Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-10-08
BROADrORD.
4 New and Rapidly throwing Town Of
Weed River that Has Bright Flu.

Wood River that Has q Bright Flu.
ture.
There is perhaps at present no town
on Wood River that has so bright
for the immediate future, or
in whose prosperity there is so much
expressed, both by resi-
dents and those doing business there,
as has the little town of Broadford.
Broadford, but few short months
since "a small prospectors' camp, is
now flourish,ng little city, whose in
habitants number all of 600. Two
months ago, before the new mill of
the Queen Of the Hills was put into
operation, the town had but few per-
manent residents, being simply a
boarding and lodging place for min
ers who lived in Bellevue and other
places near by, but who could not go
home to spend their hours "off shift"
But the recent developments in the
mines there have been so encouraging
as to induce large influx of popula
ton, and the town is springing up like
mushroom. Laborers have moved
their families there, many business
men from Bellevue, two miles distant,
have gone there with small stocks. and
others contemplate opening extensive
houses there before winter sets in.
Much floating capital has also found
a center there, and signs of prosperity
and permanency are noticeable every
where.
At present there are some twenty
buildings in course Of construction,
and foundations for new ones are laid
every day, so that it is safe to predict
that before the first blast of winter the
permanent inhabitants of Broadford
will number all of 1000.
The, business houses of the town
now comprise two stores, kept by w.
p. Callahan and J. g. Cunningham,
five saloons, prominent among which
is the one recently opened by Welcker
& OConnor, and FIVE restaurants and
hotels. Besides these, there are now
in course of construction three store
buildings, one hotel and two saloons
TO this showing several new store
buildings will be added before spring
by business men of Bellevue, who
now think Broadford the best opening
on the river, and are perfecting ar
rangements to move there with thei
stock in trade.
Residence property has advanced
! over 900 per cent in market price
within the past three months, ane
, despite the fact that the transporta
} ton of lumber from the Haley mill
costs from IS to $3.50 per 1000 feet
from the mountains overlooking tn
town some sixty new residences ma.
be counted, besides other buildings
: and those contemplated and fo
t which the foundations have been lai
: will swell the number to more than
e round hundred.
# The resources Of Broadford unit
# recently have been limited to the bus
ness from the two or three mines i
operation there and the prospects &C
iacent. But developments this fla
have been so encou-a ging as to wa
d rant the working Of large forces o
the mines and most of the prospect
and this has caused merited boom
Is every branch of trade.
The amount of business, or tt
= working force in and about the tow
Is at present, cannot be computed Wi
n any degree of certainty. but extensl'
in observations lead the writer to belle
ct that it is many times greater,
at things considered, than any 9th
e, town on the river, with the exceptio
perhaps, Of Bullion. The MINI
Moore works three shifts Of about
e. men, inside, and the mine improv
n with every stroke Of the pick. I
w. Queen of the Hills, whose new m
l. was first started about two mont
i. ago, works fourteen men on night a
I'd day shifts, besides a large force of c'
is. penters and laborers on the impro,
ments above ground. The Queen b
% two tunnels, both in about 700 fe
rs through fine bodies OF rich gale1
and with the small working force t
'e- shipment of ore averages just one CT