Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-10-06
SHOSHONE,
SHE HAS SETTLED INTO A LIVE
PROGRESSIVE TOWN.

pal Business Men Of the Junction
City.
SHosHoNE, Idaho, Oct. 4, 1888.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE T1Mrs:-
Shoshone has settled down into a live
progressive, prosperous railroad town.
business is good and improving daily.
The streets have not been macadam.
ICED yet but bountiful supply of
ram has put a quietus on the dust,
and everybody appears to be happy.
The leading business houses in Sho-
shone look forward to good, steady
business, and as soon as the railroad
shops are completed, anticipate the
speedy growth of the town to a popu.
latlon of, say, 1900 inhabitants.
Their expectations are not unreasona-
BILE, as at least 200 railroad men, in.
Guiding shops and trainmen, will be
permanently tulplOyeu.
Z. *. McCrum, late of HALEY, now
of c. X. McCrum & Co., Shoshone
has just opened his drugstore. 1t is
elegantly fitted up, and would be
rated frst-class in every respect in
more towns that make greater preten.
tons than Shoshone.
Ross Cartee, the solid banker. is do.
ing a good business.
}. S. Lewis & Co., jewelers., Ogden,
have established branch house here.
and have tirst-class establishment.
Mr.. Lewis, the senior member of
the firm, says that railroad
men will purchase nothing but the
very best goods.
The drug house of Charles E. Dud-
ley & Co. is the pioneer in their line.
and doing good business. War.
ncke & Co., hardware, stoves, etc.
carry large stock of goods, and
they are doing good business. A. S.
; inter, who was in Haley last spring,
has located in Shoshone, and opened
u cutting aud Quitting establish
mcnt. He is also agent for the Sho-
stone Falls Company. This company
is very strong organization, with an
unlimited amount of capital. A tri-
weekly stage line is now running be-
tween this point and the Falls. About
$4,000 has already been expended in
improving the road. \ steam ferry
and excursion boat is now being built
to ply between the upper and lower
falls. Already tourists are daily Wis
ting TIE falls from this point, and the
projectors of the enterprise antici-
pate that in few years it will be-
come famous as place of resort for
pleaSure-SeekerS.
Among other business firms in this
place that are prominent in their lines
may be mentioned j. F. White,
butcher; Riley & Kirby, saloon, and
North & McPhee, saloon.
The building of the railroad shops
is quite an important feature of Sho-
shone. The principal material used
for foundations and walls is lava rock
MIR. Matterson, the Superintendent,
gives the number and dimensions of
the buildings as follows: Machine
shop l40xll5 feet, with engine-room
addition of 5ON5O; boiler and black
smith shop 75x1G5, "a forges; car
shop 1l5x200; paint shop 140x150;
Woodworking shop ll5x.00. The
walls for all these buildings will be
26 feet high, constructed Of stone,
and built in the most substantial man
ner. At present there are about 1G0
men employed, and more will be put
on the work as fast as they can be
procured.
The Shoshone people contemplate
the remova! Of the capital from Boise
to this place, and as soon as it is an
accomplished fact, they also propose
to take up our new courthouse and
move it down on wheels.
The hotels are full of guests, and
as | write | am surrounded with COM
mercial travellers and newspaper
fends who are capturing the coun.
try. ID. NJ.
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