Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-11
.DAhOs STAR MIslNG To A
rhACE IN THE NATIONAL FLAG.

The New York Herald of the 9th
OIL February has the following good
words for Idaho:
"Ihe Senate and House Commit
tees have reported 10 favor of the adj
mission OF Idaho as State and this
Territory will soon have its star ad-
dsd to the flag. Idaho was created 4
Territory by act Of Congress March
O. 1868, from parts Of Dakota, Ne
braska and Washington Territories.
1t contains 55,228,160 acres, 10000
600 OF which are agricultural, TO-
100000 forests, 20,OOO,OOO grazing
and mineral, 100000 rough and
mountainous, grand and sublime, but
unit for cultivation and not known
to contain minerals, and 1928, ,1eO
lakes and streams. The average or
mean temperature of its valleys is
about 81 degrees. Idaho is better
supplied with water than any of the
States or Territories west of the Mis-
souri river. About four million Eve
hundred thousand acres of the land
has been fled or entered upon under
the several land acts of Congress.
NATURAL RESOURCES.
In an interview to-day Delegate
Dubois said:
"The deep soil in the valley. and
on the plateaus in the eastern and
southern Counties is composed of de-
cayed vegetable matter mixed with
sufficient decayed roaks to give
warmth and great productiveness.
This division of the Territory con-
tains over one-half the arabic lands
in the Territory, the greater portion
OF which requires irrigation. In the
northern Counties dark, deep loan
of great depth prevails. This section
OF Idaho does not require irrigation
and is in itself an empire.
"The yield of all kinds of cereals
and vegetables is truly astonishing,
wheat ranging from 80 to so bushels
per acre; potatoes, 250 to 500 bush
els per acre; oats, so to IS bushels
per acre, and other cereals and veg
etables in the same ratio. The fruits
and berries raised in the Territory
are not excelled in any country.
Shorn OF all other resources the agri-
cultural lands of Idaho alone are
sufficient to support large popula-
ton and build up great State. Stock
raising is one of the great industries
of the Territory. There are more
than million cattle of various kinds
on the grazing lands.
"The 100000 acres of forest
lands will be source of great rev.
enue to Idaho for hundreds of years
and will give employment to large
population. The State could easily
be supported by its forests should all
other sources of wealth be taken
away.
MINERAL WEALTH.
"During its short existence of
twenty-seven years the reluctant and
solemn mountains of Idaho have
yielded nearly s160,O0O,OO0, every
dollar of which has helped the cause
of struggling humanity everywhere.
The production Of last year, 1889,
was by far the largest in the history
of the Territory, amounting to the
sum of 81, ,344, 800, divided as follows:
Gold s3,204,5O0; silver, 1864, 800;
lead, s6,4s0,oo0; copper, ss5,60O.
No State or Territory came near
equalling Idaho in the ratio of it. IN
creased bullion product last year. II
the present ratio of increase continues,
of which there is every prospect
Idaho will soon be the greatest bull
lion producing State in the Union
1t now ranks third. There is, In ad.
dltion to the bullion producing mines
an abundance of iron, salt, sulphur
marble, sandstone, granite, limestone
and mica and some tin and cinnabar
Coal is known to exist in nearly ev.
cry county.
"The population of the Territory i:
not less than 10000, aud may be
$50, ,000-mostly Americans. There
are comparatively few foreigners"