Show HAlLEY IS BOOMING REGISTER SHARP OF THE LAND I OFFICE IN THE CITY Talks of Extensive Improvements Going on in that Idaho Town Mining Mi-ning Quito Active Hosteler N J Sharp of the United Slates Lund ofllce ut Ilalley Ida nr 1 rived last evening from the north and registered the Cullen lie had a good story to tell from the Wood river cuun try Said he in conversation with a Tribune representative Halley is having hav-ing a genuine boom it is gelling Us second wind nnd Is forging ahead In such shape as lo afford lie highest trii courogmeiit to tlie people of that part I of the Slate In ihe first plaro the I burned hotel at alley Hoi Springs Is to be rebuilt operations beginning us I soon ns the weather will penult The I building will cost lf > 000 be two stories high and contain sixty rooms As It will be of wood construction can be pushed so hat t wllhln t ninety days the hotel will be ready for Ihe reception of summer guests The enterprising party bucking the scheme is air Hoggs This hotel will prove a great thing for the town and bring lois of money In there The fact that our Hucllnn of the State Is on the bopm is also indicated by lie fact that during the last ciuailer there have boon more entries both mineral min-eral and agricultural than during the four years pre ions The gold bell is I coming lo the front rapidly and mining transfers arc Increasing 1 sold re i cenlly a silver copper anti gold mine 10 111 llish Columbia parties the claims beIng be-ing three miles from Dellevue and six miles from Halley Then there Is a big projection lint is beginning to attract much attentIon vi the building of a 5350000 dam across the Wood river at Jluilyon which construction will begin wllhln Ihirly days furnishing 3000 horHopower Maj Lavanaugh is at lie back of his scheme which Is lo be Oj New York corporation and tins t necessary neces-sary finances arc now being raised there This power company will furnish fur-nish light and powei to all the mines In that district as well as to other Industries I Indus-tries thai may desire them and light HIP residences and streets of Halley and neighboring towns General building at Ilalley is progressing rapidly Thcra is not an empty house in lie t town and j prices of real estate and rents aie goIng go-ing up Then Ketchum too is gelling her second wind and is preparing for a grand spread out so lint Ilalley is not alone in the march Col Sharp also stated that he had just sold four valuable copper claims In the t Wood river district to Portland pui i tics and that nine othor claims of Iho same belt weic lo be disposed of lie I also staled thai the sentiment in his purl of Ihe Stale was iiiirely for Senator Sen-ator Shoup for the VlceProsldency and paid The Tribune a compliment by saying that lie had read the I paper for the last eighteen years and had not missed an issue |