Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-27
silver District Claimed by AIturas.


Matt Graham to supply lumber for
the various purposes OF that camp.
But on examination the revised
statutes describing boundaries of
Boise county, as also of Alturas
county, it will be found that the
whole district is in Alturas county.
1t has generally been understood
that the north fork of Boise is the
line between the two counties. But
the law fixing the boundaries fixes
the divide between Moore's creek
and the north fork of the Boise river
as the boundary.
The county commissioners should
look after this portion of Alturas
county and establish justice of the
peace precinct, and also voting pre-
cinct at the place, and the assessor
should see that it is duly assessed.
There is already a large amount of
taxable property there, and it will
doubtlessly increase rapidly. There
were a hundred or more men there
last winter, and there will no doubt
be double or three times that number
this summer.
1t is therefore too much of coun-
try to be overlooked or neglected.
i Haley News Miner.
Boise county will just fool you a
little, Mr.. News Miner. We know
you Alturas fellows need Silver Dis
trict bad enough in your business
just now, in a slough of great fnan-
cial despond as you are, and like
Alexander of old, are looking for
new worlds to capture, for revenue
only, to reduce your gigantic debt
that weighs so heavily upon you.
Boise county deeply sympathizes
{ with you, Mr.. Alturas, and would
: like to see you emerge from your de- :
t plorable financial condition, but can
5 not afford to sit down quietly and al
: low you to steal one of her fattest
B. slices. Alturas is by far the largest
county in Idaho, but not satisfied
: with that, would, like an Unsuitable
v hog, devour her neighbors. 1t is &
waste of words to argue with the
e Wood River papers to convince then
: that Silver District is i'll Boise county
2 for they know it as well as we do
: Their unsubstantiated assertions K
II the effect that this district belongs tt
= Alturas are getting more and NOR
mouotonous and scientifically tire
k some" We have heretofore quote'
a the law defining the lines, and hav
=, asked them to prove to the contrary
/? They simply logically replied tina
)r the WORLD was wrong, and that 81
yer District was in Alturas just be
cause it is, or words to that effec
We refer the NewsMiner to tn
." Special and local laws of Idaho, lSf
y and 1887, page 1870. The line begiI
VI in the middle channel of Boise rive
y = opposite the mouth of Moore's cree
NY " follows up to the middle of the strea
to the junction of North and Midd
- Boise, thence up the middle of Il
channel of North Boise to where Il
same shall intersect latitude forty-fo
> and half. 1t is provided that shou
- North Boise river not extend to sa
parallel, the line shall extend in
- due north course to where it shall
: tersect said parallel. THIS parallel
at least thirty miles north of t
head, so the line follows this river
its head. Silver District is on
~ west side of the river, about tfte
l. miles from the head. So it is
ho plain as the debt that hangs over :
,b;s turas, and as manifest as the gr'
400 manifestations of swinishness t
.;d bankrupt county displays, that Sill
J., District is in Boise county. 1t Is
~ plain as the snout of the afores
.o hog, that has a penchant for root
,,. for what don't belong to it. \
,;ao don't, we earnestly pray you, &C
hack at us with the unanswera
g argument that it is, just because l
.on,, If you can't back your bare ASSERT
- with something, however tlimsy,
=, :, sides law enacted in 1868, and
has been defunct for a general
lust be so kind as to give us res
call this matter. We are getting WI
that reading quotations from law
for was repealed over twenty years
sting That law, that is dead and buried
ising went to its ''long home," unhono
epth unwept and unsung, in the dim,
. sne" tant past, made the divide betv
as in More creek and North Boise the
Jar, prnar EamDner ArchieVllle