The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-06-28
OPEN THE AVENUES.

ance of the frequently mentioned
wagon road connection on the Little
Salmon river The possibility of Sc
curing legislative action should not
be placed in the background, and in
selecting men for our represent
atives at Boise next winter great
care should be taken to select men
who will not fall below their prede-
cessors in influencing action upon the
completion of few unfinished miles
of state wagon road, On first page
we quote an article from The Idaho
Free Press which is very timely and
suggestive OF Tue value of making a
complete, through highway down the
Little Salmon, and if our people can
do anything to open such a thor
oughfare they should be more than
anxious to act.
OF course with the commencement
ofthe railway north from Weiser it was
hoped that the rails would speedily
stretch through that valuable noun
tain pass and open the great Central
Idaho empire, and, while that would
not remove the necessity of a wagon
road, it somewhat obscured the prop.
osition. But with the development
of no present likelihood of the P. &
|. N. soon fulfilling its destiny, we
must come back to the simple prob
lem and attempt to solve it We be-
lleve, if President Hall were sounded,
a perfect willingness would be dis
covered to lend fnanci al aid 80 far
as p. & |. N. interests are con-
cerned, which is certainly to a most
important extent We can none of
us know what possible incompetency,
where Mr.. Hall could not personally
supervise, or what possible planned
treachery intended to throw Gas some
times suggested Mr.. Hall down and
turn his enterprise over to the Union
Pacific interests, may have prevented
the speedy consummation of his
plans. But if such designs have
been present under any cratic or
childish guise, it is still true that
Mr.. Hall yet controls his enterprise,
and we have that admiration of his
ability which leads US to believe that
he will so continue and in due time
will remove all obstacles to the sue
cess of what he has undertaken, and
If Weiser has incidentally been dam
aged to the extent of two or three
hundred thousand dollars through
the same source by which Mr.. Hall
has been annoyed. it is something we
must bear patiently until relief
comes. Mr.. Hall is known to be
very DESTROYS of pushing the road
beyond Council this year to create
ore and timber traffic, and with the
rails forty or fifty miles further north
the Little Salmon river road would
be most important feeder, which
would give Mr.. Halls line absolute
control of all the growing traffic in
machinery and supplies of central
Idaho, and we are sure that, realizing
this, the head Of the Pacific & Idaho
Northern can be fully relied upon to
the project. The varied and
incidental interests to the country,
outside of the foregoing, in a COM
mercial and transportation way, be-
sides the valuable considerations con-
nected with the heavy travel between
the north and the south sections of
the state, are so plain as to need no
repeated mention. There is nothing
nnclouded except what we are going
to do to utilize this important avenue
10 growth and business health. Let
us not discuss the i'll results of "Sin-
bads' that may have got astride our
necks, but rather counteract these re-
suits with wisdom along lines above
suggested, in confidence that time
will make all things even and remove
any unhealthy spot on our progress.