Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1902-01-02
OUTLOOK FOR IDAHO.
Gov. Hunt Gives His Impress
ions to the Spokesman
Review.

Review.
During the past two years the
east has been wrapped up in it's
own speculations, almost entirely
devoting it's speculative surplus Of
money to the investments Of stocks
in the great industrial combins-
tions that were forming. When
these stocks last summer reached
their limit Of appreciation and the
crash came tumbling, all Of them,
down to something like their true
value, the revulsion was as COM
plete as the crazc for stock gamb-
ling had been, and it once more
turned loose an immense amount
Of available eastern capital for in
vestment in the western states.
Today any meritorious western en-
terprise can seek and find money
for it's promotion in the east If
properly presented.
"He who brings back the wealth
OF the Indies must take out the
wealth Of the Indies" No proverb
is truer. No country whose re-
sources are insufficient or unsub-
statial can attract permanent cap
ital or undergo enduring develop
ment. That is true Of Idaho, and
l can say for her that no state in
the Union, save, perhaps, CalifOr-
MIA, has greater diversity Of soil,
of topography, Of climate or more
varied resources, and today she
stands where Colorado did when
Leadville was struck, with her
lands unoccupied, her magnificent
timber untouched and her mines
unexplored and attracting today
immigration and capital like Col
orado did at that time.
| The past year has been pros
porous one. We have simply
struck the era Of development and
the people are alive to the new
conditions.
i GROWTH OF NORTH IDAHO.
/ North Idaho as it is designated
on account Of geographical pecu
liarities or difficulties Of transpor
tation, has had it's share in the
growth of the state during TIN
past year. immigration has COM
, into it from many Of the eastern
states and its lands are settling up
but great part of the unsurveyet
portion Of the agricultural land il
still unoccupied. A vast grant 0
land was allotted to the state in tn
enabling act admitting Idaho
Application has been made for tn
. survey of nearly all this land re
naming unsurveyed. It is no
the policy of the state, however, t
select it's allotment from agricult
# ural lands, but to confine II
further selection to timber in tract
sufficiently large to induce pul
i chase and manufacture.
. GREAT FORESTS.
Wisconsin, Michigan and Mir
I nesota have been the great lum
boring states. Their forests hay
D. been cut out, manufactured an
: marketed. Large eastern mil
are looking for new fields and ar
d coming to Oregon, Washington an
,ose Idaho. The Idaho white pine ha
i no superior. We have it in almo
u limitless tracts and the manufac
ures are now scrambling for
During the present year the sta
ID has granted franchises for the in
ne provement OF three northel
~ streams-Priest river, Pack riv
e. e. and st. Maries river and trib
Of taries. Contiguous to each
these are situated some very lar
bodies of timber. These impro
ments are necessary for driving t
= streams and next season will inau
urate an Industry in the vicini
ID; that will involve the emplo
p ment of hundreds of men, al
S. fortunately the state owns lar
to. portion of this timber, SO that
DE DE monopoly can DO had of the WHIT
:, north Of the state, except, perhal
for of the immense railroad holdir
of timber lands.
MAGNIFICENT MINES.
The mines of north Idaho
among the famous ones Of t
CO., o. world, producing and paying-n
ics, withstanding the lead mines OF I
fol- Occur d'Alenes are restricted
81, ,ss. their output by the trust. Ida
.hs county, in the vicinity of Buff
" Hump especially, is this year
! n g. veloping some properties of gr
GO substantial merit, but it is
8 60 the southern part Of that count,
9 g &C. what is called Thunder Mountain
9 g that will next season be entered
Q GO thousands of miners and prosp'
9 60 % ors and just now seems to just
9 90 the claims that have been made
. 60 60 it. 1t will realize one of the
9 90 % time stampedes that periodic'
3 @ strike western mining distri
o O. The attractive portion of
q g &c United States just now for i'm
: % grafton is Oregon, Washington
. 8 60 north Idaho. The resources
g 90 &c this country for agricultural
IN an 5000. oarcot ho snrnasaod and