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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1895
Page
3
W A Woodin of Blackfoot Idaho offers pricing on this line and invites inquiries for goods and services to fit current needs.
From Boise Statesman summary of Yellow Jacket camp in Colorado and Idaho claims. Describes roads, ore values from 10 to 50 dollars per ton, a 80 stamp mill at 65 tons daily, and plans for expansion to 60 stamps with chlorination. notes 100 workers, trenches, tunnels, tramways, and nearby mines Columbia and Mammoth with multiple groups and potential leases. Mentions mill improvements, power from Yellow Jacket creek, and growing town with stores, restaurants, and staged mail service.
The Grand Junction Star-Times notes Colorado Republicans at the Cleveland convention voted not to adopt a platform. They claim this avoids being recorded as enemies to free coinage of silver. The piece mocks shifting positions and predicts future stances.
The writer argues bachelor taxation is coercive and urges reform. They claim many men rush to marriage to avoid taxes, predicting bad bargains and comparing the justice of taxation to repealing anti wife beating laws. The piece ends with the provocative question of taxing old maids.
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