The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-09-23

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these great resources are to be utilized
and that the adjacent country will be
proflted accordingly. When il was first
understood that n railroad was to be built
from Weiser the whole state was glad and
said so, though the proposition afterwards
| turned out to be fake. When it was
| afterward reported that the road would
! start from Payette the state was still
pleased and sympathzed with both Wei
ser and Payette that they had been i'm
posed upon. And now that n response
BILE company has definitely undertaken to
operate the mines and build a railroad,
steamboats, and smelters all in Washing
ton county, it would seem that common
sense, If not common courtesy, would
suggest that everybody in Washington
county should give them welcome. The
Signal complains that Weiser is the nat
ural and proper point from which to start
these operations and that any other pro-
| ject must be II failure and an imposture.
But the gentlemen who are investing
their good gold in the property ought to
be allowed to decide this point themselves
aud they ought to be permitted to do so
without molestation from those who have
not the slightest right to intrude in their
business affairs. If these gentlemen did
not understand their business they would
loug ago have been driven from the field
by the hostility and distractions that the
| Signal has thrown up against them. 1t
they had been adventures and blaclSlegs
they must have long ago been exposed.
as the Signal has characterized them rs
such ever since they manifested deter
mination TO invest their money in Idaho
property. The Signal is usually fair in
It's discussions and true to the common
interest, but its present attitude is mis-
cake and serious injustice to its own
high position in the state.
The above is very unjust, though
in some respects possibly plausible,
criticism of the stand the SIGNAL has
taken in the matter of opening the
Seven Devils mining region. The
article in question is worth notice
for the very ingenlus manner in
which it begs the question at issue,
and the solicitous and injured at
tempt to pettfog the case AS a
matter of fact the Weiser SIGNAL has
never opposed any industry or any
enterprise, and fully appreciates the
fact, that any worthy or legitimate
effort, to open this immense mineral
country, would directly benefit Wash
ington county, and incidently, the
town of Weser, and following this
general disclaimer it may be well to
state again in explicit terms just what
the SIGNAL does oppose and why it
does so:
The SIGNAL first, last and all the
time denounces the attempt of the al
legged corporation known as the Idaho
Railroad Company, TO capitalize a
worthless and abandoned mountain
wagon road, and foist the bonds for
the same en- uniformed and confid-
ing subscribers for one hundred and
seventy thousand dollars, or ten
thousand dollars a mile, and under
the further misrepresentation that
this road, if it is road, connects
with navigable stream. The entire
scheme is, to say the least, disreput-
able, and has all the ear marks of
fraud, and this is as mild statement
as can be made and express the idea.
In saying these things the SIGNAL
does not wish for a minute to pose as
the guardian of other peoples inter-
ests who are disposed to invest their
money in this or any other enterprise
or scheme, but simply for the reason
that there is no possible outcome for
capital in this particular scheme ex-
cept fiat failure and the consequences
will be attributed to the lack of rea-
sources in the county, while the en-
terprising promoters can get out with
the main portion of one hundred and
seventy thousand dollars, realized
from the sale of bonds on the afore-
said crooked and dilapidated road,
known as the Kleinschmidt grade,
which Lucien caves has represented
as ready for ties and rails. No al
fusion has ever been made dis
couraging to any industry incident
to this fraud. And nothing has ever
been said against the construction of
railroad from Payette or any other
rival point except to compare advan-
vantsges. We have never said it
would not be success but simply
that it would cost more. If the
Tribune can arrange to build line
up the Clearwater, across Camas
Prairie down Whitebird, and then by