The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-22
The Willow Creek correspondent of

The Willow Creek correspondent of
the Nampa Leader says:
Your correspondent has been here
several days with prospective invest
ors, and to say that we are all sur
prised would but mildly express our
feelings about the camp. The number
of prospect holes in pay quartz is as
tonishing, and it is believed by ali that
no American camp car show such a
vast numb0r of good lodges at the
grass roots, While all that have had
development work done show increased
values and size as they go down.
Mike Hyde, for Colonel Dewey, is
pushing the shaft toward the center
of the earth on the Levan group of
mines, which show larger ore bodies
and permanency at almost every blast
1t is generally conceded that the
Dewey people have advanced this
camp several years by their energetic
work, but that it was bound TO be a
great camp anyway was the opinion
of all. The ore bodies are very base
and therefore of a uniform commercial
value.
K. P. Ploroman is moving his big
saw mill from Idaho City to the Pay
cite river near the Marsh and Ireton
DtIuSCs ICL III VI llliS CdlllD- ne pro-
poses to keep a good supply of lumber
always on hand, but his principal bust
ress viii be supplying mining, bridge
and mill tinlbers for the mining camps
at Willow Creek, Silver City, Boonville
and De Lamar He claims no one can
compete with him in this speciality be-
cause the lumber men of past times in
stripping the country of lumber left
millions Of feet of fir timbers near the
Payette river banks, a little too small
for lumber but just right for mining
timber. He can cut and put them to
his boom at a mere nominal figure. and
If General Manager Stearns of the
Boise. Nampa & Owyhee railway will
give him a shipping rate he will under
take to supply the Boonville country
with the best fir Sawed and roundl
timbers that country ever had, and at
the lowest price.
The work of Colonel Dewey and Col
onel Stearns in building the railroad is
already benefiting Nampa. here. Nam
pa in fact is all the rage here. What
she will do next and when she will do
is, is asked on every hand. They say she
is bound to be the city of the country:
their faith and confidence being based
upon the fact that the toYnsite, to-
gether with a large body of splendid
fruit land and the Boise, Nampa &
Owyhee railwoy, is owned by Colonel
Dewey and Colonel Stearns. and as the
road to Owyhee is as much or more of
a Boise City enterprise than of Nampa,
and will. if left as it is. largely in
crease the business of Boise on ac-
count of her big stores and hotels. They
therefore argue that these gentlemen !
in order to make Nampa the CONNER |
cial center of southwestern Idaho |
which they have evidently attempted. |
will be compelled to build their road i
north to the Payette timber belt |
While doing this and opening a great !
mining and lumber business for them |
selves and the Oregon Short Line, they |
will pass through or near the Willow |
Creek district.
The enterprising merchants of Cald- |
well will supply this camp as against |
Boise, but it is admitted that the Owy-
hee railroad from Nanpa settles the |
business of the future against both of |
them. Boise having spent all her money
on herself has nothing left, and Il fact
never had the inclination to help de-
velop the outside country, and these
people have always looked to Nampa
and Caldwell for rapid transit. which
is necessary for the full development
of this camn