The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-03-24

farmers Of this country, it is plain
that a condition of affairs which
exacts the labor of two horses to do
what should be the work of one is
disastrous in the business sense.
Good roads are the best possible
investment for State that cares for
the prosperity Of its greatest pro-
ducing class. They are of the utmost
Importance to railroads. Good roads
would easily double the width. Of th.o
belt or zone of supply of railroad
lines, and would maintain such
supply winter and summer. This
would avoid the troublesome glut of
freight when the mud dried up, and
the want of business when the frost,
leaving the ground, produces impass-
able roads.
Weiser, the county seat and base
of railway supplies for Washington
county, and within less than thirty
miles of the best producing and pros
porous mining camp in the county,
is, for lack properly located and
constructed wagon road, entirely cut
Off from communication, direct, with
Mineral, and the trade and incidental
business is as lost to this town as if
the camp was located in the Sandwich
islands, and is diverted to smaller
town in another state and all travel
subjected to the uncertainties and
annoyance incidental to ferrying
across large river. The loss in
dollars and dimes to this town is of
course a consideration, but in my
opinion by no means the greatest.
There should be question of local
pride and determination to seize
and hold that which rightfully be-
longs to us at any hazard, but in this
case there is only one thing required,
and that is to go ahead and build the
road There are no unusual dificul-
ties to overcome and good road on
good grades can easily be located
and constructed, and there is no need
of going ahead on the old worn out
idea that any man who can drive a
team can make proper location.
The "by guess and by God idea is
played out. A competent engineer
with level and transit can give in
formation that is beyond doubt cor
rect. Another prime point is that
nine times out of ten it is not as far
around a hill as it is over it. The
roads in this county, say between
, here and Salubria, are constructed on
the air line principle, forgetting that
vertical curves are as long as horizon.
tai ones.
II God helps those who help them
a selves and unless the people, busi
I ness men and all unite and make ;
Z determined strike, and keep at it un
, til the road is built, the tide of trave
r and the influence of those who 60 tc
q Mineral will be against us. A wei
+ directed effort now would be success
full in having the coke supply for the
, smelters side tracked here, which
q would call for the teams to haul ant
the men to handle it. All this means
v business in many other ways. Som'
g time after the war the question Of th,
q resumption of specie payment agitateC
9 the land, and statesman and financer
n were casting about for some possible
q solution of the apparently impossible
. problem. 1t remained for Horace
@ greely to solve the question. HI
simply remarked that "the way t,
resume specie payment is to resume.
), Now the way to build roads is t.
g build them, and the way to bore ar
. tesian wells is to bore them. Th
old fable of the field mouse and tn
Il farmer is good today. If we rely ol
!. talk and our neighbors, our grail
q will never be cut. So get in an,
build and get in and drill The bes
y way to reduce taxes is to do some
a thing to get more people to help pa,
. them. The whole outside world i
moving and active; every resource i
10 advertised and every advantage mad
. use of. Our resources are second T.
, no county, and long pull, stroni
"a pull and pull all together will ge
us out of the mud hole of idlenes
- that we have been stuck in for tn
past two or three years and place u
, on good footing; and the way to ge
~ there is to get there.
MEMO.
a The owners of the steamboa
te Norma are having her ladyshi