Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-11-24
IN LAVA DISTRICT,

But little of an important or startling
nature is now Transporting At aud
around this promising burg, except
that mining, and business generally,
continues steadily to improve.
Tho first snow Of the season has
fallen, and the sere and brown autumn
array OF the smiling valleys and grassy
knobs was for a while obscured by a
s'x'inch mantle OF the unwelcome
beautiful. 1t is, however, rapidly
disappearing, but still it i. reminder
that tho melancholy days OF winter are
close at hand, and the prospectors
are returning from their summer wan.
behring's, and many of them who have
failed to ''catch on" in their search
for the hidden wealth, are turning all
their energies to a search for tho
wherewith to provide for themselve
winter quarters and grub.stake.
The foot-pad, who worked tho sa-
loon racket by day and made his lair
in the willows at night, has departed
for more congenial Cline. The
''tinhorn" and the "rounder" have
found their occupation, like Othello's,
gone, and many Of them have gone
also. in search of new fields and pas.
lures green. Tho alleged capitalists
and mining experts are also leaving,
and many and profuse are their prom.
'ses of big things to be done next
spring, when, as the swallows home.
ward fly, they will return, with an un.
limited backing Of outside capital, and
make things hum with the sound of
busy industry, and erect quartz mills
at the mouth Of every canyon. The
chief difficulty in the way OF these
gentry at present, is how to tempora.
rily stand off board and whisky bills,
as times are getting rather close and
"fresh air" is no longer accepted for
board and lodging.
All the mining prospects that are
being worked are showing exceedingly
we'll, and many of the prospectors
have QUILTED themselves for the win.
ter, and settled down to work on their
claims. Several bonds have been TAX
en-, on different properties on Lava
creek, which will be worked all winter
besides two or three others which will
be worked under. leases. These mines
are about six miles from Era, which
is on Champagne creek.
The Bannock Company have still
from Is to 20 men at work, and re-
ports from their mine-the Horn Sill
ver-are decidedly favorable. A few
men will probably work all winter OF
Antelope creek, and rich develop
ments will be looked for there, i
the parties who have the principa
mines under bond, succeed in putting
up the needful, it being scarcely prac
ticable to carry on extensive mining
operations entirely on "chin music, {
Meanwhile there seems to have beel
a fresh impetus given to building op
erations at Era. A two-story franz
building 2Ox4O is being erected b,
Thomas & Kelly which, when finished
will be used by Mrs. Txtro as lodg
ing house. Ed. NJ. Gaddie, formerl,
of Shoshone, has just completed
neat building for drugstore and viii
soon open up with full stock of ev
erything in his line. Mr.. Gould ha
just finished q new restaurant AM
boarding house and buildings are un
der contract for Martin Jacobs, Angu
Nc Master, Thomas Ferguson and sew
eral others. Judge Clark has just OF
dered the lumber for a two-s:or
frame building, 26x4O, which he vii
put up Immediately.
Another sawmill has been brough
in by Shelton & Ashton, and will b
running in few days ON the DR.
Fork of Antelope creek.
>, G. w. Harcourt, the consumptiv
ex-edi.or, has, with his own hands
put up another building, fenced i
several town lots, jumped a mil
ranch, built u COW corral, besides
spring of pure water, killed half's
dozen deer and crippled q she-oea'
and is now going to Snake river to tr
placer mining, from whence he wi
return in the spring with COWS and g
into the dairy business. This show
what our Idaho climate will do for
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