The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1905-07-21
A PICTURE Of IDAHO.
Picturesque Language of an
Unknown Author.
LAND Of BEAUTY and WEALTH
Mountains Of Mineral and Val
leys of Grain, Etc.

4 leys of Grain, Etc.
The following is from an unknown
author, and while his language may
be somewhat extreme, he has evident
iy been all over our state and is thur
oughly conversant with its resources:
"Lift all New England aud New
York bodily mile above the level OF
OF the sea; add 5000 feet to Mount
Washington and 1000 feet to that o!
Mount Mitchell; throw In dozens OF
peaks just as high, all punching holes
in the sky with their snowy peaks;
pile up everywhere hundreds on hun
dreds OF mountains from 10000 to
IA, 900 feet bigh; exaggerate 50.fold
all the wild notches, gorges and glens
of eastern America and multiply
them by scores. Send cataracts and
cascades lcaping and fOalning down a
Thousand dizzy preclpices and chan
ncls. Toss ia promiscuously parks
larger than whole states In the small
mentioned east and gardens Of small
areas.
| "Statues Of gods, gcni, gnOmes,
Titan centanrs aud unnamed mon
sters thousands Of feet high, hewn by
ages on ages Of winds and whirling
waters. Cap all mountains with ever
lasting ice and snow and clothe their
shaggy sides with waving forests OF
valuable timber. Fill all the valleys
! to the mountains feet with orchards
. and gardens, vineyards and grain
fields bending beneath the burden Of
of their own magnificent fruitage.
and dot the horizon bounded pasture
lands with flocks and herds waist
deep IN the very wantonness Of plenty
.Undrrlay the whole vast area with
gold, silver. copper. lead, zinc and
) iron ores; marble OF hundred hues
> anthracite, bituminOus and Ignite
coal; salt, sulphur, soda, lime, as
phaltum, gypsum and nearly ever,
; other metal and mineral in human
: use.
''Through countless, wOndcrou!
canyons pour mighty rivers with pow
e er enough to run all the worlds ma
/. chinery. Smite the r0ck-ribbed lab
oratories Of Omniwtence and let tn,
healing floods gush forth rich IL
miracle healing virtues for the allevi
alton of many Of the ills that flesh Il
/ heir to-.
J, "In the whole transcendcnt seen,
e are 5000 miles Of mysterious noun
e tains IN whose rock walls lie enougl
r wealth TO pay all the national debt
r. Of the world and leave a fortune 70
x every man, woman and child frou
}. Cape Cod to Yuba Dam. Over all |
spread a climate whose glory is un
. surpassed under heaven since sin an
m death crcpt into Eden, with tn
a translucent splendor OF skies NOR
IS radiently blue than ever bent thci
A. crystal arches above the far-famed
m beggerhemmed and heagirt Bay Z
Naples, or the sheet of water know
as Williams Lake. ~ whose enchanl
ed shores lies the ranch of that glih
~ toDHued bunco- sJeerer Of the rang'
and you have poor. puny idea [
,s Idaho.
"It is land where mountains {
=. gold and silver ore wall in vale,
No that yield from so to 60 bushels {
y wheat, 70 to 100 bushels OF oats an
~ from 500 to 900 bushels of potat toes
- the acre.
ut is a land where every una
!. makes his own rain, and crops new
- fail. Where rewards Of industry a
as sure as the DEGREES Of God, whc
wonder treadS on beauty's heels al
riches run To meet the earnest scekc
= It's resources are as boundless as !
limits and as varied as its cverchan
ing hucs that bathe its sunsets
prisnlatic splendors. Such is. Idatl
the Gem Of the Mountains
be
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