Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-09-04
THE STATE OF IDAHO.
Her Agricultural, Stock Raising and
Mineral tsesourcce

Idaho i an Indian woni uhich. iclng Translated
means Cen a the MolntAina' Ts,s arst shlse
man Who ses TOO, upon ths sr a idaho was Cataaiu
LsSin piih datsesfnent ~ Lcwis AMI Clark. ex.
ploTtng expedition. Captain iewis crossed the main
range q tile Roxy mountains from Horse plains In
Beaserhead Goa ty. 1cutaEA. to tsrlbi, tributary
Il Salmon river, ON the nh day % August, 1895
Five years later the Missouri fur company e-.
tAhitshed trading post on Snake river bu, soon
after abandoned H. In ISL wilson r. Hunt with %
men Of the Pacific fur company passed through
idaho TO the Pacific coast. In is34 Captain Bsnne.
yile With his company Of loo men, spent part Of the
season In eastern idaho exploring the heawaters 81
| the Snake and salmon rivers In the wear a
party Of TRADERS and trappers, commanded bs Ma
/ than |. wythe. established Fort Hall As trading
post near snake river on tbs present Port Hail In
/ dian reservation
In ls8o gold IN paying quantities. was disco, cred In
Idaho by party u prospcrtor- commanded by Zap.
tain James Pierce frcn wa.la waa valley, Wash
ington The FIRST locations wern on orr finn creek
/ tributary Of the Clearwater Other valuable III.
coveries followed In rapid succession. The FIRST per
manent settlement made at Mount Idaho, IN,
present county seat Of idsho cosinty, May, 1851.
Idaho was created a territory hy act ~ Congress
Nt2rch 5, 1881 from parts " Dakota, Nebraska
Washington territories. originally u embraces
within It's boundaries about $3.50 square miles
ky the creation OF the territories " Montana ant
wyoming under the AIT al Congress, May %. ls6s
Idaho Was finally relured 90 Pa square miles
extends nom the british the HHTth Z
Utah and Nevada on the south; from Montana an
Wyoming oa the east 70 oregon and Washington %
the west, having length from north 10 south {
ahuut 4lo miles, and a width from east To vest var,
ing from ~ to 800 miles. Idaho was admitted
stale IN Into the union July 3, lsa1.
There are IL 100000 acres classed mountain
l5Ooa,tn0 acres agricultural lands, 1900 90
u forests, 2Stoo,ooo acres grazing lands and son
600 600 Of lakes Its best mineral belts Il
cluded in the mountain area, are also INST Of I
forests
Stretching along Its eastern edp, and rutiu
Idaho ffam Montana and Wyoming, are the Tugg,
. mountains OF the bitter root, Rocky and WasAt,
ranges the Bitter Root occupying the northern, Il
ttoeay the central and the Nasatch ule southe
links in this boundary The spurs q these range
especially Of The Wasatch extend well over into Ida
and the, contain OF the States best miner
e belts Their highest peaks reach attitudes rangir
from 9,0sto to 1000 feet On the south and soit
D west are the o~yhee mountains, which form AN II
II portaE, link IN the great divide between the waite
u Of the Columbia aud those OF the Humboldt. n
10 Sawtooth, salmon River, Wood River and Boise a
among the prominent mountains ranges in Cant'
= Idaho On the west the Blue mountains of 81
.snn and Washington Idaho Is, therefore, prac,
n ANY mountain tcLed. although from the SOU
:, southeast and west there are numerous dtprcssn
u through which railway and wagon roads find "a
II natural Access The interior Of the state y v
plateau varying 10 altitude from 1O0 feet above
- in its lowest valleys to 1900 on the tops u
highest peaks
A Alternating and nesting among the mount
ranges many valleys, large and small, ancr di
in the aggregate vast area oi agricultural lands
exceeded in fertility by any ia the world Thou
u these meander river system well worthy of the
tended notice The arabic portions Of the valley
fum go To GOO feet above the sea, aud they raj
-. In size from one Ia twenty miles In width aud ~
~ twenty TO 100 miles h. length.
l., Traversing Southern Idaho Is the extensive y
canie belt the isasn 81 the snake river This
iii Sin stretches lar into neghboriDg states. being
miles la length Snnie OF the best valley. traverse
81 hut il Is noteworthy as the great winter ~
ing ,gion OF this aud adjacent states Its natrith
~ herbs aud grasses fstten thousand. OF cattle
~, sheep annually.