Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-10-12
WOOD RIVER.
HER ADVANTAGES GRAPHICALLY
DESCRIBED.
Her Mineral Wealth, Agricultural Fa.
cilitics, Social Features, ETC., as Told
by the Receiver Of the HALEY Land
Office,

OmCes
correspondence Oswego tKas.) independent
HALEY is on Wood River, about Y
miles from where its waters flow into
the Snake river. 1t is a small stream
no larger than the Labette at or nea,
Chetopa. But, o! the clear, COO,
water that rushes down this small
stream, which has descent of 70 fee,
tr the mile, is 80 grand, that to one
who is accustomed to the sluggish
streams OF Southern Kansas, whose
waters are green with filth and skum.
cannot help but admire the country
Tor even the pure, cold water; and
when we stand and gaze upon this
pure, sparkling water as it rushcs
down over the hundreds of cataracts.
we feel as though We could drink AL
ways and never have enough. The
fish that are found in all these streams
are very nice; they are the mountain
trout. 1t is a pleasure to catch these
spry little fellows, and is no less a
pl asure to eat them when they are
properly served on the table. But |
De eve | was speaking of HALEY.
Wei, HALEY is little wooden town.
only two years old, regularly laid out,
but built up oflog houses, box houses.
. few neat frame buildings, and some
orlck and stone structures. A new
and magnificent courthouse is now i'm.
der construction at cost of $4,000
a three-story hotel. about the size Of
Abbott House, OF Parsons, is nearly
enclosed, and many small DWELLINGS
are IN course of erection.
Now let me give you few rrices
OF both necessarics as we'll as luxu-
RES. Ii you start out with YOUR mar
ket basket to provide for dinner Won
wall be required to pay for Irish pota-
toes ) cents per pound, sweet potatoes
10 cents per pound, beef % cents per
pound. and although the market is fun
ot fruit, yet the prices run as follows:
Fears 20 cents per ponnd, green ap-
pies *o cents per pound, grapes % ,
cents per pound, tomatoes IS cents :
per pound, peaches rs cents ner !
pound. There is no nickel chance I
here, and rarely ten-cent piece is a
seen or used: Punched coins go all
right, and Mexican as well as trade s
dollars as good as any. am told that !
whisky at the bar is % cents drink i
| merely throw in this last bit of in. A."
formation for the benefit of some Of "
our Owcgo friends who have been talk. d
ing about coming up herc.) >
There is an immense amount IF d
business done here, as hundreds of !,
mining camps procure their supplies =,
At HALEY, this being the end of the +,
W God River Branch of the Oregon g
Short Line Railroad. Hundreds of t.
carloads of bullion and ore are h
shipped from here to Omaha for smelt- q
Ing and refining. 1t is no unusual II
thing to see at the freight depot 900 Sc $,
bars OF silver stacked up awaiting .
Shipment; nor to See ten or fifteen II. ''
mule teams hauling bar silver from the OF
shelters to the depot. There are rs
'ienty OF lawyers here, plenty of doe Ii
ors, and supcrabundance of loaf ii
RS. l'aboring men ale in demand at "a "a
% per day. Mechanics have been $;
ute busy and in demand, but work WI
now little slack. Carpenters oct S''
% per day, stone and brick!avers S,
er day, painters IS per day, and ,%'
rlckmakers from 81 to SIS per day. r.
Now | will speak of the surround Al,
'g country that is tributary to Hal,
~, and which will contribute to the
uIldlnS up of Il small city here in
he near future. First, the mineral
ountry is one vast succession of
ounta'n ranges with here and there d. l.
small fertile valley, through which a ior
agon-road runs, over which supplies H \,
c hauled to the mines and mineral to-
ought from the mines. And then my my,
ON these small fertile valleys dozen, sn!
narrow gulches reach up IN various VA
rections whore often "A wagon. road az
Innot be constructed, hence the Il
'ck mule and the train are brought
to use. 1t is somewhat amusing TO \
fresh kansan to see them load up lis,
csc trains of pack mules. Boxes wi vi
canned goods, kegs of nails,
,gs OF whisky and every conceivable
ing Is tied on the backs of these
'lnals and one after another they
ring out forming line IA mile in
ngth' and they thus freight goods n
r hundreds OF miles up narrow Jos,
i'ches and over m ur,ain passes to the
t various interior mines, and on re- :,
rn bring bags of ore to the smelters "a u
There Is no end to the mineral IN said
Is country. | have visited several wit!
the popular mines near HALEY and son,
AVE seen a million dollars worth of
; at one sight. There are Hundreds III"
these we'll developed mines and
ere are thosands of prospects that
! make as good mines as these pop a
r ones when c,nit,I hawaii ni.