Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-05-13
IDAHO's TRUE NEEDS.
View OF Judge WtiIis sweet Upon
statehood Matter.

Special Oregonan Correspondence
Judge Willis Sweet, who has Just
finished holding court in Moscow, has
left for Mt. Idaho, and no will doubt
less DO the Republican nominee for
Congress from the new state OF Ida
no. Your correspondent obtained his
views upon the following questions;
"What are tho interests to be most
directly and positively affected by
Statehood"
''Every interest in tho new State
will respond to the impetus that this
great privilege creates. Mining will
be tho FIRST to feel it; and as mining
is carried on in nearly every section
OF the Territory, it will be the first
industry of the State to receive the
infusion of new blood. Tho other
benefits will be more or less section
al in character. 1t will doubtless re-
suit in the speedy opening of the In
dian reservation IN the north. This
most desirable end once consum-
mated, immigration will pour IN by
the thousands; while the railway
companies now stopped at tho boun-
Diary line OF Los dominions, will push
on for the great conquests that await
development, both in agricultural
and mining regions. This statement
applies more particularly to the Nez
Perces reservation, which has been
like an impregnable fortress in the
march OF development for years, and
which should have been allotted long
ago. The irrigation interests of
Southern Idaho are desperately in
need OF the power that our votes in
Congress will give. An empire IN it.
self will be created ont of tho now
worthless lands OF Southern Idaho.
The water and soil oAco brought to-
gsther, (the most export engineers
say it is practicable and from G,000,-
600 to 100000 acres will be re-
claimed, and produce grain, fruit and
grasses equal to any land in the
world. There you have tho three
leading questions that will first re-
coiye attention, aud III which the peo-
pie of the various sections of the new
State will be most deeply interested. "
How is the mining industry most
directly interested in statehood?'
Statehood opens the markets Of
the world to our miners by abolishing
the alien land law. This is import
ant because to sell mines and work
them, unlimited capital is required,
and the capital Of tho world is ready
20 bargain with us when statehood
comes. The 6ght for silver seems to
DO won already; but our admission
will of course strengthen the aggres.
sive force for silver, if tho contest is
continued, to tho extent, at least, Of
three votes, or it will be three to
aid in its defense with the same force
il occasion require. Tho mining in
dustry is also in pressing, | may say
imperative, need of full protection to
lead. The transportation companies
interested in carrying Mexican ores,
and the smelling men benefited by
the importation OF free lead, have
combined TO defeat us. So our
three votes are sorely needed in Con
gross on this question"
What effect in your opinion will
our admission have on tho opening
of navigation to the sea via tho Snake
and Columbia rivers; and how would
it affect Idaho?"
"Three of our northern counties
will be directly and benefcently in
terested in opening up Snake and
Columbia rivers. These counties are
devoted to agriculture, and it goes
without saying that cheap transpor-
tation is the essential, the positive
requisite to profitable farming. 1t
will cost an immense amount of
money to open those rivers, but it
will come in time. This is an age of