The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-08-30

gravelly or shale material from the
present sharp points of wheel contact.
The cost of this process would be re-
imbursed by the gasoline tax which
the new travel would then pay and
which otherwise would not be paid in
this state; the various towns and
stopping places for $50 miles would
profit by the travel which they now
lose and the highway would serve in
fam essential respects the great pur-
pose for which it was designed on the
instant, that is. beginning at least
with the next tourist season, instead
of waiting an indefinite term of years
| for the improvement, and having the
stream of travel diverted into other
channels, perhaps permanently.
Route Attractiveness.
The north and south highway is
perhaps the most desirable and en-
chanting route to be found in the
United States The reason is that
there is no similar length of natural
and varied beauty to be met in any
other section. Elsewhere the tourist
is constantly running into the things
he wants to get away from-cities.
railroads. cultivation, jams. noise
dust heat; here he finds the quiet of
the mountains, forest and lakes I'M
broken except for the soft ripping of
running waters and the song of birds;
ne finds rest peace and harmony. The
panorama is constantly changing;
new scenes are unfolded at every
turn the mountain tops at one mo-
ment awe one with a sense of their
grim eternities; at another they break
into pleasant valleys where some for
tunatc household tends its vine and
hgtree. while fat herds browse in the
green pastures.
Persuasions of Payette Lake.
Midway between Lewiston and
Boise about $50 miles each way, lies
Payette lake, common point for
both sections of the state and a play
ground for all Here, two miles from
the town of Mccall. an inn has been /
built that is a favorite resort for the /
frstrate families of Boise, Nampa, /
Caldwell Weiser and SO on. 1t is
pitched i'm the open pines hundred |
yards from the lake shore, is of three /
stories and basement with large,
we'll appointed lobby where great
log fire is constantly burning and its /
comfortable rooms are generally well
filled in season. Girl school teachers
serve in the dining room and the
places are eagerly sought by them as
lffording a pleasant vacation with
light work and good pay. In the yell
owstone park hotels there are 800
such places and there were over 5000
applications for them this year At
HE lake there are motor boats and
'owboats and bathing. In the bath
house there are hot and cold showers.
There is informal dancing every eve
ling and a hop once a week There
rs along the lake and good company
S not lacking. Were the north and
outh road fairly traversible the spot
would become a favorite resort for
lorth Idaho people, as it is but one
asy days drive. The balsam scent
# the pines, the pure air of the lakes,
he invigorating and wholesome con-
itions generally would seem to make
his locality an ideal one for a state
anitarium and neutral ground for the
wo otherwise divided sections.
To the State Capital.
From Payette lake to Boise the
orth and south highway is a dream. I
symphony, in motoring Pretty g
owns and smiling valleys roll past
Ike clocllwork and the $50 miles are I
egotiated by early afternoon. The
roprietor of Bosses leading hotel. the l
wyhee Mr. Leo Falk, who is also
ne city's merchant prince is going .
, bring his family to Lewiston over d
ne highway very soon. Just to stop d
the Lewis-C Clark This hotel by .
he way is known and talked of all ~
YER the state and is proving as fine -
publicity agent as could possibly .
ave been expected. Nor would it be q
uprising along about convention g
me next year if the little tinkering =
referred to on that IS -
lies should have been effected. to y
nd Calvin Cobb and w +. Borah. =
aho's esranged lions Of the tribe Of ~
idah, erstwhile Pylades and Orestes,
wiling along together upon this shin -
3 pathway of the state. souls full of y
elody and happily intoning. This is !,
e day 1 long have sought and -
burned because I found it not"
Boise is much changed Of recent y
airs, having greatly solidified its -
siness district and ornamented its =.
sidential sections. an esplanade =.
wn one of its empowered streets be- ~
e an unusual distinction in what is -
pposed to be the crude and untutor-
west. The state capitol, too with A.,
stately dome and marbled interiors
res the visitor a pleased sense in the
unity and comeliness o fthat which w
nbolizes the state. It is enough to
ltrast the impression received from
= one with that which would be re-