The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-12-15
WHAT THE STATESMAN SAYS.
About Washington, the Ban
ner County,
In It's Annual Review of
Trade.

Washington and Owyhee counties
are near neighbors to Boise City and
offer a prospective field for our
merchants. Those counties each are
larger than the whole state of Rhode
Island. And Washington county too
with its unlimited resources, is
capable of supporting greater
population than the state of Rhode
Island With it's numerous valleys
whose soil is often 40 feet in depth,
and its fertile table lands that pro-
duce abundant crops, this county
alone will be a granary for vast
foreign trade. Its timber and mines
and farms will make Washington one
of the richest counties in the state,
and Boise City can well look to ITS
interests.
Washington county needs a rail
road. Only VIXEN the slow going
freight wagon is abandoned for the
IRON horse will Washington county
receive it's just deserts. Now magni-
ficent distances separate its sheltered
valleys, with their 40 and 60 bushels
of wheat to the acre, from the outside
world. Though the border is but 40
miles from Boise, yet the valley of
the Weiser and it's tributaries stretch
so far away that it is practicable to
reach them only with a railroad. But
a land that will produce $50 bushels
of oats to the acre, and maize 1S feet
f tall and six full ears of corn on one
stalk, as has been done on the ranch
of V. D. Hannah, on Mann's creek,
will not forever remain unprovided
for in the matter of transportation.
All this fertile country is Boise
2. City's natural tributary with rail
o road penetrating it's now unbroker
solitude. The ambitious towns o
le Weiser, Mineral City. Ruthburg
If Salubria and others that will spring
up in the valleys of Middle, Indian
d Council, Crane Creek and Morri
Y. Creek, will all thrive with railwa,
}. communication and contribute to tn
a general trade with Boise City.
10 The world has not yet awakened +
IN the wonders that lie within the limit
n of Washington county. They hav
never been told in printers ink. Th
Y. tourist along the Short Line has see
B only barren desert as he quickl
er speeds along seated in his Pullma
car. He regards the few miles tha
he travels in the edge of Washingto
county as only so much ground thi
the railroad had to cross in some wa,
Ter He does not dream that back anon
he the foothills $500 feet above the Sc
-th grow cotton, tobacco, castor beam
he figs and other semi-tropical plant
ID. He passes untasted the delicious frui
AN in orchard and vineyard that made tn
no land the farmers paradise. III
apples, peaches, prunes, pear
of apricots and nectarines that rlv
an California s. famous products must
set in reality before the visitor bcfo
the he will believe. Not until they ha
yed experienced the balmy chinook C
they understand how country so
the north and with such an elevation c.
felt have such temperate climate I'll
he makes December seem like Ma
And this can not be done until ra
ons road is built into Washington count
'ost More wonderful still from
the financial point of view are the mil
S Err of Washington county, whose p
ducts must naturally seek mari
!. in the lower valley. Gold, silv
copper and lead are here found in
,ns. greatest abundance, but they m
have cheapest transportation bef
the owners will receive that rev
deserved by long years of patl
endeavor. The Seven Devils cop
=, region on the northern boundary Ii
an area covering nearly 400 SOU
miles, and containing ore that is
- per cent pure copper, in veins
feet wide, has possibilities of wei
that makes one hesitate to plac
print The only surprise is that
us transcontinental lines and the pei
who travel on them in their hast
'nai' get to the seaboard, have overloo
INTO country that contains the
wealth they seek.