The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-09-22
THE RESOURCES OF IDADO
Commissioner Wells Worlds
Fair Pamphlet
Gives Some E'Iattcring
InfOI-matiOn.

Of all the states of the northwest
to be represented at the great
Columbian Exposition there are none
so admirably situated for reaping all
the benefits to be derived from such
an exhibition as Idaho. Younger
and less known abroad than any of
her sisters of the Union, lying
between the two great lines of
transcontinental travel (the Northern
and Union Pacific railroads, only the
extreme northern and southern
boundaries being penetrated by either
line, running as they do through the
state east and west distance of 500
miles apart, with only here and there
short feeders reaching out toward the
center) the great empire Of interior
Idaho remains terra incognita to the
outside world, even our own people
having but an inadequate conception
of the unparalleled advantages to be
found within our borders.
Heretofore immigration from the
East over these two great lines OF
transportation has been carried di-
rectly across our borders into the
states beyond, while central Idaho
has remained comparatively unknown
and inaccessible for want Of railroads
and other adequate means o
communication. But these condition
t are rapidly changing. New ant
better highways are in course of con
. struction, through lines of railroad
penetrating the interior are con
5 templated, our grazing and agricul
tural lands are rapidly being take
y up while the prospector and mine
from one end of the state to the otht
is uncovering the wealth of our va
Il mineral lodges. Already Idaho
d beginning to absorb the immigratic
that in the past has gone to the olde
d better known and more accessib
Is states of the northwest.
L. Right upon the threshold of o
j. entrance into the Union, in the We
ce nature of things, Idaho must ent
into more direct competition with b
in sisters of the northwest for I'll
to immigration than heretofore she b
done. If alive to the situation S
may now leap forward and at a SIM
bound place herself in the front ra
IL in the possibilities of her vast a
il varied resources. And as mt
an an depends upon fair showing of
IT, possibilities as from an actual exhi
of our products. Besides there is
av w choice left us. Every other st
he will there be represented and mol
en- will not be spared to make Il
exhibit the grandest the world
zen ever seen.
,ne III, Having arrived at the determinat
BED to make the effort, it is now in pl
'er- to set forth briefly what Idaho !
per be expected to place on exhibi
in competition with other sta
WI This is a question often asked,
# a only by strangers, but by citizen
ex- the state as well. What has Il
up Sp to show? Let us see what
rst. answer may be.
To begin with, then, we ha'
'nel. territorial area of SO, 294 SO
With miles, or 50, 228, 160 acres, of "
Us !. Is 16, 600, 600 of acres are classifie
boat agricultural lands, and 20, 600, OF
Itch grazing lands. To this vast are
'0 may add 100000 of acre
forests, 100000 of mountains
broken lava beds and / ,228, 160
,ap of lakes and rivers. This conn
This a territory nearly as large as bot
iond- great states of New York
n he Pennsylvania, and greater tha
bent New England, excepting the st
ilong Maine. OF agricultural lands
en- to we have $4,000 square mil
res territory considerably larger
80 80 the state of West Virginia,
i'm as greater than Maryland, Delawal
ION 70 New Jersey.
$ and OF grazing lands we have
square miles, grounds upon wi
IniVer, pasture our vast herds of
ronen. horses and cattle, equal in ex
the re- Maryland, Delaware, New
.re r,y re. and Vermont By statistical
- , 70 the Agricultural Bureau at