The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-05-18
The WEISER SIGNAL.
A NEW DAWN

Westward the Star of Empire
Takes Its Way" There was new
melody and new sublimity in the
words rs Weiser stood upon the verge
of new destiny Tuesday last.
AS the hammer in the hands Of
Thomas W. Bates rang upon that
copper spike, it rang in a new dawn
for the Weiser land which we have
loved and in which we have lived
it rang in brighter day for the
whole state--it rang in n new era for
the commerce of the whole west coast,
for it requires no stretch OF magma
ton to see in the near future, as soon
as our northern connection shall have
been made, great bridge spanning
our blue river and the rails stretch
ing on over the bills toward the
shores of the Golden State and new
trans continental line established.
The stream of commerce is shifting
to the Pacific coast and the vast fu-
ture trade of the Orient seems des-
tined to set the tide flowing from
west to east rather than from east to
west. With San Francisco the New
York of the Pacific coast, we shall
behold great part of the stream
flowing through this part of the
state, over q new trans continental
line TO the east
AS Macbeth's star was to go down
when Burname S woods should come
to Dunsinane, so it might be said that
the star of Idaho will shine its
brightest when the ores of the noun
tain come to the valley and the fruits
of the valley go to the mountain. 1t
has already been accomplished in the
north. Toward the stored treasures
Of Owyhee the iron horse is smiling
the breeze, and in Weiser last Tues
day was inaugurated an enterprise
which, greater than all, shall bring
forth new giants into the mineral
world. A new empire of other di-
versilied industries, of agriculture,
numbering and other things will be
born which shall bring its millions
of capital and its hundreds of thou
sands Of industrious people.
1t is no wild statement that within
the present boundaries of Washing
ton county there is the field for the
investment Of 80 millions of dollars.
and with a country here in southern
Idaho lying along the great Snake
valley, capable of supporting 3 to 5
millions OF people without crowding,
in what dreams of the future are we
not licensed to indulge? In the
echoes sounding in Weiser last Tues
day one could hear the tread of
marching feet of millions yet to be.
and the enterprise then inaugurated
is not local in its Significance, but
means rs much to the whole state as
1t does to us. The people of the
north and the people of the south
will be drawn together commercially.
socially and politically New enter.
prises all over the state will he
spurred on, Que investment will bring
others in its train for other places
The opening of the great territory in
the center of the state should lead to
all manner of industries in the state.
With the greatest copper mines in
the world, why should we not send
it forth to the world rs manufactured
product instead of raw material. Let
as make our own copper wire 10
stretch all over the state that we NAV
talk and counsel with each other.
We shall make our own wool into
cloth instead of sending it east and
hauling it back again. Our cattle
roam on thousand hills. aye, I'll
thousand cattle on one hill. Why |
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