Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-06-09
WOOD RIVER.
Our Correspondents Gives Items and
Says 1t II . Fraud.

Oar Correspondents Gives Items and
Says 1t II . Fraud.
VIENNA, Alturas County, Idaho.
Ed. SENTINEL: Since my last letter to,
you l have seen a good deal Of this much
advertised country, and have collected in
formation / know will be interesting to
some Of your readers, il not to many, who
are looking out for q new country to 60 to.
Well, they have the railroad to HALEY
at last, but the mines they have yet TO get.
They have plenty Of locations, to be sure.
but their ''mines" are little prospect holes
with ore in a few places. None Of them
would compare with the Eureka Tunnel or
with Lyons Dugout.
Bullion, six miles from HALEY, is doing
more than all the other camps put to-
gether. 1t has, maybe, 60 or 70 men at
work.
visited Muldoon. about % miles east
by north from Bellevue. Only Is men
working there.
At Bellevue no work is being done worth
speaking Of. There are . few men in the
Minnie Moore.
HALEY is the county seat Of Alturas, aud
this fact gives it all the business it has.
There is q little doing at Ketchum, II or
~ miles further up from HALEY. They
have two small furnaces about finished.
They pay laboring men, such as hod-car-
riers, 81 so q day and grub, and poor grub
at that, but it is the same sort you get
everywhere else in Wood River.
From Ketchum to Galena, % miles, the
stage is running, the sno having lately
rra1<aI "a ann,1nh kn vandop fravElino on
wheels possible.
From Galena to Sawtooth ii 10 about IA
miles. The mail is carried thither through
the Winter on snowshoes, md is being
packed now through Q foot Of snow.
In Hawtooth . mill has been put up bnt
there Is no one 70 run 1t. To keep 1t going
they would have to have 40 mines like the
best they have found yet. The Kelly
brothers have sunk . shaft some distance
on very rich ore, and they are now u n
ming : tunnel. Outside Of this prospect
there IL nothing In 6Awtooth that has
shown up yet.
you, Ia II miles southwest from Hawtooth.
/ believe there il one OF the biggest mines
In the territory here, and 1t 10 mot very big
80 far. II has . body Of very rich ore 10
inches wide with four or i've feet Of low
grade. It IL owned BY HAggin d Tevis
Of San Francisco. The Ring mine hiss
abou / 10 men ct work aud 9 mill going up
slowly, and some say II won't run II they
build IT. 1t may be better to delay with
the building OF II for two or three years II
II 10 going to turn out like the mill at Jaw
tooth. having no ore to put through u.
Hill aud friends 10 other camps In Nevada
uhn paav wapA ~ Annoa IN th{a anup tpw
They had better stay 10 Nevada and do the
best they can there than 10 come out here.
There 10 no camp OF any note In this SEQ
ton Of Idaho. There 10 no capital invest.
ed. There may be land there may not bel
good mines, but II will take tins and
money to nud them. The season Il very
short here, and the "a ail.oHrrier can't ret
In on horseback yet.
The newspapers here ars like the
"mines"-vsry numerous. They keep
blowing up the holes In the ground and
call that "news." Wood River 10 q fraud.
Yours, N. ]. WARREN. :.
PER CONTRA.
To show how ~strikingly men may differ
In their views Of the same thing We pro-
duce another Wood River letter, written
anonymously to one OF our exchanges:
HALEY, Idaho. April so, 1883.
I have been in HALEY two days. and I
hud that this 10 going TO be . lively camp.
It ID one Of the prettiest town sites ! ever
law. There are about IS arrivals every
day. Building IL pretty lively. Lumber
10 not very plenty, but will be soon, a. the
mills are going to start up. A contract
was let this morning to build 9 cabin 22x16
with 12-foot walls and all rough cornioe
work, battened on the outside, two parti-
tons, price, $3.50. Lumber 10 SS6, shin
giles, 81. II 10 . lively town. Expresses
running to all the adjoining camps. and
they have got some good mines here. with
plenty Of vacant ground for newcomers.
/ think It would pay you TO come here. !
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