The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-05-19
Press Club Meeting
Members Royalty Entertained by Hos
pitable Citizens of Bellevue and
Haley Sunday and Monday

unanimous choice of the members
that they be honored with yet an
other term. Joe Dewitt was chos-
en- treasurer
A number of important matters
were taken up, which will be treated
at some length in the supplement
which is to be issued describing the
trip, in about two weeks
An elaborate dinner was served to
the guests, about o'clock, one of the
kind of dinners that is calculated to
kill by kindness. Such spread you
don't find every year.
In the evening, a quite elaborate
program and reception was given by
the citizens of the town, in the Odd
Fellows Hail. In keeping with the
spirit of the day, the music was of a
sacred nature, which was much en-
joyed by the visitors. A few ad-
dresses were made, by Editor Doo-
little of Bellevue, chairman of the
reception committee; President Wal
lis of the Club; o. H. Barber of
American Falls; Hon. George Coates
and Hon. James Shean, of Bellevue.
Next morning the visitors con-
cluded their business for the day, and
then started out to see the sights.
One OF the most interesting was the
big cold storage plant recently built
by Coates and Porter, which will re-
frigerate and store enough perish
able supplies to feed an army for
whole season. The great store of
the Bellevue Mercantile Company was
a good deal of revelation to the
visitors, who have been customed to
think of Bellevue as an old, quiet
place. There are many other good
mercantile establishments there also
scores of attractive homes, fine
school house, many churches, well
kept streets. and a general air of
content that is not to be found in the
newer towns. For to tell the truth,
they have so many more nice things
to be satisfied with.
A visit was paid to the famous
Minnie Moore mine, which in the
palmy days of silver, produced $S,-
900. coo in precious metals. Then
there was long period of inaction;
but now the mine being opened again
and the great gloomy mill is treat
ing 200 tons of ore and tailings a
day. Under the old process they
were not able to save all the values
through the mill. leaving high values
in metal that could not be taken out.
Now they are working the $4,000 ton
tailings dump with profit.
And then they "hit the road" for
HALEY. "Hit the road" is the pro-
per expression, for they made the
trip by auto, and the cars can make
40 to SO miles an hour over those
magnificent highways 1t takes two
men to watch an automobile on the |
WoodRiver roads; one to say Here
she comes" and the other to say
"There she goes That's riding
some, if you only knew it.
At HALEY, the guests were taken
to the Alturas hotel, where they
were feasted and dined and served
with good things to eat until human
nature could stand no more. And
then they were shown to the Com
mercial Club rooms, their home for
the day. The HALEY Commercial
Club owns it's own building, which
was erected at a cost of $4,000. 1t
Is the most perfectly appointed club
house in the whole northwest; and
this is said advisedly, for the place
was built for the purpose, and they
had the money and the good taste to
DO it right.
And all the afternoon it was one
continual round of pleasure for the
guests. There are 20 automobiles
n Haley, most of them of the big
yest and finest type; and these were
1T the disposal of the guests. Some
If the parties drove as far as 40
niles fixing in the finest scenery
hat there is in the state. Daniel
Webster. or some other great. man,
,nce said, The Good Lord perhaps
ould have made better berry than
he strawberry he never did. =
The same is the whole truth about
he Wood River valley. and the
,uests saw it all, and if nine out OF
en- OF them DO not bay bay summer