Guffey

Extracted from "A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898." (internet archive).

This village is the present terminal point of the Boise, Nampa & Owyhee Railroad, located at the Snake River, thirty miles from Silver City and one mile below the railroad bridge of the B., N. & O. Railroad. The first building was erected May 27, 1897, by Fred Brunzell, and the town now comprises a general store, express and post offices, hotel, blacksmith shop, livery stables, stage barns, boarding-houses, etc., and enjoys a population of over a hundred, with indications of a steady increase.

The railroad bridge at Guffey was completed by the Boise, Nampa & Owyhee Railroad Company during the summer of 1897. The height from low water to the track is fifty feet. The bridge consists of two spans, each two hundred and fifty feet in length. The pier and abutments are of concrete, sixty-seven feet high, sixteen feet wide, and thiry-eight feet nine inches at the base.

In 1900, the Guffey precinct had a population of 126, according to the federal census of that year.

City Directory, 1898

Directory of residents and businesses, 1898

Residents

Fred Anthony, teamster
F.R. Barry, teamster
John Bell, miner
G.A. Bergh, rancher
J.B. Bowie, with C.O. & I. Stage Co.

John Bowman, teamster
Alvin Brunzell, livery stables
Fred Brunzell, saloon and ferry
L.S. Courtney, with Barry and Phillips
R.E. Davison, proprietor, Jerkwater placer mines
H.P. Eastman, miner
John B. French, with C.O. & I. Stage Co.
Ernst Fritag, laborer
James Gieday, teamster
A.L. Gowan (Gowan & Peed)
William Graham, teamster
J. Grimes (Grimes & Irby)
Mrs. Kate Hamburg, restaurant
George Hardie, miner
A.H. Hawkins, miner
George Irby (Grimes & Irby)
W.T. Kingsley, with F.B.M. & F. Co.
A.M. Lackey, with Barry & Phillips
Hugh B. Latham, manager Central Lumber Co.
J.C. Lindsey, Railroad, stage, and express agent, and postmaster
Andy Loftus, section foreman
John McGinty, railroad laborer
W. McMillan, miner
Ed Matheson, saloon
Daniel Pritchard, with G.A. Bergh
P. Querry, teamster
O.H. Peed (Gowan & Peed)
Thomas Ryan, railroad laborer
Ed Smith, miner
J.E. Smith, miner
R. Smith, miner
Leon Spangler, manager Falk Block M. & F. Co.
J.H. Stofiel, miner
A.J. Stucker, blacksmith
N.B. Waylett, teamster
L.O. Welch, miner
W.W. Wilson, laundry
George Yahrans, miner
Charles York, miner
Melville York, miner

Businesses

Barry & Phillips, freight line
Boise, Nampa & Owyhee Railroad Co., J.C. Lindsay, agent
C. O. & I. Stage Co., J.C. Lindsey, agent
Central Lumber Co., Hugh B. Latham, agent
Falk Block Mercantile & Forwarding Co., Leon Spangler, manager
Gowan & Peed, blacksmiths
Grimes & Irby, livery stables
Pacific Express Co., J.C. Lindsey, agent

Cited Works:

A Historical, Descriptive and Commercial Directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898. Silver City, Idaho: Press of the Owyhee Avalanche, 1898.

Census Reports, Volume 1, Twelfth Census of the United States, taken in the year 1900. Washington: United States Census Office, 1901.

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