Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-10-05

wagon-road runs, over which supplies
are hauled to the mines and mineral
brought from the mines. And then
from these small fertile valleys dozens
Of narrow gulches reach up in various
directions where often wagon-road
cannot be constructed, hence the
pack mule and the train are brought
into use. 1t is somewhat amusing to
fresh kansan to see them load up
hese trains of pack mules. Box es
OF canned goods, kegs of nails,
kegs of whisky and every conceivable
thing is tied on the backs of these
animals and one after another they
string out forming line mile in
length, and they thus freight goods
for hundreds Of miles up narrow
gulches and over mountain passes to
the various interior mines, and on re-
turn bring bags of ore to the smelters
There is no end to the mineral in
this country. / have visited several
of the popular mines near Haley and
l have seen million dollars worth of
orc at one sight. There are hundreds
OF these we'll developed mines and
there are thosands of prospects that
will make as good mines as these pop
ular ones when capital developes
them. But the country is new and
needs more capital. Now as
new country can say but little, as
the country is untried to great ex-
tent. But will tell you what l have
seen. have seen timothy that was
sown last September, and narrowed
IN on ground that was never plowed,
and this year turned off three tons of
hay to the acre. l now have speci-
mems in my Office four feet high. |
have also some samples of wheat in
my office four feet high and very large
we'll filled heads, that was sown on
fresh broke land on the 18th day of
May, and l feel confident it will Weld
thirty bushels to the acre. Turnips
that weigh fifteen pounds each are
Carrots, beets, onions and
potatoes are large and yield album
dainty, but us yet are only raised in
small patches. Prices are very high
because there are thousands of con
sumers and onl few producers.
am sure this is the finest wheat, bar
ley and grass country | ever saw. /
never have seen such fat cattle and
sheep in my life and room for mil.
ious of head to Craze. AS to the
amount of agricultural lands that are
valuable | will say that there are
thousands of acres. During the month
If August there were sixteen thous-
md acres entered at this office, and
,nIy dotted the plats here and there
lightly. There are millions of fine
ands but it is divided by ranges of
mountains and no large bodies Law
ogether. Plenty of timberand water
everywhere. This good place for
he homeless who want lands if they
ave pluck enough to help open up
lew country; if not, my advice is to re-
main "with their wives people,"
But there are thousands of acres of
'ctter lands than the average of La
'et'e county that IS mere subject to
redemption and homestead. Now
ont want any man to come here by
eason of anything | have said, for he
night not see it as | do. But if he
as the nerve and does come he will
e able to get good land at a small
rice. Capt. Hammar and Guy have
,ade some fine locations. G.. p. ,
'eters has also located some fine lands,
Wesley Myers, Charles Sprague and
:. Spurgeon all from Labette county, !
ave each located $40 acres of land
nat in three years from to-day will be
'orth ten dollars per acre. If any of
~ readers should decide to come
ere they had better come early in the
pring, say about April.
j. S. WATERS. !