, 1890-10-23
IT WAS IDAHO DAY
Hon. j. w. Reid, of Lewiston
Delivers Very Fine
Grafton.

lHere WIS BOOu attendance OF
Idaho people at the ex position Thurs
day night, and the speeches were
fine. The musical society rendered
two very beautiful selections.
Judge Norman Buck delivered the
address Of welcome. He said:
Spokane Falls exchanges greetings
with Idaho TO-DAY in the spirit of social
and commercial friendship. The citi-
gems of Spokane Falls welcome the citi-
zens OF the state of Idaho to their town
and to this exposition, not as strangers
visiting their city for the first time, but
rather as. neighbors and old-time asso-
ciates, with whom they have been nc.
customed to mingle so freely and so
constantly in the daily avocations of
their lives, that but for this occasion IL
would not occur to us that there Is a
state line between your homes and ours.
Commerce and the amenities OF social
life make no note of state and county
lines. The producer without regard to
political divisions, seeks tho nearest
satisfactory market for the products of
his labor and the necessary supplies for
his business, Willie the consumer. In the
interests of economy, and the middle
man in the interest of commerce, seek
by oil available means, TO afford con-
venient thoroughfares Of travel and
trafhc between their center of trade
upon the ono hand and the source of
production upon the other.
The citizens and the business men of
our city, recognizing these principles of
trade with an energy and courage which
have sometimes seemed To border on
recklessness, have been among the first
20 push tho lines of transportation into
the mining districts OF the Cmur
d'Alenes, the fertile agricultural sec.
tions between the Crur d. Alene and tho
In N n ra nnkp x..tt tt,,.. ,.,., A,
impatient interest the time when the
fruit orchards of the Clearwater and the
Salmon rivers, and the rich grain lands
oil the Canas prairie of North Idaho
shall be open to their trade by railroad
facilities and their people shnll be with.
In an eight hours ride of our city.
We understand something of the vast
and varied natural resources of this new
state. We recognize the value of your
commerce and the benefit of your friend
ship. We see the Btterroot range of
mountains, with vast mineral deposit
held within its rocky formation, extend.
Ing entirely across your state. We see
upon its summit and down its western
slope immense forests of excellent tim
Der, agricultural, and grazing lands. un-
surpassed in productiveness with mighty
water power and that endless variety
of natural resources which mountain
Gus country offers to the industry OF
her people, and We realize that the devel-
opment OF these resources have AS yet
barely commenced.
Moving southward across.the Salmon
river, with its placer mines and orchards,
we find the Indian and Weiser valleys
rich In soil, timber and climate. the
clear, sparkling waters of the Payette
alive with beautiful red fish, winding
their way between lofty mountain ranges
of white granite, and further on the
magnificent valley OF Boise river, which.
by a system of irrigation and intelligent
husbandry, has been transformed from
an arid plain to a fertile valley of fruit,
grain and flowers, and In the center of
all the beautiful capital of the state,
Boise City.
The state Of Idaho has appropriately
been denominated the Gem of the
Mountain, and her capital may, with
ike proproty, be denominated the Gem
City OF the Plain, unsurpassed in those
natural aud acquired advantages which
make pleasant homes among a refined
and cultured people.
We appreciate the natural and nc.
quired resources OF the state OF Idaho,
the gem in the mountains, the new star
n the gal axy of American states. The
business men of Spokane Falls foresce
that the development of these resources
IN the years that are coming will be a
source of profit to all the trade centers
of the Pacific coast, and our citizens
iNhiiNS slAah ~ iict
in the social, intellectual and CONNER.
cial life OF your citizens and ours will be
source of mutual advantage to both,
With these sentiments, these hopes and
these expectations for the new state of
Idaho, Spokane Falls renews her wei.
come To Idaho to our city and to this ex-
position.
THE GRAFTON.
President Clark then introduced
the orator Of the evening He said (:
Citizens. and ladies and gentlemen of
Idaho and Spokane: No two common
wealths are more closely linked together
by topography, interest and sentiment
than Idaho and Washington. 1t iB
therefore Il particularly happy circum.
stance that we have at present as repre-
sentative for Idaho n citizen of q town
which is soon to be the terminus of new
connecting line between the two states,
which will bind even more firmly our
already close relations, Hon, James w.
Reid, of Lewiston.
Mr.. Reid then stood up, and in a
clear, well-modulatcd voice spoke as
follows:
Mr.. President, Ladies' and Gentlemen:
Amid gorgeous offerings which, in
such rich profusion, are rendered in
yolive heaps by our eloquent sons at
this magnificent exhibition, where the
queen city Of the northwest mas spread
before wondering Union the products
of the vine, tho orchard. the Held the
mine and the genius OF the men of the
West, l come, not seeking to wear
tho armor of those whose luminous
words "have chased the night,
spread day in hundred
field. of thought, and borne to this
worship the trophies of eloquence and
conquered arts, but as devoted and
ailectionate son of the land of my adop-
tion, come, bearing simply the feeble
tribute OF love, gratitude and loyalty to
the Gem OF the Mountains" and with
respectful reverence would place the
modest oblation on the same festal
shrine.
He is a soulless American and loves
not his country who can gaze
unmoved on that masterpiece of genius
that decorates one of the corridor walls
Of the national capitol. Faithfully de-
ineated Is long line of omigrant
wagons, filled with brave, hardy pioneers
and their wives and little ones. The
artist pictures the train just as it rounds
rocky promontory on the crest of the
mountains and catches glimpse of the
great Pacific.
In the face and form of those daring
mon are clearly depicted the Drawn,
muscle and unfinching nerve that
blazed out the pathway of civil
ization through the wilderness
and carved from its wilds that
bright galaxy of new states In the North
west that decks, as with d diadem. the
national constellation. In the fore
ground of that paintiny stands nm mn