| Show WOOD travel diw ol 01 roads streams lines R gardens prospects from our correspondent EDITOR HERALD pursuant to promise herewith find some jottings cottings jot tings the trip from ogden here was without incidents of public interest except however binco before over tho the road there lias has been a change so that the traveler now arrives at tit shoshone at midnight and stays over until 8 next morning when the passenger coach is drawn by a alow siow mixed train of four and a half hours for seventy five miles to this place THIS BRANCH cl is now being rapidly raji idly constructed to ketchum 12 miles above this place hence the great pretensions of ila ley being the ter minous cf of the railroad arc are thoroughly exploded as will be the caso with the present pretensions of ketchum to the samo blessing there lias has been much rainfall 11 here ere during tho the spring months three days of bright dry weather bailico my arrival on wednesday pave gave hopes of an ail approaching dry season but last night another rain storm postponed ita its realization THE FEW WARM BRIGHT DAYS melted incited the snows at the be head bed d waters of the wood river and gave to it such an ail increase of water as to obstruct travel in many places even where thero there are bridges across the main stream for the ila are now both full and fast wood river is a it shallow swift str stream earn and when swollen its contents go on oil the double e quick 11 there is being a heavy output cf ores but the wet roads and swollen streams arc are detaining its transports tran tion to market here where it is RAPIDLY BOUGHT omalia kansas city denver and salt lake leavo lave their purchasing agents here besides tho the great plant of the ph Iadell liia company at ketchum which is in in market for an unlimited quantity the wood river valley lias has been all or nearly eo so ap abed and no valuable lands remain vacant it is rapidly and filling up ill large and valuable ranches are being established and bye the bye be your former townsman W A hodgman has A VALUABLE RA RANCH ell about a mile from bickerson Tic kerson station t which is about midway from shoshone to halley ailey II on silver creek many new strikes of important ch character a facter have been made durine tho the winter and spring in mines before worked and in ili some new discoveries among these the london company which recently paid half a million of dollars for the minnie moore near bellevue has found both a it larger and richer vein as it descended it is said that it now has men daily employed run QUEEN OF HILL just across the gulch from it is said to be be fast developing into a first class mine and lias has a largo force at tit work oilier other pro prospects spec ts in ili the same district are fast deve developing into good mines the king of ol bellevue lell evue now being 0 opened are ed adjoining the minnie moore id 11 t thought hought from present developments to equal it the mineral hill district on deer creek seven even miles above halley II ailey is also developing several first class elass mines among which may be named the narrow guage davitt and snow fly all now being profitably r worked and yielding it fa lout la g ge output put THE SNOW FLY recently sold about 30 tons of first class ore averia averaging ing over to the ton and now has on the dump over loo tons much of it however offee of sec ond class ore assaying from 59 50 to 70 4 0 on silver and SO 30 per cent lead to the ton it is now being worked pretty largely there has been much of dead work on this mine that is development work preparatory to getting at tho the ore it lias has over 1000 feet fee t of tunnel shafts wint whit zes 11 up praises raises fc topes etc all of which lias has developed largo large quantities of ore and has demonstrated that it has bris two f fissure itsuro veins africh of rich paying ores and its output this season is likely to bo be very large THE davitts output last season amounted to near and this is likely to oe b e increased this season while it is quite ite probable tho the snow fly will equal iu a I 1 it tho the amount of the last seasons reasons outs out put of the narrow gauge I 1 have not learned but hilt it is thought thou glit coequal to equal the divitt davitt As I 1 have not yet been to bullion I 1 reserve for another com coin mun cation its mines but they arc ato among the most valuable of the whole country CHASE ESQ superintendent of tho the davitt is now now putting up reduction machinery in in the lite smelter which vilich it is confidently fi believed will at a cost of per ton reduce the low erade grade ores so as tomake to make them profitable it is said it will make profitable ores that will run 20 oz of silver to the ton if this should be realized thousands of tons now on the dumps will be turned into a source of revenue there are many splendid gardens now being cultivated around bellevue and and with the rapid increase of agriculture and output of ores this region seems to promise a bri bright ait future ENITE HAILEY idaho june 19 |
