Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-03-17
1T IS uP no you.

The announcement that the Potlatch
Lumber Company would construct a
railroad at once from Palouse to Prince
ton caused the editor Of the Moscow
Star to have a spasm. In long
winded article he assures his readers
that Moscow would have had the road
were not for the fact that Congress
man French, J. R. Collins, c. J. Mum
son, and Pete Circuit" opposed, and,
judging from his article, assisted in de-
feating the granting Of twenty years ex-
tension Of time to the timber syndicate.
However the facts are that the lum-
Der company, by circumstances over
which even eminent statesmen" had
no control, were, by the low water,
forced to meet an emergency. Thirty
million feet Of logs must remain on the
skids along the river above Princeton
during the season, at a cost OF so per
cent. in deterioration, or the road con-
structed. The damage to the logs,
according 10 an estimate published in
the Review, is sufficient to pay the cost
of building the road. This condition
confronted the company, yet the Star,
with childhke faith, assures the people
of Moscow that no road up the river
would ever have been proposed or
needed had the four eminent states
men" above mentioned followed the
example OF the virtuous Henry and
wiggle waggled according to the com
mands OF VIM. Deary or Henry Tur-
rish. Yet so able a gentleman as Mr..
Grice, a promoter OF the Moscow &
Eastern, states that the Prince
ton road was a necessity, and must be
built whether the Moscow branch is or
is not constructed. But between a
gentleman ike Mr.. Grice, and great
man like the editor of the Star, we
must admit that Mr.. Grice is most pre-
sumptuous to venture an opinion con-
trary to that eminating from one so
high in the councils Of the Weyer-
hauser syndicate. There is no question
but the timber people, before starting
to expend few hundred thousand dol
lars in the manufacture Of their vast
holdings, consulted with and took the
advice Of the Star editor. Else why
should he pretend to know exactly the
intentions OF the lumber company?
Now is it not fact that no assur-
ance was ever given Moscow by the
Potlatch Lumber company that would
warrant anyone in assuming that Mos
COW was to get either a mill or the
road? On the other hand the final de-
cision OF the company to build the road
from Palouse and manufacture their
timber at their big plant at that point
would rather indicate that the time had
come when the company could no
longer hide their real intentions from
the people, and with empty promises
and false hopes buy support or com
mand influence from those who realize
the injustice of their demands.
Rather does the location Of the new
road at some point other than Moscow
convict some Of Moscow's most prom.
inent business men Of playing the
sucker. And that the State Of Idaho
didn't invest in a gold brick is due en-
tirely to the fact that there were some
eminent statesmen" who refused to
bite when Messrs. Deary, furnish and
Weyerhauser, with H. c. Shaver and
Others as bait cutters, went fishing not
very long ago. 1t is up to the Star
to first show that Moscow ever had
cinch on that railroad or saw mill be-
fore it start a suit to convict anyone
OF cheating the town out of either Of
these much desired things.
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