, 1863-08-29
I PUBLISHED BY REQUEST.
Fellow-Citizens Of the Territory of Idaho

Fellow-Citizens Of the Territory OF Idaho.
HAVING announced myself as candidate
for the position of Delegate to Congress,
and believing thorough knowledge of the
country, climate, etc,t be quite a qualliica
tion, / viii give brief history Of my expe-
rience in the far WeSt-our Idaho!
In the year 1929, arrived ouSnakc riy-
er. seventy miles above Fort HaF-makirg
that year tour through part Of The
Flat-head country, crossing the tinrse forks
of the Missouri, and crossing the mountasns
to the East, wiutcring on me waters Of the
Yellowstone river end Substantially have
passed two winters on that river, and bave
frequently passed through the country from
For; Laramie to the three forks of the Mis-
scarf on the East side of the mountains,
spending in all about four years in the coun,
try inhabited by the Crow indians. Subse;
qIen,ly, while in the employ of the Ameri-
can Fur Company, aud Col Bonneville, en-
gagged III the Beaver trade, have freqaent-
" passed through the country from Green
river at the South Pass on the West side Of
the mountains, over the head waters Of the
Columbia to tie three forks ofthe Missouri
by the way Of Deer Lodge valley. have
been with tile Fiat heads, and through their
country at different times, from Bitter Root
river and down that stream to the PEND
Oreille tribe If Indians, thence South to
Fort Hall, which country comprises all the
mining locullits about Deer Lodge, Big
Hole, and Southern waters Of Salmon river,
on which streams have spent three winters.
| have wintertd at Fort Hall, aud on Snake
river stventy-Gve miles above that point, and
have been on all the tributaries Of Snake
river Henry's Fork, branch Of Snake
river, takes its source from near the waters
Of the Mss0uri-and much Of tie country
through which these waters flow have Of
ten Thought ofsince i arrived in the mines
on Feather river, California, iu lS49, and 1
expect ere long to hear Of big strikes be-
ing made in that country, for beyond doubt
it is a.mineral region. On the East, side OF
the mountains, in the vicinity OF the couury
above mentioned, the Yellowstone takes its
source and on the numerous streams empty
ing into iton the South towards Larmie, gold
will no Gouot be found, the greater part Of
which is q beautiful country and resembles
that Of the Deer Lodge and the Big Hole
region. InaSmuch as the Territory Of Ida
he embraces this region. containing as it
does an area Of about $780, 600 square miles,
the probabilities are that division of the
Territory will be made at no distant day,
and that too for many reasons-the convent
ence of legislation not beng the smallest Of
them--I would not be surpri>edt to hear of
a prC ifct Of that Kind the present year by
the people on the other side of the mountains
Tie great thoroughfare oyer the mountains
through this Territory, 30 doubt, will be up
the Yeu0w,tone river to tie mouth Of Twen-
fy,fve Yai d river, thence up that Stream
and over the Galiten Fork Of the Missouri,
(Which is low divide and beautiful coun-
~ thence westward until iutersecting
Mnllau,s r2ad some eighty miles West OF
Fort Repton Tie sucw cn the mountains
is also Objectionable TO this TtTHtory rgn'aiH-
ing as it is. However, the public WI soon
see and know whether my views on THIS SUD
ject are correct. rrru nr
After spending about ten years in the
country of which Idaho is composed, IN
l84O / left Fort Hall, taking two wagons
with me to the Willamette valley, the wag-
ons being the first ever taken by way OF
Green river and South Pass to Oregon
That the voters ofihis Territory may be-
come more fully acquainted with the reasons
Of my declaring myself candidate for the
high and responsible position OF a Delegate
TO Congress, a brief account of my early
aid late career in Oregon may not be luap-
proprialeT On. my arrival IN Ofgrn, l
found a sparsely populated and wild coug-
try, inhabited principally by Indians, with
a few missionaries from the States and a
small number of AmercaH settlers The
Hudson Bay Company and employees, at
VANCOUVER, were the largest number by odds
then in the valley, and the only merchants
then in the country from whom The Amerl-
cans could obtain supplies the only judicial
authority thenin the land was the Queen
Magistrates in the person of James Doug
lass. But Short time had elapsed before
the Americans began to talk about organl
zng Provisional Government, and alter
the Queens Magistrate came over to the
West side of the Columbia river and Presi-
ded ;S his official capacity, the Americans
not thinking themselves British subjects,
nor pleased with the course pursued towards
them, assembled in the neighborhood ana an
after talking the matter oyer concluded
TO appoint a committee of three, OF which
| was member, whose duty it was to re-
pair to the place where the trials took place
and demand the papers and stay all further
proceedings, and at that meeting we declared
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