Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-06-24

the above gentlemen and one of our
most prominent and popular Terri
torial officials, and among its select
list of stockholders are some of the
oldest and wealthiest citizens Of
Idaho, embracing much of our best
business talent.
Take it all in all, the Idaho & Ore
gon Land Improvement Company is
the best aggregation of capital,
brains, and nerve that has taken part
in the development of the West in
many day. While it comprises
enough railway men to insure the
hearty co operation of the Union Pa
ciiic, its organizers have shown rare
discretion in taking in some Of the
best business and political timber in
Idaho and Oregon.
While the Company has manifested
its strength and earnestness by the
recent purchase of thousands of
acres Of land along the Oregon Short
Line in other parts of the Territory
residents of Wood River are more in
terested in the one vital question
which underlies it's sudden purchase
of Hailey-that is, the decision OF
the Union Pacific Company in re
gard to a Wood River terminus.
The mere fact that the new Town
Company, working as it does in har.
mony with the Union Pacific, has in
vested its tens Of thousands of dol
lars here ought to be proof conclu
sive. But the TIMES is in possession
of information that will settle the
matter even in the minds of our en-.
vious suburban residents up and
down the river. There is solid
agreement between the railway and
Town Company (which will be made
public in due time, fixing HALEY as
the terminus, touching the erection
Of extensive shops, of substantial
and costly hotel and depot buildings
and other improvements, which
mean the early expenditure, right
here, of thousands of dollars, the
permanent transhipment Of all traf
fic, the building Of roads to neigh
boring camps, and, in fact "strone
pull and long pulp by the railway
and Town Companies to make HALEY
the smelling and commercial center
of Idaho. This means a city of 5000
within year, and one of 10000 te
5000 in two years.
Among the improvements the new
Town Company proposes to foster
this season are the construction o1
canals to cover all the lands along
Wood River from East Fork to Belle
vue, distance of about ten miles, the
improvement Of the Croy-gulch road
to Camas prairie, shortening the dis.
tance between Haley and the prairie
some ten miles, and making the
grades better than on the roundabout
route via Bellevue; the building of Z
tirst-class wagon road eastward direc1
to Muldoon, and westward to the Big
and Little Smokey regions, and the
extension of the Sawtooth road north
ward to Bonanza and Challis to bring
the trade of those vast, rich region.
directly to this railway terminus
The Company will also build som,
good cottages to supply the rapid,
increasing demand of families fo
homes, and also some more preten
tious structures for other purposes
1t stands ready to encourage, to an,
reasonable extent, the erection 0
mills, smelters, or manufactures O
any kind.
As to the new Company's real es
tate transactions: 1t will recogniz
all deeds given by Mr.. HALEY an
endeavor to deal justly by every res
ident. But it has no property TO
sale at the old prices. In fact, tn