, 1865-06-02

from placer claims than that of any previous
year, and this gives Idaho 50 great and merited
superiority over the yaunted advantages of Ne
vada, a county which never possessed any pla-
Ger deposits 5f richness or extent. Those Of
Idaho VIII schstisute one of the main arteries Of
business, 4 superseded by the Development
Of quartz rations more permanent and pro-
ductiYe.
There Eat utle building ia this city this
season. but all the tenements erected are occu-
pied, save perhaps half dozen whose owners
ke1horbitantrent orpurchase-price for them.
The following contributed by 'local," Of the
Idaho WqfId, will give fair idea Of the business
department of the town.
"There are in Idaho City, not including Bu-
ena Vista Bar, thirty-six grocery stores, twenty
dry goods and clothing STORES, nine bakeries
three tin and stove shops five cigar stands,
three iewelry establishments five drug stores,
one saddler shop, twenty-three law offices, hf-
teen restaurants five billiard saloons four hotels
twelve blacksmith shops, four breweries, ten
butcher shops, one book store one hardware
store, forty-one retail liquor saloons, two toy
and variety shops, two tobacco stores, two gun
carpenter shops, one bowling alley, two thea
tiers, one hook and ladder house, three tailor
shops, one banking and brokers Office one pho
tograph office, two paint shops, three dentists
shops, two churches, two music shops, one fur
niture store, seven shoe shops, ten china wash
houses, six barber shops and nine dress-making
and machne-sewing establishments"
The total amount of property valuation Of
Boise County in 1864 was So, O40,92O, $500.
Over one million of this was assessed within the
limits of this City and this year, notwithstand-
ing the separation Of Ada county comprising
Boise and Payette river vallies, with the rich
and valuable tracts of improved agricultural
land now within that county, which year since
composed part of Boise county the assessed
valuation of property will not fall short of S5,-
0OO 900, for this county, and of $l,5oooOO for
idaho City. This shows constant, rapid, and
gratifying iucrease of wealth, very creditable to
the industry and enterprise of the people, and
shows indisputably, largely in favor Of the re-
sources Of the country. This does not include
any valuation whatever of either placer or quartz
mining claims, none of which were assessed
and which at present estimated actual cash VAL
ue would make the actual known wealth Of
Boise county, in properly. not less than ten
times the amount before given and over $780,
OOO,OoO. Three years ago the present spring,
there was not single white inhabitant and not
known to be a single dollars worth of property
in what constitutes Boise County. And yet
gentlemen of intelligence and veracity from
California, state the prevailing opinion in many
portions of that State, sedulously cultivated by
public journals there is that Idaho is a barren,
unproductve region, peopled by ruffans, cut
throats and the canaiHe Of society generally,
congregated here together from every portion Of
the country and that none but outlaws from
civilization and rascals, self or otherwise exiled
from more honest communities, compose the
majority of the population of Idaho If true,
according to Gray, that
"Where ignorance is bliss
'Tis folly to be wise,
perhaps the innocent ignoramuses who credu-
lousy swallow down such stuff in alIopathic do
ses are well enough of in such belief, and until
the medicine begins to prouuco nausea in
the patients themselves there is little use in ad-
ministering a different formula.
The distressing healthfulness of the country
is possibly Improbable to disciples Of Galen
and Esculapius, but very agreeable to the peo-
pie generally and is extremely likely to contin-
ue Comparatively few mining accidents of a
serious nature have ever happened, and for the
number of people, nowhere in the world is to
be found less to record in the annals of crimi-
nality Well flied churches, and well conduct
ed and patronized schools attest the prevalency
a sound, healthy, moral tone in the community.
Not a town in California of the age and size Of
Idaho City, has escaped, in its earlier history,
more or less destruction from the torch Of the
incendiary No vigilance committe or mob-law
has ever had an existence in this portion, at
least, of the Territory. But one offender has
ever escaped from the confinement in prison
awarded by a court of justice as a punishment
for crime. Indeed it is impossible to find a
more intelligent, Industrious, persevering, en-
terprising, quiet peaceable, law-abiding and
genuinely patriotic people than the present per
manent population Of Idaho. IT is confidently
believed that the more prominent and success
ful in every industrial and business pursuit in
Boise, will not suffer in comparison with the
same class Of men anywhere. But few in other
places can be fully aware Of the privations
hardships, obstacles and difficulties which at the
outset beset the path of every beginner here
It is not tosbe denied that much still remains to
be overcome bat the time is not distant when
the claims and merits of the people and the due
Importance of the country shall be fully appre-
ciated and recognized from Tire Bay Of Fundy
to the Gulf of California.
Information from Washoe Of late date gives US
to expect a considerable addition to the spring
immigration, coming in from that country pic
Star City, and several quartz mills from th'
Reese River, Humboldt and Washoe regions
Let them come where there is room, labor, ant
profitable remuneration for quartz investments
ARGUS.