Custer County Idaho Promises Rich Mining and Growth
Custer County Idaho offers vast inducements to settlers and capitalists with rich mines, diverse resources, and strong prospects. The region, formed in 1879, hosts Challis and Mackay towns, numerous mining districts, and several mills and a new 800 ton smelter. With about 5000 mining claims and limited prospection, transportation and capital remain key needs.
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Custer County
Idaho
General Custer
Montana
Stanley Basin
Challis
Mackay
Houston
Bay Horse
Clayton
Stanley
Ouster County
Big Lost River
Thousand Spring
Connecticut
Delaware
Rhode Island
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Bladfoot
Morgan Creek
Garden Creek
Bayhorse
East Fork
Slate Creek
Thompson Creek
Robinson Bar
Sheep Mountain
Seafoam
Loon Creek
Washington Basin
Yankee Park District
Lucky Boy
Yankee Fork
Custer
Custer County's Agriculture and Mining Industries Advised for Growth
The article extols agriculture as a growing supplement to mining in Custer County. It highlights the Salmon River and Lost River systems as irrigation sources, potential vast acreages of cultivable land, and the promise of large irrigating canals. Stock-raising remains a leading, tax-generating industry with a mild climate, good schools, timbered mountains, and rich mineral wealth including gold and copper.
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Sawtooth Mountains
Wood River
East Park
Salmon
Custer County
Challis
Famous Cat Toots Willard Dies After Contagious Fame
The famed Persian cat Toots Willard dies at Mrs. Leland Norton’s home 817 Michigan Avenue after a long life that boosted Mrs Frances Willard’s temperance cause. Once idol to white ribboners, he attracted thousands of admirers and photographers. Toots, weighing about 12 pounds with a silky coat, hid, prowled, and even sparked a kitchen alarm prank. his only known relative was Dixie Norton’s trick rider son Royal.
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Toots Willard
Frances Willard
Miss Willard
Hin
Toots
England
Ap Irelander
Tor L
Gertrude Hambrooks
Leland Norton
Michigan Avenue
Test Cottage
Mino Willard
Miss Williard
Lie Kitehen
Dixie Norton
Royal Norton
Fashion reform or riot suspenders for women at Chicago dressmakers' convention
At a Chicago dressmakers convention Mme. Bloise Hubert urged women to wear suspenders like men, triggering gasps and protests among attendees. The trend, later demonstrated on a mannequin, drew praise for alleviating strain on the waist and hips as designers forecast suspenders becoming a winter staple for gowns.
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Chicago
Mme. Bloise Hubert
Boston
Lexington Hotel
New York
Enat
Hubert
Mme. Huberts
Adoption Reversal Over Mixed Race Baby in Brooklyn
A childless Brooklyn couple adopted a healthy infant, later discovering African ancestry. As the child grew, the couple returned the child to the charities department, faced with the clash over color. Deputy Commissioner Charles K Teale witnessed the process as foster care officials navigated the dispute and custody.
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Brooklyn
Charities Commissioners
Charities Department
Charles K. Teale
ABC
Ubeebilli
Dog Tries Death by Own Action Thrice
A Cincinnati spaniel owned by Mrs George Hatick leaped from a third story window after showing a violent dislike for automobiles. Carried back inside, the dog briefly revived, then made another dash for the window and fell to the sidewalk, again stunned. After a final fall near death the animal was restrained and returned to bed.
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George Hatick
Cincinnati
Nistreas
Mra
Hauch
Waterway Plan Aims Lake Michigan to Wax Bush River Canal
Indiana figures Charles Peters and Judge Burson supervise surveys to link Lake Michigan with Wax Bush River by ship canal. Repeated surveys since 1851 aim to win Indiana legislature support for appropriation and private capital. The project promises a shorter route to the Gulf of Mexico by about 450 miles versus the Chicago canal.
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Charles Peters
Judge Burson
Starke County
Ind
Lake Michigan
Waxbush River
Indiana
Gulf of Mexico
Chicago Canal
Public Notice of Water Use in Challis Idaho 1907
Notice filed in Challis Custer County Idaho, before J Horton, on November 15 1907, to establish beneficial use of water at 16.4 cfs from two springs in Spring Gulch. Mil Kleupfer holds Permit No 1539, irrigation use on 80 acres of unsurveyed land north of Challis. Water conveyed by Kimil Kleupfer ditch. Priority date August 24 1905. First publication Sept 21 1907.
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Challis
Custer
State of Idaho
Jfi
Horton
Spring Gulch
Custer County
Mil Kleupfer
Challix
Morgan Ereels
Enna
Kimil Kleupfer
Jas, Syeptienson, Jr
Notice of Private Sale of Mining Property in Idaho
The administrator of Tugvart Christensen's estate will privately sell the Silver Brick mine, patented, one and a half miles from Haytorne in Bayhorse District, plus the Greenland unpatented claim, and related mining gear in Custer County Idaho. Sale after October 10, 1907, 10 percent down, balance on court confirmation. Dated September 17, 1907.
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Custer
State of Idaho
Tugvart Christensen
Haytorne
Bayhorse
Custer County
Idaho
Geo. W. Emery
Ingvart Christensen
Notice to Creditors in Thomas Kehoe Estate
In the Probate Court of Custer County Idaho administrator William Lameson notifies creditors and all claimants to present their claims with proper vouchers within four months after first publication. Claims must be exhibited at Clark Redford office in the State Bank of Mackay Murkay Idaho. First published September 24 1907.
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Thomas Kehoe
Beauty Experts in Dismay Over Turkish Prohibition
The sultan bans cosmetics containing pork by royal command citing the koran. Abdal Hamid prohibits import and sale of these items while exemptions apply to certain unclean-free products. Merchants rush to stockpile prohibited goods, forcing women to choose between fashion dictated by pressmakers and attending the St Louis Show next year.
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Abdul Hamid
The
Chicago Tribune
St Louis
Europe
Shell
Alamos
T. C. Moseley
East 23Rd Street
New York
Notice of Forfeiture on Hutte Quartz Claim in Idaho
Public notice to heirs and administrators of L. Leipmund estate. Co-owner claims labor and improvements totaling 100.00 for the year ending December 1, 1906, on the Hutte quartz claim in Loon Creek Mining District Oyster County Idaho. Share amount due is 25.00 to cover advertisement cost of 6.815.00. Signed Charles Riscrivanni.
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L. Leipmund
Loon Creek
Oyster County
State of
Idaho
Charles Riscitrann
iIverm
Cater County
Mareh
MiMing
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