Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-10-23
NUMBER II.
Idaho's wonderful achievements In
stOck-raising and wool-growing.

Idahos wonderful achievements In
stock-raising and wool-growing.
X
Nesting like gem of beauty at the
head of navigation, between the tor
tuous Snake and the sparkling Clear-
water, stands Lewiston, only $50 feet
above the level Of the sea, sequestered
ina wealth of foliage, fruitage and
flowers, and enwrapped in an atmos-
phere that is almost perpetual spring.
Destined within twelve-month to be
the crossing of three great railroad sys-
tens. and surrounded by vast coun-
try of varied and inexhaustible re-
sources, soon will she lift her head as q
modest but friendly rival even of the
great Spokane. Wallace, in the center
of the rich Occur d'Alenes, is sure to
be the Helena or Denver of the Pacific
slope. Moscow, marvellous in growth,
the seat of the state university and
soon to become the Athens of Idaho,
Is surrounded by the greatest agricul-
tural country on this earth. Times
fails me to tell of Weiser, Caldwell,
Nampa, Shoshone, Bellvue, HALEY,
Blackfoot, Pocatello, Coeur d'Alene,
Montpelier and score or more of thriv-
ing towns, rapidly developing into
prosperous cities.
Mr.. President, our lines have indeed
fallen upon pleasant places In the beau
tiful, fruitful Idaho. Ours Is truly q
goodly heritage. Like the "Children
of Promise" we have been brought in
to good land; land of brooks of wa.
ter, of fountains and depth that spring
out of valleys and hills; land wherein
we can eat bread without scarceness
and lack nothing in it; land where
stores are iron, whose hills and noun.
tains are turgid with precious metals,
and whose limpid streams roll seaward
over golden sands "a rich as those Of
Patolus. And the same Almighty
power that gave US this goodly land to
possess it has blessed the fruit of our
soil, our corn, our wine, our oil, and our
fiocks and herds.
Idaho, with her thousands of uncul.
tivated acres waiting for the furrow Of
the industrious rancher, with number.
less herds Of horses and cattle and
sheep grazing upon her rich pasturage,
with her hills and mountains bristling
with dark forests, with her mighty
rivers filled with gold enough to pay
the national debt, with her deep bosom
teeming with latent riches ready to
make quick response to the touch Of
pick and shovel, is the rough diamond
that needs but the effort of honest In.
dustry to discover the rare and beau.
tiful treasures that lie hid beneath her
surface. Her soil, her timber, her
fruitage, her rich pasturage, her in
calculable mineral wealth, her genial
climate, her railroad facilities and com~
mercial advantages, her free constitu-
tion and just laws-the beauty and
accomplishment of her daughters, and
the pluck, energy and patriotism Of
her sons, invite the emigrants and the
seeker for all that makes life and home
attractive and desirable, to come hiths'
and abide.
i Fellow-citizens of Idaho, a. we gath
er US here at this magnificent exposi-
tion in the Queen City of the North
west, where flourish, as in it's native
paradise, all that is manly in man and
womanly in woman, let US take upon
ourselves great oath that though we
be false In all else, we will be true d
Idaho; though all others prove faith
less we will be faithful still, and when,
in obedience to the great command
"dust to DUST" our hearts shall return
to the earth whence they sprung, they
will sink into her bosom with the proud
!, consciousness that they never knew
one beat not in unison with the inter'
ests, the honor and the glory Of tn
Gem Of the Mountains.