Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-09-20

building up Of small city here in
the near future. First, the mineral
country is one vast succession of
mountain ranges with here and there
small fertile valley, through which 4
wagon.road runs, over which supplies
are hauled to the mines and mineral
brought from the mines. And then
from these small fertile valleys dozens
of narrow gulches reach up IN various
directions where often a wagon.roa 4
cannot be constructed, hence the
pack mule and the train are brought
into use. 1t is somewhat amusing to
fresh Kansan to see them load up
these trains of pack mules. Boxes
OF canned goods, kegs of nails,
kegs OF whisky and every conceivable
thing is tied on the backs of these
animals and one after another they
string out forming line a mile in
length, and they thus freight goods
for hundreds Of miles up narrow
gulches aud over m untain passes to
the various interior mines, and on re.
turn bring bags Of ore to the smclters.
There is no end to the mineral in
this country. have visited several
of the popular mines near HALEY and
l have seen million dollars worth of
orc at one sight. There are hundreds
of these we'll developed mines and
there are thousands of prospects that
will make as good mines as these pop.
ular ones when capital developes
them. But the country is new and
needs more capital. Now as
new country l can say hut little, as
the country is untried to a great ex.
tent. But will tell you what have
seen. have seen timothy that was
sown last September, and narrowed
IN on ground that was never plowed,
and tins year turned off three tons of
hay to the acre. l now have speci-
mems in my Office four feet high. I
have also some samples OF wheat in
my office four feet high and very large
we'll filled heads, that was sown on
fresh broke land on the 18th dav of
May, and ] feel confident it will yield
thirty bushels to the acre. Turnips
that weigh fifteen pound, each are
common. Carrots, beets, onions and
potatoes are large and yield abun.
dainty, but as yet are only raised in
small patches. Prices are very high
because there are thousands of con-
sumers and only few producers.
am sure this is the finest wheat, bar.
ley and grass country | ever saw. 1
never have seen such fat cattle and
sheep in my lite aud room for mil.
ious of head to Craze. AS to the
amount of agricultural lands that are
valuable l will say that there are
of acres. During the month
Of August there were sixteen thous-
and acres entered at this office, and
only dotted the plats here and there
slightly. There are millions of fine
ands but it is divided by ranges of
mountains and no large bodies lay
together. Plenty of timber and water
everywhere. This good place for
he homeless who want lands if they
nave pluck enough to help open up a
new country; if not, my advice is to re-
main "with their wives people,"
But there are thousands of acres of
better lands than the average of La
bette county that is here subject to
presumption and homestead. Now !
ion't want any man to come here by
'eason of anything I have said, for he
night not see it as do. But if he
las the nerve and does come he will
'e able to get good land at small
'rice. Capt. Hannah and Guy have
made some fine locations. G.. p.
'eters has also located some fine lands,
Wesley Myers, Charles Sprague and
Z. Spurgeon all from Labette county,
ave each located $50 acres of land
hat in three years from to-day will be
'orth ten dollars per acre. Ii any of
ny readers should decide to come
ere they had better come early in the
pr'ng, say about April.
J. S. WATERS.