The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1905-05-04

An unknown writer has unloads,
. the following descriptive view o
Idaho. and while rather grandios'
and spectacular shows an apprecia
ton of the state that might vel
serve rs a lecture to those Who ar,
too busy or Indifferent to see NOR,
than the days work or the day.
sport ahead:
"Lift all New England and New
York bodily mile above the level
of the sea; add 5000 feet to Mount
Washington and 1000 feet to that Of
Mount Mitchell; throw in dozens oil
peaks just as high, all punching
holes in the sky With their snowy
peaks; pile up everywhere hundreds
on hundreds of mountains from TO-
900 to $4,000 feet high; exaggerate
s0-fold all the Wild notches. gorges
and glens of eastern America and
multiply them by scores; send cat
aracts and cascades leaping and
foaming down a thousand dizzy pre-
cipices and channels: toss in pro-
miscouously, parks larger than whole
states in the small-nentioned east
and gardens of small areas; statues
of gods, genii, gnomes, Titan CEN
taurs and unnamed monsters, thous-
ands of feet high, hevn by ages on
ages of winds and vhirling waters;
cap all mountains with everlasting
ice and snow and clothe all their
sides with waving forests of valuable
timber I'LL all the valleys to the
mountains feet with the orchards
and gardens, vineyards and grain
fields bending beneath the burden of
their own magnificent fruitage, and
dot the horizon bounded pasture
lands with focks and herds waist
deep in the very vantoness of plenty.
Underlay the whole vast area with
gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc and
iron ores; marble of a hundred
hues, anthracite, bituminous and
Ignite coal; salt, sulphur, soda,
lime, asPhaltum, gypsum and
nearly every other metal and
mineral in human use.
Through countless vondrous can
yons pour mighty rivers with water
power enough to run all the worlds
Smite the rock ribbed
laboratories of omnipotence and let
The healing floods gush forth rich in
miracle healing virtues for tn. elm
nation of many of the ills that
iesh il heir to- As the whole ,
ranscendent scene spread out the I
IS 900 miles of mysterious mountain
n whose rock walls lie enough ,
vealth to pay all the national debts /,
( the world and leave a fortune for !;
very man, woman and child from
ape Cod to Yuba Dam. Over all
climate is spread whose glory is /.
unsurpassed under heaved since sin d
nd death crept into Eden, with the n
anslucent splendor of skies more e
blue than ever bent their $;
-ystal arches above the far famed m
.ggar hemmed and flea bit bay of m
aples or the sheet of water known .,
Williams lake on whose enchant- -
shores lay the ranch of the glib b,
ngued buncosteerer of the range ar
ID you have pasy idea of Idaho. h.
is land vnsre mountains of gold M
ID silver ore wall in valleys that m
ED from fifty to sixty bushels 81 nc
leat; seventy-6ve to a hundred m,
shells of oats and from 500 to 900 m,
shells of potatoes to the acre. 1t at,
a land where every man makes m,
) own rain and the crops never No
1. Where rewards Of industry an
. as sure az the DEGREES of God; tr,
ere wonder treads on beauty's 10,
Els and riches run to meet the 10
nest seeker. Its resources are an,
boundless as its limits and as
ever changing hues that battle
sunsets in prismatic splendors.
h is Idaho, the gem of the noun