Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-10-11
LOCATED IN IDAHO.

LOCATED IN IDAHO.
JAS. Anderton and Family Pleased With
Their New Home in Moscow.
Moscow, IDAHO, Oct. 1, 1901.
Editor Hot Springs STAB,
Hot Springs, 8. D.,
Ny Dear Sir:-Enclosed please find
sl.5O for which kindly send the STAR to
my address one year from date re-
ceived.
After travelling overland through
eastern Washington nearly month";
we have at last decided to locate per-
manently in western Idaho, two miles
from the east state line of Washington.
We arrived in Spokane at 11:55 Tues
day evening, August Ii, after jour
ney of nearly thirty-six hours. Spo-
kane is fine city, containing many
fine residences and handsome business
blocks. Agriculture, mining, manu-
featuring and lumber are the chisf in
dustries of Spokane and surrounding
country. After spending an enjoyable
week here. we purchased a team, wagon
camping outfit, ETC., and journeyed
southwark. After one days travel
through rough and heavily timbered
country containing numerous wheat
farms, timothy ranches and small fruit
farms, we came to the Palouse country.
This is the banner wheat country of
eastern Washington and northwest
Idaho. This is rough, hilly country;
but every knowl and hill is farmed,
and the finest fruit is grown in
orchards on the hill tops, rs the frost
will not hurt the orchards there. Frost
comes and even snow is said to fall
every month of the year here, never
theless it never grows colder than ten
below zero in the coolest winter wealth
or. We passed through country of
solid wheat and fruit farms for over
eighty miles; but wheat receives the
greatest attention. The average far.
mer neglects his fruit to care for his
wheat. Every one was busy, Hired
men we're in great demand, and every
country town was full of men seeking
employment. II was little trouble to
find it, but the work proved SO hard
that few men could stand it for more
than a week. The average pay for q
day of sixteen or eighteen hours work
is So or 81.
Moscow is the county seat of Latah
county, Idaho, and is the second city
in size in the state, having q popula-
tion in 1900 of $500 persons. The
state university is located here, which
has an average attendance of 300.
There is also a high school of good
standing and two public school build
ings. Two streets are paved. The
surrounding country is wealthy farm
ing country. Some mining and lum-
bering is also done as we are on the
south side of the Palouse mountain
range. Land sells at s25 to 500 per
acre. There is an average crop of
wheat this year of As bushels per acre;
oats from As to 60 bushels. A great
deal of money is made from fruit rails.
ing. Trees will bear in three years.
Horses are very cheap. paid s14O for
a young team of 1850 pounds each, in
Guiding harness and wagon. Cattle,
however, are extremely high. Eggs
and butter average from 2Oc to $50 and
are always in great demand.
Altogether we are much pleased with
the country at pesent, the people of
this city being very cordial in their
manner towards us makes us feel very
much at home and not as though we
were among strangers.
Wishing success to all of the resi-
dents of Fall River county and especi.
ally to our friends there, remain
Respectfully yours,
JAMES e ANDERToN,
Moscow, Idaho.