Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-04-01
THE FREE PRESS.
Il Letter From Boise City.
aRANaEvILLE. IDAHO.
FRIDAY. :, April l, 1892
BOISE Cry. Idaho, Mar. 20. 'g2

BOISE Cry, Idaho, Mar. 20, '92.
EDITOR F. P.-Your correspondent
was extremely well pleased to receive a
copy of your excellent paper. which |
came to him from the garden spot of /
Idaho" where fertile lands roll in bill
lows like the sea, where already the
bloom of myriad flowers fill the air with
fragrance, country filed with noble
women and brave men, whose intelli-
gence and industry have reared homes
in the primeval wilderness and brought
forth children that do honor to a pros.
porous state. AS he read the local page
many names were found there that
brought up most beautiful pictures of
years that are gone. 1t brought back
from the dim past old associations, we'll
remembered faces, and scenes of both
Joy and sorrow that will linger in men,
DRY until the food-gates of life shut in
eternal rest. Your correspondent sends
greeting to one and all, if perchance
he is still remembered. and wishes them
an abundant and abiding prosperity.
Your people may be interested in
hearing occasionally from the capital of
the state. Here, you know, is the cen.
ter from which 60 out lines that touch
every village and town in our great
state. While it must be confessed that
Boise IL not much of a Hub" 1t is
nevertheless all the "hub" Idaho has at
present-except Grangeville. Still,
Boise is not to be despised. The old
timers of Camas Prairie, who visited
this place some years back, or who
passed through 1t en- route to northern
Idaho, would hardly know the town.
1t has enlarged its borders. 1t has arc
lights to illuminate the darkness of her
nights. 1t has a motor line. 1t will
have Natatorium that will rival any
institution of its kind in the northwest.
1t is having its four-story brick and
stone buildings. And by and by--your
correspondent expresses himself here
with some difiidence, as our city council
lie, with the exception of Dangel and
Bryant. individually and collectively an
unmitigated ass-we may have side
walks. Meantime, we can wade thro'
the mud in winter and trail through the
dust in summer. Besides. we have the
glimmero of mining boom on hand now.
The hidden treasures of the 'tmountains
round about" are beginning to unfold
themselves and no doubt will make a
fine showing. Several prospects near
Boise have been bonded in sums rang
ing from $4,000 to $25 900, and work will
be pushed vigorously. Shaw mountain
Is all staked off and is quite a mining
camp already. We are to have a stamp
mill and reduction works as soon as
they can be put up. So Boise is fairly
prosperous.
Practically both parties are largely at
sea as to the candidates for state and
congressional tickets. Your correspond
ent is more familiar with matters per.
tanning to the republican party than
with the other. 1t is conceded by the
better classes of citizens that governor
Wiley has given us a good safe admin
istration. He has acted, not in the in
terest of any clique or faction, but fol
the whole people. Always accessible
and courteous to all, with an ear open
to the grievances of the humblest citi.
zen and a disposition to redress his
wrongs, genial, sunny and fair minded
he has made hosts of friends in south
Idaho who will be glad to see him re.
nominated. 1t has happened to him
however, as to other good men before
him, that his shining virtues have prov.
en- but mark Tor the envious to SHOOT
at. Among few political scavengers
here in Boise he has some "enemies
who know not why they are SO. but
like village ours, bark because theil
fellows do" This coterie of malcon.
tents have used q certain paper of The
state as their mouth-piece, and this vii,
sheet for the last three months ha,
teemed with yituperation and abuse s,
vile and unmerited, so far as governor
Wiley is concerned. as to cause all de
cent men to turn from the abject thin,
In scorn. In north Idaho, where gov,
ernor Willey's name is a househol,
word. where he has spent the best year
of his life, and where his name is