The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-09-15

works of art, in paintings, statuary; in
gold, silver, silks, satins and other fab
rics, the very wonderful machinery, at
work, which wrought those wonders in
their workshops, and these machines
alone, will be the envy of the less fa-
vored States and the pride of their pos
SCISSORS. But, besides this, they will
also have everything we have except
the product of our mines. Idaho has not
the blooded stock which will be CEN
tered there for competition, and which
will be admired by all, and | certainly
don't intend to ship anything thereihat
will establish our inferiority.
Thus, we must depend upon:
FIRST The product OF our mines,
next our farms and next our orchards.
These three branches of industry we
must utilize for all they are worth, as
We have to depend entirely upon them.
But if we can make creditable exhibit
with them, | can see my way clear to
greatly benefit our young State, by in
fuencing capital and immigration to
turn to Idaho.
do not care to here disclose my plans
in detail, as, no doubt, what | may say
on this subject, will 6nd its way into
the columns of our enterprising news
papers, which would not serve my pur-
pose. One thing is certain; am mind
full of the fact that for many years be-
fore 1 settled in Idaho, endeavored to
ind out all about it, and all the in
formation l could gain derived from
the occasional newspapers could pick
up and correspondence with our wor-
thy district attorney, G. M. Hays, who
was largely responsible for my selection
of Owyhee County as the basis of my
operations, and whose absence from this
board 1 greatly regret.
1 do not donbt for a moment, that
could the hundreds and thousands of
men, who are to-day ready to change
their homes for the better, know Idaho
as they will know it in 1898, they would
not lose much time in reaching it.
I shall aim 10 demonstrate that Idaho
is the center of the mining belt of the
United States and that there is an en-
pire of mineral lands within our bor-
ders, still untouched by the prospector's g
pick, yes, uninvaded by the presence of
a human being. l shall convince the
farmers of the Middle and Eastern
States, who are now mortgaged for all
they were once worth, that II will yet
pay them to make their homes here,
raise more produce per acre and get bet
ter prices for it, than they can where
they now are | shall be able to con-
vince the fruit-growers that there is no
soil more prolific, and no climate better
adapted for this purpose, than that of
Idaho and lastly, shall convince all,
that we have an empire of fine govern
ment land, open for cultivation and for
stock-raisng, and that we are neither
poor, in debt or heavily taxed that we
got very respectable dowery from Un-
Gle Sam, in the shape of land-grants,
Wueu liz buIDcu uo OuL w ohiie iOs Jul
selves, and that these lands are for sale
cheap and titles conveyed at once.
With the earnest assistance of doz-
en- patriotic district commissioners | ex-
pect to accomplish all this, and, ladies
and gentlemen, the prosperity that we
may safely anticipate, as the fruits OF
these efforts, will surpass our most san
gnine expectations. We have, as an ex-
ample before US, the efforts of the State
of Colorado, ad mited in the Union of
States in 1876 1t was unknown and its
resources dou bted the only one who
had occasionally given it some noteriety
was Horace Greeley in his descriptions
of Manitou and Pixies Peak and his in
valuable advice to young men to go
West. Colorado availed itself of the
great Centennial Exposition in Phila-
delphia that same year and her boom
was perceptible in III, strong in '7S and
wild in '79, 80, 'Sl and 'S2, and it has
become a rich and prosperous State. We
have everything that Colorado had. and
more for she had no fruit and but little
agricultural resourcesj bnt she had wide
awake, stirring pioneers, filed with
some pride and patriotism, and she had
mineral sufficient to claim the attention
of hose always ready to emigrate and
try their luck elsewhere, and she Sc
cured both the labor and capital neces-
sary to establish her claims of hidden
wealth, and am convinced that Idaho,
already 80 favorably known to few,