Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-01-03
RELOCATING CLAIMS.
GENERAL EXODUS TO THE NOUN.
TAlNS.


The boys are all happy tc- lay, as
they all got their work in New Year
Eve and January I, 1883. When cx-
act midnight came which divided the
old and new year the mountains and
slopes along the Wood River country
were alive with enterprising miners
bent upon securing to themselves
few more good mining claims under
the law of relocation. Each year
TO every mining man during the sea-
son some information comes which
promises to be of value on January l,
and scarcely year goes by but hun
dreds of mineral locations are allowed
to pass unrepresented. Such loca-
tions - are known and regarded as
good ones are usually known and con-
sequently on New Year Eve the regu-
lar business of relocating is in order.
Wood River is yet new country and
many of the first locators secured
moro mineral locations than they
could represent, and yet would not
sell at = fair price. Each year finds
the prospector in different sections as
. general rule, out Of money, and un-
able to carry all of his claims. Last
summer there were fully 200 good To-
cations not represented and nearly
every one of them has been watched
throughout the fall by nearly as many
men, who, in case the locators did not
appear in time, were prepared to re-
locate them for themselves. Christ
mas week found many parties ready
with tents, blankets and provisions
camped on locations they had selected
70 jump; and every sleigh and team
available was engaged for December
81, on which day not less than 800
men left the towns on the river for the
various mining districts prepared to
remain until the afternoon of the LIST.
Most everyone has returned again, and
owing to the remarkably fine weather
the re-locators have been unusually
successful. Usually there is depth
OF three to five and eight feet of snow
on the ground January l, but this sea-
son the south hillsidcs were mostly
bare, and the depth of snow on the
hills and up to the SUBMITS, as far as
20 miles away from the valley, was
not over 10 inches. The trails were
in fine order, and the roads offered
splendid sleighing. The only draw
back was the severe cold, and OH New
Year Eve. when the boys were all out !
on the snow and on the mountain tops, .
the mercury marked 7 degrees below
sero.
Up Deer Creek there were more re-
locators than in any other direction, !
rs some 80 men struck out for aban- a
doned mines in that locality, while i
about dozen others were on claims S
they owned and intended to hold by c
relocating. |.
In the vicinity of Bullion, about 60 c,
men were out; up East Fork there &C C
we're 40; up on the head of Deer st
Greek and Kelly's gulch 90 more; on -
Warm Springs Creek about 80; and
Up on the hills around Bellevue 80 n
~ere reported camped out, while u
smaller parties scattered out of from
two to half dozen over the hills, in
Every direction from Haley to Galena,
and tho lillsides were alive with camp
6res-of which AZ could be seen from :
one point on Main street alone.
To-day there are innumerable spcci.
mems Of ore from the new locations on
exhibition, and the Recorder and the
assayers will haye benefit. One in
dlvldual secured five claims, end
several secured two aud three IN the
vicinity Of Bullion and Deer Creek,
but the majority got half or quarter ]
interests, and in a few cases eight
parties camped on the same claim and
divided it equally.
On Deer Creek eleven men and one IS
woman camped on claim, and at
smother point eight fought for a clam
which was finally divided by locating
1900 feet each way from the discov-
cry point and then giving each party
at four full claim to divide between
them.
No serious quarrels resulted nor any