The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-04-16
IT'S PASSING STRANGE!
Unmistakable Evidence Of
Supreme Gall!
THE TRUE ROUTE.
Via WeiSer the Shortest
and Quickest way to
Reach the Seven
Devils.


lay claim to the Seven Devils Even \
when Caldwell, fifty miles south of
here, discovered that she was the
nearest point to the mines we re-
covered from the shock. But we
were knocked completely silly upon
reading the following in the Bedrock.
Democrat:
"Mr. Geo. Henderson, of Sparta,
returned from Union yesterday and
informed the Democrat reporter that
the court of Union county has ap- I
propriated the sum of $500 toward
the construction of the Seven Devils
wagon road from Pine valley to Bal
lard landing and will endeavor short
| ly, if necessary, to swell the amount
$500 or $1,000 more. This move on
the part of the board of Union county
is commen0able and will be appreci-
ted by the people Of the panhandle.
Great Scott! 1t would not be sur
prising tc hear next week that
Walla Walla was raising a fund to
build a wagon road into the Devils
Immagine the stranger passing
through the country. He arrives at
Caldwell. "Nearest point to the
great Seven Devils" he hears. Re
goes thirty seven miles further on to
Payette. "Seven Devils are our
personal property" he hears here.
"What direction?" "North, ninety
miles" He goes thirteen miles di-
rectly north and arrives at Weiser.
"Where are the Seven Devils?" he
asks. NINETY miles north. Goes
on twenty-three miles west to Hunt
f ington and is greeted with the cry:
"Get aboard the steamer for the
: Seven Devils. We will be there as
g soon as the water risesl'' Fifty miles
d northwest to Baker city. What does
g he hear at this town. Nearest
S outftting and supply point to che
i Seven Devils. Stop here and wait,
as we are trying to raise money to
# build a wagon read to the mines. p"
; Sixty miles further north lie goes
n and arrives at Union. "Where are
50 the mines from here2" ''Right in
a our back yard We have just ap-
ar propriated $150G TO build road. "
# Then the stranger thinks to him
If self: "'Tis passing strange. What
n manner Of geographically situated
10 country is this2 l have travelled 1873
miles through these six towns and
a. the mines have Travelled right along
~ with me. Can it be Chat they are
m like the sun, which appears to be il
the same point of the heavens a
h when left New York? / believ'
~ l had better 60 on to Pendleton,
m where | have business, and after i
tle is finished I can hire livery tear
and drive out to the Devils. Ol
no, stranger, the mines are not lik
the suG. You have only been fooled
ed and nearly all these towns have beel
stuffing you to get you to sUo
over, with the idea that you were o.
III the direct road to the mines, an
e' spending few dollars. If you ar
y. intending to 60 to the mines yo
i'n will learn, before you have been
W. the said towns twenty-four hours
,o that you will be obliged to pull bac
for to Weiser, the only true point OF II
~, gress to them, as a few facts wi
or prove to you, to wit: Kleinschmld
Pratt, Hunt and all the large min'
owners and capitalists, and in fa
,ity all, big and little, who have been
six the camp several times make Weiss
red their railroad point. Weiser and u
DuI mines are III luc SdlHc COuhbJ dA
state. No man has ever gone in
the mines by shorter route th'
'eo from Weiser. And last but not
.,s us any means the least, this is the on
'"' place from where you can start o.
YIN with your blackboard in the mornir
and drive into the streets of Helei
, in the next day. This was dol
hoe often last summer and will be do
ain again as soon as the snow now in t
veil mines disappears. The last two
oo+ three miles are little rough but W
not be so long. The county ro'
rms to within six miles of the min
up, and the commissioners now in sessi
his will appropriate money to compile
.l:. obort 1ic+onoa whom the lpaVlf