The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1883-03-23
THE VIEW TAREN ny AN
OUTSIDER!
How They are Beginning to
.'Tmnbic TO the IkallrOad
Racket Of HALEY and Catch
ts.finpses OF Wood I1iver la
Her lrue Light
Icorre.ponasnes o the Keyatons.l

70 Try W WORK up boom tor u ErvAs
region mineral or otherwise
and quite another to do so tor y
notoriousiy one horse town. Ana
when we find great corporation
like the Union Pacific Railroad Co
apparently INDUCING IN spiprge o.
the latter character, IT must DO con.
eluded there is some underlying
cause or motive,
The country at large Is now past
cd and posted with notices to Tho
effect that tho Oregon Snort Line
is now ready for business That
"in sixty days the engines will
whistle for Haley, the business con
ter" That ''Wood River promises
to make Hailey the Leadville 81
Idaho, incidentally mentioning
Bullion near Haley Deer Greek
also near Haley" Mulooon twenty
miles east OF Haley, Warm Sprins
Creek fourteen miles north OF Hal
ley etc. as specimen bricks be.
longing 10 Haley, and IT strikes
everybody "a an effort to advertise
come personal interests at some-
body else's expense Aid that's
ust what II Is, And II will react
on tho effort makers as sure is fate
The gfeAt Union Pacific Go. can
we'll afford TO advertise and publish
10 the world the fact that they IRE
now prepared TO curry passengers
mud freight towards and into tle
greut Central idahn regioh, Wool
River ind sa#toath and Salmon
River and it Is right and proper i
should do 50. 1t can we'll afford To
advertise the region, the WHOLE re-.
tion It il goitg into, and It's iaelite
III carty to it with its Oregon Short
i.ihe teades and future niain trunk
inc. But IL eaiinot Afford TO get
lown to the small, personal, local
business of footing any enc place o.
locality to tho detrimeiit, exclusion
II preference of any other, and par
ticularly when the preferred point
$ notoriously one oil NO merit, ne
enter, no title md no prospects.
The inquiry therefore naturally
arises Ia it tito Union Pacific Rah
road Company, or is it Some one else
using the Union Pacific Railroad
Company and think there will Be
no two opinions on Wood River a
10 thu matter Il ia a we'll known
iaet that tho publishing bureau Of
the Union Pacific Company is large
" interested in the elaim to certain
desert land entries on Wood River
and in ordor TO market their Claims
valid Or not, title or no title, they
use tho influence Of Il great corpora
ton, and instesd of announcing
clearly and legitilnatoly the facilities
Of their company 10 get to uow aud
wonderful regions, these facilities
arc made 10 reach a point OF interes
70 themselves alone where there i
the terminus, no center nor any pos
, sihility Of there ever being one, ex
! eept in the min If tho ciaimants
Ill merelv note these Iaets 10 shoS
i the great injustice that Is apparent
J. u being done b tho Union pseitl
= Company TO the really meritoliou
Il towns and communities on Woo
i River. wheru no land grabbefs Al
Ga interested, aud whore good and pc
na feet titles arr ohtainable and cnta
! prize aud substantial inirecvemei
Ut and progress is The ordes Of Il
!. day speh IS kffo4rN eHd BsII
vrr aud further up the river. aud
- the sawtooth country Il Is IL
Ii merely M iuiustiee. bus Il divid,
liz outrage and Insult to these conmu
~ tics, and although ior ; Tins ths
= may be al The mercy ii a sing
ef great corporation yet they V
d. readily court ethes facilities IA
te. eventually induce end secure the
!, for influx o. emigration, trade Al
ar capitol. Therefore LEI the Uni
Pacific msnagement lock TO the m,