The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
THE WEISER SIGNAL.
THURSDAY. APRIL 20, 1898.

Our correspondent on first page
states quite truly the difficulty Of OBJ
taining better roads in this western
country, and his advice that call work
done on the roads should be of a per-
manent character and not have to be
done over every year., should, figu-
ratively speaking, be burned into the
mind of every man in every county of
the west 1t is an idea that has been
advocated by this paper continually,
and Is one way to overcome the diff
Guilty. AS little drops of water and
little grains of sand make the mighty
ocean and the pleasant land, so will
the proper appliance of road work
and road money into substantial per-
manent and lasting improvements
here and there where most needed
each year, constantly increase our
mileage of good roads until it would
finally result IN a pretty fair system.
Our correspondent speaks only too
truly of the careless manner in which
our bridges are allowed to go to ruin.
If dollar saved is a dollar earned, so
is a bridge properly preserved and
taken care Of, new bridge built
because if with care bridge is sound
and strong at the end of ten or twelve
years, it enables the money that would
be needed to repair or replace a rot
ten one TO be used in constructing
some needed bridge in another local
ity. HIS idea of road law is de
serving of consideration, as it en-
bodys some good points, especially
that of having less road supervisors
and putting more extensive districts
under their control, and the manner
in which taxes shall be paid in work,
only we think warning out men,
ought to be done away with and the
posting of notices in three public
places in the district be made sufii-
cient. The paying out Of large
amounts every year to road supervi-
sors for warning out men" is one of
the greatest pieces of folly in our
present system. The article on first
page is, on the whole, just such a one
as we like to see from q farmer. 1t
is good to see them take an interest
in and talk about matters so inter
woven with the prosperity of the
whole people. The little sarcasm
shyed at us in the latter part of the
article can easily be overlooked. The
writer appears to have an aversion to
wide tired wagons spoken of in this
paper short time ago All depart
ures from long standing customs and
the adoption of new ones always meet
with ridicule until people become used
to the new, and then they generally
prefer it to the old. If the broad
tired wagons are used to preserve the
already good roads in England, ii
must be because they have less ten
dency to cut them up, and what will
not spoil n good road woald certainly
prevent bad road from becoming
worse; and if they were in vogue
here, it would the easier enable us tc
make the permanent road improve
ments advocated by the gentleman, as
every good Improvement made on the
road would be preserved, us our cor.
respondent says, by that class OF
wagons, and would require no work
of note in the future, thus enabling
us each year to apply our labor an6
money at some new point. However,
the gentleman need not be alarmed
at the prospect, as there is no imme
date danger of the wagons that dom
track being forced on the country.