Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-10-06
WOOD RIVER.
HER ADVANTAGES GRAPHICALLY
DESCRIBED.

Her Mineral Wealth, Agricultural Fa.
cilfties, Social Features, ETC., as Told
BY the Receiver Of the HALEY Land
Office.
correspondence Oswego lKas.) Independent.
HALEY is on Wood River, about u
miles from where it's waters flow into
the Snake river. 1t is a small stream
no larger than the Labette ct or nea,
Chetopa. But, 0! the clear, COO
water that rushes down this small
stream, which has descent of 20 feet
to the mile, is so 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 PUSHES
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 pleasure to catch these
spry little fellows, and is no less
pl assure to eat them when they are
properly served on the table. But |
be :eve | was speaking of HALEY.
We Haley is little wooden town.
only two years old, regularly laid out,
but built up oflog houses, box houses,
q few neat frame buildings, and some
BRICK aid stone structures. A new
And magnificent courthouse is now un.
der construction at cost of $4,000.
4 threc-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. If 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 % cents per
pound, and although the market is full
of fruit yet the prices run as follows:
Fears % cents per ponnd, green ap-
pies ~ cents per pound, grapes rs
ents per pound, toma res rs cent,
per pound, peaches rs cents per
pound. There is no nickel change
here, and rarely ten-cent piece is
seen or used. Punched coins 90 al
right, and Mexican as well as trade
dollars as good as any. | am told that
whisky at the bar is 25 cents a drink.
| merely throw in this last bit of in
for the benefit of some of
'ur Owego friends who have been talk
ng about coming up herc.)
There is All immense amount of
business done here, as hundreds of
mining camps procure their supplies
t HALEY, this being the end of the
Wood River Branch of the Oregon !
Short Line Railroad. Hundreds of
ar'loads of bullion and ore are
hipped from here to Omaha for smelt-
ng and refining. 1t is no unusual .
hing to see at the freight depot l 900 ,
,ars OF silver stacked up awaiting !
hipment; nor to see ten or fifteen II.
mule teams hauling bar silver from the /
meters to the depot. There are t
'ienty of lawyers here, plenty of doc
ors, and a superabundance of loaf t
RS. l.aboring men are in demand at 5
3 per day. Mechanics have been $
ute busy and in demand, but work "
now little slack. Carpenters oct $
. per day, stone and bricklayers s,
er day, painters IS per day, and d d
rickmakers from 81 to So per day. +
Now | will speak of the surround
g country that is tributary to Hal
y. and which will contribute to the
ulldlng up of small city here in
'e near future. First, the mineral
'untry Is one vast succession of !,
fountain ranges with here and there ;,
small fertile valley, through which a %
agon-road runs, over which supplies. It
e hauled to the mines and mineral
rought from the mines. And then
ON these small fertile valleys dozens
narrow gulches reach up IN various
rections whore often wagon-road
'nnot be constructed, hence the
'ck mule and the train are brought fo
to use. 1t is somewhat amusing to \:
fresh kansan to see them load up to
'se trains of pack mules. Boxes i IA,
canned goods, kegs of nails. an
US OF whisky and every conceivable VI
ing is tied on the backs of these j..
lmals and one after another they l
ing out forming a line mile in
'gth, and they thus freight goods
r hundreds OF miles up narrow lis
liches and over mountain passes to "
various interior mines, and on re-
rn bring bags of ore to the smelters.
There Is no end to the mineral in
Is country. | have visited several
the popular mines near Haley and
ave seen million dollars worth of ~
at one sight. There are hundreds "a.