Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-07-22
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Wood River News.

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Nick Millions furnace is not the
first" on the river. 1t ii a ten tuber
roaster-a new hing.
just before daybrc.k this morning
an attempt was made to drive off Nc
LIQUIDS horses from the foothills just
below town. Plenty Of horsethieves
about just now.
Bob Strahorn, who was authorized
by our territorial Legislature last win
ter to write up Idaho and publish the
same in his comprehensive and char
acteristic way, is due in Bellevue.
John D. Burch has bought the Idaho
saloon property. ON Main street. and
together with Postmaster Young aud
/. Block, they will erect on their lots,
which are adjoining properties, solid
business front, two stories high.
Surveyor Moscrip, who has been
looking up the main line route and
branches for the Granger and Oregon
railroad, returned yesterday to the old
camp on Little Wood river. He thinks
the building of railruad over the
Sawtooth summit, via Wood river, is
limpracticable. The grade up the toll
road, which is now under construction,
is only Ii feet to the 100 IN any place,
and for the present, at least, Mr.. Mos
Grip will work on the main line toward
Oregon. The trouble with the Fort
Hall reservation Indian authorities has
been settled, and the work is going on
rapidly now. With railroad On Lit
/ tie Wood river and we shall not be s.
far away from civilization, after all
next winter
The owners of the Minnie Moore
mine have a crew of eleven men al
work now. Have run four cuts, start
ed two inclines, and are at work Ia the
old one at a depth of 80 feet, and there
is galena in every opening of the vein
At every strike Of the pick the mine
looks better. and the tests Of ore va ut
run from 50 to SO ounccs-that is, al
: those taken this week. A drag-roae
, is being cut down the hillside, so as t.
take ore all along from the various
openings down to the wagon road
Twenty five or thirty new fran,
houses are under course of constinc
ton or are just finished in Ketchum.
=. Yankee Fork Herald of the 10th.
L. F. Warner. Esq, chief of the SUI
veying corps of the Central Paciti
3 Railroad Company, paid the Heralt
Office visit Thursday. He gave u
distances as follows: From Kelton t,
:, Bonanza, via Wood river, $40 miles
Kelton to Bellevue, 140 miles; Belle
vue to Galena, 40 miles; sGalena t
Sawtooth City, about 10 miles; Galen
to Bonanza, 60 miles. The altitude {
Galena is 7,400 feet; Sawtooth divid
nearly 5000 feet; Bonanza, littl
over 5000. The party lei
Kelton on May 23d, and al
rived here on the 9th inst. M
g Warner informs us that the grade frol
Il Kelton to Bonanza is easy, and no OF
d stacles of any consequence to conten
e with in building a narrow gauge raj
P road He has gone to Stanley Basi
IS with his men to commence a nortl
IS westerly course of survey through
IS known pass near Cape Horn to Lev
W iston. The Central Pacific is anxiot
n to secure the Wood and Salmon rive
n business, and Mr.. Warner made it
10 part of his work to visit our mines {
as to report on the present condltle
S and future prospects OF the great mi
$. eral belt. We are glad to state TIL
,e he considers the mines the best on tt