| Show WOMAN MAN RUNS A PAPER Mrs Merritt Idaho Editor and Politician Now Visiting Salt Lake I Mrs n Ada of Salmon City edi editor tor toe and end proprietor of the Idaho Idabo Recorder and county treasurer of Lemhi county is I Iv visiting dUs v at th the home of her daughter Mrs Irs Charles Gilmer 25 West We t Fifth South street treet reet Mrs Merritt enjoys a pe peculiar cutler culiar situation being belag a practical news newspaper newspaper paper woman won and at the same tIMe timea a successful tl politician She expects to re remain reIDA remain main IDA for tor some soe time in Salt Lake City I and end win will then make a trip east returning home ho ae In time to reap ap the harvest from froma the anticipated a eer rush to the e new gold d dI fields at Thunder Mountain I t am here neve BW ow 8 purely a personal visit it said Mrs Merritt last evening I 1 al always always always ways try to te visit Salt St Lake about twice I a year yeal for foe it always seems see like Mke home borne I Ito to me inc me although I hive have been In IR Salmon Samon City for eighteen years How did I I happen happe to get Int the newspaper bud busi business OIlS ness Why it se pis natural enough My husband ht who Yoho was as interested in the Old Kaintuck and other mining proper properties propertied ties tied up there died and I turned by hand to typesetting type alter after a brief season of teaching school The TIle paper was Wail a fail fall failure failure ure nrc but I decided to te buy it JL It is still alive after thirteen years with a woman at the t helm h I suppose 8 newspaper work naturally leads led to political ambitions wr M so that is ia the tb whole wh story 1 Lt sor We look lok for f a big boom bm in Salmon City for it is I the natural highway to Thunder TUr While Wie we have no railroad that is not going to hurt us All AU A the t machinery for the t Blackbird mine mineth UI the th stamp mills mUa and the th two big mills ml at Yellow Jacket was wu brought brU t I In I over the wagon road r that tbt is I still sti there for the use us of those tho starting til out ou for 1 I Thunder Tuner Mountain We expect a railroad i by hr b next year yer as the Oregon O exp Short Line Lne i is almost aim sure sur to extend the ti Blackfoot branch bh to Salmon City t I I I |
