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Custer County Idaho Invites Settlers and Capitalists
Custer County Idaho offers vast inducements to settlers and capitalists. The region, rich in placer and quartz mines, has a 6000 population and towns including Challis Mackay Houston Bayhorse Clayton Bonanza Custer Stanley. It spans about 5000 square miles, reached by the Oregon Short Line, with early mining history from 1860s to 1870s and extensive claims, mills, and smelters awaiting further development.
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Custer County
Idaho
General Custer
Montana
Stanley Basin
Loon Creek
Challis
Mackay
Houston
Clayton
Custer
Stanley
Big Loat River
Thousand Spring
Round
East Fork
Antelope
Connecticut
Delaware
Rhode Island
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Blackfoot
Vis
Morgan Creek
Garden Creek
Bayhorse
Poverty Flat
Centennial Flat
Slate Creek
Thompson Creek
Robinson Bar
Fisher
Sheep Mountain
Seafoam
Washington Basin
Yankee Fork
Lucky Boy