Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-02-28
GREAT IS IDAHO.

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prised when they learn that it
ranks twelfth in size and is
nearly as large as Pennsylvania
and Ohio combined and is larger
than New York and Maine COM
bined and is larger than the six
New England states with Mary
land thrown in for good measure.
The smallest county in the state
is as large as the state of Rhode
Island.
Idaho County of which Grange
vile is the county seat is an en-
pire. It is about in the center
of the state and contains a larger
area than the state of Mass
achusetts. The soil of the farm
ing lands in the northern part of
the state is said by Professor
Mark w. Harrington (for many
years at the head of the Weather
Bureau of the Agriculture De-
partment, Washington, D. c.
to be the most fertile soil in the
United States, perpetually fertile.
"In the whole world" he says,
81 only know of one locality
which has soil similar. This is
in China, and although it has
been cultivated for four thousand
years it remains unchanged.
One hundred times as many
people can be supplied by its soil
as now live on these lands. In
addition to it's remarkably fertile
farming soil, none of which needs
irrigating, there is in North
Idaho the largest body of white
pine left in the United States,
besides the great Occur d'Alene
mining district, which is said
to be the surest, safest and
richest in the world and from
which over 500 has been taken in
profit for every dollar which has
been in the district expended,
whether foolishly or otherwise.
The Occur d'Alene district, while
comparatively small and as yet
only little worked, produced in
1907 over twenty million dollars
of the mineral wealth and paid
in profits over six millions of
dollars. North Idaho has also
many large saw mills, one in par
ticular being the largest in the
world. 1t has many beautiful
lakes and rivers, which are un-
rivalled for beauty and scenery,
also hunting and fishing and on
which several lines of steamers
carry passengers and freight.
Many miles of railroad were built,
both electric and steam, in North
ern Idaho during 1907, thereby
causing many new and prosper
GUS towns to spring into exist
ance. There are so many good
towns and no poor ones, in
Northern Idaho, it would be in
vidious to name any. We believe
there are more openings in every
line of business to-day in North
ern Idaho than in any other part
of the United States.
Southern Idaho, during the
year of 1907 has completed some
irrigation plants which are the
wonder of the world aud which
bring many thousand acres form
erly considered almost worthless
under cultivation. Southern Ida
: no also has a great deal of value
;; able timber besides some of the
most productive mines in the
; world, and as regards mining in
both the northern and southern
i part of the state, one remarkable
fact is that the mines are no
owned and controlled by very
few men as in Butte and Helena
Montana, but have been develop
ed and promoted by a large mum
Der of stock holders in moderate
circumstances aud to whom
: monthly the fixed amount of pro
h fits are distributed. Sheep rails
5 ing, irrigated farming, frui
c raising, mining and numbering
are the great industries of South
;: ern Idaho, which has almost n
e end of beautiful, prosperous littl