The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-07
VALUE OF GOOD ROADS
DEVELOPMENT OF IDAHO
ADVOCATES GOOD ROADS, LOW.
Err GRADES AND AUTO
TRUCKS.


on the map while serving as commits
sioner from this state to the Panama
exposition, and who is now engaged
in mining operations in the Wood
River district, makes this character
istic contribution to the subject OF
good roads for Idaho
If Idaho were ironed out flat, il
would be as large as Texas. AS 1t Is
about 70 per cent of the state stands
on end
The development of Idaho reminds
me of wheel. The rim is developed
but the spQkes and hub are as primi-
tive as of old. Railroads do develop
a country, and we have good railroads
in Idaho, as far as they go. Life
however, is too short to wait on them
and it is up to the state and its peo-
pie to open the interior of Idaho, sc
that the mineral, timber grazing and
the hundreds of valleys in our noun
tains that would make homes if the
remoteness of the situation did not
shut them out.
Auto Truck the Thing.
The solution of the situation, there
fore, seems to be in good roads, low
err grades and auto trucks. The au.
tomobile has pushed great distances
together and made possible an era o.
rapid development heretofore un.
known. In the old days the writer
was obliged to spend AZ hours il
driving from Boise to HALEY; he nov
makes it in eight hours in a machine
much faster than by train-ant
more comfortably in good weather
We need a good road from Boise t.
Atlanta and a connecting link between
Atlanta and HALEY. The Galena sum
INIT north of Ketchum, is to be reduc
ed from nightmare to 6 per cen
grade during 1917 When this is &C
complished the great mineral countr,
of Vienna, Cape Horn and Sea Foah
districts become of commercial valu
and the auto truck is the solution o
the problem.
Railroad Talk.
We have talked about railroads.
the Boise Winnemucca; the Butte
Boise & San Francisco; the Western
/ Pacific from Twin Falls to Wells tn
Northwestern from it's Wyoming ter
minals to Idaho Falls; the extension
of the p & l. N. from Weiser to
rail connection in north central Idaho
Well, it's all talk, so far; so VIII!
wait year after year, with no results
Good roads and auto trucks seem tt
be our solution to develop our inlant
empire, so let's not wait any longer
but just keep the splendid good roat
movement going, only more so, ant
let Idaho's splendid secrets becom
known, worldwide
Mining and Good Roads.
The writer advises everybody whit
lean afford an automobile to get on
and take the road whenever they cal
for an Idaho sightseeing trip, and t.
post themselves on the resources ant
opportunities existing at their yer,
doors. The mining man receives lit
tie or no help from anyone. A few
geological reports and pamphlets ar
all he receives from his government
He digs and pays with no help iron
nation, state or county. He is taxe'
and cussed and cussed and taxed, an
yet his business is the most human
of all the pursuits, because no one
any poorer from his being the richie
and he is adding to the wealth of tn
town, state and nation. Therefore
the miner must hail with delight tn
good roads movement, because
brings money for the development O
his prospect right to his cabin dool
so to speak So good roads into goo
places should be the effort Of ever
citizen. The cry is-curtail expenses
Never mind the expense if the none
lis honestly and intelligently expended
for Idaho will pay it all back an
more.