Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-04-26
THE PHILADELPHIA COMPANIES
NEW MOVE.

the keystone State, comes into tn
Wood River ore market this year wit
the intention of controlling it.
This means that our prospectors ant
miners will got the very highest pric'
for their ores that can be obtaine,
anywhere in the world. 1t means that
in less than year, all our ores will b,
reduced right here, at home, and tina
the hundreds of thousands of dollar.
annually which have heretofore gone
from Wood River to enrich California
and Utah, and Nebraska, will be ex.
pended here, to pay for skilled labor,
for charcoal, for fux, and for the other
supplies required in the operation o.
extensive smelling works. 1t means
that hundreds of teams will be kept
going to and from the mines, the rail-
way, the woodchoppers' camps, and
the furnaces of the company at
Ketchur,. 1t means an additional,
and important, source of prosperity
secured to Haley and Ketchum.
The Philadelphia company wants all
the ores of this section; but its prin-
cipal objective point, its main field of
operations for the next two years,
must be Bullion. The mines there.
we are credibly informed, can be made
to yield S15O,0OO worth of ore per
month for the next IL months without
the dead or development work being
neglected. That is much better than
any other gulch, creek, canyon or
camp in this section can be expected
to do this year.
This ore must all be hauled to Hal
ley, most of it sampled at our sampl-
ing works, resacked and shipped from
this point-either to Omaha or
ketchum.
This will give employment to hun
dreds of teamsters, and, before 60
days have passed, line of teams ex-
tending from Bullion, through Haley,
to ketchum, will be constantly on the
road. This will throw large amount
Of money in circulation, enhance the
value of property along the road COW
cred by the teams, and give an air of
busy animation to the lower Wood
River valley that will cause many in
yestments that would otherwise never
have been made.
1t means more. The competition
initiated by the Philadelphia company
will compel all ore-buyers to the
closest figuring which the business
will permit, and soon the Philadelphia
company will be compelled to erect
additional furnaces nearer the base of
supply than Ketchum.
The Philadelphia Company never
doing things by halves, these furnaces
will be of the most effective and
economical make, and operated by
men thoroughly conversant with the
business, and the result will
be a success that will surprise the
world, and retain for Wood River the
place she has already acquired in the
front rank Of the mining districts.
This we will owe to the foresight,
energy and ability Of the General
Manager of the Philadelphia company.
Three years ago Colonel Green came
10 this section with the earliest pros.
pectors, bringing with him the ex
oerience Of a quarter of century in
he mining camps of the Pacific
Coast. Milling ore was then the OBJ
iect, and the Sawtooth range the OBJ
ective point. He bought the Pilgrim
nine, in Beaver canyon, three miles
above where the town of Sawtooth
now stands. The following year he
turned his attention to the Wood
River valley, and since then, entirely
through his efforts or advice, FIVE fur.
naces have been erected and put IN
operation, two more are now in course
If construction, and, in all probability,
he number will be doubled by this
lime next year.
The people Of Wood River should
esteem Colonel Green, as he has done
more for this section than any IS men
who have followed him here, and from
present appearances he will yet do
more for it than whole army of or.