The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-08-27
WILL THE TIDE TURN?
The Present disCouraging
Outlook for the Seven
Devils.
UNNEOYssARY ISOLATION.
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UNNECESSARY ISOLATION.
Interview with Glrn-
Baker City Road
Mail Routes.
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Mr.. Geo, A. Rahm having just re-
turned from Helena. our reporter de-
termined to interview him in refer
ence to matters and things in that re-
gion, and the following questions
were put and answered.
Reporter :-"Mr Rahm, how about
the new Baker city wagon road?
Rahm ;="Don't think there is
much of wagon road from Helena
to Baker city. | have never heard
of but one or two vehicles making
che trip, and from them learned that
It was incomplete and generally vii
famous. While | was in Helena Mr..
Calhoun went out with his express
team with a load of passengers but
never came back again, so | judge he
found the route impracticable. "
Reporter: "How is the road from
NVeiser?'
Rahm :-"Good. ] made the trip
up in three days, and came back in
one day, being in somewhat OF a
hurry on account of sickness in
my family Would you not call a
road good on which you could make
one hundred or say one hundred and
twenty miles per day GA hours?
Our actual travelling time was seven
teen or eighteen hours with only one
o change of horses. Could have less
O e led the time from one to two
hours"
Reporter:-''What is this we heal
! about the mail being carried to Helena
n via Baker city and Pine valley?"
Rahm:-sI understand there is ;
Il daily mail to Pineville, and it is ex
# pected the Baker city Seven Devilian
will get the route extended to Helena
A lady coming from Weiser to In
'e dian valley met Mr.. Brackett the T
Ie D. inspector, on the stage, and sh
nl Informed me that Mr. Bracket ha'
decided to report favorably on tn
4 Baker city route. "
ut Reporter What do you thin
SO of it?"
Rahm:-"I think it like all th
Oregon jobs; mainly a scheme to stef
On Uhe Devils away from Idaho becaus
$. Oreoon has no Devils of her Owl
d. The proper thing for the postal dc
partment to do is to establish anothe
+o Office above Dale, say at Bear cree
q, .rossing. | have a petition Of thirty
no i've signers at that point asking fC
:, ,he establishment of an Office thel
10 be called Media; and the appoin
ment of Frank Joel Smith as po
at master. This would accommoda
IN, the bear creek settlement and brir
NJ the mail within half day of Heller
OF sixteen miles). This being the ca
and only twenty names being nece
or sary to have an office establishe
oa Helena can have daily mail to al
from the outside world in six day
.ho AT present it requires three week
80 If | had depended on the prese
mail service my wife might ha
ON been dead and buried days befc
vas could get the news, or might ha
her D lssed IN my chips ten days bef'
,wo sne could hear it. Many men {
leaving the camp disgusted with su
unnecessary isolation from the O
side world. What is the matt'
ood why don't our members of congr
have such state of affairs correcte
- Depend on Oregon for our ma
Not muchl
I'D Reporter:-"What are the pr
and poets for smelter this year2,
itu- Rahm:-''Well, | am not prepa
au- to say. as l do not know any OF
tbs parties having command OF eno'
Iist. ore to run a smelter sufficiently '
to be informed of their pls
'i'e What | do know is that l h
"P, been offered smelters by two dit
any ent parties, were in shape to g
' ~ antee a sufficient supply of ore;
!" -" as all the mines which are deve.o
' sufficiently to show large bodie
,' ore are in other hands, and the m
in which am interested are not
ficiently developed must TAX
rciaI back seat and wait. "
Renorter:-isTheu there are Il