Show Wood River Notes It is reported that the Minnie Moore mine five miles southwest of Hailey has been sold fr 1000000 Thirty tons of ore from the Charles Dickens mine Yankee Fork ninety miles north of Halley has just been sold at Salt Lake for 20000 About thirty Wood River mines last summer shipped ore to Salt Lake City a distance of over 300 miles the owners receiving an average av-erage of over 168 per ton after the smelters charges had been deducted The Custer mine ninety miles north of Hailey produced 1000000 last year Most of the ore was quarried quar-ried from the immense outcrop by five or six men Not a dollars worth came from the immense reserves beneath the surface and the entire product was extracted by a 20stamp millA A correspondent of a Boise paper gives the following estimate of the number people that will locate in Wood River country this season From Nevada 5000 Utah 4000 California 3000 Colorado 3000 Oregon 2000 Montana 2000 Washington 5000 Arizona 200 the east 6000 different portions of Idaho 1000 making 26700 |