The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-04-19
wEIsER WATER.

iiptic OiuN VI "Hlcn Tue Ol2udi HAS lOi
years been the champion, and mouth
piece to the world at large, this pa
per has, in a legitimate way, men
toned the matter of consideration oil
present and future water supply AS
any town grows into a city and adj
vances in population, the proper care
must be taken that refuse is not al
lowed to contaminate the water. as
the purest natural water could be
made unhealthy by large popula-
ton if proper drainage and sanitary
rules are not followed With the
thought Of precautions that have to
be taken by every center of popula-
ton, the Signal has referred to means
of securing ''better' water, but it
does not propose to be victimized or
to have any family counsel it has to
make, regarding our future condi-
ton, used as basis for the making
of war upon Weiser interests, or the
spreading of exaggerated calumnies
calculated to injure Weiser and deter
people from making this their home
because of the impression that it is as
much as their life is worth. A good
water might be replaced with a better.
and in speaking of that possibility,
the Signal was entirely taken aback
to see the Boise Statesman come out
with great black type, glaring forth
over two columns of matter, and an
nouncing to the world the DANGER
GUS condition of Weiser water The
matter entire, as it appears in the
Statesman, is a SANDER upon the
healthiest and most promising Young
city in the State of Idaho, and the
fulfillment of its duty towards its home
land it has never, under present man
agement, failed in that duty leaves
us no course but to resent the imputa-
ton of the Statesman, and the Signal
does resent it, When the Weser
Wreckard publishes the falsehood
that Weiser water is ''absolutely I'M
ut for human use'' that is not worth
resenting, as scarcely fifty people
would ever see it, and no one away
from Weiser, but when the Wreck
ards statement is republished in the
Statesman, and given circulation,
making it appear TO tue world that
Weiser is place scarce fit for habita-
ton, we condemn the Statesman for
using the extract | it is to be
published in all the leading outside
papers that it is worth ones life, al
most, to drink Weiser water, we
cannot expect any great influx Of pop
ultion, and it is hardly conceivable
that so rude and unjust thing would |
be perpetrated by any one, through
any motive, much less the leading daily
of the state Welser is healthy
town, her water is good, it has been
used for twenty years by her people
and in her whole history not one i'll
result has ever been traced to use of
Welser water in its "Ordinary" CON
dltlon, In the thickly settled por-
ton of town on the lower grounds,
with irrigation water in more cons
tant use, and sources of possible con-
tamination increasing, it would be
easy to pollute the water, and the
Signal wants such q condition guard
ed against. Some wells under these
may have deteriorated and
1t is only tue part of wisdom where
any possibility exists to use known
pure supply, such as the Diamond
Spring service furnishes. But a
sweeping imputation that Weiser
water is naturally and ordinarily
bad, is not to be borne in silence,
and the impression that stranger
would receive from reading the States
man would be most harmful, and at
superficial glance he would put
Weiser down as place to be avoid
ed, unhealthy and noted for its vile
and undrinkable water. The analy-
sis published in the Statesman ebon,s