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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1900
Page
3
Farmers discuss dairy profitability, rye cover crops, and poultry care. Advice covers dairy herd stability, beet prices, and the value of rye for grazing, with guidance on turkey and pig production, feeding, and preventing louse and scaly leg issues in birds.
A Rural New Yorker contributor recalls Jerseys yielding milk before calving. A yearling heifer once produced milk after calves fed from her. she was deemed a nonbreed and butchered. Today a Belfer aged year shows an udder so prominent that observers wonder if she is in calf.
A Denver Republican movement seeks the appointment of a mineralogist to examine prospects for poor miners and advise on development or declare unprofitable. The expert would perform for a nominal fee tasks now done by engineers, akin to Australian practice where government funds initial exploration and shafting to test ore bodies. Victoria already spends about $100,000 yearly on such development work.
Leadville faces water shortages as many mines lack sufficient water for steam power. Some shafts haul water by wagon and melt snow, while others receive enough for steam and use windlass lifts or existing wells. The Lucky Weber shaft at Brooklyn Heights supplies 40 people with domestic water, and the Hoffer shaft, Bon Air, and Ibex mines repurpose water for furnaces, ash conveying, or steam needs.
The Hearst company run mill in Grant county is now operating producing nearly 100 tons of concentrates daily. Over 100 men are employed as development nears end and shaft depth reaches 800 feet. Silver City smelter operates continuously while investors reap returns on Grant county work. Heath property reveals an eight foot vein with seventy percent copper and notable silver. The Magnus Mining company reports a 600 ounce per ton ore yield. Water Canyon reports Buckeye mine strike owned by Governor Otero and Chief Justice Mills with a broad copper and some gold vein.
The Engineering and Mining Journal comments on the Colorado Supreme Court ruling in the Calhoun Ajax case. It lauds the decision as reaffirming the patent doctrine of completeness and invulnerability and the rights of valid subsisting mineral land locations under U S mining laws. The piece hopes for confirmation by the United States Supreme Court.
Valoable Strike described south of Boulder soda springs six miles west of Cannon, Bune & Co cross-cutting a vein fifteen feet wide. They report four tellurium stringers with varying widths from two feet to eighteen inches. Mill tests range from four to thirty six dollars. Tunnel floor at water level suggests a large ore shoot nearby.
The Hamilton mine in Summit County provides jobs for twenty three men and the ten stamp mine remains fully supplied with ore from the mine, reflecting steady production and local labor reliance.
A grimy Chicago Levee tale recalls a festering vice district long tolerated since the 1870s. Authorities vow to shut it down, remove the dens and drug hubs, and drive out the outcasts and thieves who haunt the area. The piece chronicles the canker in the heart of the city, its history from the 19th century, and the drug scene centering on cocaine and morphine in makeshift dens.
A Chinese exorcism tale from Wanbu describes priests declaring an old woman possessed by a devil. They hire the idol Bi Lungnang to locate the elixir and trap the devil in a grave, drawing a crowd with a boat, a pond, and a fiery ritual ending in the devil’s destruction.
A former Gordon Highlander recalls an 1881 Anglo Zulu or Anglo Boer War anecdote from Laing's Nek. In a silent duel across cover between Boers and Highlanders, a volley exchange leads to a wound. A sergeant quips while the Highlander asks how the Boer knew his turn to shoot.
Charles Kendrick, the alleged defaulter cashier of Citizens' Bank, Sioux City, has returned to town and surrendered. The case centers on a suspected distribution of funds, with Kendrick turning himself in to local authorities and requesting counsel. Further proceedings are anticipated as investigators review bank records and trace missing assets.
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