Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1875-08-17
GOVERNOR BENNETT rrrrpvrpwr,

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view with Governor Bennett which an.
peared in the Richmond (Iud.) Lnde.
pendent Of the lst inst. The Cover.
nor talks like book concerning the
great Territory Of Idaho:
Rcporter-Governor will you please
state Tor the benefit of our readers
and your old friends, the general geo
graphical features Of Idaho?
Governor-yes, sir, with pleasure,
but, to give description of the re.
sources, climate and prospects Of Ida.
no, would involve talk covering a
very wide range, owing to the i'm.
mense area Of the Territory, and it's
diversity Of mountains and valleys,
rugged hills and vast plains. Idaho
is 80 far away. and so little known 70
the people Of the States, that am ev-
cry day asked where it is. Is it on
this or the other side of the Rocky
Mountains? How do people keep
from freezing to death away up there?
Has it been raining there all summer
as it has been here? How far is it
from Colorado or Texas? And occa-
sionally am asked what part Of Cal
ifornia is Idaho in? 1t is true, if pco-
Pile would look at their biographies,
they would find Idaho; bnt then how
few people ever do that, and when
they do, they get lost amid the limit
less plains and intcrmidable noun
tains that lie beyond "home' and that
far off land, and they either stop at
the Mississippi or Missouri. marking
Omaha as the place where the sun
sets, or with bound skip clear over
the Territories, as over hard words in
lesson. and confine their thirst for
geographical knowledge to the con-
fines of golden California.
Idaho is an Indian name signifying
"gem Of the mountains" 1t lies on
the Pacific slope of the Continent, and
contains over 10000 square miles.
1t is shaped like ladies gaiter shoe
the bottom or sole resting on the north
line of Nevada and Utah, near the
route Of the Central Pacific Railroad,
with the heel toward California, and
the toe impinging on Wyoming, while
the ankle extending northward nearly
thousand miles, reaches British Col
umbia, a province Of the vlrtuous
Queen, leaving the shoe to be laced
along the western slopes Of the Bitter
Root and Rocky Mountains. The lar
GER portion Of the southern and wes'
tern parts Of the Territory is composed
Of vast undulating alkali plains, COW
cred with wild sage, presenting to the
eve an uninviting trccless desert,
through which flows westward'y and
northwardly the Shoshone or snake
River for many hundred miles, and
running most Of its course hundreds
of feet below the surface OF the plain,
through perpendicular rocky canons'
over great scething rapids, and occa-
sionally leaping perpendicular'y over
precipices, forming falls that for length
of water column, for thunder of roar,
volume of spray, dazzle Of rainbow,
and all the surrounding, and parapher
nalia that 90 to make up a vast pano-
rama Of nature in her most stupendous
sublimity. and awful grandeur, sur
pass in her aggregation Of wonder
ment. all that ever beheld, including
the Niagara, the Montmorency' the
Rhine. the Yosemite, and the Cascades
of the Columbia. One Of these falls,
the great American or Shoshone'
will, after am done answering your
questions, describe to you, if you are :
- aooth before reach that