Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-02-03
soAD slLL PASSED. TINE noU.s


The good news was received bv
telephone Wednesday evening that
Workman's State wagon road bill
had passed the House BY vote of
70 to 9. The route Of the road s,arts
at the head Of Little Salmon and an
other portion starts 1t Banner and
runs via Bear valley through Custer
and Lemhi counties TO the Montana
line. Workman proved to be .
shrewd. faithful, untiring and invet-
crate worker, and his incessant and
successful labors in behalf Of this inn
portant measure will be appreciated,
and il the bill passes the Senate and
is signed by the Governor this appre-
ciation will grow, as the rich and ex-
tensive mineral sections through
which the road will run are opened
Tho road will pass through the
greatest mining sections to be found
anywhere, and which have a. yet been
but little prospected. There Is no
encouragement for prospectors to 90
INTO country without roads, and no
means OF shipping ore, except at
enormous expense, no way to get in
machinery, ard capital averse to in
vesting in isolated sections. If this
bill goes on through, prospectors will
not wait for the construction Of the
road, but will go into those mining
sections ss soon as the snow is off in
the spring. Quite q number of this
place will strike out for Central Ida
no as soon IS they can get through,
and hundreds of prospectors from ell
over the State will be on and near
the line of the road next summer
and prospectors who would not
think of going in there without posi-.
tive assurance of the construction OF
the road. If the bill goes through
the other House and receives the sig
nature of the Governor, an army OF
prospectors will, during the coming
summer and fall, make discoveries
that will astonish the world, our State
will grow as it has never grown be-
fore, and everybody will realize the
wonderful benefits that will result
from SO small an appropriation as
will be necessary to construct this
main road and its laterals. The
amount called for is as nothing com.
pared with what will be returned to
the State as its portion of the IN
creased wealth this system of roads
will be the means of bringing into
existence, and directly and indirect.
ly every individual, industry and in.
terest of Idaho will reap benefit
Those acquainted with the countr.
through which the road will run have
no besitancy in predicting that in two
years after its construction the in
crease of wealth as the immediate re-
suit will be sufficient to turn into thu
State Treasury in taxes the fui
amount of the cost of the road. W.
are informed the bill will pass th'
Senate by a good majority and tha
Governor Mcconnell will sign i,
Senator Watts has been earnestly a
work among the members of the Sen
ate, showing them the great benefit
that will accrue to the State by tn
construction of the road. No meas
ure for the upbullding, growth /
wealth and population, and prosperit
of every industry of the State coul
be conceived that would equal in re
suits the construction of this systeI
of State wagon roads.
A faithful worker for the bi
was Hon. Frank A. Fem, who ws
Speaker of the House two years ag
He then labored energetloally for tn
passage of the bill, and during tf
present session, although not men
ber of the Legislature, has done e.
cellent work for the bill.