Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-02-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
House. OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1882. ]

epTaiH iC"C"So INV '"'s HiSuL ditcT
had gone to bed. send you by this
mail several copies of the bedrock
fume bill, as requested. ! am sur
prised that anyone in Boise county
should be found opposing bedrock
= humc bill. This measure has been dis
cussed for fourteen years in Southern
Idaho When edited the Idaho
World, from Sept. '69 to Dec. '73, |
constantly advocated the measure, and
the feeling has ever been until recent
ly, unanimously y in favor Of obtaining
from Congress the right Of way for
any company or person in the hope of
tending toward the Inauguration of an
enterprise that all admit is one of vital
Importance to Boise county, as tend.
ing to bring back a new era Of pros
perity in her fast failing mining indus
tries. Mr.. Merritt introduced bill
to the same end, which was favorablv
reported from commttee-in 1873 |
think rcintroduced a similar hill at
the first session of the 46th Congress,
but did not secure its passage. Thave
introduced, and now have pending,
before the House committee on Public
Lands, another bedrock hume bill
which the committee is considering.
You state that "the people" are hot
My opinion is that Il few chronic
GROWERS are endeavoiing to find some.
thing to growl about The people
have for years--over ft,urtcen-asked
and hoped for bedrock flume, and it
made no difference who built it so they
get the fume. don't care who builds
it, nor do | care who owns it, so far as
the names or residence of the parties
is concerned-provided, of course, that
no Chinese labor is cmployed; should
object to that, and if necessary, will
SO amend the bill. if l can get suffi-
clent votes in committee, but the main
thing Is to get bedrock fume. If
the "hot people" yon speak of will
furnish the money to build the fume,
or can secure from capitalists East
West, North or South, the money nec-
essary to carry cut the enterprise, then
should like to be assured of the fact
by telegraph, giving names of sub
scrIbers, amounts they will put up, &c.
and be supplied with some evidence
that they can and will do il. None,
Other than those gentlemen whose
names are in the bill, has ever given
me any assurance that he could or
would be able to enlist capital in the
enterprise. have been assured by q
majority of the persons named in the
oil, and who are residents of Idaho,
mat by the passage of this bill Eastern
capital will take hold and put the mat
ter through. am also assured by
promlnent men here-men of means
that the money can be raised, and that
they will aid me in passing the bill.
Now | will say this: presume
that if I had inserted in the bill the
hame of every "growlcr" all the "hot
people, u would h ar of no opposi
Ton whatever to the bill. Everything
would be harmonious and lovely"
but 1t seems that there are some peo-
lne, even in Boise County, who, un-
less the ones consulted, and unless
'aey have finger in everything that
looks like it has money in it, or even
'he talntest shadow or possibility of
something being made out of it, will
oppose anything that they suspicion
SOMEONE else might make something
uut Of
Such dog in the manger,v dispo-