, 1879-10-18
Letter From Idaho.
BorsE CITY, Idaho, Oct. lst, 1879.

\
EprroR Sr.rEyMAN - The beautiful
capitol of our beautiful gem of the
mountains" continues to flourish like the
proverbial green bay tree
On Main street. a new stone church, a
two story brick completed, and another
in course Of construction, are the more
substantial evidences of the growth and
prosperity Of this
DAMASCUS OF THE PLAINS,
Which greeted the admiring eyes of your
correspondent after prolonged absence
of several months on the adjoining
streets, buildings are going up as rapidly
as the limited supply Of lumber and labor
will permit the hustle on the streets is
greater, business is better, and more
freight arrives now than ut any other Pc
! ricd in its history. The railroad is COM
ing. our people know it and are iubilant
| IN consequence
| If the mileage of the Oregon Pacific
actually complete6 this year is fair cri-
terion IF what is to be done in the future,
Boise City should have
DIRECT RAILROAD COMMUNICATION
With the east, by the time the agony of
the coming presidential contest is over
\ splend'l route over the Camas prai-
| RE and down the Boise river. with vast
| tracts Of timber close 70 hand, and sur
rounded on either side by an Immensely
rich mineral country, WAS found this sum-
mer, and it is conceded as a fact by those
! who ought to know, that this route will
b. traversed 10y - the iron girdle with
which progressive civilization fInses its
garments, vide
THE SILVER roNGUED FITCH
On the streets the subject is already
| broached of allotting the capitol square
| To the railroad us a terminus and depot
our people know the accrued advantages
arising from railroad communication.
! Real estate has advanced in some instan-
ces three hundred per cent since last win
| ter the position Of the city at the head
of the Boise valley makes it a shipping
and distributing point for one hall the
area Of the entire territory, which is, from
the very nature of things. immediately
tributary to IT, In the early days of the
territory, when the capital was removed
from Lewiston to this locality, 1T was pre-
dicted that Boise could never be anything
more than mere place for the
CoyvENING OF LEGISLATURES.
The untiring energy Of our citizens have
refuted this by their lberality they have
for years been building roads III all di-
rections, ana still the good work goes
on. which makes Boise City the most i'm
portant trading center between Portland
and Salt Lake.
The Idaho Statesman, published tri-
weekly, is our only medium for obtaining
telegraphic news from the outside world
the semi weekly Democrat offsets its radl-
cal utterances with good effect. The Re
publican, a weekly journal, is credited
with being the organ of the shoe-bl-
beg pardon
FEDERAL BRIGADE.
The territory is overwhelmingly demo-
cratic: dissensions between federal OFF,
ciais and prominent citizen republicans
dishearten the rank and file OF that organ'
ization, and so the rooster crows every
time.
Southern Idaho is decidedly opposed to
A dsmemherment Of the territory by
Withdrawal of the three northern coun-
ties you, gentlemen of the lower coun-
try, can perhaps get away with us IN run:
ming bucking cayuse horses for thousand
dollar purses over our own race track, but
when 1t comes TO annexing some of our
territory we are
on THE FIGHT
Every time. The process of disintegra-
tion would not end there Washington,
Ada and Boise would seek admission into
the state Of Oregon Cassia and Owyhee
would drift into Nevada Utah would
Gladly annex Oneida and Bear Lake, and
Montana. with her already vast area,
would .reedily absorb Lemhi and Alturas.
We propose to stand by and MAINTAIN tho
integrity of our territory We believe II
it was worth creating, 1t Is worth presery-
inc hence our boundary lines have got
to be preserved as they are if 1t takes US
twenty years to secure its admission into
this Union.
During the present year of grace our
fair territory has recovered from It's
LONG PERIOD OF INACTIVITY,
And retrogression the developments in
the wonderful Yankee Fork mineral coun-
try excels the most sanguine anticipatIons
of the ever hopeful prospector. The ef-
fected consolidation of the principal At
lanta mines, is proving highly beneficial
and as explorations proceed in the lower
levels, an amount of wealth Is unearthed,
before which the tales of imaginative
ORIENTAL sIoRY-TELLERs
Pale their Intellectual fires Owyhee Is
shipping regularly large amounts OF bull
lion, and your talented contemporary,
the Araiaache, rejoices in It's prosperity.
We have produced this year magnificent
crops, which not even your own highly
farored and prolific section can excel, ana
with this brief resume Of our progress We
conclude to let up. TEA.