Show comment on timely topics topic 18 1 corp 31 MUN XIN sarret 8 our article last beell P garding the condition of our streets has elicited much favorable opt neit from the business men and other residents of emeka many maby have expressed their appreciation of this papers paper s efforts to giva this city better streets and quinea num her ber have advocated tl e awing aing of at least that part of main street wl ich covers tl e bush of the tho camp we see no reason why main street should not ib ba paved as the expense would tall fall entirely on the main street pio property eky owners owners and they are the ones who would be most bene fitted the street Is narrow and the entire cost of the work would not be belarge large and then when the sum lacut is cut up into small parts accordi according nj to 0 o the frontage which each property own er has on the street it would not work a serious hardship on any one let s boost for a cemen cement 1 broad way in the business district but while we are trying to bring about this improvement alyre is no necessity for the city administration to neglect the street the crossings should be gihei attention at once a u u u NOTHING I 1 IKE IT A local newspaper is absolutely necessary to any community it is the home paper that keeps tl e people of the community in touch ath each other byl by giving them all the news of their neigh boyhood and county for that alone they are of value and worth tar far more than the usual subscription price they keep the local pride and progressive spirit alive and in various ways are worth far more to a community than a community ever spends on them the dally daily paper with its large news service and quicker facilities may in some instances overshadow the weekly but the weekly home paper fills a place in the hearts of the people that a daily can not fill it comes to your home as an old and tried friend while the dally daily is as a stranger u u SCOPE OF MINING idaho s mining business is not only revealed by the growing output but by comparison with other productions in the state some inhere ting figures along that line were presented in the sunday capital news they showed that the metal production for 1916 over 49 was almost 30 per cent of the state including farm production live stock timber fruit and dairy output it ought not to require any special effort such as was OvI evidently dently put forth in the preparation of these figures to impress idaho peo pie with the importance to their state 9 present and future of the mining industry the foundation of idaho was laid in mining it furnished the state its first magnetic influence and it provided the markets that made farming possible today we find it still a leader in prodie tion and although agriculture having means to reach outside mar bets not provided in the older days does not depend upon mining as it did then at the same time it feels the stimulus of mining opera eions and will profit more in proportion as mining extends that is also true of every branch of business in idaho we hold no brief for mining that we do not hold for every other industry of the state but we desire to again impress its importance upon the public mind and to urge that it be extended every possible aid boise capital news it might be well to add that mining is as important to the states of utah and montana as it Is to idaho mining has placed these three states in the limelight before the world r r 1118 SOW utah is prepared since the revolution of last november this state once the stronghold of conservatism has thoroughly renovated its house and fitted it up with all modern conveniences besides ironclad prohibition the legislature has installed a public utilities commission a workmen s compensation law a corrupt practice act an anti injunction statute two more supreme court justices an oc cu pation tax directed principally at earnings of mining companies a child labor law the initiative and the referendum the only thin thing 9 missing in the renovated state house is the strident tone of the recall bell against the modern invention the lawmakers seemed to have the strongest kind of antipathy and they fixed the initiative and referendum in such a manner that only such measures as are really demanded by a general and powerful sentiment can c n be submitted to the voters paid petition pushers are taboo no measure can be put on the ballot unless the petition is signed by ten per cent of the citi zens voting at the preceding election in a majority of the counties modern conveniences cost money and the taxpayers ot of utah must be prepared to pay with scores of offices created there la is little chance of holding down the tax bill A in these days of automo automobiles lilles there Is nothing quite so disgust ing as the road hog the man who thinks that it Is the duty of every one else to give him the right of way these road ho hogs hos s are not teamsters by any means but auto owners men who have perhaps but recently money enough to get a car and who are so putted puffed up with their own importance that they are laboring under the delusion that the road belongs to them when two cars are coming together each traveling at a speed of anywhere from twenty to thirty miles per hour there is no time to stop and argue over the division of the road one driver if he has gentlemanly instincts turns out a good half way and then when the other man shows a disposition to hog the road there is nothing to do but get out around him it is all over in a flash and there Is no time to tell the road hog just what you think of him but there Is no denying the fact that such experiences take much of the joy out of driving an auto mobile ft u is every time that an officer of the law sees a chile hanging onto an automobile he should get busy bugy in an effort to stop the practice because sooner or later some youngster is going to come to griet grief right here in tintic gintic there have been a number of narrow escapes here let s try and prevent a more serious accident |