The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1904-03-02

mines, has just submitted his officla
report for the year 1903 to Governor
Morrison. The report is indeed
credit to Mr.. Bells efficient work a.
mining inspector and Will undoubted
~ be of great value to the state
The report shows careful, earnesr
and competent investigation of tn,
mineral resources and possibilities
OF the state, and is a production
that undoubtedly represents a great
amount Of labor. Idaho and the
mining interests of the state should
take pleasure in copgratplating Mr..
Bell on his splendid work.
In the introduction Mr.. Bell saws,
"The geology OF Idaho compares
more closely with that of Colorado
than any other mining state In the
proportion and distribution of its rock
formations and contains all the series
OF rich metal values and other mineral
products that have been SO produc-
tive in Colorado.
"The writer has for years looked
upon Colorado as the precious metal
mining school of the world. | have
been gratifed in travelling over Idaho
to find that many of our most success
full mines are being handled by Colo
RADIO men, who brought a ripe expert
ence from the Centennial state and
that the enormous undeveloped min
ing resources of Idaho may soon
equal the present Magnificent yield
OF Colorado in the value of the pro-
ducts OF its mineral fields, is not
altogether dream as shown by the
rapid increase of our past wears
output.
''There has been good many in
quiries made to this department dur
ing the year for a geological map of
the state, and it was my intention to
prepare something giving the general
and proportions OF the diff
erent formations, but that feature had
TO be deferred for the present owing
to the stress of other office work.
ut is hardly to be expected that
subject involving such lot of tsdious
and laborious personal investigation
rs this does can be made very definite
n one short seasons work and the
description will doubtless be made |
luate for some counties. The in
ormation given about any mining
Enterprise or district is derived either
rom personal investigation or the
most conservative authority.
Idaho Is one of the best watered
nd best timbered states in the union
MS statement can not be appreciat-
q by travellers on either of the main
visions OF the Oregon Short Line
'nicn traverses some of the large
esert areas of the Snake river val
y. From the northern rim of this
reat valley, however, to the extreme {
or1nern limit of the state, the coun- {
y is practically covered with a con-
nuous forest growth, and EN- braces I
'me OF the finest numbering sections
! the world. The state is drained
by three great river sys.
ms that rsmify through it's remotest
'rners and combined form q stream
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ate at Lewiston to form one of the a
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