The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-01-10
Chicago Worlds Fair.

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call at the KEYSTONE Office during
the week. Mr.. Gilman has scheme
in hand to bring Idaho before the
country and to have her represented
at the great Fair to be held at Chi
cago, that it seems to US deserves
public encouragement. He is the
originator Of the unique idea Of
state exhibitions on wheels. This
device has been received with favor
in all parts Of the country, ard
California on wheels" is familiar
to every newspaper reader in the
land and has done very much
to spread knowledge of the facts
and fctions of that truly great COM
monwealth among the people Of the
Atlantic seaboard, and has brought
to it much of wealth and pepula-
ton. What has been done for Cal
ifornia can be done for Idaho by the
adoption of the same or similar
means; for all that is needed to
build our State up as rapidly as any
of her Pacific neighbors have been
built up, is to demonstrate her worth
to people abroad.
But can Idaho send out car or
two cars laden with the products
of her soil and mines that will prove
attractive advertisements by the side
of the products of other States? A
more pertinent question would be:
Can any other State surpass her
in abundance, perfection and value
of products of soil, forest and mine?
Certainly few if any surpass her in
natural endowments. Our soil is
as fertile, and it's products quite as
varied and valuable as those of any
other northern State. Our fruits
and berries will not lose in popular
esteem by comparison of substance
and flavor with the best produced
in any other State whatever. Our
cereals and vegetables rank equally
as high in quality as our fruits, and
the average yield per acre, it is be-
lieved, will exceed that of any other
part of the country. In the mat
tiers of manufacturing, the fine arts.
and blooded stock, our State is
doubtless behind most of her neigh
bors; but what we lack in these we
can more than make up in minerals
and metals.
We claim that Idaho can collect
from her mines richer cabinet OF
gold, silver. copper and lead ores
than any other section of the globe
can produce. She can also place
on exhibition iron ores, stone coal,
magnesia, limestone, building stone,
and if we are not misinformed, ma
tive alum in unlimited quantities.
And to those who come here to see,
she can show illimitable stretches
of forest of fine timber, such as
pine, fir, tamarack, and on her
streams, cottonwood whose value
no man can calculate; and broad
plateaus and smiling valleys which
when irrigated will yield subsist-
ence for millions Of inhabitants.
With resources so superb we have
nothing to fear but everything to
hope for, from forcing comparison
: between our great State and any
other. "Idaho on Wheels would
prove an irresistible attraction in
our opinion, and if the present leg
islature fails to make ample appro-
priations to insure the fullest pos
sible representation of Idaho at the
!, fair and on the road, it will have
let slip the opportunity of a life.
time, especially as it is designed
, that the exhibition OH wheels shall
make tour of Europe before pull
ing up at Chicago.
Rev. GEO. RIrcH1E, wife and
granddaughter, Esther, have remov
! ed from Ketchum to Salt Lake City
where they will reside in the future
They were old and respected resi-
dents of our town, and Mr.. K. was
the only resident minister Of the
place. Mr.. Richie is neither ar
orator nor an attractive speaker
but he is man of education anc
culture, and sound reasoner, but
lacked the power to attract or hole
congregations misfortune to
him at least. Mrs. Richie is {
homeODathic medical practitioner
and was very successful in her prac
tice at this place, which, however
she confined mostly to women ane
children. But having no othel
physician here she was a usefu
woman, and her departure is uni
versally regretted. May prosperit,
and friends be theirs In their new
home.
: IDAHO NEWS.
I Weiser Signal: J. G.. Rogers, O