Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-02-22
MIRROR MANS REAaoN1No.
Four MILE, Feb. 8, 1883.


hand today and in aa article the edi.
tor Ct the prospective county seat or
the organ Of the county seat boom !
seems TO be Kissed on by the steam
-four mill owners, the bankers, the real
estate and corner lot spectators Of that
promising burg, to his own damage.
They seem to soundly abuse all who do
not have the hilly and mud interests
of Moscow for county seat at heart.
The county officials are made to take a
share of this abuse because they do not
reside in Moscow, or on the same sec
ton of land near by as do our members
Of the Legislature. They canrot be
angels because they do not reside in
Paradise valley. So says the re lOca-
tion organ. They are charged as hav.
lug no interest in Moscow because they
were not living in Moscow at the time
of their election. Wonder if that was
not the reason our Legislators induced
Gov. Neil to veto the bill granting
Probate Judge Wing short leave Of
absence to visit his friends, and another
person who sought to perfect his title
to ranch on the Palouse has been the
sufferer. The Mirror man probably
forgcts the days when iu tho Fee neigh
borhood bordering on Shissler, he ranch.
cd out in Waha, and practiced in all
the courts in and about Lewiston es-
pecially 10 the back courts and alleys.
He says the people want the county
seat removed to Moscow, on account
of the good natural approaches. We
suppose in deep snow now, and in mud
when the snow goes off. There is not
road at present leading to Moscow
that can be travelled, but with great
difficulty except on snow shoes, and in
the summer you have succession of
steap hills to 60 up aud down, and ter
rife mud holes to encounter in the low
lands in order to reach that berg.
Beautiful natural approaches! VIC sup
pose from the Mirror office. Will the
Mirror man rise and explain who the
grea. majority of the people are, who
want the county seat removed to Mos
cow They certainly are not in these
parts, and we do not think tho few
bankers, merchants, mill men in Mos
COW and Lewiston constitute the ma.
jority of the people of the county. Be.
fore Moscow can lie natural and easy
centre for . county seat, the people OF
the county should loan them the money
to buy dynamite to blow down the hills
aud the county should ditch the fats
and drain thcm SO that people can get
into town. For it seems that the peo-
pie Of Moscow themselves will not stil
themselves to do this necessary work,
and when we get there what adyan
tages do we find over Lewiston. The
cost Of goods is just as high az else
where. The merchants look out fol
their cash just as sharp as at any other
place. They arc just as polite in invit
ing the boys up to the captains oiics
to settle IS they are in Lewiston, and
sometimes = little more so, and they
take notes and mortgages with money
interest there as exactingly as iu Lew
iston and elsewhere. F,om now til
June they may be little less exact
ing, but We all know what this will b'
done for. We are not blind. Why
are not Pullman and Pslouse City an,
other points we might mention just a
easy of access for trade for US on tn
Four Mile or On the Palouse as Mos
COW. Will the Mirror man explain
Goods in Palouse City have general,
been cheaper than in Moscow, and a
for railroad facilities Palouse City ha
just as good prospects as Moscow an
so has Pennington, and from what W
can learn Lewiston is likely to bav
"a lroad facilities before Moscow. A
any rate we had rather take our chance
with Lewiston for the next two year
and let the county seat remain ther
than to have it moved to Moscow eve
if it do not cost US anything If MOI
COW should build US county building
to get even, the town lot Speculation
would ask that much more for the
town lots, and those who desired to c
and live at the county seat would ha,
to pay dear for the great privilege, al
then when hereafter the county is d
0 vided no reasonable man believes tn
Moscow would be the county seat
the new county aud it could not 10,
remain the county seat of the old cou
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