Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-02-12
lDAHO'S PRODUCTIVENESS.
Wonders Of tho Present and tho PIE.
historic Past.


BLAcIIFOJT, Idaho, Feb. s.-with
about one.teuth Of the wealth anu one
third Oft population # Titan, Idaho
has nearly tho same area, three times
he much congressional representation
and five times Nv mauy land tiilcts;
those latter are situated respectively at
Blaokiool, Haley, Lewiston, Boise
anu Cmlr d'hleno. The necesuity for
these Il made TO appear when the read.
CT knows that but two lines Of railway
tfavefso any considerable portion tf
the staie--lhe Union Pacific entering
the southern DO TdUr at Cannon, we'll
along toward the eastern edge aud due
northwest few miles from Logan
CITY, continuing Ia ss straight lice a.
pUtsIble 10 MOutann; and the Oregon
short Il ne, which ttfikts IN near The
southwestern corner and hugs tlo
fouthern border closely till II emergrs
into Oregon at Huntington. From
tue latter a branch takes on az She
sh0ne, running 10 Galena via
HALEY aud suvefai other smaller
towns; aud from Nampa 30
Ada county, another branch few
miles long, connects Boise CITY by
rail VITA tue rrst OF the world. Both
the Uni0n Pacific ami Northern Pa.
Cih1 cfOaH the "panhauulp.W u long.
narrow strip OF territory eEttndiug to
tue Brllah possessions anu fecmiug on
tue map 10 have been designed o..
ptcially for the lufIuse Of keeping
Montana nuu Wnuhiut tIu apart; anu
twIf d'Alrue hasa lit.lu cal line uu.
known % fame % not 10 fortune. With
comparatively 10 little railway land
none at all wuuto there afo the great.
est atrelchus VI land subject 10 out-y
under government lave anu consider
ably less tuau 100000 people scattered
over 20 vast domain, u h necessary g.
matO the Work OF tasting Possession of
and obtaining title 10 lands ~ light ~
possible. 10 tue ldahUana had bat
one land oiliuu-liku Utlh-locattd no
matter where, milliUun VI acres " spleu-
did soil would not only be- unlnhabiIpI
tut perhaps unirOdden for many
long years 10 come. NailfOlua do not
DO tue pioneering nowAInys, Inducing
the people 10 follow ia their wake, they
prefer 90 punetluts districts already
populated 70 not prosperous, and even
with the timuluA o Hovrfal land oiiirts
iudiciOusly distributed II will be- "a con.
siderable Ui span In the dire ton OI
eternity bo.Oro ldaho'a map wiz even
remotely resemble y griiirUn ~ lar a.
railways arc cOncoTur1; with but one
place where the government deals III.
footiy with ils subjects Ia tue matter of
parctliug OUT homes, Of course the
time would be ever % much longer.
1 VIII mere take occasion 10 rritorate
what has been said before regarding the
prUducuventss Of ldsnO's soil, Uspecl.
ally tue eastern pat of the state. In
any pait Of Bannock, Bingham or
Fremont u1ur ticH east NJ the mountain
ranges, thegrOwt oisome Ofthestaples
OF lie Areso wonderful that a recital { I
some Instances does but subject tue re-
otter 10 disbelief n the listener has HAD
no Other evidence. 1 hate TO place
myself a such a position Ne that, with
a political campaign recently over Rud
one shortly 10 Dvgin; anu yet such
things ought 10 be told, not ldnly be.
cause they are true but beciuse they
are NJ general interest. Major Wall,
OF BlaokioOi, 10 n land Office attorney,
bu taisva most Of his own vegetables
Tor family use; among other things last
season he put One.sixth OF an acre la
polutots, the only PREPARATION tue
groun1 received being an ordinary
ploWiug. The planting was by drop.
plug tue pieces OF potato here aud
there NJ Il II ordinarily dOuo, anu they
we're left where they fell, reuely.
ing no fu.lhcr attention until
jug fot-lhty were not hoed or
irrigated once. Ho got over 100
bushels Of potatoes from the piece.
the yiold being 90 tue rate Of about $50
bushels 10 the set And tue average
weight Of the individual "murphiesy
was about fur pounds, a few Of tucm
going 10 nearly ten pOuuda IN weigh
D0rs not uis sound liEoa Munuhausen.
ism2 IL 10 didu't II wouldn't Ue worth
repeating, for II the figures were very
much lower our own Utah could dupli.
cate the Incident many times over anu
thus deprive II Of that special interest
which ils hugeness gives a., It IL true,
however, anu IL rather tho rule thau
otherwise In this part OF the country.
told you once before how u Fremont
county farmer had harvested 100
bushrls OF wheat from one acre vi
ground, and have repeated It orally
few times only TO DO looked At, as
though I had had something 40
do with tho late election for
Constitutional Convention dules alts;
this IL very uujust 10 me, fIT the story,
like the other, II merely the recital Of
what actually occurred. IL h truly
magnificent soil anu besides having
great streams cOursing through IL h
supplied IN places by a vast network Of
HubteFTGnean COuduila Of varying dis
tances from the suffice, Ia some places
breaking through and forming eloughs,
In others too remote ~ be OF pfaclcai
benefit withou; artificial means OViug
employed.
Tue country referred 10 was once the
home Of more kinds Of Wild animals
than are set down 10 most Of our v0.
eabulaTies. In huuse Of entertain
meut NJ BlaokfOOt are n number OF
stuffed specimens and fossil remains
representing IN some instances mlu.
slets long since extinct aud beasts
around which ouriosity IA clustering anu
accommodating because, while no atall
unknown ~ most OF ~ Ia this western
county, they are more Or less AL
yAuced In tho process Of extinction. 10
he former class are huge bones and a |
t0Oth three feet long, undoubtedly In |
thr early forenoon Of archaeology the |
possession Of n mammoth or mastOuor. |
Ihis particular animal must have bouu
eighteen Or twenty feet high, corrt-
spondingly longer and have weighed |
several tons when in good health and |
not harrassed too much by our pre-
historic ancestors. (lt thus seems thpl
lmmenslty Is or was feature q the |
hnlmal as well rs the vegetable King- |
uom In this part OF our sister stated |