Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-04
IDAHO IS THE STATE
No Other State In the Union Offers
Bigger or Better Inducements
to Those Seeking Homes

All over the southeastern and
central portions of this country
thousands are looking with dis
contented faces at the unsatisfact-
ory and unsettled condition of af-
fairs, and the respondent pro pert
for the future. In all older COM
nlunities of the east all trades are
oyercrowded and existing avenues
filed; all resources fully developed,
and to the head of a growing fami-
ly the prospect of a pleasant home
and a prosperous future for his
children give rise t. many gloomy
reflections. He has seen the chos-
en- home of his early manhood de-
v,lop from a wilderness through
all the various st1ges of modern
progress, he has helped to organ
ize society, build churches, schools
and factories; he has ~een one door
after another open, and new id as
take the place of the old order, and
and as the man of so years allows
his memory to turn in retrospec-
i've view, remembrance awakens
with her busy train and he is
dumb with amazement to think
that his brief span of life has seen
so wonderful a tran-ition. And
with such thoughts will come the
other. Is there place, country,
the development of new empire
viii give to the coming generation
a field for successful effort, where
it is not too late to lay for his
children the foundation OF pros
pcrity and comfort, place where
he can make for himself home in
which to spend his declining years
in pea e and plenty surrounded by |
his posteri;y. There is such a
place. Read on.
The state of Idaho is as yet un-
developed, and offers opportunities
to the homeseeker, the capitalist
and investor such as is not found
in any other state. 1t is rich in
resources and natural advantages
It's treasures are a wonder, its eli
mate perfection, its hi tory ro-
nance and its wealth a surprise to
all who have taken time to inves-
tigate the matter Today Idaho
offers homes for the farmer on the
most productive soil, with the fin-
est climate and highest priced
home market for his products. :
Idaho offers unparalleled induce
ments to the capitalist to develop
her manifold and wonderful re }
sources. An abundance of cheap t
power is provided by Harvesting
he water power afforded by the r
,lunging of her mountain streams
,ver precipices. Idaho has an am- {
,le supply of water for mining and V
rigation purposes. Idaho has a
ich mines, insisting of gold. sill i
'er, lead, coal and copper, and all y
'ther minerals of commercial val
lie are found in paying quantities. {
daho is dist nctly an American y
tate, with trivial fraction of IL W
iterancy. The statistics of the q
cnsus tables are more eloquent
han the tropes and phrases of the !.
hetorician 1t is more dazzling u
nd bewildering than poetry, and b
he h storian is compelled to be fc
in truth and parsimo- b,
ious in his reci'al OF facts in order W
OF to impose too great strain
pom the capacity of human Gre y
ulitv. 1t i moderate and con- la
,rvative 5 atement that any COM "
lunity never increased so rapidly W
! population, wealth and civiliza- n
on, nor gained SO great an aggre-
re in so brief time as will the 81
ate of Idaho within the next few
ears. There is no other state in
here the rewards of industry have tn
'en so ample and the conditions nr
prosperity so abundant. go sta r
e and secure as right here in 'n
aho. ri'