The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-05-09
Is Boise FIGHTING
THE BLACK CANYON7
plymouth Sentinel Says Capital
Ns ~, fs-Editor Smock Pictures
"" Boise as Hick Town

r, Ro;se fighting the Black Canyon
,..;a.t;on project1 Is she doing all
i,ils San TO forward the enterprise?
~. questions are brought up by the
ME- plymouth Sentinel which is in
IT, Irasd TO think that fear and greed
Saye so warped the vision of Boise
h lns. che cannot see her own interests.
pn;se ;s pictured as hick town ped
n n:ag o;ns and toothpicks when she
ought to be making big dreams come
true.
EDITOR Smock of the Sentinel says:
A Hint to Boise
What invisible power is holding
h,et the reclamation of the Black
ranxon Irrigation project? 1t is. like
he answer of Pharoah-"And he said
To.morrow" Why put it off? Why
does M. Thompson. the Caldwell
a get such favorable answers
nd so much encouragement, and
~atbino be done? We are not CRITICS.
nv Mr. Thompson, for we believe he
i an able and honest man, and is do
;nq his utmost to put the proposition
oyer. but what is holding it back? We
do not pretend to be prophets, or sons
~ prophets, but we believe the cum
ming hand of Boise can be seem In
other words Boise has the voice OF
Iacob-soft and smooth-but has she
not the swarthy hide Of Esau? Boise
il a self-centered, selfish city. She
has no big ideas, she has no big
dreams. she has no wide visions She
oeters around peddling pins and tooth
hicks. when she should be directing
The possibilities Of the biggest oppor-
tun;ties that ever knocked at the door
Of humanity. With untold acres OF
waste land lying at her door, and un-
told rivers of water flowing past her
boundaries into the sea. she fritters
away her time trying to collect ~
cents for a IS cent meal, or trying to
divert the tourist from the state high
way TO the Nyssa. Ontario route.
We believe Boise does not want the
Black Canyon project to. go through
She seems to be afraid of the Payette
valley in general and of Emmett and
the lower part of the valley in par.
tjcular. Last week tn papers had
neat little map of the mora" project
and "told'how nice it would be to have
so much new territory tributary te
Boise" 1t would mean few more
people to pay tribute to Boise-to buy
a few more meals and another dozer
of clothes pins. But what about thu
Black Canyon? Think of it-lOO.OO'
acres OF the finest land lying out door
water in the Payette Lakes sui
ficient to flood the whole 100000 acre
during the watering seasoT-yet shov
us single issue of either of the tw'
Boise newspapers advocating tn
reclamation of this vast tract. W.
have not seen 'em for simple reason
thew have not had anything to say
Column after column about the beaut
of Arrow Rock dam, and page ate
page about the beautiful drive to Ar
row Rock dam-but not line, not
word, not a syllable about reclaimlnj
the Black Canyon 100000 acres. Nc
Boise we'll knows the tourist to Arrow
Rock dam will mean the sale OF an
other gallon of gasoline by a Bots
dealer, but she hasn't vision enoug
to see the reclamation of the Blac
Canyon land would mean the construe
ton of more railroads, the erection c
more factories, and the building
more cities and towns! Boise woui
apparently rather sell paper of pin
than car load of cement; she woul
sooner sell five cent collar butte
than train load of construction stee
she had rather sell gallon OF case