Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-09-16
FROM LOST RIVER.
A"o'her Good Crop Harvested N
narm Done BY the Grasshoppers-
PeOple's Party Oracles-Eic.

sept. 8, 1892.
10 the Editor Of the TINES:
Another season is now drawing to a
close. Another good crop is being
harvested and although, owing to lack
OF markets, things are net as prosper.
Gus with US as We might wish or ex.
poet, still we poor ranchers of Lost
River are we'll able to extract whatever
OF solace there may be in the fact
That we are more independent and in
better condition to stand the hard
times than those around tho mining
camps whose livelihood is absolutely
dependent upon the working of .
nine or two. The depreciation of
silver may stop work and scatter the
population from the miuing camps,
out 1t cannot stop the growth of
wheat, carrots, rutabagas, and spuds;
aud where these grow in such profu>
sion and abundance, "the brethren"
are happy and as little inclined to
worry over abstract questions of
finance and political ECONOMY as was
Diogenes in his tub. We h.ve had
the grasshoppers for sometime, but
their damages are scarcely percept-
IDLE and confined to q few widely
separated localities.
1t seems to be the opinion of
our we'll informed grasshopper
experts that these are not the kind of
'hoppers, or locusts, which devastated
Egypt in the olden time, or Kansas,
Camas Prairie, etc., in recent years.
However this may be, it does not
seem likely that we will ever have
much to fear from grasshoppers on
Lost River; or, at all events, We will
not ibid the devil good>morn,ng until
we meet him." or find in him a more
destructive tendency than he has yet
shown.
Times are very hard, and, from the
nature Of things, must remain so while
the suspension OF mining continues
and our isolated condition deprives us
of all market for farm produce.
What a change would be wrought
aud what magical transformation
would at once appear, it the Provi-
dence, which notes even the sparrow's
fall, would direct railroad through
,iis country; or send a thousand or
two active, industrious and en-
terprising immigrants here; or induce
somebody who has the necessary
amount of brains and capital to put
up Touring mill; or direct the pow
ers that be to restore silver and thus
revive our mining industry? But as
all these things, and more besides,
will surely come to the waiting ones
of Lost River, some time, even with
out the direct interposition Of Provi>
dence, perhaps tho shortest way to
the realization Of all our hopes aud as
pirations is for that same Providence
to bring about the success of the Peo-
ple's party, this fall, and usher in the
millennium. After all these years Of
travail and sore pilgrimage, which fill
up the records of Lost River, we are
impatient to enter the promised land,
aud will follow the wondrous way by
night and the cloudy pillar by
the day, which Weaver, Crook,
Gum, etc, are holding out for our
guidance unto deliverance. While it
is not my intention in this letter to
run anything into politics, yet it is
worthy of note that Lost River, es-
pecially in the Custer county portion
Of it, is developing an astonishing
amount of political acumen and knowl-
edge of Statecraft, as we'll as super
abundant supply OF "timber" for all
the offices in reach. To attend a
single meeting of the Houston Free
Coinage Weaver club would convince
anyone that the future political Moses
will quite likely emerge from the sage
brush aud rye.grass Of Lost River.
Nothing worthy of mention is going
on in our Island neighborhood. The
ranchers are busy hauling in their
crops, and the only diversion of the
Young folks is an occasional goose.
Deriving excursion to the mountains
on which some of our Lost River girls
have evinced remarkable de xterity,