The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-01-31
TIME TO WEAVE OUR DESTINY

TIME TO WEAVE OUR DESTINY.
There is a tide in the affairs OF
men which, taken at the food leads
on to fortune, and the same can be
said of communities and very truth
fully remarked of our own town at
this very present time. TO repeat
what we have so often said in these
columns is like threshing old straw.
For years the grand advantages of
Weiscr have been patent to all who
for moment would pause to consider
or investigate them, and yet for some
reason no progress of material i'm
portance has been made. Glittering
possibilities would present themselves,
llnger for time, and then falling to
materialize would fade into the dark
ness of a vanished hope. At the
present time there is tangible relief
at hand. After years of disappoint-
ment, occasioned by hard times all
over the land, our railroad connection
with the north is an assured fact
the road will be constructed, the vast
region adjacent to Weiser will be
opened and its development will fol-
low The financial aid has been
secured; and now that all this has
been done, in what position do we
lind Welser? AS usual, with nothing
accomplished That is, in anywise
definite or business like, and we are
in no position to carry out our part
of the implied agreement with the
promoters. Nothing definite has been
done. Parties here hold large tracts
of unimproved land, and now when
it looks as though the road was a
certainty, refuse to do anything and
propose to hold on to all they have,
expecting all the benefit. To be per-
fectIy plain, all that can be said is
that the spirit that has and does dom
mate this community is the spirit that
opposes progress and kills effort in
that direction. Now is the time for
facts, just plain facts, and the first
one for this people to realize is that
prompt and organized effort is neces-
sary, and that in business way.
What is done must be done to stay
done, Contracts must be made in
black and white and for consideration
enough to make them binding. The
Weiser & Idaho Northern Railway
company are perfectly independent of
this or any other town and they can
get all the land they want for term-
nails outside of Weser. They can.
If necessary, refund the few dollars
already advanced and move to suit
themselves. The old antedeluvian
whine of the mossback, 81 don't be-
lieve it will ever be built, anyway,
don't go any longer 1t will go, and
IT Weiser expects to be the terminal
town she must do business and do it
in such a manner that the result can
be available when called on. Our
previous half understood contracts
must be reduced to business basis.
The company is ready to act and
have q right to expect all that we
have promised, and if Weiser Is pre-
pared to do anything, say so and
prove 1t, or failing, stand back and
see new town, put over the river,
take the full benefit. Taking the
past for a guide, this will probably
be the result Are we, rs com
munity, going to carry out our agree
ment with the Wciser & Idaho North
ern Hallway and it in shape to do our
part when they have theirs? The
people of this town are now face to
face with live business proposition
and the manner in which it is handled
settles the future of Weiser for all
time. II is time to weave the web of
our destiny
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