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Prom Mackay, present terminus
of Salmon River Railroad, to
Chailis by daily stage 50 miles.
From Chailis to Singiser or Three
Forks, by wagon road 40 miles
From Singiser or Three Forks
to Thunder Mountain, by good
Trail, £0 miles. Total 140 miles.
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is a strictly first-class^agCj
hotel, and the meals'^
Alfs and accommodations^/
cannot be surpassed^®
— in Custer county. •- '•
«^-Parties going out on^®
the stages will find^T
this a convenient hotel^sj
to stop at. The drivers;#^
tZTT- board here. Meals al-i^b
ways promptly onjsfiS
time. Located one; *
door west of the drug;
store.
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.Board and Lodging at;
rpason "ble rates. The
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^$4!/ plied with the best.--—
Good acorn mod ations-j^
for traveling men andvvr
the public.
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NOTICE T0THE PUBLIC.
Board and Lodging at Mrs. M.
Jose's, northwest of R. N. Hull
& Co's, store, Chailis, Idaho.
Meals and Lodging strictly first
class.
good beds, and the table supplied
with the best in the market.
Board and lodging by tbe day,
week or month, at reasonable
rates.
Fine large rooms and
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CHALLIS, CUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1902.
NO. 37.
Y0L. 22.
APPLICATION FOH PATENT.
NOTICE NÇ. 5S0.
SURVEY NO. 1CBS.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, )
Hailey, Idaho. March 2f>th, 1902 f
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That William
J. Treloar, who*e postoffice address Is Chailis,
Custer county, Idaho, has made application for
a United Stales patent for the
"DEMOCRAT"
lode mining claim, situate in Bay horse Mining
District, Custer county, State of Idaho, con
sisting of 1003 linear feet of the lode and 6uo
feet of surface ground 600 feet wide, being Sur
vey No. 1686, und described in the field notes
and plat of the official survey on file in this
office, with magnetic variation at 19 degrees 30
minutes East, as follows :
Beginning at the discovery point cf this claim
and running thence South 4fe degrees 10 minut
es East 741.3 feet to southeast center end ;
thence South 9 degrees 41 minutes West 350
feet to Corner No. 1, from which corner U. S,
M. M. No. 2 bears South 53 degrees 23 minutes
16 seconds East 4778.1 feet, measured; thence
North 48 degrees 31 minutes West 604.7 feet to
Corner No. 2; thence North 5 degrees 36 min
utes West 428.4 feet to Corner No. 3; thence
North 74 degrees 20 minutes West 262.7 feet to i
Corner No. 4 ; thence North 9 degrees 41 min
utes East 86.4 feet to Corner No. 5; thence
South 71 degrees 00 minutes East 900 feet to
Corner No, 6; thence South 9 degrees 41 min
utes West 700 feet to Corner No. 1. the place of
beginning survey of exterior boundaries of
said claim, containing<an area of 8.014 acres.
No conflicts.
The said milling claim being of record in the
office of the County Recorder of said mining
district, at Chailis, in Custer county, State of
Idaho, in Book 3 of Quartz Claims, at page 96,
and the amended notice of location in"Book E"
of Quartz Claims on pages 14 and 15 of the
records of said county.
The nearest known locations being the Keno
Lode, Lot 47 on the north; the Silver Brick
lode, Survey No. 980on the East; The Forest
Rose lode. Survey No. 1191 on the West; and
the Cave lode, unsurveyed, on the Northwest.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of the said "Democrat ' lode mining
claim or surface ground, are required to file
their adverse claims thereto with the Register
ot the United States Land Office at Hailey.
State of Idaho, within the sixty days' publica
tion thereof, or they will be barred by virtue
of the provisions of the Statute in such cases
made and provided.
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N. J. SHARP. Register.
I direct that the foregoing Notice of Applica
tion for Paient be published for the period of
sixty days in The Silver Messenger, a
newspaper published at Chailis, Custer count}.
State of Idaho, being the newspaper published
nearest said claim.
N. J. SHARP, Register.
First publication April 1st, 1902.
Texas Angel. Attorney for Applicant.
MAY IS EARLY ENOUGH.
You are thinking of going to
the Thunder mountain country ?
You want to know where it is?
Ycu want to know what it is
like ?
You want know how to get
there ?
Do I know anything about it ?
Have I ever been there ?
Is it really great ?
Do I think it is going to prove
a stayer ?
Is it a poor man's country ?
Is the rush going to be big ?
Is there much excitement over
the country about it ?
Say, don't talk so fast. Keep
your clothes on. There isn't any
use of getting excited. You
can't go today. You can't go
tomorrow. You should not go
before the last of April. Y ou're
a fool if you do. You can't gain
anything by it. It would be
perfectly useless. You can't
prospect. The snow is three
feet deep. There are no roads
into the heart of the region. The
trails are buried. A suow-slide
might swish you into kingdom
come in a jiffy.
Then where'd you be ?
Yes, I've been there—several
times—came out from there just
two weeks ago. But then you
see I didn't go clear to Thunder
mountain—only to the Thunder
mountain region, within forty
miles of it.
And that makes a difference.
Up to that point the trip is a
picnic. Beyond that—but try it,
and you'll know.
Met a haggard spectre who had
just come over the trail on snow
shoes—got caught in a swirling
storm, lost his bearings and was
six days without food—old moun
taineer and prospector, too, and
right onto all the curves, but he
came staggering in with his skin
hanging to his bones like a.shirt
on a bean pole, and it took all
the whiskey I had iu my clothes
to bring him around.
You'd better not try it—see ?
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The hardship will be perfectly
useless—can't do anything till
the snow goes—first of May will
1 e time enough—let the shell
game meu and the townsite
whoopers go ahead and break
the trails.
And say, speaking of town
sites, there is the chance for
people onto the game—room for
forty and a certain need for
them, too, for there will be forty
distinct camps in the country
before mid-summer, unless the
signs are all wrong.
Not that I go by signs, mind
you—when it comes to that game
don't tie up to me.
But I know it's the largest un
explored region in the United
States.
I know its a great mineral re
gion—I know' it has a great var
iety of minerals fer I have seen
them—gold, silver, copper, tin,
quicksilver and lead—I've seen
these and I know what I'm tell
ing you.
And I'm not giving you a stiff.
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The rock of Thunder mountain
itself—which may be regarded as
a sort of huge dike—is much
broken and digested and the gold
lies mostly iu the little seams of
secondary quartz resulting from
the alteration. They call it up
there a mountain of gold, and so
it is, if you don't care what you
say. It is a small mountain of
much brecciated and digested
rock, carrying gold all through
it. The mass of it is low grade,
but some of it very high grade—
way into the pictures—but all
perfectly free and very easy to
mill.
Rainbow mountain a few miles
distant, is said to be of the same
character.
Where is Thunder mountain ?
In Idaho county, Idaho, just
where the 115th meridian crosses
the 45th parallel.
You can find that point on any
map, but you can't find Thunder
mountain. Just reflect that the
country has not been surveyed
and therefore cannot be mapped
in detail. Till lately Thunder
mountain was an insignificant
detail and tbe maps were all
made before it became the most
significant point in the State—
all except the boom maps made
by the several "best outfitting
points and tbe quickest way to
get in" towns. They shift the
mountain around to fit their own
story, just as we do in Colorado
when a boom is on.
But which is really tbe best
way to go in ?
Look here, now. I'm going
back to Idaho and don't want to
get mobbed.
The song I sing all the while
is, don't try to go in at all before
the first of May.
If you have got money to spare
and ain't in a hurry, go up to
Boise (prettiest town in the whole
West; and hang around a few
weeks and try to catch on. But
if you wan to economize time
and cash write (with this story
enclosed, mind), for maps and
printed information to any or
all of the following:
Chamber of Commerce, Boise,
Idaho; R. E. Lockwood, Weiser,
Idaho; H. C. Lewis, Ketchum,
Idaho; C. V. Hansen, Blackfoot,
Idaho; J. C. Fox. Chailis, Idaho;
F. W. Vogler, Red Rock, Mont.;
D. E. Burley, Salt Lake, Utah.—
Fitz Mac in Herald-Democrat.
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GREYHOUND GROUP.
The Greyhound group of mines
situated iu Sheep mountain dis
trict, Custer county, and owned
by Boise people, consists of five
locations on the vein proper and
runs from Sulphur creek in a
northerly direction 7500 feet.
The group consists of the follow
ing claims: John Henry, Rufus,
Ruby, Col. Bernard and Logan.
The Ophir, Birdie and General
Grant run parallel to the above
veins.
been located. Last year work
was performed on the Rufus lode
■which consisted of a crosscut to
a depth of 50 feet. The drift was
then extended northwest 85 feet,
and the face of the
found to be 12 feet wide, with
ore throughout that averaged $40
per ton, carrying some*gold. Six
feet of the vein averaged $25 and
10 feet $20 per ton. The distance
to Thunder mountain from the
Greyhound group is 25 miles. S.
M. Smith and C. M. Hayes of
Boise have a bond on the prop
erty and will develop the same
the coming summer on a large
scale. An average assay from
the Rufus gives $55.20 per ton,
$16.80 beinggold. Capital News.
Millsites have already
vein was
there this season that will not
strike a "color,'' but it is always
the case in all great mining ex
citements, but some will make
fortunes. Thunder mountain
proper is but a small part of this
great mineral region, for adjoin
ing it on all sides is a vast miner
al field. This belt reaches from
Custer to Warrens and from Loon
creek to Yellow'Jacket, and em
braces within its confines such
rich mineral districts as Stanley
Basin, Fisher mine, Seafoam,
Sheep Mountain, Loon creek and
Middle Fork and its tributaries,
It is a vast unexplored region
and rich in various kinds of min
eral deposits, and the prospec
tor will do well to take this mat
ter into consideration. From the
rush to Thunder mountain will
come great good to that whole
region, for the prospectors will
branch out and explore the vast
mineral zone, and as a result
many good mines vill be discov
ered and developed.
DOES IT PAY TO PREVARICATE ?
J.
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C.
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Truth is tough.
It will not
break, like a bubble, at a touch;
nay, you may kick it about all
day like a foot ball, and it will be
round and full at evening. Does
not Mr. Bryant say that Truth
gets well if she is run over by a
locomotive, while Error dies of
lockjaw if she scratches her
finger ?
Salmon and Ketchum people
are now' advertising their respec
tive routes open to Thunder Mt.
They know there is no truth in
such statements, but it is put out
to fool people who are strangers
in the country. Such false state
ments only tends to injure their
routes when the newcomers find
out the truth in the matter,
this time there are no routes open
only for snow-shoers, to Thunder
mountain, not even the Chailis
route—and this is the earliest of
them all. The snow has been
At
falling in the mountains during
the past week and a depth of
from one to two feet of new snow
has fallen. We would advise the
people to wait at least a month
before rushing to the new gold
fields. Perhaps within a week
or ten days you can go as far as
Singiser by wagon, but after you
get there you will have to snow
shoe it for a distance of 50 miles ♦
to Thunder mountain, whether
you go in by the way of Salmon
or Chailis. After you get to
Thunder mountain you will find
five or six feet of snow covering
the country at this time and you
cannot prospect. There are no
supplies to speak of in the camp.
—no town to shelter you from
the winter's blast. So what are
you going to do ? Let us be
fair in this matter. We are some
what familiar with all the "best
routes" to Thunder mountain,and
know that none of them are open
roads for traffic at this time of
tbe year—whether you go by
Chailis, Salmon. Ketchum, War
rens, Boise or Weiser. It's all
of a month too early. There is
no use deceiving the public about
your "open roads," for it is an
injury to the the country. We
believe that the Thunder moun
tain country is a great unexplor
ed mineral region, and when it
is thoroughly prospected will
prove the theory of our honest
convictions. Of course there
will be hundreds of people out of
the thousands that will rush in
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Arrivals at the New Chailis House for the
week ending March 29th :
H. E. King. SanFrancisco, Cal.
G. A. Sawyer. Mackay, Idaho.
M. Russell, Mackay, Idaho.
Sam Woolf. Salt Lake, Utah.
H. L. Seward, Salt Lake. Utah.
E. Richardson. Salt Lake. Utah.
Sid Roberts, Forney, Idaho.
John Altbam. Forney. Idaho.
E. O. Sorben and wife. Denver, Colo.
James Black. Telluride. Colorado.
Peter Mitchell. Telluride, Colorado.
C. V. Hansen, Blackfoot. Idaho.
E. L. Fegan. Boston, Mass.
Ü. B. Johnson. Mackay, Idaho.
J. T. McCartter, Salt Lake. Utah.
F. Kenenbley, Helena. Montana.
E. D. Yerkes, Prescptt. Arizoua.
Jerry Creesy. Cripple Creeic, Colorado.
D. Swinehart. Pocatello, Idaho.
F. W. Vogler. Red Rock. Montana.
Clark Anderson. Dillon. Montana.
James N. Hanraban. Antelope. Idaho.
Henry Whitten. Pahsamaroi. Idaho.
Arthur Cohn. Pocatello. Idaho
Nels Watkins and wife Kilts, Idaho.
Sam Leigh, Clayton, Idaho.
Chris Peterson. Mackay. Tdaho.
E. S. Arnold, Salt Lake, Utah.
John Anderson, Bay horse, Idaho.
E. R. Benedict, Salmon. Idaho.
A. Lewylen. St. Louis. Mo.
Fitz Mac, Denver. Colorado.
Robert Bell, Rlackfoot. Idaho.
Fred 1*1 ppe. Garden creek. Idaho.
Emmett upsford, Clay|on. Idaho.
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Richard Rock, known by near
ly everyone who visits the Nat
ional Park going in by Henry's
lake, was gored to death on the
23rd inst. at his ranch near
Henrv's lake by a bull buffalo
which he had raised. Rock was
one of the scouts with the ill
fat.ed Custer expedition and is
said to have been the man who |
gave Custer the information of
the presence of the Indians under
Sitting Bull in the valley where
that chieftain had encamped.
Rock advised the general to
await the coming of Reno before i
attacking. .
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Th ® Çhallis route to Thunder |
mountain is badly handicapped
b^three trains a week To Mac 6 !
When a person has made
UD ^is mind to °-o to Thunder
m P untain he wan f s to go at once
aQd DOt ^ delayed on the road .
K sa5d a dail y train will beput
yn the Salmon river branch on
the 15th of this mouth, but that
has been said so ofteu that we
put little confidence in the re
WILL OBSERVE APRIL 26TH.
The three branches of Odd
Fellowship in Chailis will ob
serve the 83rd anniversary of
the Order on April 26th, and the
following committees have been
appointed :
Committee on Arrangement*«
Mrs. A. C. Botnar, Miss Mabie Jose. Mrs. T.
J. Paul, A. C. Bomar, J. G. Finnell, Tbos. Jose.
Committee on Invitation.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bowen. Mr. and Mrs. W.
T. Osier, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Pfeiffer, Mrs. A.
Heilman. George Sewell. Mr. and Mrs. Wells
McGowan, Bernado Zanpedaglia. Jobn Penero.
Jake Leislnger, Cbas. Small. Jas. Marker. Mai
Branca, Marco Jackmello, Mr. and Mrs. Cbas.
Funkbouser. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Elder, Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Me Kendrick, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E.
Keyes, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Jose, Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. Ashton, Mr. and Mr3. C. L Lane. Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Wood, A. P.Chailis.Henry Sturkey.
Committee on Reeeptlon«
Mrs. Eudora Huffman, Mrs. Margaret Jensen,
Miss Dora Jensen. Miss Julia Jensen, Mrs.
Belle W. Thompson, Miss Cuba Trusler, John
Job. Mrs. Arch Howell. Mrs. Ethel Philips, J.
C. Fox. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. PauL Mr. and Mrs.
J. L. Ebberts, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Morrison, J.
C. Dougherty, Mr. and Mrs. Len. Peck, Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Bradbury, Mr. and Mrs. John Ste
phens. Miss May Paul. Geo. L. McGowan, Miss
Nellie Bennetts. Miss Pearl McGowan, Harry
Dunn, H. J. Bradbury, Thos. Gordon.
Committee on Programme.
Miss Mabie Jose, Mrs. A. C. Bomar. Mrs. T.
J. Paul, J. L. Ebberts, A.C.Bomar, M.M.Sweet.
Programme later.
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March went out like a lion.
Flour $50 a sack at Thunder
mountain.
J. P. Merridew. Supt. of the
Hartford Copper & Gold Mining
Co., Custer, was in Chailis last
week on business.
K. D. Williams, proprietor of
the Park Medical Hot Springs,
transacted business at the county
seat last Wednesday.
He—How did you enjoy the
Easter service Sunday ?
She—It was simply charming.
I never saw so many lovely bon
nets in all my life.
Mr. Nels C. Jensen will move
to their ranch on Salmon river.
Dr. and Mrs. Huston will occupy
the house recently vacated by
them.
It is understood that Fred Hol
comb has made a sale of his ten
claims at the mouth of Sunnyside
creek Thunder mountain,
price is said to have been in the
neighborhood of $100,000.
The
port It all depends whether the
business over the line will justify
it or not.
James Glendenning, who is
well kuewn in this part of Idaho,
and who was until recently sup
erintendent of forest reserves of
Idaho, died at Spokane, Wash.,
March 23rd, very suddenly of
heart failure. The deceased
came to Idaho in the early 60's
and was a brother-in-law of ex
Senator George L. Shoup and of
Marshal James M. Shoup of
Alaska. He went to Salt Lake
City in the early 80's and served
a term as mayor of that city. He
came to Spokane three years ago
to assume the duty of superin
tendent of Idaho forest reserve,
Since leaving th,at service six
mouths ago, he has not been en
gaged in any business. He leaves
a wife and six children, all
grown, and was in comfortable
circunistances at the time of his
death.
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Is the Nearest Town and the
Natural Gateway and Outfitting
Point to the Great
THUNDER
MT. GOLD FIELDS.*^
All Fool's Day today !
Attorney Milton A. Brown was
at Mackay last week on legal
business.
Attorney Lamme departed for
Salt Lake last week on a busi
ness and pleasure trip.
Mr. Benedict, of Salmon, ar
rived in Chailis last Friday eve
ning. He desires to invest in
ranch property.
Mr. J. E. Hibbs has been suf
fering with la grippe of the past
week, but is now able, we are
pleased to state, to be out again.
The Pringle Comedy Company
played three nights of last week
in Chailis, and will put on a new
play at the opera house tonight.
Fitz Mac. the celebrated news
paper writer, arrived in Chailis
last Saturday in company with
Robert Bell. They departed the
following day for Clayton and
Custer on mining business.
Salmon people ask that Chailis
and Mackay put up 8750—one
half—to pay for the new pack
bridges across Middle Fork and
Loon creek, as this route will use
these bridges or build new ones
on the Thunder Mt. route.
Dr. Philps last week received
one of the latest improved dental
chairs for his office. It cost $146
and weighs in the neighborhood
of 400 pounds. While at rest in
this easy chair teeth are extract
ed without pain.
A bluebird was standing on
one leg last Saturday morning
in front of this office, chanting
in cold notes, a strain from that
old familiar song—"From Green
land's Icy Mountain." Yet the
bluebird is said to be a sure har
binger of gentle Spring.
Easter services were held in
the church at Chailis last Sunday
morning and evening. Tbe eve
ning service was mainly devoted
to singing, which was exception
ally good. The building was
very beautifully decorated for
the occasion, and many new
Easter bonnets were noticeable.
The men sent oat from this
place to open the wagon road
from Chailis, on the route to
Thunder mountain, to Singiser,
are doing good work. From last
reports they had the road open
within a short distance of Mor
gan creek summit—the most
difficult part of the road, and
hope to have it open for travel
to Singiser this week.
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S " al Bros, are now at work
on their large irrigating canal in
this valley with a force of men
is dlt ch machine. The canal
| about four mile s in length and.
of the water taken out of Salmon
nver at the Barr bridge. 11 *s
an almost mexhaustable water
su PP l J- and a big enterprise of
to mach beneht to this valley. The
i canal * Y^en completed, will
. carry 1,500 inchesof water and
reclaim about l,0t acres of val
| U able agricultural land,
6 ! railroad survey from Mackay to
Chailis, was in this city last Fn
day night. He is the locating
engineer. They survey has been
. completed to Salmon river, al
though a preliminary line is be
on ing run along the river down as
far as Morgan creek, and it is
sa *^* follow up Morgan creek
re- going either to Blackbird or to
Thunder mountain. Mr. Arnold
says that he is awaiting orders
from Salt Lake.
Mr. E. S. Arnold, chief of the
is F. W. Vogler, C. V. Hansen,
Clark Anderson. D. Swinehart
and Hon. Jas. N. Hanrahan.were
of in Chailis last Thursday on busi
ness pertaining to the consolida
of tiou of the important stage lines
of Lemhi and Custer counties
! under one management. They
were here appraising the stock
of and outfits. Mr. Swinehart, of
of Pocatello, was appraiser for Mr.
Vogler; Clark Anderson, of Oil
Ion, for Mr. Hansen, and Mr.
He Hanrahan, of Antelope, for Mr.
ago Darlington. If the trust be form
ed it will go into operation today,
and two new 6-horse 17 passeng
six er Concord coaches will be put
en- on the Thunder mountain line
from Mackay to Three Forks as
all soon as practicable. The main
stockholders in the new eombina
his tion will be Messrs. Vogler, Dar
lington and Hansen.