The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-05-10

There is little prospect of the ex
tension of the wagon road from
Warren to Thunder Mt.
The progress of efforts in this
line is backward rather than tor
ward, as cleaned from Portland and
Spokane papers:
cover the signatures Of President
Is. M. Mears and Secretary Lewis
Russel, the following letter has been
sent out to the members of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce.
| The Chamber of Commerce has un-
dertaken to raise a fund to aid in the
buidingof a wagon road from Warren,
Idaho, into the Thunder Mountain min
ing district in Idaho. At a conference
between the jobbers OF Portland and rep
resentatives of the Board Of Trade of
| Weiser, Idaho. the plan was received with
favor, and committees were appointed to
solicit subscriptions from Portland mer-
chants. A, small amount has been
pledged, but it is not proportonate to
the benefit that Portland will derive from
having the good will of the buyers in the
country tributary to Thunder Mountain.
AS it will be impossible for the soliciting
committees TO make thorough canvass
in the short time allotted for the work,
we take this means of calling your atten-
tion to the matter. If you wish to make
subscription, please write to the secre-
tary of the Chamber of Commerce, 246
Washington street, All funds raised will
be held subject TO the call of the Weiser
Board of Trade.
Idaho is lighting ground" for the mer-
chants of Portland, and we help our
selves there by making the most of every
opportunity that offers Whatever we
, may do for the Thunder Mountain
mining country will have its good effec
in time.
The same appeal that was made
to Portland was made to the Spo
kane Board of Trade, and it was no
we'll received there. Spokane die
: not like the idea of helping to built
a road that could also be used b.
Portland merchants, evidently fear
: ing that Portland wonld get the bes
of the competition in fair field
J.. and that Spokane's contribution t.
= the road fund would really result il
O so much aid to Portland to comman'
Thunder Mountain trade. Spokan
withholdes Endorsement of the War
- rem route on the pretext that bette
sr road may be built by way of Dixie
That route would lead to Spokan
IS and would do Portland compara
~ lively little good, inssmuch as
would involve passage through Sites
which point Spokane can reach muc
re more readily than Portland Cal
The warren route is only accessib
to from Sites or Council, and Spokar
r. and Council would be on equal tern
!, . on that road.
III The Weiser Signal publishes tt
following statement of the situation
D. THE Oregonian then quotes
ne length from the Signal. J
The Spokesman Review of We
ty nesday morning contains the folio
ing reference to the action of t
be Chamber of Commerce there:
s'Secretary Fellowes was instruct
sw to write to the Weiser Board
o. Trade, thanking it for the friend
interest shown IN the developme
i, of the Thunder Mountain mini
'n' district. Weiser recently sent N
ng Fosselman and Editor Lockwood
lb- the Signal to Spokane, to invite
is operation in the building of wag
"a road from Warren, Idaho, to Thu
-, der Mountain. Secretary Fellow
. was instructed to prepare lett
IT. and submit it to President Good
the for approval, informing Weiser Il
ish the investigation so far made by
Mo Cham Der of Commerce had dlsclos
,s a wide difference Of opinion and
- terest among various towns in no