Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15
PART FOUR

,,,k at the youthful state Ok
Ul5aSo-only is years old on the
%Ird of last July-and the won
,ornd progress she has made IN
,pc,,ptaent OF her resources ones
ih' question would be, How came al
ms about .u ,eon at the be-
w. we would have to go BACK
s'ona' century to lind this intermoun-
c'F n,ry an unknown region to the
"p' wby. Idaho was not on map
NY'' roited states before 1860.
-" ga, by the payment of si5'oOO'OOo'
- acquired what is known as
V0'1 on,siana Purchase. comprising all
~ territory lying west Of the Miss's-
~ liver and east of the main range
WY no Rocky Mountains. The same
President jefferson asked con-
s .s.s to appropriate $500 to explore
oor,hwost, including all OF the
y ..,,ry west OF the Missouri river 10
,so Pacific ocean.
mteresting fact Is noted here In
:" ,en,s9l Of Congress 10 grant the
og claiming that the country was
~ uorlh the expense Even tha
,,rt.lana Purchase paid for by q sum
,,all That It could not buy one Of la
/. nine today, was thought by many
I, me best Informed statesmen 20 be a
,-y bad bargain
FIRST WHITE MEN
nh. orsl white men to set foot upon
westcrn territory and open up
,.,ls through this great wilderness OF
Y. pacific slope, were not emissaries
tbe government, but trappers of the
rodson Bay company. The history OF
~, discoveries is unwrltten, how
80, The great expedition Of eXplor-
,,or and discovery, which has made
,n,bentle history for us. remained FOR
4. eminent pioneers. Lewis and Clark
r.o,. crossed over the state of Idaho
!, ,he month OF August, 1905, through
.hot +. now Lemhi, Idaho and Nee
p,,ce counties. They found the Indians
/, nossession of articles of European
,,pufacture, which they had obtained
e,m the Hudson Bay trappers. From
n, time until the year 1884 history
a,ans nothing about Idaho,
FOUNDING OF FORT HALL.
IN 1874 Nathaniel J. Wyeth estab-
rsheA n settlement at Fort Hall, in
what is now Bannock county, which
was the first white settlement, of which
We have any record, founded In Idaho.
TWO years later, Or. Marcus Whitman
and Roy. II. H. spaulding were sent
into this country by the Presbyterian
board Of missions TO establish a mis-
sion under the auspices of the Presby-
tcrian church. Their wives and fam
lies accompanied them. DR.. Whitman
settled ana established mission at
walla Walla IN Washington. while Rev.
s@uIdng selected q site in Idaho, at
alaai, about II miles from where
ucity of Lewiston now stands.
n 1886 the Hudson Bay company es-
ublshed Fort Boise, on the Snake
ryer From that time until 1861 the set
tIsnent of Idaho progressed very slow
IS Several famIiss ventured into the
r,w country to make homes, some of
whom we're successful and are now
bing to tell the tale; but the charred
ruins and bleeching bones that have
been found along the trails made by
tese adventurous pioneers point to
story Of hardships and tragedies that
i best left untold.
DISCOVERY OF GOLD.
The more important history of Idaho
hgns with the discovery OF gold on
the Clearwater river, In 1860, by Hiram
Pierce and his company of prospectors.
From this time until 1868, when Idaho
vas earyel into its present form by the
ldera government, historical events
nme so thick and fast that the minds
IN the historians have become some
what confused, and scarcely two OF
them can be found who agree. The
principal features. however are mat
Nrs Of record that cannot be destroyed,
and they provide some very interesting
reading. The great rush Of minerA
prospectors, traders, gamblers and