Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-09-26
THE ROAD TO CANVAS.
IT IS COMPLETED AND ACCEPTED
BY THE CITIZENS.
The Grade Is Light, Short, and Wide
Enough for 12.Mule Team to Swing
with Ease, and the New Road Saves IL
Miles to HALEY, the County Seat.

Miles to HALEY, the County Seat.
The new stage and freight road
from Camas prairie to HALEY is COM
pleted, and has been examined and
accepted by the citizens committee Of
HALEY, who report that they are
agreeably surprised at the easy grade
and amount of work done for the mon
ey expended.
HALEY, as the county seat, outside
of other advantages, as market for
the outer country and supply-point
for the mining districts of the Wood
and Salmon rivers, is necessarily Wis
tied by every miner and capitalist
coming to the country, and during
each term Of court especially, and
throughout the entire year, by many
from the Pacific coast via Winnie
mucca, Pendleton, or Boise City.
The old way of travel was circuit
GUS one, and while 13 miles longer
than the new road just opened, was
also much rougher, crossing rocky
plains and steep grades. The new
HALEY stage and freight road leaves
the main travelled road from HALEY to
Bullion, and commences at what is
known as Frenchmen's Stacks, eight
miles west of town, on the East
branch of Camp creek, to which point
the old travelled road is upon very
easy grade scarcely pcrceptible. To
within short distance Of the divide
between Smokey and Wood River the
new road continues on this grade, and
through a romantic scenery and nat
ural pass in the steep cliffs on the
head Of Camp creek, when the only
upgrade encountered, which is for
q distance of only 100 yards, is 10
inches to the rod. It then varies from
. level to grade to the summit, a
miles, the grade at any point not be-
ing over II inches rise to the rod, or
three-fourths Of an inch to the foot
Upon the summit the view is re-
markable, as for miles away, as far as
the eye can reach, the great Snake
river country is in view with all its
network of roads and the lava beds;
while away in the dim distance the
Snake river is seen.
Descending only q miles upon a
similar grade to the one to the sum-
NIT the stage station on Camas prai-
rieI is reached, which is upon the
present Boise and Wood River stage
road, and known as Tomley's station
1t is seen that the worst grade o.,
the road is halfway up to the divide
aud is not over ID inches in l6 feet
and this is only for 100 yards, while
the average of the grade is only /;
inches to the rod, and the length O
the grade is one mile only-all tn.
balance of the road being level. The
grade around from the same station
on Camas, via Rock creek and Belle
vue, is much sleeper, while it is l;
miles longer to Haley than by thu
new road. In fact, the new road i
two miles shorter than by the first sur
vey, and it is therefore miles shorte
from Tomley's station to Bellevue Vi,
HALEY, than from the station at Rocl
creek to Bellevue, and the travel from
Camas prairie, Boise and all point
west, can now save l3 mile
by going over the new roa,
to Haley, besides having
much easier grades. But Bellevue i
also benefited by the new road. TIL
old stage road distance from Boise L
Bellevue is 1875 miles, and to Halle
lao miles; the new road from Boise t
Bellevue is only 132 miles long, an,
to Haley III miles. Any freigh
team that can pull load from Bots
to Tomley's, on Camas Prairie, ca
bring it over the new road to Halle,
Last Sunday, J. NJ. Banfeld an
JOS. Morrill,, of Haley, drove the Ell
tire distance over the new road, whic
is Of course soft as yet from the shove
and with four-horse wagon tear
and passengers made the trip of fiv
miles in so minutes and returned in tn
came time. There is no place on tn