Show SALMON RIVER IDAHO TSE THE NEW HEW ROAD HELPS THI THE COUNTRY IMMENSELY bay horse presents ft a great contrast to old time activity salmon city is fairly prosperous day bay horse idaho presents a dreary appearance appear anse ts to whit it once was with lis its active operations in smelting smelling sm elting and al ining the ax concentrator and smeller plants are both we idle and going to wreck wreak while the happy voices of we are not heard in an the town its 03 in ine days ot of good prices for or stiver silver stout of tire the business houses a are cosed closed and yet the two stor stores e s still stil do n u far fair bust nea the coy co iriny any have a large quantity of good food ore stored about the rine tiei cr wie at the mine some twenty tn enty miners are engaged encased pushing development work and getting out ore george W emery lias baa charge a 0 tho he walt at the mine and this work will CO ca on all winter the mine now being stocked so eced up wah provisions and other for or this purpose pur pase rich ore aim llor to the early days of the mine la Is being extracted it Is the intention to art smelter next spring and reduce a 1 1 the ore on hand chand then and U t Is 13 arto male that the works will run aa al next season at ac the sky lark it a force of some fifteen or twenty miners ore are taking out ore which Is packed to clayton claylon and Is being sm smelt eted ed it Is pro probable babe that miners inan will be kept at worl work all winter n in tire sky lirk lark mark newcombe Mew combe laa has his 1 pack 1 e it train taking ore to the clayton smelter 1 ter and he says saya he mever had bad a more busy if time me than the past few months with his mules very little mining Js Is being done about day bay horse but al a l 1 look forward to a good season next year the damages along salmon river by the floods of last sarins have lieen been about all ren alred tins TIM BRIDGES havo have nil all ben replaced except tte the one e at the toot foot of bay horse creek and tot that i t will soon son be ready for use bet between acen cj clayton ayton and bonanza the road WAS not ready tor for teams learns until sept when n R morrison Morr lson started his stace blaze over t that at p bonlon of the r route tha lie first time in n four months challas looks ake another place since its arat lire of last sprang but the town does docs touch much business yet vet because 0 of f the operations in the yel yellow ow jacket e country ou to reach that district zt means a trail sixty five over which all gooda are picked packed p by mules it Is a novel sig sight lit to see eee sections of team steam boilers smoke stacks stamp stems batteries engines en sines etc along with all other oiher kinds of miners supplies loaded on mules and being packed bk then them the n over a rough country often where there here la is just room enough to the bulky goods to pass through between trees or rocks pour aralas of anve or more animals left chalas on and and they wil be bade back after more cools a as s soon as hey can make the rhe fifteen d days 3 ys trip chalis foucht to have a wagon wacon road to yellow jacket custer county was once a preat great producer of Pre precious Ious metals ax tails then the mm sent out oin silver eliver oulion every week and the road from clayton claylon and day bay horse to the railroad was all the time lined with teams leams bringing in supplies and hauling out lead aill silver er buth bullion a and sul such rich ores as the smelters shelters sm elters preferred to ship then all citizens ot of the county were prosperous and the countes coun tys credit was faral casa custer C county of 0 today loday to lo day Is very different her assessment lor for this year foots foot a up al which ls Is over one hundred thousand less than in 1893 the entire taxes lor for the year aggregate on a levy of 36 ol of which 85 cents sees goes to ch fea state stale and GO CO cents on oil each cash as assessment to public schools bahng 60 for a 1 the schools school s in the county this only gives the co county anty about twenty thousand dollars re revenue v crille for uhe year to carry on an all affat affairs rs of the county of course candidates for offices are not as numerous as they were in the hush flush days of a a few years ago r the county there are good crops but the market 13 1 licking lacking THE COUNTY Is much benefited benell ted through having portions of the he country made more acceus ilelle by means of at good roads roada the state road is nearing marln ff completion fr from om I 1 the lie mou mouth ill 0 of f r the he yankee danlee fork fock up the salmon on through stanley basin and toward cape horn ahw last canti contract 11 com completes cletes the road from bois e to the yankee fork from which point the county already has the road dawn past pas clayton Cay tan kay bay horse an and challis chains and on to the m eiith of 0 the marl in a few days the bridge across the salmon ten miles below Cin CSiti aills ls will n ll be put in the old br bridge dge having been washed out last jasi spring and then travel between challas Cli allis and salmon city will be easy compared with the sixty live five ralle mile of trail iral which has tortured so many th the e past thirty years tile state bult buia th the e forty med of mad between and salmon city it Is all on the east side aide or of the river and required much heavy ik avy elit emitting tIng and lots of rock work that f forty arty miles critics cost and it I 1 t I 1 is 3 a pretty good road lembi county has been in the rod road baldner buld ner bu bulnes bul nea quite actively the paz past two years last lait year the roja road between samall S allmon city and leesburg seventeen miles was made this thia year tt it was vas extended from Call fornis bar to iourtc founta of 0 atty in b basin a seventeen and a half miles at laan n L cost ot of about then aeden miles iles of troad toad toward Glob onsvIlle completed m that road ot of thirty eight miles critics a so a that enst anat tn to Is not cut oft off a as it used to bo be the abrl age at dazmon city hiring having been and another bridge being needed sit air enles below to make the road sate safe and good the people will vote veto at tho th next election clest lon to do the work the county having gone gon to its limit of it now beina including some duo due on roads under the able management fit of the present county board along alone ath ill the prosperity rity 0 of f the county which its increasing ta farming amin and dij mining ilni ng la assures squires to the p people the county la Is destined 10 to lo set get along nicely business in salmon city is and the people do not seem to com complain plain of hard times as they do in other io ia cs I 1 lies salmon city zda iila sept 30 ami |