County Commissioners adopt plans for Salmon River bridge
The Custer County Idaho Board of County Commissioners met January 25 1911 in special session with Robt Campbell chairman and E J Michael clerk. Plans and specifications by the C G Sheely Co for a steel bridge over Salmon River two miles below Barr or Jenson bridge were adopted. Bids to be advertised 30 days in The Silver Messenger Challis and Mackay Miner Mackay. Bids due April 5 1911 for consideration April 11 1911. Board adjourned without date.
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Board of County Commissioners
Custer County
Idaho
Board of County Missioners
Robt. Campbell
Jonathan Job
E. J. Michael
C. G. Sheely Co
Salmon River
Challis
Resr. Campbell
E. J. Micuakt
Yankee Fork Colors and Mining News in 1880
May 8 1880 Yankee Fork Herald reports on Custer mill shipping progress Fraser Chalmers 20 stamp mill for Custer Co and Utah Northern Railway teams gathering at Blackfoot. Idahoan notes a mineral spring that regrows hair. quartz deposit near Stanley Basin yields ore near 400 per ton. Custer City quartz boom, Hyndmans Butte named. 5000 cattle wintered in Pahsamaroi valley. Dodge Hotel crowded. Yankee Fork Miners Union notice to join.
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Messenger
Fraser & Chalmers
Chicago
Custer Company
Blackfoot
Utah & Northern R. R
Custer
Toll Road Co
Here
Challis
Butler
Idahoan
Yankee Fork Herald
Joe Boggs
Notice of Teachers Examination in Challis Idaho
Notice is hereby given that an examination for teachers first second and third grade county certificates will be held at the office of the County Superintendent of Public Instruction in Challis Idaho on February 24 and 25 2011. Jenne B E Kellerer Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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County Superintendent of Public Instruction
Challis
Idaho
Jenne BE. Kellerer
Public Inst
Local News Roundup From Challis and Nearby
G T Potter and others reported ill while visits to May Idaho and Mackay occur. Hay for sale at Cochran's May Idaho. Many notices of illness, mining strikes, a Panama Exposition vote, and local events fill the Challis saloon season with bids, sales, and social gatherings.
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J.C. Dougherty
Guy Bradbury
Cochran's
May
Idahoo
Custer County to be surveyed by multiple crews next summer
Frank L Spofford assistant supervisor of surveys informs Senator Macbeth that two to four surveying crews will work in Custer County this coming summer. Townships to be surveyed include Tp 12 N R 14 19 and R 15 19 East and others. The aim is to survey lands with bona fide settlers and boost agricultural land classifications, with additional townships under contract or applied for.
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Macbeth
Frank L. Spofford
Custer County
Department of the Interior
U. S
Boise
Ida
Hos. Ravenel Macbeth
Idaho
C. E. Peterson
General Land Office
Sam
Frayvk L. Sporford
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Barber Shay
J. L. Ebberts
Main Street
Challis, Idaho
M. Jose
ilVel
Dr, I, W. Lynn
R. B. Vanderwort
Havana
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Washington
C. Dougherty
Ralph Baxter
James Colter
Lee Elliott
Tate’s Orchestra
Geo, FP. Tate, F. A. Reed, Don, Bowles
Challis House
Yankee Fork
Graph
Peter Albert
Stanley
Basin
Herald
H. J. Burleigh
Salmon City
Thomas White
Custer City
Loon Creek
Jerry Bernard
Hyndman's
Dodge Hotel
East Fork
Pahsamaroi
Lorenzo Falls
Badger Mine
G.T. Potter
Aden Honey
Sweet
C. E. Gable
Sunbeam
Postal Board
Mrs
Frank Benton
Mackay
Arco
Yellow Jacket
Salmon Herald
Idaho State Life Insurance Company
Boise City
John M. Haines
Atrone Salmon River
L. W. Hubingfield
Mobell, S
George R. Dearden
Arthur McGown
R. N. Hull & Co
Congress
San Francisco
Senate
House
New Orleans
R. B. Vandervort
Ayr
St. Valentine's Ball
Odd Fellows
St. Valentine
Waters & Waters Hardware and Implement Company
Spalding
W. W. Waters
Lincoln
Court House
Fred D. Warren
Appeal To Reason
Jin
Wo Man’s
National Progressive Republican League
Republican Party
League
Theodore Roosevelt
LaFollette
William J. Bryan
Joe Hill
J. Calvin
B. W. Rice
Caldwell
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