Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-02-01

attendants room, one serving-room,
and a corridor eight feet wide. This
ward is separated by one siHgle door
into the fourth ward, which has nine
patients rooms and one attendants
room, with door leading into the
convalescent sitting-room, which is
26x29 feet. There are also two linen
closets, a bathroom, with washbowls, a
shower bath, and water-closet. These
rooms can be found in both of these
wards. The most violent of these
poor unfortunates will be kept in the
third story, while the less violent one S
viii! be kept in the second story.
1t is safe to say that the Idaho In
sane Asylum is one of the most con-
veniert buildings for the care of in
sane people that was ever erected west
of the Rocky Mountains.
The hight of the stories is as fol-
lows: The basement is 9 feet high !;
first story is ID feet; second story is
IL feet, and the third story is 9 feet.
The building is erected on a solid
rock foundation, with two foot walls.
The brickwork commences on the first
story, the walls being Is inches thick,
with an inch and a-half hollow space
The second story brick wallis IA inch
es thick. 1t is covered with a Man
sard roof - California redwood
shingles. The stone work, which forms
caps, sllls, and water tables, which is
known as asbestos stone, was manu-.
featured on the ground by the coz
tractors, the Woods Brothers, which
is just as durable and fine finish as
cut stone.
the people of Idaho ought to feel
proud of the Territorial Insane Asy-
lum, for it is one of the handsomest
structures ever erected in the Terri
tory, and too much praise cannot be
given to the Woods Brothers for the
construction of the asylum. The con-
tract for the erection of this building
was taken on the first of September,
1885, and completed on the Goth day
of January, 1886, being IL days
ahead of the time specified for COM
pleting the building. 1t must be re-
membered that the contractors worked
under disadvantages from the begin
ming. The first thing that had to be
done was to dig water ditch to the
asylum grounds mile or mile.and-
a-half long-to get water for mixing
mortar, etc. This took some time, oil
course, but the contractors are enter.
prising gentlemen, and as such, push
ed the work along very rapidly.
The appropriation for the building
of the asylum was entirely too small
but nevertheless it is completed, and
should be the pride of Idaho Terri.
tory. 1t will still require from $2O,.
600 to $4,000 to be used in the cree.
ton of outbildings, fence, laundries
drying-rooms, wells, furnace, stables
and other buildings.
One dra wback to the contractor.
on the start was the scarcity of rock
but large number Of men were put
to work getting out rock, which cost
nearly as much as did the brick
Then, the weather was bad, at times
which was another drawback, and be-
fore the roof was covered heavy
snow fell; but all these disadvantage.
to the Woods Brothers did not dis
courage them, and IL days before tn,
time specified for the completion O
the building they had it completed
Another great feature and fore
thought on the part of the contractors
was the erection of a boarding hous,
building on the ground. This was
great convenience to the workmen.
Wednesday Evening Assemblies.