Show A DREADFUL MISTAKE San Francisco is sending another detachment de-tachment of 500 men east The dispatches dis-patches state these men are principally mechanics What a dreadful mistake Think of a city like San Francisco shipping away mechanics like cattle would devote half If the people there hal as much energy to the problem of securing se-curing a direct railroad line to Idaho as they did to creating the Midwinter fair there would be no necessity for sending men of that kind out of the state The building of such a line and the resulting development of the country coun-try through which it should pass would give employment to all the mechanics that could be secured Those 500 men and 5000 more like them would be I needed right in San Francisco to fill the demand which such a connection with the northwest would create m that I city Boise Statesman |