Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-10

EuGxSr, Boise Co.. Idaho,
June 8, 1899.

En- WoRLD;-If you could see mt
sitting astraddle Of anag waiting TO
fish to bite you would never for ,
moment suppose that the demon o
ambition had been keeping me awake
oh,ghts, bot it has all the Same. In
noosnt men have been executed on
circumstantial evidence, and Horace
Greeley 10 full drsss would have
passed anywhere for tho original
grave digger in Hamlet; so you see
circumstances and appearances aren't
safe guides. The object that would
have caused me to blossom out into .
candidate for Office, had it been .
good spring for blossoms, is tho TWEEN
ty-ssvsn miles Of the Meadows and
Mt. Idaho State road that the big.
hearted Commissioners and contrac-
tors have given to Boise county. As
there 10 no travel on this famous high
way for seven months in the year, and
- ] am the only ono living on it, it
may be justly styled lonesome road
and henoe needs Supervisor. ! am
getting old, and ~ have never been
anything yet, no level-headed party
will blame me for wanting to be a
Road Supervisor. But the press OF
Washington county i agitating the
question Of changing the road law and
RI collecting tho tax in cash and au-
thorising the County Commissioners
to contract the road work. This ~
good, but Why not improve on the
suggestion? Why not have State
Board Of Road Commissioners whose
duty II would be to see that we have
good roads in al parts Of the State?
The present Board OF Pardons will
soon be out Of : job, then why not
appoint them Road Commissioners for
the balance Of their lives? The Gov.
srnor has had some experience and
has proved the right man for road
work. They could take care Of the
State road funds, and by contracting
with Msssrs. White & Jenning, the
able and conscientious CONT actors Of
this section Of the State road, there
would DO no grounds for further COM
plant regarding roads. 1t is true,
no doubt, complaints would continue
TO be made by those whose constitu-
tons require that they should do q
certain amount Of kicking just as they
havs done about this section OF road
that has been made present to Boise
county. But, - have already re-
marked, circumstances and appear
ances are too often misleading; even
nature, animate and inanimate, At
times seems to conspirs in defraud.
ing worthy men Of their just dues.
This certainly has been 30 to great
extent in the case of the gentlemen
who constructed and received this
road. The entire route is th,ckly in
tested with hungry woodpeckers--
and we have had reasonable amount
Of lightning yet Of the seven hun
dred thousand and odd stumps that
were left in this twenty-seven miles
not one has been discovered by the
former or destroyed by tho latter.
No one should blame the contractors
or Commissioners for this, surely.
On the other hand, while . miner
can build . cabin for $50 that will
hold up tho snow OF the entire winter,
the two principal bridges are both
broken down, and the road cannot be
Travelled until they are rebuilt. But
again, no blame should attach to the
builders or receivers, since the bridges
were not constructed to hold snow.
but wagons. Last fall false report
went the rounds Of the public prints
that fre'ghter had lost his team
through the grade giving away and
rolling him into this lake. Had this
story been strictly true, instead of
entirely false, It would have reflected
disoredit on no ono but the teamster
himself, as any man with sense enough /
to skin . mule ought to know that it
is impossible Tor the most honest con. !
tractor alive to make the lower side
Of grade on a steep mountain side t
As strong as the upper side by falling {
large trees and filing in with brush, i
rotten logs, &C., and then covering o
with little dirt. When . freighter
comes to this kind Of grade it's his
to shift his load to the sound
tide Of shi !P.d, then il he breaks
down he can charge the blame where
i properly belongs-on the man that
made the wagoa-=not the one that