Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-10-11
WOOD RIVER.
HER ADVANTAGES GRAPHICALLY
DESCRIBED.

AcE ASueTSA VealtDs Agricultural "a
cllities, Social Features, Etc., as Told
by the Receiver Of the HALEY Land
Office.
Correspondence Oswego (Kas) independent.
HALEY is on Wood River, about rs
miles from where its waters flow into
the Snake river. 1t is small stream,
no larger than the Labette at or near
Chetopa. But, o! the clear, cool
water that rushes down this small
stream, which has descent Of 20 feet
to the mile, is 30 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
for even the pure, cold water; and
when we stand and gaze upon this
pure, sparkling water as it rushes
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 sire ans
are very nice; they are the mountain
trout. 1t is pleasure to catch these
spry little fellows, and is 40 less
pl assure to eat them when thew are
properly served on the table. But |
be eve l 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
brick aid stone structures. A new
and magnificent courthouse is now un.
der construction at a cost of 100000
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 a few prices
OF both necessaries as we'll as luxu-
ries. 1t you start out with your mar.
ket basket to provide for dinner you
will be required to pay for Irish pota-
toes 8 cents per pound, sweet potatoes
10 cents per pound, beef 25 cents per
pound. and although the market is full
Of fruit, yet the prices run as follows:
Pears 70 cents per ponnd, green APP
pies ~ cents per pound, grapes rs
GENTS per pound, tomatoes rs cents
per pound, peaches 25 cents per
pound. There is no nickel change
here, and rarely ten-cent piece is
seen or used. Punched coins 90 all
right, and Mexican as we'll as trade
dollars as good as any, am told that
whisky at the bar is rs cents drink.
| merely throw in this last bit of in.
formation for the benefit of some of
our Owego friends who have been talk
ing about coming up here,
there Is an immense amount of
done here, as hundreds of
mining camps procure their supplies
It HALEY, this being the end Of the
w God River Branch of the Oregon
Short Line Railroad. Hundreds of
of bullion and ore are
shipped from here to omaha for smelt.
ing and refining. 1t is no unusual
thing to see at the freight depot 900
bars OF silver stacked up awaiting
Shipment; nor to See ten or fifteen II.
mule teams hauling bar silver from the
smelters to the depot. There are
plenty OF lawyers here, plenty of doc
tors, and a superabundance of loaf.
'rs. I.aboring men are in demand at
b3 per day. Mechanics have been
quite busy and in demand, but work
$ now little slack. Carpenters pet
b per day, stone and bricklayers 4,
'er day, painters IS per dav, and
'rick'nakers from a to IS per day.
Now | will speak of the surround
ng country that is tributary to Hal
ey. and which will contribute to the
building up of small city here in
he near future. First, the mineral
country Is one vast succession of
mountain ranges with mere and there
small fertile valley, through which I
'agon-road runs, over which supplies
re hauled to the mines and mineral t
rought from the mines. And then n
'om these small fertile valleys dozens ;,
narrow gulches reach up IN various
'rections where often wagon road :
a"not be constructed, hence the
ack mule and the train are brought
ITO use. 1t is somewhat amusing to
fresh kansan to see them load up Ii
,ese trains of pack mules. Boxes
canned goods, kegs Of nails,
egs OF whisky and every conceivable
hing is tied on the backs of these
n,msss and one after another they
fring out forming a line mile in
'ngth. and they thus freight goods \
" hundreds oi miles up narrow j.
usches and over me untain passes TO ii
lie various interior mines, and on re- =,
'rn bring bags of ore to the smelters.
There Is no end 10 the mineral in 50
lis country. have visited several W
the popular mines near HALEY and ST.
have seen million dollars WORTH of :.
q at one sight. There are hundreds "
these we'll developed mines and