Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-04-04
About Idaho County.

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with the request contained in your
recent favor to the effect that |
write . letter containing a general
description of Idaho county and
it's resources.
There are present in IdahO's
empire county resources abundant
enough and sufficiently diversified
to sustain a population as large as
is contained in the entire state at
the present time. It is the third
largest county in the United
States and embraces a territory
about equal to that of Massachu-
setts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut.
Before Lincoln was president
Idaho county was furnishing one
third of Tdaho's reputation as a
mineral producing territory. For
over half q century it has been
pouring q stream Of pure gold into
the nations treasury, and the
flow will continue to increase
beyond the dreams of optimism.
Elk City and Warrens were be-
fore Gettysburg and Appamatox,
and while the present century
lives they will continue to enrich
it. Before the placer yield had
begun to diminish it's fountain
source had been discovered and
lodges of gold-learing quartz are
now revealed by industry that will
soon be the marvel Of the marvel
GUS west, and the entire world as
we'll. Mining is the one business
in which it is possible for a man to
succeed without running a dozen
others and the mines of Idaho
county will contribute to the sue
cess Of more men within the next
FIVE years than have received divi-
dends from the mines of Butte.
The mining world has heard of
Buffalo Hump-but only as a,tour-
list in the National park hears the
rumbling that presages the
bursting forth Of a mighty geyser.
Already there are more quartz
miners employed in Idaho county
than in any other county in the
state except Shoshone, but five
years more will see as many more
men working in the Buffalo Hump
section as are now making the
mine owners of Shoshone county
rich. Did Idaho but possess
Colorado's happy faculty for ad.
vertiSing her mineral wealth these
things would soon come to the at
tention Of the world. The Cracker
Jack, Jumbo, Puritan, Vesuvius,
Little Giant, Wise Boy, Big Buffalo
and many others in the Buffalo
Hump section are veritable store
houses OF wealth and there will be
after July Of this year, excellent
opportunities for business invest
ment.
After the section named there
are the Camp Howard copper dis
trict on Salmon river, Thunder
Mountain, Seven Devils, Dixie,
Newsome and Elk City-all OF
them of proven richness-contain-
ing possibilities that cannot be
measured.
But all mineral would be value
less were it not supported by the
products of the soil and it is doubt
full if the mining prospects OF
Idaho county, attractive as they
are, can be considered more in.
viting than her agricultural dis.
tricts.
Idaho county has no Irrigation
problem" nor ever will have.
The beautiful valleys of the Clear.
water and the equally picturesque
Salmon possesses soil and climate
equal to that of any portion o.
California and wherever theil
fruit products have been exhibited
they have compelled the admira
ton of connoisseurs. But fol-
every pound of fruit these valleys
have produced in the past ther,
could have been, and will be, pro.
duced q thousand.
Between these crystal rivers
the Salmon and the Clearwater
and about q thousand feet above
them there is the far famed Cam AZ
Prairie. just now it is the hom,
of about four thousand persons