The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-04-26
Hawkeye Folks Receiving Forceful Talks
ON Our Resources and Future Prospects

S. H. Bashor, the Iowa gentle man
who recently came to Idaho as state
agent for the Penn. Mutual Life
Insurance Company and located
headquarters at Weiser, is greatly
struck with the riches he has found
here and, like - thoroughbred, is
determined that his Iowa friends
shall not wander in darkness through
lack of some one to tell them the
glad tidings, and he is writing re-
freshing letters to several Iowa
papers.
The first of the following appeared
in the Waterloo Courier of the 18th
and the second letter in the same
paper OF the 10Th:
Weiser, Idaho, Apr. 16-Weiser
is situated at the south end of the
Weiser valley, at the junction of the
Weiser and Snake rivers. The Snake
at this point is one half wider than
the Cedar river at the Fourth street
bridge in Waterloo and carries more
than twice the amount of water,
Weiser river is possibly one third its
size at this season of the year and
and drains an immense country. 1t
heads up somewhere in the Seven
Devils mountains andis the irrigating
reservoir for numerous narrow but
beautiful and fertile valleys. The
valley in which Weiser is situated is
one of the most productive of the
west. 1t is fairly we'll settled and in
short time every foot of tillable
land, and that means almost every
foot of land in it, under orchard or
general tillage.
Yesterday, with a friend, gentle
man from Garfield, Washington, /
climbed to the top of the highest of
butte or foothill, back towards the
interior and obtained one of the fin
est views of the country possible in
all the section. At our feet lays
Weiser and the great valley. The
town surrounded with vast stretches
of orchard in full bloom and fields of
waving alfalfa, now foot high, dot
ted with farm buildings here and
there and skirted by the Snake and
Weiser rivers, winding like huge ser
penis with silver coats made picture
that will linger in the memory for.
ever. Back of US the foot hills rose
in heighth step by step like the waving
pillows of the sea till they merged
into the vast range of mountains t.
the north and west, fringed with greer
and capped with eternal snow. Thel
the atmosphere, clear, fresh and ex
hilarating, capped the climax ant
make natural the expression of m
friend, "The prettiest picture eve
painted is always from the studio o
the Almighty"
But it is not the purpose of thes
letters to deal in the poetry Of DIES
cription, and the gems and colors an
poetry and embellish ments must b
left to you, reader, when you give u
the cares of business and visit thi
the "gem section" of the west TIL
is the one spot west,of Denver l hav
visited where YOU are not etern all
RECALLED with exhordiums on elm at,
There is climate here and plenty {
it. in all sizes, shapes and color
but with the people in their gener.
moods it is an unknown, or unthougl
of quality. One man said, &c
general principles the climate is {
nearly ideal that we forget to sa
much about it." | was telling al
other chap about this mans chat al
his sole comment was "Idaho b.
the smallest matches and the bigge
liars of any state west of the Missi
sippi."
The fact, climate from the vale,
1900 feet above the sea to the hig
est peaks ten thousand feet, st
higher, is like piece of breakfa
bacon, full of streaks, fat and lea
and one can find most any thing
his likings.