The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-12-18
STATE PROPERTY, NOT LOCAL

Now that the Barber company has
consolidated with the Payette Lum.
Der company and will put in another
big mill on the Payette river, it turns
out that the sale of the Basin timber
Is not matter of such purely local
interest. All of southern Iaho will
be benefited by the great develop
ment that is to follow the sale. As
Weiser is not on the Payette, we
fear Col. Purcell will not be pacified.
He should, however, be glad to see
his near neighbors prosper anyway.
Weiser is so close to several sawmills
that another is not needed down there
just now.-Nampa Record.
The esteemed Record falls into the
same error as the Boise papers in dis
cussing the position of the Signal rela-
tive to the sale of the Boise Basin
timber. In no sense was our opposi-
ton base upon jealousy of our neigh
bors, but upon the broad principle that
the state land board had no right to
sell the timber at an actual loss of
100000 to the school fund of the state
in order to assist a private enterprise
The Records article Is an admission
that selfish motives alone prompted
the demand for the sale of the timber
and that the welfare of the state at
large was lost sight of in the promise
OF material gain to interested parties
and communities. The establishment
of dozen mills at Weiser would be
absolutely no inducement to "Col.
Purcell" and the Signal to abandon
the contention that the timber in the
basin belongs to the school children OF
north Idaho, southeastern Idaho and
southwestern Idaho instead of to the
timber trust and q few real estate
boomers.
The Signal well understands it IL
opposing the strongest force in the
state when it undertakes to overthrow
system which has been In vogue
since the state was organized, but II
will keep hammering away until q
stop is put to the practice of selling
our birthright for a mess of pottage
We howl about high taxes, eyt when
the legislature meets 80 per cent Of
the members are there with a private
or community graft and the newspa
pers Of the communities to be bene
fitted point to the great good to resul
while at the same time they know that
they are fostering a system which vii
smpoverish the people of the state al
large II someone Is not found with
patriotism enough to call halt. Eacf
community that has graft combines
with others that have gratis, just a,
the Record Is doing In the timber mat
ter, and the first thing the taxpayer.
know all the gratis have been slippet
over and they are the sufferers. Cox
grant the time will come when oul
officers and newspapers will take thu
broad view that the states business
shall be handled on the broad basii
Of the greatest good to the creates
number. The industrial welfare o
no particular community ought to out
weight the rights of the citizens o
the commonwealth at large. Weise
Signal
The Signal certainly entertains tn.
proper views on this much discussed
subject OF the state timber holdings
! The practice of utilizing state funda
and property for selfish local interest
as has been practiced. has become
very distasteful to many people in thu
state; and those who do 1t should b
made answerable to the public TO
fbnir conduct