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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1902
Page
1
From Mackay to Thunder Mountain the Salmon River Railroad terminus to Challis by daily stage is 50 miles From Challis to Singiser or Three Forks by wagon road is 40 miles From Singiser or Three Forks to Thunder Mountain by oi Trail is 50 miles Total 140 miles
Notice to the public announces board and lodging at Mrs. M Jose's northwest of R N Hull Co store Challis Idaho. Meals and lodging are described as first class with fine rooms and good beds and a table supplied with the best. Rates by day week or month.
In Challis Idaho the Thunder Mountain district emerges from obscurity as a hard frontier with historic placer and quartz finds. Early reports tie it to 1860s deposits, Nez Perce wars, and later brigandage, with legends of a thunder sound from rockslides shaping its name. Modern notes describe a route to Thunder Mountain via Challis, prospectors flocking, and a looming wagon road proposal, alongside local civic updates and mine news.
Wagon road on the Challis route to Thonder mountain now open to travel with teams. Road reaches Singiser and Three Forks, enabling movement of wagons and supplies through the mountain pass.
At the March 29 meeting in Custer Idaho the Ex ecutive Board appointed a committee to draft resolutions on the death of Brother James Curley Wuerens. The union notes he was a member in good standing and a staunch humanitarian. The resolutions express mourning, sympathy to his family, draping of the charter in mourning furs for thirty days, and distribution to Silver Messenger and the minutes.
Arrivals listed at the New Challis House include John Ostrow and John Austin of Mackay Idaho H L Seward Salt Lake Bish E T Richardson Salt Lake Utah W H Rideout and F Devault Salmon Idaho M Nordstrom and Bs M Davis Mu Idaho T H Hunt Ogden Utah Kerr Custer Idaho John Huff and A F Appel Victor Colorado Robi Bell Blackfoot Idaho LB Christensen and Mal Branca Bayhorse Idaho Amos Franklin Bonanza Idaho Pitt Mac Denver Colo L Greene Clayton Idaho Reg Caryell Custer Idaho F J Dole Delaware Nevada W T Sanford and Chas Knight Salt Lake Utah Lester Wiles Springfield Missouri H W Johnson East Fork Idaho John Anderson Bayhorse Idaho.
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