Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-10-15
WOOD RIVER.
HER ADVANTAGES GRAPHICALLY
DESCRIBED.

Her Mineral Wealth, Agricultural Fa
cilities, Social Features, Etc., as Tol
BY the Receiver Of the HALEY Ian,
ONCE.
correspondence Osweso tKas.) Independent
HALEY is OH Wood River, about y
miles from where its waters flow int
the Snake river. 1t is a small stream
no larger than the Labette at or nea
Chetopa. But, o! the clear, COO
water that rushes down this smal
stream, which has descent of 20 fee
to the mile, is so grand, that to on,
who is accustomed to the sluggish
streams OF Southern Kansas, who's,
waters are green with filth and skum
cannot help but admire the countr,
TOR even the pure, cold water; anc
when we stand and gaze upon thi.
pure, sparkling water as it rushe.
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 a pleasure to catch these
spry little fellows, and is no less a
pl asure to eat them when they are
properly served on the table. But I
De eve | was speaking of HALEY.
we ], HALEY is little wooden town.
only two years old, regularly laid out,
out built up oflog houses, box houses,
few neat frame buildings, and some
brick and stone structures. A new
and magnificent courthouse is now un-
Ger construction at cost of $4,000.
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 necessarics as we'll as luxu.
rlcs. II you start out with your mar.
ket Basket to provide for dinner YOU
will DC required to pay for Irish pota
toes ) cents per pound, sweet potatoes
Is cents per pound, beef 25 cents per
pound. and although the market is full
OF fruit, yet the prices run as follows:
rears 70 cents per ponnd, green ap.
pies ~ cents per pound, grapes rs
cents per pound, tomatoes rs cents
per pound, peaches rs cents per
pouhd. There is no nickel chance
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 a 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
business done here, as hundreds of
INNING camps procure their supplies
at HALEY, this being the end Of the
Wood River Branch of the Oregon
Short Line Railroad. Hundreds of
carloads 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 1000
oars OF silver stacked up awaiting
sMpment; 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 supcrabundance of loaf +
ers. l'aboring men are in demand at E
s3 per day Mechanics have been $
quite busy aud in demand, but work v
IS now little slack. Carpenters get
80 per day, stone and bricklavers i; .
per day, painters IS per day, and d
Drlckmakers from 81 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 here and there p
small fertile valley, through which a 70
'agon'road runs, over which supplies IL
re hauled to the mines and mineral I"
rought from the mines. And then m
rom these small fertile valleys dozens I 1s
4 narrow gnlches reach up IN various "
'recf'ons whore often wagon road .
annot 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 lis
.ese trains of pack mules. Boxes Y.
canned goods, kegs of nails, -
egs of whisky and every conceivable
mig Is tied on the backs of these
nlmals and one after another they
ring out forming line mile in
myth, and they thus freight goods Y
n hundreds OF miles up harrow DO,
''c"es ana over M untain passes to the
10 various interior mines, and on re-
1T, bring bags of ore to the smclters.
There Is no end to the mineral in salt
us country. have visited several wit
the popular mines near HALEY and son
have seen million dollars worth of ,u