The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-07-04
Glories of the Fat Land Capturing
Outsiders.
A MINISTER'S OBSERVATIONS
Pain. Railway Places Pleasures Of Pay.
cite Lake Within Reach Of All.

The existence of the p. & l. n
Railway is proving great factor in
the advancement of Washington
county and we are accomplishing
things with greater ease and rapidity
now that we have available to outside
people that means of ingress and
egress to and from the beauties and
the wealth of the heart Of the county
Another thing is that Payette Lakes,
that Como of Idaho, which is prac-
ticalIy All adjunct to Washington
county and which has been for a
number Of years the place of sum-
mer resort for large number of
people, is now made 80 easily ac-
cessible that the number of visitors
will constantly increase aud instead
of making four days trip Of $50
miles from Boise, they will now pass
through Washington county, viewing
its splendors and reaching the lake
in less than two days.
One of Boise most eminent di-
vines recently passed up through the
county and has the following to say
GA short time since 1 made a trip
over the p & |. N railway from
Weiser to Council. Starting in the
morning, we soon left behind us the
Snake river swifting gliding under its
willows, the thriving, ambitious little
city, and the fine farms of the valley
and plunged into the canyon of the
, Weiser river. 1t was refreshing t(
be able to ride in train without the
, accompaniment of trailing clouds o.
alkaline dust, and to feel the brac
ing air of the mountains coming Il
3 through the open windows. Tn
4 little river is so clear that one is eas
G lily deceived as to the volume of waite
in It's channel. Quite record ha
this stream made for itself Fo
about one hundred miles its cours
is almost parallel to that of tn
It Snake, and yet the one is flowing t
v the south, and the other to the nortl
~ Where the parallel lines begin, in th
north, they are not many apart, br
the Weiser is between four and fiv
le thousand feet higher than the Snake
1t is also said that the Weiser vino
!. around so much in the first two hun(
"a red miles that it makes an advan(
of no more than half dozen mile
% 1t seems to have as hard time {
W they say some Of us preachers hay
ed in coming to the point. But, aft
after all, it goes ahead with enere
and determination. The valleys VIZ
it. but it sweeps around them al
] goes on. Great ridges thrust ther
selves across its course, but th'
cannot hold it back 1t speeds alon
now with placid sort of haste, al
again. as it whitens on the rocks, al
brighlens in the sunshine, one thin
Of the lips of fair face parted in
smile: 1t is happy river, wi
many a joyous song for the travel'
Before one has wearied OF t
beauties of the canyon it wdens c
into Middle Valley. Riding alo
on the Short Line the trave
would never suspect that back of
mountain wall OF gray and brown {
valleys SO fertile as this and its sis
valley, the Salubria, with which it
connected by only a short canyt
Willows and cottOnwoods are grOwi
there, and in their shade the hor
and cattle stand in the green pastu
and by the still waters. There
churches and schoolhouses, and "
titled farms on either hand, wi
roads reach out to still other vale
and tc the mining camps fart
back in the mountains. Charm
indeed is the sight Of the sn
covered Squaw Greek mountains s
ACROSS the soft green of the lrrigs
fields.
Council, The temporary term
of the road, lies In the midst c
great ''smiling landscape,
where the amphitheater where |
is not merely mountains throw til
selves back in an attitude Of c.