The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-13
shovel and the az has $4,000 900 acres left

shovel and the ak has 13, ,000. 900 acres left
for him
In this unspoiled country, this land Of
opportunity, there are about $500 miles
Of main canals for irrigation There is
now under way the Minidoka project
and the Boise-Payette project, which Will
reclaim thousands upon thousands OF
acres and which will cost millions Of
dollars. and when finished the man with
the hoe can complacently view deserts
transformed into veritable paradise.
In southern Idaho, at American Falls
another waterfall has been harnessed,
where the American Falls Canal and
Power company have put in q power
and irrigation plant. The canal Of this
company will extend about sixty miles
It carries a great volume of water; the
main waterway is eighty i've feet wide
at the top, seventy feet at the bottom,
and carries six feet OF water.
What Is Grown Here.
And what is grown on these once desert
lands? How is the man with the hoe
reimbursed for his labor2 In grains the
man with the hoe raises wheat. oats,
rye and barley: IN grasses, lucern, tim
othy, clover, blue grass and orchard;
In fruits. apples. pears. prunes, ounces
and plums; in vegetables, potatoes,
onions, tomatoes, beets, sugar beets in
particular. Then, too, he can raise cattle
and sheep and have vast area over
which to range them.
And this in but a part OF the great
State across which country of oppor.uni-
~ you are still carried to the unspoiled
country In the north. And TO reach this
you pass through two other States. You
have left on your right when you crossed
the Snake river at Huntington the Seven
Devils mining country. The great min
Ing camps In Owyhee county you left on
your left when you passed Nampa, and in
your journey westward all the range on
your right is a vast mineral zone where
the surface has Just been scratched.
How Pan Handle Is Reached.
This Is a long journey you are making
to points In one State. At Riparia, Wash
ington, where all the sand not spread
along the railroad between that point
and The Dalles is piled up In great
you cross the Snake river. Boats ply be-
tween this point and Lewiston, the county
seat Of NeZ Perce county-a great agri
cultural and timbered country. 1t is also
one Of the gateways into Idaho county,
the largest county in the State. with an
area of 11,O74 miles, within which area is
lumber enough to supply the world-a
county without a railroad.
AT Colfax, Wash, you strike a branch
line to Moscow, the metropolis of Latah
county, where the State university Is To-
Gated. Like Nez Perce. which joins Latah
on the south, II fs an agricultural county
On you Journey, and Spokane Is reached
Here you take an electric railway for
Coeur dAlene City. thirty-four miles
away and in an hour you are there. The
OF the unspoiled country
the country OF opportunity ls reached.
Occur d'Alene City and Lake.
Tho site of Coeur dAlene City is
beautiful one. A portion Of it was the
old Fort Sherman military reserve, aban-
doned by the Government only two years
ago. 1t Is the place where in 1S42 Luther
De Smet, Jesuit missionary, first met
the Indians, where the first log chapel
was erected as temporary house of wor-
ship, and where the red man was in
structed in the Catholic faith. 1t is the
north point Of Coer d'Alene lake. city
Of 5000 people. and is at the base Of the
Bitter Root range Of the Rockies. The
city has grown from a hamlet OF 500 peo-
pie to city within four years. The lum-
bering industry has been the cause for
growth. four large plants being in opera
lion, with daily capacity Of 400 900 feet. |
To the south and east from Coeur |
4 l'Alene City is the great mining region of |
Idaho. The mines OF the Gem State pro-
luce about third of the total lead |
output of the United States. Last year
he output was s12 2.257. 1913. Since 1860 the |
precious metal output of the State has
aggregated the enormous sum OF S461,- |
;36, ,425. The gross metal output Of Idaho |
Turing 1905, from which S60S6, 500 In dlvi- |
lends and net profits was paid. was as |
,ollows
Gold ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5 1850 ,S63.S5 |
silver -.-,..s-........-,-..... o,196, ,270.51 |
Lead Observation-Disclosures. 1225719343I !