Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-09-02

rspidIy oelnG tskoo up WHO s"o
prospector and miner from one end of
State to the other, 10 uncovering the
wealth Of our vast mineral lodges.
Already Idaho is beginning to absorb
the immigration that in the past
has gone to the older, better known
aud more accessible States Of the
Northwest.
Right upon the threshold of our On.
trance into the Union, in the very
nature of things, Idaho must enter
into more direct competition with her
sisters of the Northwest for this i'm mi>
grafton than heret ,fore she has done.
II alive to tho situation she may now
leap forward and At . single bound
place herself in the front rank in the
possibilities of her vast and varied re-
sources. And a. much depends upon
fair showing Of our possibilities -
from an actual exhibit of our products.
Besides there is no choice loft 10.
Every other State will there be repre-
sented and money will not be spared
to make their exhibit tho grandest the
world has ever seen.
Having arrived at the determine.
ton to make the effort, it 10 now in
place to set forth briefly
WHAT IDAHO MAY BE EXPECTED 20
PLACE ON ExHIBlrION
in competition with other States. This
is question often asked, not only by
strangers, but by citizens of the State
rs well: What has Idaho to show?
Let Us sec what the answer may be-:
To begin with, then, We have .
territorial area of 81, 1894 square miles,
or 55,228, 100 acres, Of which 10000.
600 Of acres are classified as agricul-
tural lands, and 10000, 900 OF grazing
lands. To this vast area We may add
10. 100000 Of scres Of forests, $780,.
600 of mountains and broken lava
beds and 1928. $50 acres of lakes and
rivers. This comprises . territory
nearly - large a. both tho great
States Of New York and Pennayl-
vania, and greater than oil New Eng.
land, excepting the State Of Maine. OF
Agricultural lands alone We have 25,-
600 square miles, . territory consider.
ably larger than the State Of Yves,
Virginia, and greater than Mar, land,
Delaware and New Jersey.
OF grazing lands we have 81, $50
square miles, grounds upon which to
pasture our vast herds of sheep, horses
and cattle, equal in extent to Mary
land, Delaware, New Jersey and Yer
mont. BY . statistical report OF the
Agricultural Bureau at Washington
We find that the year 1884 was the
most prolific in the production oil
Q reals that the country has eve,
known, with tho exception perhaps Of
the year just past, of which we have
Is yet no authentic report. In 1884,
according to this high authority, there
were produced in al of the States oil
the Union 5l2,763,9OO bushels oil
wheat. To raise this vast amount
39,475,8S5 acres Of ground were
planted. This is an average yield oil
some thing less than Is bushels to the
acre. Now We arc prepared to say
that a fair average yield of whea, pc,
acre in the State Of Idaho is IS bush.
els. The writer has stood on the
ground and Sc. n the wheat measured
that yielded more than 80 bushels tc
the acre.
| Let US in the Imagination now
move forward to that time in the
distant future "a period to follow soon
in the wake Of the grea. Columbian
Exposition) when these agricultural
lands shall have been reclaimed and
under q fair state OF cultivation, tina,
We may form an estimate OF what MAJ
be looked for in the produc, OF whea al
alone. Claiming an average of 3;
bushels per acre, we multiply l6 BY
50, and find that it produces $50.
THE POSSIBILITIES OF IDAHO,
then. in the product of wheat for q
single year are sec, OOO, 900 Ct bushel.
or 47,236. 100 bushels more tir were
produced in oil of the States u. the
Union in the palmiest and most pro.
lilo and productive year Of our exist
snoe IS . nation. While this vas,