De Lamar

Abstracted from A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898

The town of De Lamar is prettily nestled in a cluster of hills, prominent among which is the De Lamar mountain, distant sixty miles from the capital, Boise City, and nine miles from the county seat, Silver City. It is lighted electrically, and supplied with telegraphic and telephonic communications with the outer world. The town is located on the banks of Jordan creek, famous in the early history of Owyhee county, the approaches of the town being lined with well-built residences.

In the center of the town is located the plant of the De Lamar Mining Company, Ltd., consisting of mill buildings, department shops, offices, hotel and bunk houses, and surrounded by the principal mercantile houses.

A little further on, still within the hearing of the hum of industry, is another branch of the town, called by the residents "Tough Town," which in mercantile activity fully equals that of the town proper. From there the road to Oregon is skirted by the residences of ranchers, teamsters, milk dealers and woodmen, with here and there an occasional evidence of mining industry, such as the Henrietta mill, Jones' mill, and John Scales' mill, at Wagontown.


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