Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-10-09
WOOD RIVER.
HEB ADVANTAGES GRAPHICALLY
DESCRIBED.

ncr Ainerai wealth, Agricultural Fa.
cilities, Social Features, Etc., a. Told
BY the Receiver Of the HALEY Land
ONCE.
Correspondence Oswego (Kas.) independently
HALEY is on Wood River, about 70
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 70 feet
to 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
for oven 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 Is though We could drink al
ways and never have enough. The
fish that are, found. III al these s. re- anna.
are very nice; they are The, MOI mountain ilt
trout. 1t is pleasure to catch these
spry little fellows, and is no less
pl asure to eat them when they are
properly served on tho table. But | !
be eve | was speaking of HALEY.
We ], Hailcy 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 and stone structures. A new
and magnificent courthouse is now I'M !
Ger construction at cost of $4,000 |
A three-story hotel, about the 81 re of
Abbott House, OF Parsons, is nearly
enclosed, and many small dwellings
are IN course of erection. /
Now let me give you few prices
OF both necessaries as well as luxu.
ries. Ii you start out with YOUR mar.
ket basket to provide for dinner YOU
will De required t. pay for Irish pota-
toes cents per pound, sweet potatoes
10 cents per pound, beef 25 cents per
pound, and although the market is full
Ut fruit, yet the prices run as follows:
t'cars 70 cents per pound, green an.
pies ~ cents per pound, grapes rs
cents per pound, tomatoes % cents
per pound, peaches rs cents pcr
pound. There is no nickel change
here, and rarely ten-cent piece is
seen or used. Punched coins 90 all
right, and Me xican as we'll as trade
dollars as good as any, | am told that
whisky at the bar is q cents drink.
| merely throw in this last bit of in.
formation for the benefit of some of
our Owcgo friends who have been talk :
ing about coming up here.) 7
There is an immense amount of i!
business done here, as hundreds of 8
mining camps procure their supplies =
at Haley, this being the end Of the {
Wood River Branch of the Oregon 8
Short Line Railroad. Hundreds Of t
carloads. Of bullion and, ore are i
shipped from here to Omaha for sn,elt. 9
ing and refining. 1t is no unusual
thing to see at the freight depot 1 900 r
bars OF silver stacked up awaiting 2
shipments; nor to see ten or fifteen Il
mule teams hauling bar silver from the {,
smelters to the depot. There are r
plenty OF lawyers here, plenty of doc
tors, and superabundance of loaf i
ers. laborlnS men ale in demand at c
IS per day. Mechanics have been y
quite busy and in demand, but work "
is now a little slack. Carpenters get 81
=" per day, stone and brick!ayers 81 g..
per day, painters 50 per day, and a
brickmakers from 81 to IS per clav. +
Now ! will speak of the surround
ing country that is tributary to Hal
lev. and which will contribute to the
building up OF small city here in
the near future. First, the mineral
is one vast succession of
ranges with here and there p,
small fertile valley, through which a 70
"agon-road runs, over which supplies Ns
ire hau led to the mines and mineral to
brought from the mines. And then m,
rom these small fertile valleys dozens an an
II narrow gulchesreac up,n various VI
directions where often a wagon, road
'annot be constructed, hence the
back mule and the train are brought
nto USE 1t is somewhat amusing to
fresh Kansan TO see them load up lis
lose trains Of pack mules. Boxes $
II canned goods, kegs of nails, -
.egs OF whisky and every conceivable
hing is tied on the backs of these
nllnals and one after another they ~
trlng out tc:ming line mile in /.
ength, and they thus freight goods u
or hundreds oi miles up narrow 10,
''ulches and over m untain passes to the
he various interior mines, and on re. 80,
urn bring bags Of ore to the smelters.
There Is no end to the mineral IN SAT-
his country. have visited several wit
the popular mines near HALEY ana sun
have seen million dollars worth of g..
re- at one sight. There are hundreds
these we'll developed mines and
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