Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-02-28
THE RAILWAY OPENED AT LAST.

IRAN heache0 here Last Night. with
IL Days Mail-The Cost of Reopen.
ing the Road-C Cheap Oysters-Etc.
About ) o'clock Yesterday afternoon
the announcement was made that the
snowplow had reached Bellevue. I'm.
mediately the streets swarmed with
people, and every available team was
pressed into service to haul sight-seers
to the depot, some 200 of which
reached just in time to witness
the arrival Of the snowplow, which
came up the track enveloped in
mountain of snow. When it reached
the depot its complement of 40 or so
men went to work to assist the shov-
elers who had been clearing the Y of
snow during the past three or four
days. This occupied about an hour,
when the pillow was run over it, and
the road was open.
During this time the train, which
had been blockaded at Bellevue since
a week ago last Saturday, had been
brought up and got ready to &C, and
about half-past Z it started out. At
the siding near Tikura it passed the
up-bound train, which had left Sho.
shore at 6 o'clock last evening, and
arrived here at 10 o'clock, bringing Is
days mail. This went out again at
1915 last night. To-day train ar.
rived at 11:45 and left shortly before
) 2 o'clock-on regular schedule time.
No further interruption is anticipated.
The blockade was much more seri-
Gus than the railway authorities be-
Iieved it to be. Every day they OK
pected to get through. Last Sunday
5 morning, when Mr.. Doddridge turned
the management Of operations over to
Mr.. Blickensderffer and left for the
West, he expected that the train
, would be in Haley by Monday night
But the snow and ice proved too
much for them. In the struggle with
the blockaded track three snowplows
and four locomotives were disabled.
: The pillow that came in last night was
partly disabled, and would not have
required a very severe shock to have
6 torn it from the braces.
. Mr.: Bhckensdertlsr said last night
that he would have turned the mail
over at any time, to an! person or
persons properly authorized to receive
, it; and he did not try to get it in on
snowshoes or hand-s!eds because he
expected, every morning, that he
would be in Haley in a few hours.
' The cost of rc-opening the road will
be all Of $4,000.
5 On the delayed train were many
articles more or less damaged. Sew
eral cases CT oysters and eggs, and
: many boxes of fruit were refused at
r the express Office, by the consignees,
and are being sold to pay charges.
+ As a result, oysters (more or less
'fresh'O are selling for so cents can,
while potatoes bring about II cents.
Heretofore the price of oysters has
I been 81 and $1.25 per can, and that
k of potatoes two to three cents per
y pound.
s The train that came in to-day
J. brought two car loads of coal.
: An enormous mail and express ar
r rived last nj ght; and all night Post.
t master Fuld and two assistants were
2 busy sorting the mail. They had all
the letter mail and about half Of the
T.; papers sorted at half-past 7 this
O morning, when they stopped for break
fast, then resumed sorting until noon
O Some of the business men of thi.
:, city received a very heavy mail. 7
k r. Jones's bank, for instance, received
: over 100 letters, about half OF which
a contained drafts, but all for small
amounts. Mr.. Burkett, the manage
t, Of the bank, does not look for any Sc
o rious results from the blockade, al
j. though there are more or less in
It quiries from correspondents anxiou
I, to know why their drafts are not paid
y. The people OF Haley were busy to
', day, reading their mail, and man,
" will not be through for day or SO
l. 1t comes in especially bad time 70
st the business men, as about this tim
l. of the month they are usually hard a
work on their books.
THE SATURDAY NIGHT CLUB.
1t Begins q Second Series Of Five Z
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