The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-04-18
Travelling Salesman Defends Wallace
Against Slanderous Attack of Magazine


themselves in permanent or costly
: headquarters.
Z. In fact, very little is done, either
In the way of building or in the nat :
, ure of municipal improvements, with
the idea Of making it last indefinitely
1T is good enough for the present ;
might be we'll adopted as the towns
! slogan. for it fittingly characterizes
the attitude of the people
8. Wood is. of course, the only do
nestle fuel.
AS stated before. | challenge all of
the above remarks of his. Also, as
stated before. l am doing this as
Idisinterested person, but something
to call your attention to the fact that
your travelling editor is either writing
what is absolutely the untruth, or
that he was in no condition to write
when he wrote the foregoing article
and 1T is my impression that he wan
dered to some other little town in the
district and thought he was writing
about Wallace. What | have to say
about Wallace can be verified by any
traveller going to the town.
Wallace can boast of something that
believe no other town in the United
States of its size can boast of-in
fact, towns 8, 10 and Is times the size
can not boast of-that is, that every
street and alley in the town is paved
with asphalt, (but this does not apply
to some of the residence streets on the
hillside). Does this look like no mu.
nicipal improvements? All the streets
are lighted in the latest up-to-date
methods adopted by large cities of the
east. Four-armed lamp posts, each
post containing five electric lights,
wire being underground. Is there no
permanence about this?
Wallace has stores that would be a
credit to any town from 5 to 10 times
the size of this city and the store
fronts are mostly modern.
Regarding wood for fuel, / don't
know where he gets this dope. They
do not know what wood is in Wallace.
AS to miners not building perman-
ent homes there are no miners living
in Wallace, so it is foregone conclu-
sion that he got wire crossed when
he wrote this article. For your in
formation / might state that there are
no miners or mines in Wallace. The
mines are located at Mullan, Burke
and other towns in the district and
the miners live at these respective
towns.
AS regarding the fortunes made by
the mine owners. the money that has
been taken out of these mines has
been taken out for years and many
mine owners have amassed fortunes
long before the world war was ever
dreamed of.
AS regarding the merchants selling
at exorbitant prices, this positively is
not the truth. as they are selling mer-
chandise in Wallace on the same ba-
sis as other towns and a great many
lines for much less price than the
in large cities in eastern markets
where freight rates are considerably
less.
! am in position to prove this from
my own line of merchandise.
Regarding his statement that no one
knows how long the boom will last
They have been working these mines
now for something like from IS to 40
years. Does this look as though no
one knew how long. the boom will
last?
/ might add that l would be very
much interested in knowing the brand
of dope which painted this picture for
your travelling editor, as no one that
is sober and in possession of half his
senses could write such an. article.
| might add that two pictures that
he has furnished, one Of the court
house and one of the Shoshone office
building are a fair example of the
buildings in Wallace. Idaho! Does
this look like the tumbled down shacks
that he would lead us to believe were
there?
think it would be well for you to
muZzle your travelling editor the next
time he goes out on lark of that !.
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