The Grenada sentinel., 1899-08-05
GRENADA, MISS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1899.

day and hour you stay among them
which, at its longest and best, will be
far 10 short TO meet the wishes Of your
hosts. Every pledge given in Denver
will be redeemed, every promise |
made to you in Denver will be fulfilled
with the Scriptural "scvcn baskets full
of fragments" left oveG-in Portland,
Astoria, La Grande, Baker City, Boise,
Shoshone, Tacoma. Seattle, and half
hundred other ambitious and public
spirited young municipalities. Nearly
every city, town and mining camp in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho has
camored for chance to hold out the
glad hand" to you:-has sought the
privilege of entertaining you, or n
some way contributing to the pleasure
and profit of your visit. State, county
and city authorities; military, civic and
social organizations; railroad, stean-
ship and steamboat companies: street
railways, constables. .cOrOners, theaters,
churches, breweries and the entire
| pODulation-men, women, children, and
other persons-of the region through
which you are to psss, arc prepared to
vie with each other in rendering your
| Occidental pilgrimage memorable and
enjoyable. You will have excursions
by river, rail and ocean; receptions,
with their attendant would-be-wise,
and always stupid, ,speech-making bores;
trolley.rides, drives, regattas, fire.
works, luncheons, banquets, cambakes,
crab-roasts, crawish-suppers. barbe-
cues, fruit-feasts, and all the other
festive concomitants ola huge and
hearty jamboree
Leaving Chicago, the Association
will fly over the superb track OF the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway for
494 miles, through one of the garden
spots of our hemisphere-the fields,
orchards and meadows of Northern
Illinois and Central Iowa. At Omaha,
you 90 into the hands of the Union Pa
cihc, the first tronscontinental railway,
and it will whirl you onward S14 miles,
through the horizon-fenced cornfields
anu pastures OF Nebraska, homeland OF
cyclones and Bryan and through the
boundless cattle ranges, and coalhelds
of Wyoming, where woman suffrage
first caught on.
Idaho was admitted into the Union
as state, July3, lS9O,-just nine years
ago. 1t has an area of $4,000, square
miles or 54,27 1000 acres, Of which
100000 acres are agricultural
land and 100000 acres capable ol
cultivation when irrigated. There
are 100000 acres of grazing lands
and about 2l,OO0,O0O acres OF min.
eral and timoer. It has contributed
hundreds OF millions OF dollars to
the mineral riches OF the country
and the world. The CGur d,Alene
region alone, since It's virtual dis
covery in 1884, has poured over $50,
100000 into the treasures OF the nation
The state now furnishes about a fourth
of the entire lead product of the United
States. or something like $4,000, ,OO(
pounds year; and il produced last
year nearly $4,000, 900 in the four me.
tails. gold, silver lead, anG copper
being surpassed only by Montana. Col
orado, California aud Arizona. Some
of the richest discoveries of gold in the
recent mining history of the world
! have been made in the Buffalo HUMP
region: and, if reports are true, the
famous Ca1umel-and.Hecla and Ana
conda copper mines are likely TO have
worthy competitors in the Seven Devils
Mount aims.
From the car window, for $50 miles
the state generally looks like desert
Where no water is. Idaho soils is the
picture Of desoation. Nothing grows
but sagebrush, greasewood, cactus
prairie dcrs and jack rabbits. Turr
on the water and a garden blooms
You touch the water-button, and Coo
or Nature does the rest-and does i
gloriously. All high-grade farming i:
by irrigation. and where every farmer
makes his own season and controls nj
own rain, crop failures are unknoA
There has never been one IN Idaho
No rain on the new mown hay, no
drouth when the grain headsare filling:
Water in abundance, just when anc