The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-03-24
ATTRACTIONS OF IDAHO.
Tao Resources OF Comparatively I'm
known Northwestern Territory.

Tho Resources OF OOmparativey Un-
known Northwestern Territory.
Men ride in the cars over a vast
stretch of lava beds and sage brush des-
ert. and wonder for what such country
was created, and why any body lives in
it; and they will laugh at you in deris-
ion when you tell them that millions of
It's acres will produce more wheat, rye,
or grass to the acre than the richest
prairie lands of Illinois; that men are
leaving the fertile fields of Iowa by
thousands to cultivate the desert, and
they who remain two years in this re-
gion can never again be induced to
make "homc" in the East This Up
per Mountain district possesses every
variety of climate, and every reasona-
BILE product known in other or all other
parts of the United States, except the
lower portion of what is known rs the
Cotton Belt. We can raise grapes as
well us Southern California; peaches
as well as Delaware; apples as abun-
dainty rs Michigan; wheat excclling
Minnesota or Dakota, and gold and sill
yer equal to Colorado. Our cattle prod
uct is rs profitable as that of any State
or Territory. and our horses compete
with Kentucky. We have climate,
water, grasses and other teed suitable
to make the best of butter and cheese.
One acre of our land properly seeded
to alfalfa. by reason of the superiority
of the artificial watering of the land, is
equal in food production to two acres of
the best blue grass land in the Ohio
| valley. Under a proper system of irri-
CATION the water is delivered from the
| canals at the land mt u season rental of
! from fifty cents to one dollar per acre,
according to location. BY usual terms
of purchase of permanent water rights
| it would, including interest, amount to
still less. The land producing from
thirty to eighty bushels, and in excep-
tional cases ninety to one hundred
bushels to the acre, this rental would
fall under two cents to the bushel of
grain raised.
We have more lead and iron than
Missouri; more copper than the Lake
Superior district, with vast stores of
other precious and base metals. In
Idaho are found large deposits of sui
phur, coal, plumbago. quicksilver, and
other valuable minerals. There are
also produ ctive salt springs, quarries
of the fin est marble and building stone,
large deposits of merchantable mica,
and varieties of semi-precious stones.
The forests of Idaho are said to cover
100000 acres The trees include the
varieties of fir, white. red and black
spruce, scrub oak, yellow and white
pine, mountain mahogany. juniper
tamarack, birch, cotton wood, alders
and willow. In Idaho are mountain
heights as cold as Maine and valley:
as warm as Georgia the year through
The man who finds only debility ant
inertia in the sunny South can reinvig
crate the spring of life within him b,
removal to these mountain heights
while the far greater number who ar,
tired out and worn out with the COLI
and SHOWS of the frozen North can COM
to the lower attitudes of Snake Rivel
valley and find that moderation of hea
and cold which is one of the chief bless
ings of life.
The death rate Of Idaho is shown b
civil and military statistics to be les
than that of any other State or Terri
tory in the Union. CaSsia Count
Times.