The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-06-15

Sweet is the air with fruitful bios oms.
And the valley Stretching for miles
Below
Is white with blossoming, fruitful
Trees;
ASST just covered with highest snow -
A few short years ago and quota
been applicable to this section Of
Idaho. Dismal stretches of valley
covered with sage brush made up
the monotonus picture seen in day $
travel through Snake river valley
The present aspect is transilience
and as if by some magic power n
change has come and the miles of
valley transformed from former DIES
olation to fruitful bowers of beauty
Changeable fields of grain, grass and
alfalfa relieve the eye, and then the
GROWING glory of the picture is the
dark leaved and blossom covered
orchard, springng up in the midst Of
THIS fertility rs an example of faith
verified by works. Genial sunshine.
an equible climate and abundance of
water were the visible factors that
lead thinking men to attempt the
task that has made the desert bios
som and give to the earth its fruits
Aud it has been n task that required
the most persistent effort and devoted
energy, and calling for financial
venture to an amount not generally
realized by the public While this
picture has sentimental side, all
aglow with blossoms and beauty and
pleasant for the casual observer.
there is very serious and practical
condition That is ever present TO the
parties who have toiled and planned
that these astonishing developments
should stand as evidence of their
patience, faith and work To them
1t is history full of warfare. The
slender twig placed in the ground,
child like, demands immediate and
continued aid that it may survive.
Nature, its best friend, is, by strange
paradox, its most formidable enemy.
All elements are against it, heat and
cold, wet and dry; insect life in one
class, needed to fructify, in another
Will destroy; one class of soil is
friendly, another deadly, and so on
These contingencies have to be met.
and the list seems interminable, until
skill and vigilance have conquered
aud the tree in all its glory bends be-
meath its load of ripened fruit But
the lahorer is worthy OF his hire and
fully entitled to q just recompense
for his toll, anxiety and investment
He has assumed all the risks of every
description from planting to full
fruit, and it seems his responsibility
should cease here and his reward
commence, and in any other class of
business it would. But for some
reason, peculiar to this business.
this is not the case. The producer
is supposed to pursue the tangled |
thread of commercial diplomacy that
leads up to n final sale, using, as an
intermediary, that intangible evil. |
the commission mamie who assumes |
all the responsibility and at the same I
time Is not responsible for anything. |
And that a class of men of so varied /
and pronounced ability as the fruit
growers of Southern Idaho should I
longer submit TO this system of rob
berry is really past comprehension
The idea of allowing such valuable
products to pass from your control.
and then on the evidence of letter
Of explanation, pocket the loss while
else pockets the profits.
Out of your possession, your pro.
iuct is beyond your control. Once
ready for shipment fruit IS worth to
20 the grower what it is worth Mt
home, and there is where it should
,hange hands and his responsibility ,
ease. Unless an arrangement can /
re made so that responsible bayers /
will come forward and buy the fruit {
N the trees it would be far the best c
'oiicy for the growers to assume the G
ntIre business and ignore all appllca- t
ions to ship on n commission basis .