The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-10-31
Harvesting Immense Rivers of Idaho
STATES VAST WATERPOWER
Colorado Journalist Euloglzes Former Col
orado Man, Now Prominent Citizen
OF Idaho
in Colorado Spring. Gazette,

Fitz-Mac, In Colorado Springs Gazette,
The wealth Of the world is created,
not by labor ss political economists
and superficial thinkers have falsely
taught, but 5y ideas that save labor
that multiply the laborer'scapacity
That all wealth is the creation of
labor is u fundamental failacy which
can only retain the sembiance OF
truth to such as are incapable or in
disposed to think TO the bottom of
things.
Labor unassociated with labor
saving ideas has never anywhere in
the history of mankind been able to
produce as much as was necessary
for its own sustenance, but has had
to draw on the bounties of nature for
the balance.
The man with the hoe is man
working in association with an idea
that largely increases his capacity
an idea involving an application of
the principle OF the lever which en-
ables him to do more than 10 men
could do with their hands. The hoe,
insignificant as it is relatively today,
was an invention of revolutionary
Importance to mankind. 1t enabled
man for the first time to create a
urplus-which is wealth. The
wealth. created leisure, and leisure
engendered ideas of comfort and
stimulated progressive invention.
n Lavor saving inventions are the
yeast of civilization.
All lavor-saving inventions are
only contrivance to save wasted
force.
Most of the natural force of the
world is still wasted for the want of
inventions to utilize it, 1t would
probablyrbe generous concession to
mans pride In his ingenuity to admit
that 80 much as 2 per cent. of the
visible and caIculable force OF nature
has yet been harnessed into his SER
vice-we are still so far as that from
the climax of civilization.
|. Idaho has greater number of
rivers than any other state in the
Union, and these rivers have a great
er average fall than the rivers OF
any other part of the country. This
results from the states peculiar
topography, high and mountainous
central OF great extent with low
border on three sides.
The average fall of all the water
in Idaho will probably equal 1900
feet.
There is natural power enough In
such fall Of such a volume of water
il it could all be utilized to drive
every machine that is driven by any
sort of power in the United States
today.
Can it ever be fully utilized?
l don't know-and to tell the
whole truth l dom care continental
II it can be and ever is l expect
to be dead thousand years before
it happens and so the only interest
l feel IN the result is that of philos
optical speculator.
But you'll be interested to heal
about man who has already harness
ed lot of that power into his ser
vice and made fortune by it. You'll
be interested because you know the
pan-Joe Hutchinson.
Don't know. Joe Hutchinson
: our Joe?-oh, rats of course yor
know him! You're only trying t.
think OF something hard and far of
Everybody in Colorado knows Jo'
Hutchinson as well as a cat know
her own tall Born up in GilpiI
: worked his way through
the Denver high school by selling
papers, and managed to scoop all thu
prize medals at graduation, too.
Consumpted- looking little rat o
cuss he was in those days-so thii
he couldn't tell whether he bad
backache or bellyache. He wa
all head and feet-yes, and voice
My, what voice that boy had :
r not foghorn voice, you know, bu
t penetrating as the March wind use
to be called the boy orator, don
you neutrality-suspicious. used
trot him out to stump the state fol
he was old enough to vote.
! He was the lightning boy orato