Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-03-20
BRIGHT PROSPECTS, FoR Paw.
ETTE.

""" ~ ID SO mere to-day with promI-
nent railroad and business men. RI
learned Yesterday from good authori-
ty that the railroad men had loaded |
their wagon and moved off up the /
fayette to the mouth of Willow creek |
TO prepare the way to commerce on |
the coming Monday to survey the
route to the Seven Devils. A man
came in here from Lewiston and said
that the Northern Pacific company |
mad surveyors running line up Salm-
on river and would try to reach the
Seven Devils before these parties |
could possibly make the survey to
that point. There is a low gap in the
mountain that both parties are trying
to get possession of and hold. The
snow is said to be deep on Salmon
river, but that don't stop railroad sur
yeyo's when fortunes are depending
on the race.
| Men are getting off the train daily
here and the principal hotel is we'll
filled with travellers. They gather
in groups on the corners of the streets
and whisper, and seem to be making
ready to bound on to fortunes at the
crack of the big gun.
| have heard that one of our big
stock men has broken forty head of
good horses that he intends to put on
the grade. A butcher has been try
ing to engage hundred head of beef
cattle, and contemplates starting a
butcher shop. Town lots that were
worth only from $50 to 800 month
ago are now selling at from $500 to
$1,000. A ranch changed hands at
$4,000 that perhaps would not have
sold for half that amount six months
ago. Quite a number of lots and
ranches have changed hands here re-
Gently at big figures.
The railroad men have bonded a
. large tract of land on the Payette
above town.
e 1t is reported that there is another
set of surveyors up in Willow creek
} canyon. The supposition is that they
have been sent by the Northern Pa
: cifc to hold that low pass through tc
the Payette. If they build their roac
!. to the Seven Devils they will have tC
:, come through there to reach Payette
a. The men who propose building thii
: road are said to be old quartz miner
- from Montana and have the money
n to accomplish what they undertake
10 at least that is the reputation the,
,a have among our most prominent men
=. have heard that they have Sc
III lected a bend on the Payette for
- location for their smelter. This BEN
is lust below town, so we can expec
from one hundred To five hundre
- tons to be dumped off daily to b
4 run through the smelter, and ore tina
= will 20 from $50 TO $500 per tor
= Don't YOU wish you lived down here
1t is said here that Caldwell ofere
!, this company $4,000 and 600 acre
-. of land 10 start the road from th'
ba place, but the company estimate
that it would cost that much 10 reac
:. Payette, the railroad center. 1t
- thought here that railroad lines fro
a, Boise and Caldwell will connect vii
h. the great railroad center at Paye't
- If they don't, it is the opinion OF o.
! citizens that those towns will n
:. amount to much as business places.
"a. There is considerable sickness he
and in the surrounding country. NJ
- Stroup aud wife both have Ia gFiPl
in lis worst form. They are old p
neer friends Of Macum Smith al
ane family, OF your town.
NV Most of the cattle have been turn
TO out to rustic or starye. People
be so interested in rallroadlng that tn
T." pay but little or no attention to an
tie thing so small as COW
i'm Come down and let US know wni
yer one OF the boys you are. II y
on, can't accomplish much IN the way
ion railroading you can jump up a
: crack your heels together aud "no'I'
when the big gun is fired.
the Several miuers here will soon bo'
ded the train for Mt. Idaho, aud th'
ag take pack horses and strike OUT
lore soon as the weather will permit,
OF their various mining claims
of rounding that town.