17 Oct 1905
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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1905
Page
1
Mrs J P Spalding offers first class board and lodging at reasonable rates at her residence in the northeast part of town near the Fox hotel.
Local items from Challis Idaho include move plans for residents, horse racing dates October 20 and 21, and shop and mine notes. Reports cover J C Dougherty’s Philadelphia trip, Loon Creek mine tours, Challis business visitors, and military lodge travels. Lost Packer mining board names directors James Ivers and James Finlen, while ore shipments and rail prospects for the Salmon River country frame a busy western mining scene.
Idaho garners 58 gold medals eight silver and one honorable mention at the Lewis and Clark exposition agricultural jury awards. Led by Idaho agricultural commissioner M J Wessels and spouse the grain display and display quality boosted the state’s top proportion of awards among entries.
Report by 8 G Crandall on the Black Hawk group of mines in Seafoam Mining district Custer county Idaho dated August 30 1005 notes three claims Black Hawk Swell and Black Jay with timber near by water power potential ditch up to one mile long mill site at south end of Swell and proximity to Greyhound smelter two miles away along a northward ledge through Swell and Black Hawk supports access routes via Shoshone Ketchum Stanley Mackay and Robinson Bar
A detailed mining report describes a vein near Seafoam creek and Swell with tunnels at Black Hawk ground. Ore bodies 4 to 6 feet wide across tunnels Nos 1 and 2, with 10 000 tons ready to be stoped and high values per ton. A new smelter within 2 miles could boost returns.
Pat Crowe, sought by Omaha police for the 1899 kidnapping of the heir to Cudahy, was arrested in Butte Montana. Identification was confirmed by photographs from Omaha officers. He faced officers at a saloon as they backed him with revolvers. Crowe said he would return to Omaha without papers, cursed the arrest, and noted two Montana brothers.
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