The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-09-09
Numerous Paragraphs of Illegitimate
Extraction to Delude the Public.
FICTION FALSEHOOD AFLOAT
Ridiculous News Notes Get Publicity ant
the Truth Frequently Overlooked.

1t is strange how some little wild
story, with no foundation in fact, will
get started in public channel and
become widely circulated in different
publications, right in the face of the
truth that is being constantly placed
before them from an entirely reliable
source. For instance, the following
appears in the Mining and
Scientific Press Of San Francisco:
A contract has been signed for three
sixty-tun barges for The Snake riverSeven
Devils trade. One seventy -five-ton ca
pacity smeter now Mt Huntington will be
put up Immediately on the river eighteen
miles down the grade from the ore mines.
Pacers are paying better than ever
since '63.
The truth is there has been no
contract signed for barges and not
the remotest possibility that there
ever will be. There is no smelter at
Huntington. This sort OF unreliable
news is given birth to by adven-
turers, of no standing or stability, in
order to further some plan Of theirs
to bleed some unsuspecting investor,
and they generally get their mislead-
ing statements pretty well circulated
by journals which make no effort to
procure the truth. The SIGNAL goes
weekly to the Mining and Scientific
Press and not one item OF news the
latter has taken from our columns
has ever been called in question by
anyone. And in this case the NJ. and
S. Press can, If it desires, give its
readers the exact truth about Seven
Devils by paying attention to what it
receives through the SIGNAL. Had it
OF late been noting the contents OF
this only positively reliable medium
for Seven Devils information, no
such erroneous paragraph would have
found its way into NJ and s. Press
columns.
Another piece Of news being passed
around, and taken from u Baker City
paper, is as follows:
Mr.. James Steel. Of Portland, arrived
by yesterdays train. and after attending
TO Some business affairs in the city ht
goes 10 Huntington, then TO the Sever
Devils copper region where he is inter
ested in copper mines He says there are
hundreds of thousands OF tons of copper
bearing ore in sight, and that section is
sure TO yield great riches. Capt. Baugh
man, the veteran Snake river steamboa
man, was enroute to Huntington on the
same train with Mr.. Steel. and says th,
steamer for the Snake river will be bull
Immediately, and probably II second boa
will also be built. the steamers TO ply be
tween Huntington aud the Seven Devils
landing opposite the mouth OF Pine creek
The long and short of it is tina
there will be no steamer at all con
structed on Snake river betweel
Huntington and Seven Devils. Thi,
is positive. When the steamer Nor
ma was built, busted up on the rocks
and then taken, on the most THRILLING
trip that was ever recorded, TO TIN
Columbia, it sealed the fate of boa
visions. Ii Mr.. james Steele is to b.
mentioned, it is as well to give hi
true ideas of the Seven Devils mine
and the only method Of openin
J them. His ideas are to be found i
Il paragraph in the Oregonian Of Sept
3rd, just after his return from til
trip spoken of in the paragraph j
, BREWER above.
James Steel has returned from tri
to the Seven Devils mining district. ii
SAWS this region is wonderfully rich
copper, with some fine gold propertie
which are beng developed more tha
ANYTHING else There are also some fin
, lead properties The outcome of the di
, trict depends altogether on transportation
: There is an opening for Il transportatiu
proposition from Weiser to the Seve
Devils district. A railroad from Weis,
To Salubria would be good proposilio
of itself. There have been three surve,
made for such n line. the maximum grac
of which would not exceed 2 per cen
There are number OF mines west of 81
: lubria. the ores from which could
: hauled TO that point The route of u
: line from Salubria lies through ditferel
!, valleys 10 Council, So miles from Weise
: : and thence up Hornet creek. right I'M
= the Seven Devils district. A system
= = roads, covering large tract OF countr.
ceniers at Salubria. The Seven Devi
. district is reported by government su
y veyors 10 be the richest mineral sectic
!, in Idaho, and road to it would RI
= = through fine agricultural country. III
. mines at greater or lrss distance won
= be tributary to il all along the euJi
i length above Salubrla.
It Despite all the deception and mi
leading statements which snrrorr