Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-02-23

uoupe " daifj mail would be a. good
ior the contractor rs three times . week,
even II the pay were four tItaes a. much.
We were aware Of the fact that the El-
mira company offered 500 for keeping
she road open during the winter, and that
the miners agreed to contribute something,
but the amount would have been as moth
ing. Keeping the road open is outside Of
the mail question, and is not worth discuss
ing What we said before in regard to
keeping the road open. deep SHOWS, ETC,
is true, as everybody knows. Ask Nose
Kempner. who has tried many winters to
keep the road open and had 70 give it up.
We have known Gath" for many long
years, and never knew him to travel this
route except in summer time. When
snow piles up on the range ten feet deep
ard some winters twelve and fifteen feet,
running teams IN winter is little ex
pensive. We can : sit in our easy chair'
and read accounts of desperate attemps
and failures to keep many other roads
open that are just like this one, and on
daily routes where the pay Of contractors
is fat thing. II the contractor who got
caught in the storm and lost two horses
had fore sights as good as hind sights.
like Gath, he would not have been out
on this easy route" breaking the road
The horses that died of exhaustion died
on the other side Of the summit. Those
he got TO the summit and fed on snow
balls w"re brought to town after several
days hard work, thanks to men Of Idaho
City who went to the aid Of fellow man
in distress. There were three or four
Gaths here who had considerable to
say, but they didn't go. Gath goes many
years back to hit nose Kempner lick.
Nose did well while on the route, and
Gath grieves greatly because he succeeded
in drawing his pay. The Banner mail
came nearer running on time then than
the Boise mail run by rich contractors,
Notwithstanding very few Of the good
people Of Banner made practice of play
ing practical jokes on Nose by mailing
rotten deer hides, that had been lying
around there for years, and addressing
them, in four-pound packages, to friends
OF this place, and also loading him down
with merchandise that would have been
carried on the "outside of the sack y as
cheaply as by mail and helped Nose out
a little. OF course if the climate had
changed to suit contractors that is il
the Almighty had disregarded the inter.
est of miners and farmers and sifted nc
snow down the contractors would no,
have kicked They would have rejoiced
and returned thanks. Verify, "Gaih,'
you do hit the head of the nail of hard
fact squarely ard straight from the shoul
der with the ringing hammer of sound
logic sometimes. We are pleased to state
that all the people OF Banner are not like
Gath only very, very few. The big
majority well know that the contrac
ought to be re-let, and don't expect thost
contractors or their bondsmen to breal
their necks trying to do what they die
not give bond to do. Gath's" lette
is as full of weak points as a porcupine il
full of quills, and we would like'to show
them up one by one all through, but spac
forbids. We hope, however, he is no hog
and has had enough. We never woul,
have given space to such useless fusilade
back and forth between "us two y vigcl
Gus pen singers but for the fact that yo
would consider us unmaply" by shu
ting you off. Editors are preverbiall
thin-skinned and can not brook such a
opinion. "Gath," you was not only wis'
but both cunning and cute in slippln
that in at the end. Well, Mr.. Gath,
hoping we will soon have daily mai
we extend to you the right hand offellov
ship and bid you good bye, hoping ths
sometime you'll get into the deep sloug
of trouble and tate shall will it that yo
will have to call on these contractors an
Moses Kempner to pull you out.