldison
phonographs, with a great variety of
the latest records produced by that
machine. When vou want a perfect
Fhonograph yon will find that the Edi
son stand at the head of the list for
clearness and d'stinctiveness, as well
a great variety of records.