Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-12-20
A FEW CORRECTIONS.

The ketchum Keystone OF the 18th |
instant publishes five-column review
of the Wood River mines, which is
quitessa creditable production. 1t is
to be regretted, however, that the
compiler Of. the review did not take
more pains to inform himself on his
subject before committing it to print,
as bis neglect in this respect led him
into errors so grievous that the TINES,
although DESTROYS of avoiding even
the appearance of unfriendliness to its
Ketchum contemporary, feels called
upon, for the good of the country, to
correct few.
At the very outset Of the article re.
ferred to, the Keystone says that
The Wood River region is a coun-
try whose wealth is in silver and lead.
Yet silver and lead do not consti.
tute, our sole. wealth, as the Keystone
article Implies The Gold Belt is a
by-no-means inconsiderable portion Of
our mineral wealth, as any miner or
prospector can testify; aud 1t is al
ready evident that the Gold Belt
mines will soon equal, if they do not
exceed in value, our argentiferous ga
lena mines. But. the Keystone does
not even mention the Gold Belt, ex-
cept that portion of it comprised in
the Atlanta District ! Rocky Bar
District shares the fate of that por-
ton of the same belt found from Res
direction District to Atlanta. In fact,
from the Keystone's article, one would
suppose that the Gold Belt and Rocky
Bar never existed.
The Parker mine, we are informed
by this article, is the "deepest" IN
Wood River, and owned by w. H.
Vest The ore assays CAT LEAST (sic)
ITO ounces silver and 40 per cent.
lead" This will be news to Super
intendent Watt and to the rest Of the
Parker men, who have heretofore i'm
agined that they owned the mine in
eighths and slit eenths, and who also
SUPPOSED that much OF their ore Melted
them several hundred dollars per ton,
in carload lots
The Idahoan mine, this veracious
reviewer AYERS, "was sold for $780, 900
in 1888" 1t is strange that the ever
vigilant TIMES, which has devoted
column after column to the glorifioa-
ton Of this really magnificent prop
erty, should not have heard of this
sale before, and should still, at this
writing. suppose, and even KNOW,
that the Idahoan is owned by the
original locators In about the follow
ing proportions, to.wit; w. II. Nye,
now in Boise, one. fourth /; Judge
Turner, now in Illinois, one-fourth;
Thomas j. Edgington, at the mine,
one-fourth or three-eighths; v. S.
Anderson, the well-known "Stamps,"
now in HALEY, one-ten.h.
Regarding the Mayhower mine, we
are informed that Gin one of its ear.
lier years it shipped 800 tons of ore,
1000 (sic) tons of which," etc. This
may be typographical error; but the
same writer's statement that the May
flower sold for 100000 cannot be.
simply and purely misstate-
mont. (rhis is sufficiently courteous,
surely.)
We have neither the space nor the
desire to follow our erring brother in
the many mistakes into which he has
fallen, and would gladly stop here;
but we cannot afford to allow his
statements concerning Smoky Dis.
triotto go unohallenged, even though
he claims that the ores and concen-
tgates produced there are shipped to
Ketohum via Warm Springs creek.
Briefly, therefore, we will say: The
Providence Ophir, Smoky-Bullion,
and. Wallace mines are NOT "the most
valuable properties" The Carrie
Leonard. Galore-stormy, and King
of the West probably deserve that
designation better. II does NOT cost
$15 per ton to deliver Smoky ore at
the Ketchum smelter; the Galore
Stormy group ores only cost $40 and
81 to haul last summer, either via
HALEY or Warm Spring creek.
Our Ketchum contemporary should
be more careful when it purports to
gfs q history of region as well