The daily Cairo bulletin., 1883-11-08
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is where the Utah & Northern branch OF
the U. p. r. r. connects with the Oregon
Short Line. The former extends on some
800 miles to the N. P. r. r. at Garrison,
the latter to Shoshone Haily, the grl.,
mining region of Idaho. The U. P. com.
pany bought 40 acres Of land Of the Shaw
nee and Bannock Indians, aud located the
town on 1t, and Of course they have every
thing their own way, as the Indian reserva-
ton embraces all the surrounding country.
There are almost | 500 Indians Oh the
reservation; they are on hand IL
goodly numbers, dressed in civilized
style and decorated with paint in
various colOrs. From the station
hotel We can see one of their camps,
the smoke issuing from the tops of their
tepees Squaws 60 around with their
pspoose strapped to their backs In their
trading we see them handling twenty dol
lar gold coins as If money WAS plenty with
them aud some have prOfusion of jewelry
ornaments about their persons, the same as
their more civilized sisters. The sale of
intoxicating liquors is strictly forbidden
here for which the railroad company should
have honorei credit. A large number Of
employees are at work here grading the
grounds, laying track and building houses
for the company. The hotel is an extensive
building furnished equal to any first class
hotel so that even here in this wild region,
among the swarthy denzens of the forest
and plain, one feels at home or that civil
zstion has clasped hands with Lo, the poor
Indian.
Idaho territory embraces an area of &c.
900 square miles. Below the mountain
regions the high rolling bills are covered
with nutritious grasses upon which stock
may feed the year around. The still lower
table lands covered mostly with sage brush,
when farmers by irrigation produce large
| crops of grain and vegetables. The first
bottoms along the streams produce excel.
lent hay without irrigation. The mountains
are mostly covered with heavy timber
The mineral wealth Of the territory is in
cressing yearly; already has the territory
added to the worlds wealth 100000 600 of
the precious metals and yet the develop.
ment of the mines Of Salmon river, Wood
river, Sawtooth and Yankee Fork districts
has but fairly commenced. From 10000
10 $4,000 head OF cattle are marketed year
ly from the natural pasture lands of the
territory. Throughout the territory the
farming lands are beng taken up rapidly.
In many localities fruit does we'll; an or
chard in Boise Valley produces on an aver
age-4 1000 bushels of apples, pears and
peaches yearly, Statistics state that wheat
yields on an average 80 bushels to the acr e
oats so bushels; barley 40 bushels and that
! all kinds of vegetables usually raised In the
| temperate zones grow to an immense eize.
| Our observation of the soil and products
gives Us reason TO believe the above state
ments are not overdrawn. A lady in this
valley who has been here three years says
the winters are rather severe as we might
suppose owing to the elevation and the close
proximity to the mountain ranges, some of
which have peaks 10000 feet above ocean
level and covered with snow all the year.
J. 5. F.