Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-01-18
THE GEM OF THE MOUNTAINS

The Salt Lake Tribune always
has good word for Idaho, yet ii
never exaggerates. In the Tri-
bune's New Year issue we find the
following editorial relating to our
beloved Idaho:
The year past has not been an al
together prosperous one in "The
Gem of the Mountains" just
when some of the mines of Wood
River were passing through an I'M
productive zone the great fire came
and swept the chief town out Of ex-
istence. In the North because of
iuncompleted railroad connections
and the importation Of cheap lead
ores, about the richest mining re-
gion in the world has been kept I'M
productive in a great measure, and
these causes have had the effect to
reduce the demand for labor and
also to reduce the product of the
mines. But both north and south
the set-backs have been but tempo
rary ones; they are but incidents,
they will amount 10 no change of
ultimate conditions. Despite these
trials the general result of the year
has been prosperity to the Territory.
Immigrants have materially in
creased the population; n great
many new acres have been brought
under the pillow; floeks and herds
and harvest fields have increased I;
the traffic on the roads has been so
great as 10 test the utmost capacity
Of the roads to handle it. and the
mines have yielded generously, out
side of the two localities noted
above. And whatever backsets
have been suffered during the year
just closed, no Territory or State
has more to hope for than Idaho.
Here is the best watered region OF
all this interior, and ms matters
move in these swift modern days il
will be but little time before that
water will be scattered over the soil
and then Idaho will have more
good land under cultivation and
will raise more from her soil than
all New England. Then, too, when
the waters shall be turned, power
will be supplied to make mighty
manufacturing State; all the usual
avocations of industrious Americans
will be set in motion, and to the
products Of field and forge and shop
and loom will be added leavcn OF
gold and silver which will vitalize
trade and industry in every direc-
ton. Vital statistics show that
the climate of Idaho is, if not the
healthiest, at least as healthy us
any other; many of her fruits sx-
eel those of California, no finer
grains or vegetables ever grew in
any region; at this moment no other
region in the Union offers so many
inducements to young and vigorous
men, who through their labors hope
TO forge out fortunes for themselves
as does Idaho. There, too, the
American spirit of people has been
tried and not found wanting. The
spirit which ruled to place the Ter
litory above all menace from alien
hands has, moreover, framed and
adopted a constitution, and the
Territory is at this moment knock.
ing at the door of the Supreme
Court demanding justice, and the
door of the Union demanding adj
mittance as a sovereign State. W.
expect that both prayers will be
speedily answered in the affirma
tive. We congratulate our neighbol
upon the apparent nearness of her
emancipation. We believe that the
decision will be what the loyal mer
of that region hope for, we believ.
admission of the Territory into tn,
Union will swiftly follow, and tina
to-day will be the only anxious New
Years Day her people will suffel
for many a year.