Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-08-25
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
GfanseVille Business Men Are Grossly
MiSrepfesented.

WARRENs, August ID, 1899.
Editor DAILY PRESS.
+. w. Emerson arrived from
Grangeville yesterday on his way
to Government creek to look after
his mining interests. He is very
enthusiastic over the future of this
section, and well he may be. There
probably never was discovered such
a mineral belt as extends from
Smith creek to Thunder mountain.
To quote Mr.. Emerson: II am
very much surprised to learn that
the business men Of Grangeville
are SO short sighted as to injure
their reputation and business as
they are surely doing by trying to
discourage any one they can from
coming to Warren, and sidetrack
them for the Hump" Now, Mr..
Editor, l have had no less than
twenty men tell me the same story.
| simply desire to say that any
man in Idaho, and especially
Grangeville, who would say aught
against one locality to bolster up
another is either fool or a knave,
and ought to be ostracised from
the country; and if the people Of
Grangeville expect to do business
with this section in the future it
behooves them to expand their
ideas to at least a degree of invest
igation, and not take on the atti-
tude of the snail and carry their
habitation on their backs. There
is no question but the Hump is a
mineral district of wonderful rich
ness, and has a bright future; but
there is such thing as killing the
goose that lays the golden egg by
misrepresentation that some peo-
pie call boom, and hurrying capi-
tai to the field, only to be disap-
pointed. They, like the horse, can
be led to the water, but you can't
make them drink.
To hear some men talk of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars for a
ten-foot hole in the ground as
though it was a mere bagatelle de-
notes a lack Of good sense, and
such people are drawback to any
new mining country. There is
plenty of capital looking for honest
investment, where they can get an
honest show for their money, but
sales of salted mines and ledges
that exist only in imagination are
of the past. If the boomers of the
Hump would take time to investi-
gate. the actual extent of the min
eral resources of this state OF
Idaho, or l may say, Idaho coun-
ty, they would find out that while
the Buffalo Hump country is prom
Using, it is but the beginning Of,
and l am safe in saying, the little
end of the mineral belt.
There is no question but Smith
creek, Beaver creek, Logan creek,
Big creek and Thunder mountain
surpass anything in any country
in the way Of big lodges, plenty Of
them, and all carrying values in
gold, silver and copper. Such a
country needs no booming. Capt.
tai will find it out; and l am glad
to state that the locators have not
! got the swell-head like some of our
neighbors, but are ready to take an
honest price for honest values.
Several buyers are in the field, and
offers have been made and accep1-
ed, and will soon be closed.
Now, Grangeville, don't you
think it would be better to reach
out toward Warren and on to
Thunder mountain for business
than to depend wholly upon the
Hump? And if you don't believe
what you hear of this wonderful
country, pay the expenses of g
trusty, sober man, send him ir
here to look it over, and l viii
guarantee you will be ashamed o
your side-tracking of people witt
desire good properties. We dom
do that to you.
DIR. G. A. HAscALL.