The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1883-03-02
OUR TRAVELLING SCRIBE.
WHAT HE SEES AND HEARS
AS He "JOGS ALONG.o
EN- ROUTE, Feb. 25, 1888.

aisO teHu 10 amuse ana advise Trends. |
But being so Interested almost con-
staDtly, be seldom finds time or OPP
portunity TO put the matter in shape,
otherwise your columns would GER
taiDly be filed right along with con-
tributions from your numerous alb
sent friends and readers. / meet
them at every turn, Not day
passes that | don't meet some one
interested in your region, your
neighbors and yourself, and you
would be surprised to Learn how
much is generally known about
your vicinity.
Coming away from Ketchum one
would naturally think 1T WAS al yet
somewhat in the back ground, and
had not attracted much notice or at
tentlon as compared with other
Wool River towns that haye been
const nifty footing their own horns
III life and death struggle to main-
tain existence. He sees and hears
SO much of this by the down river
sxaggerations, and blowhards, and
realizes how little Ketchum figures
in so economizing the truth, and
splurging on false hurrahs, that he
thinks 40 will have to explain where
his loca ity is and what tor place
it is," ETC., ami so on. But that's
just whe1e one is Of, as I have
learned TO a certaintT. Although
you hayn't dealt in windy extrava-
ganza, railroad terminal, hopes, and
so-called journalistic advertising,
yet tae substantial merits of your
Locality have not been completely
overshadowedi not by great deal,
an the success of your different en-
t-rprlses, manu- acturing, commercial
and mineral reducing, and the great
P aspects and future in store for
your region, have advertised them
selves as all solid, merltorious and
commendable enterprises, ventures
and localities do.
Therefore one feels rather fatter-
4
cd and at home as he meanders
about meeting an old friend here
and an acquaintance there, and be-
in5 accosted something in this style:
Why. hello Jimmy, where have
you been this year or two past =
"Oh, up Wood River-K etchum. =
And il your interrogation happens to
DO . Salt Laker, he adds /" Why,
that's where Tom Clohecy, Major
| Hyndman, Dow Newman and all
those fellows are; all doing well, too.
hear. There's lot of us going
up there in the spring. It's the best
place we hear of, etc. And If he
happens to be q Boise questioher q
will say Well, that's where 10
Pinkham, Jim Judge, EN-. Leonard,
At Steward and that crowd are. |
know hslIs mint of fellows that
are going over there in the spring
They tell me that's the boss place. :"
And if he is of the inquisitive turn
or happens to be an old Salmon
eater, be bursts out With The
devil you sayI Why, that's where
old Joe Boggs, Hank Hyde, Lee
Vader and them boys are. Why
they are going over there in droves
from Salmon river in the spring. j"
And ii it's an old Mohtanian you are
being quizzsd by he responds. eWhY
dam it that's where I. |. Lewis, Cap.
Guyer and q let of those oid-timers
aae, and just piiirg it up we hear,
Why half of Butte will Is over
there in the spring," and SO on in
Just such style. Then thsy will go
on aud give you more facts about
what every blessed one OF them has
and is doing than ever occurred to
YOU. although you know and realize
it all, and scquiesce in every word,
as theirs having bean no blowing or
| footing, YOU only hear wha, YOU
know to be facts, ana of course can
supply much additional information.
But one soon realizes thus that
ketchem and vicinity is known, and
as you are asked about this, that
and tie OF er mine and prospect,
about the big Pbiladeluhia smelser.