The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-07-26
Entertains Iowa Folks With Some
4 Everyday Observations.
REV ard FOR THOSE Who WORK
Comment on the Realities and Illusions OF
the Best State In the West

The Signal has published at least
two of the letters written to Iowa
papers by S. H. Bashor, the gentle
man who came from that state last
spring and located in Weiser as
Idaho agent for the Penn. Mutual
Life Co. The following is his latest
communication to eastern journals:
Editor Courier; Some of my letters
have found their way back to this
country and have been copied into
local papers. The result is, l am the
recipient of all sorts of queer informa
ton which it is urged shall be un7
loaded on the "effete' and uususpect-
ing east. I am told to say to you
that billiards. and cylones and
thunderstorms are as scarce in Idaho
as snakes are in Ireland. That while
it gets comfortably warm-say 100
in the shade-here during the heat
ed season, through the day, it is
always comfortable at night You
can sleep most Of the time with a
blanket for cover. The men who
have failed to make living nearly y
every where else under the sun, can
succeed and are succeeding here.
That if you will come, settle down,
and stick to it two years you Will
never be satisfied to live any where
else That while there are some
diseases here, epidemics and scourag
es are practically unknown. That if
you put seed in the ground and turn
water on at well regulated intervals
you can raise everything ''raisab)e''
that will grow in the temperate zone
anywhere on the face Of the globe.
That the only people who do not
make a fortune in Idaho are the lazy
trifling, rousiabout, do-nothing class
es, who actually esteem it luxury
to stay poor. That the only reason
this is not corn and hog country il
because there is double the money
, in cattle, alfalfa, hay and sheep
That any man who will 60 into thu
mountains and strike a rich silver
, copper OF gold ledge will nine time
out of ten be bloated bond holde
inside of month. That if bright
D energetic, shrewd, cold blooded, cal
: culating son of Adam could only Sc
into the bowels of the earth h
would actually take peep at NOR
! gold, silver and precious stones il
> the mountains Of Idaho than hav'
I been unearthed by all the mines o
!. the earth for ten thousand years
! And he could then organize syndl
Gates whose enormous holdings an
: manipulations would, in just fiv
+ wears. astound civilization and shak
S Mark Hanna and John ID. Rochelle
. out of their boots. That the onl
e reason Teddy Roosevelt 'got ther
q Eli'' at San Juan sooner and Phila
e delphia later was because he shot vii
+ buffaloes and shifted great riffs c
e the life giving atmosphere of thl
! hero making and gloriously organic
IS ed oasis of the universe. That if b
n misses his shot into the vice-pres
le dental chair in November it will b
l. because he left here too soon and e
r his ammunition rammed down til
d wrong barrel of the gun.
:, OF course. my son, much of
N this must be taken just before be
= time. and with small grain OF a
Of lowance, but if taken in Idaho al
washed down with two glasses
Bitter Root mountain tea it will a
% ways and invariable have the desire
b. effect, coupled with an eternal Ion
2 ing to go east and do likewise. TIE
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