Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-13
ssSTANDING IN"
The "Times" Assisting the Outside Press
In Giving Wood River Blackeye.


every newspaper brought in con- 8
tanned doleful accounts of the state of s
affairs here. Times were bound to be |
of adamantine hardness the coming i
winter, and families and prospectors
were leaving by hundreds The mines
had fizzled, caved, petered, and there
was no one left, the railroad was not
going to be built here at all, etc. To
the initiated these false reports only
give evidence of the great favor in
which this section and its mines are
held abroad; but the editors of the
newspapers referred to imagine that
by publishing them they are inaicting
great injury upon us and retarding our
progress-are, in fact, giving us a first
/ class 4blackeye." Nor is this whole
sale lying confined to unimportant
sheets, for, only week ago, the Salt
Lake Tribune-a paper which fire.
quently boasts of materially assisting
in the development of our mines
gravely informed its readers that
"Wood River is now closed for the
season. 1t is useless to attempt to
stem this tide of misrepresentation,
and the best that the people of Wood
River can do is to bide their time pa
tiently. In another year the yield of
our mines will speak in such thunder
!, tones that the voice of even the loud
est detractor will be hushed. In the
, meantime the TINES, out of pure kind
ness, will assist the outside press by
supplying it with material upon which
r to base its falsehoods. So, here goes:
| The present storm is just little bit
the heaviest that the Oldest inhabitant
t can remember, at this time of the
year. The old school biographies ac-
count for rain by the absorption Of
e moisture off the ocean and lakes by
e the heat of the sun, and though the
wires are down, it may be taken for
q granted that extremely low water is
l experienced on the coast at present,
9 as enough rain has fallen, and is yet
overhead, to form lake the size Of
it Superior. 1t rained SO hard last night
=" on lower Wood River, that the cur
rent must have run up stream for sew
e eral hours.
St The Kelton stage, due here Tues
X day, at 5 p. m, did not arrive unit
!. yesterday, at s a. III. 1t did not con
n meet at Goose creek with the stage
A. due from below, and therefore brough
no mail or passengers. The overland
" road is said to resemble a river, will
20 the current running mile per hour
ar Freight and emf grant teams are tiet
"a up all along the banks Of the road
40 The overland stage was not in at II
ne o'clock to-day. The Wednesday,
y y and the Thursdays Blackfoot stage
m did not arrive until ESQ p. M, ycster
day and day Extraordinarily five hour
ng late. No Boise City stage has ar
ey rived for three days, and it was not il
an this morning-which is the fourth da
as without mail, passengers or expires
10 from Boise. The capital is cut o
$ from communication with Wood Rive
ne and if the storm continues, a line {
v, packets will be placed on the route
az; an The roads are badly washed and a
most impossible to points below
ew Great lakes are now seen everywher
Ia where during the summer were grea
ew fat plains. The wheels of the stage
ma ma are out of sight half of the time-an
art it is all on account of the comet,
wild man.
~, III The mail-carrier from Haley
ma Smokey was out four days on the la
a up, trip, instead of two which is the re!
in. ular time, as it is only 35 miles ov
oie the divide. Stockwell, the carrie
slept out doors in the storm, eat
es- night, without fire. Green de-
, ra. skins was his only covering, and
rise got lame in his left leg, fell off
' nT precipice, and skinned his limbs, ma
t as rowly missed being eaten by be;
u II and was nearly snowblind when
veil got back to Haley, bringing no ma
= though he did bring over couple
:. yeast powder cans full of placer DIT
from the diggings, and many an q