Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-06-26
aoBBiNG THEIR OWN POCKETS.

quite number of men have signed
the remonstrance against the bill {
now before Congress granting right
of way to the Boise Basin Bedrock
numing company. ! have also learned
that not few who have signed it had |
signed the petition asking for the
passage of this same bill, and who
publicly talk in favor Of seeing the
the great enterprise pushed for
ward with all possible speed. Why
is it that some men will work public
ly for the Inauguration of an enter
prise of this nature and privately
against it. Is it because there are
mercenary motives at the back Of it,
or are they signing the remonstrancei
privately to avoid public censure?
As to the motives which inspire Sc
cresy it matters not, as the mining |
committees of Congress will undoubt-
edly be posted as to the way the re-
monstrance was engineered. For
one, asked where the remonstrance
was, and was told by the parties
asked that they did not know, when
to my certain knowledge, it was in
the coat pocket of man not six feet
| distant.
Do those who are trying to defeat
the bill know what an effect such an
enterprise would have on the general
welfare of the Basin, and realize
that they would be among the per
sons directly benefited thereby?
Do they realize how it would benefit
every placer miner, farmer, mechanic,
merchant, laborer or tradesman? Ger
tainly they do. Men Of ordinary in
telligence cannot help but understand
this. Some of them say they signed
it to rid themselves of annoyance and
keep from being talked to death.
| would like to write at length on
the advantages to every man, woman
and child in Boise and Ada counties
by the passage of the bill granting
, the franchise. But this has been ex-
planned time and again through the
5 columns of the WORLD. 1t will not
be out of place, however, to repeat
: that there are millions of tons of tall
ings in the creeks that would yield
1 handsomely by being worked by a
: bedrock fume, but never can be
!. worked any other way, and could
e only be worked by large capital
! When these immense canyons ot
r tailings are slulced out hundreds OF
e good claims would be located and
i worked on the bars that are now be-
s low the surface of the tailings ano
i cannot be proGtably worked by hoist
: ing dirt to the surface. These enter
e prises would greatly increase the
e population of the industrial classes
Il revive mercantile, hardware, black
Il smithing, banking, numbering, hote
and restaurant and dozens of Other
6 interests. With such a revival, which
/ would be Immediately brought about
h every person in Boise county, be h
e mine owner, miner, business man
(. mechanic or laborer, would be bene
1t fitted in pocket.
" Another consideration should no
5r be lost sight of, and that IS this
re- Congress has been continually an
Or moved for the last fifteen years b
fl. Boise Basin bedrock fume bills, an
ID If the present one does not pass, ther
4! is but little hopes that another woul
a, receive any attention whatever. Se
of by the killing Of the present bll
m every man who participates in tn
ID act will be robbing his own purse.
th The prime mover of the remor
7e STRANGE was a member of Boise Bs
i'd sin bedrock fume company hftee
ad years ago, and the franchise aske
for was not so protecting as the pre-
va ent bill. Still, the mine owners d
ar not demonstrate, and there were hui
mt dreds at that time working in ii
,St beds of the creeks, which were nc
as at that time, filled up. Now Il
~ creek bottoms are nothing but va
oil beds of gravel and sand from TWEEN
mr. to forty or fifty feet in depth, and n
rb piece of ground that was cover'
f. has been uncovered, and never W
ar. be, unless it is done by means OF
mt bedrock flume.
bo Parties in BOISE C1ty ana vail
70 have raised scare among the farme
,at there, and if large dams are L
,od placed in the canyons of More ere
az it is possible that they will prohil
lie further mining in the Basin.
..aI construct these dams would requ
considerable money-more than
placer miners could afford to inv,
" in such means of protection.
IND course we all know that the farm
ata of Boise valley will not be injured
liz the amount of one cent by deb
'nn but that would cut no figure sho'
oI they set up claims to the contra
- The Boise BASIN bedrock hume CO
a. panv's dams would save that expel
rIy to placer miners--in fact, 1t wo
a., enable them to continue wo
rat Every placer miner should lnqr
tiad into this, and no man sign that
M monstrance without reading it ca
hat fully.
,nra All the facts should be thoroug
ventilated before the Congressio
mining committees, and the conn
i interests of will be benefited by
lxeo immediate passage of the bill.
ting PIoNEEF
osts. ---~-------
bott WE received two communicate
here Yesterday evening, one from the c.