Idaho tri-weekly world. (Idaho City, Idaho) 1875-1875, 1875-05-05
~ WEEKLY WORDING la.
OUR FUTURE. :

every one IuaC Iut placer uaIiicS
Boise county will no longer supper
itspopulation, and without other means
of procuring livelihoods are devised
many people who have lived here TO
years will be obliged to go to some
other country and begin life anew
Productive as our soil is proved to be
agricultural productions are valueless
without market; and our farmers have
no market except that offered them by
the mines, until we get railroad com.
munication with the rest of the world
This we will not get for years to
come, as California and Nevada, which
States would not be directly benefited
by railroad through Idaho, are more
interested in helping themselves than
Us. and do help themselves by the sup
preston and Justification of every i'm
portant fact concerning our Territory
Not one of the newspapers in either
of those States ever mentions Idaho
with the exceptions Of the San Fran
cisco Examiner, and Stock Report,
although some of them are
largely patronized here. And
Oregon, which would be benefit
ted by road through Idaho as much
Is we would, is too shortsighted and
selfish to take hold of the Enterprise
and put it through, as the capitalists
# that State could easily do. So the
emily thing Idaho can do is to set about
she- opening up and development of
more mines. We have in Boise coun-
y sufficient placer mines, which could
be opened by means of bedrock fumes
n Grimes creek and its tributaries.
and at very little expense, to give en-
ployment to three thousand men. In
Grimes creek alone there arc no less
than twenty miles, which, if fumed
would pay from five to twenty-five
dollars day to the hand; in More and
Elk creeks there is as much more, and
Of a greater average richness, than
Grimes creek, while Wolf creek, Gran.
lite creek, Ophir creek, Boyle's gulch,
Apple Jack and Muddy contain, in the
aggregate, twenty-five or thirty miles
more Of rich ground, which could be
worked through bedrock flume, but
cannot be worked without, for want OIL
dump. Our quartz mines, too, are i
known to be rich and extensive: and (,
although we have not the capital nee /,
essary to open and work them, the i,
manifestation of very little public spir- 1,
It on the part Of those who have a lit, &c
lie capital, would, we think, bring the '
money. Capitalists will usually in liz
rest money where they are assured of .
good return for their Investments
sut they will not come here unless n
'ome means are adopted to give out 6
authoritative and reliable information il
the mining, agricultural
nd other advantages of our Territory
,ut there is in Boise county abundance 8
! capital to put in bedrock fume: I,
no capital that could be much more :
roltably invested in that ENTERPRISE o
nd We equally as safe as If loaned to ID
ne California bankers at 6 per cent?
er annum. This enterprise when
would relieve Boise comfy Al
ON dependence on the whims Of ra;I
30 companies by giving our miners
% hundreds more employment. and 81
1r farmers . cash market aud good
'lces for their produce. Hence t is
eariy with the business men and cap
alists Of this county to say whether
g people here shall remain and con. ylt
nue 70 prosper, or whether they shall OF
driven 70 seek homes and subsis- n
nee IN some place less favored By ma =.
Sc Pug more favored by the public =
'f1t and enterprise Of its moneycd Et'l
l'z1ns than this il. Our business %
u u, re more than any others inter- 10
- r ~ early Inauguration and liza