The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-09-30
IDAHO, THE I'M
PERIAL STATE
0wyhee County Invites the Capitalist and
Homeseeker to the Land Of Sun.
shine and Happy Homes


Northwest, presents unlimited opportunities
for home builders and investors. Her I'M
bounded resources her limitless mineral
wealth, her vast forests Of timber, her great
stretches of the finest of grazing lands, her
beautiful valleys, as rich and productive as
any in the world, her grand mountain seem
cry, and above all, her inyigorating and
health restoring atmosphere, where neither
extremes of heat or cold give you discom-
fort, invite you.
The $4,000 miles of her territory now
have only about two persons to each square
mile Ten years ago they had but one, ten
years more the present number will be more
than doubled, and still the magnificent re-
sources Of the state will scarcely have been
touched. There will he room for many
times as many.
Think of the vast deposits Of gold, silver,
lead, copper and other minerals in her noun
tain Businesses awaiting human energy to
turn them loose in the channels of com
merce. Think of the demands Of the delivers
for this wealth, for the products of the
farms, gardens and orchards. You will
realize that home markets are at your door
ready to take what the ranchers produce
1t will ever be so, especially in Owyhee
County. The only products of the county
seeking or ever likely to seek markets be-
yond her boundaries are horses, cattle,
sheep, wool and bullion. The delivers for
the bullion will always consume all the yege
tables, fruits, dairy and poultry products
The stockgrowers will take all the hay and
grain that can be raised.
we have room in all Of Idaho for more
<yes, many times more industrious and law
aDlding people. we no longer invite you
to come ana endure the deprlyations and
Ilardships OF the earlier pioneers and lmIni-
grants, but to come in palace cars, if you
choose, to acountry where society is well
organized where there are churches and
school houses; where law and order prevail
and where you may mix and nIingIe with
bright, Intelligent, honorable and law
abiding people as you will leave behind you,
no matter where your present home may be-
The daily mail, the newspaper and the tele-
phone are all here before you
The cyclone and the blighting hot winds
viii never destroy your buildings or blight
your crops. Drouth will not effect you and
wet weather will not interfere with your
harvests, for irrigation will supply your
fields with moisture and you may harvest
them in the sunshine.
This is the invitation which Idaho and
Owyhee County gives you. The welcome you
will receive will be most cordial
The county, whose name is said to be
corruption of the name Hew ali, given to the
range of mountains running across this por
ton of the state, by Kanaka trappers en-
ployed by the Northwestern Fur Company,
in very early days, occupies the extreme
southwestern corner of the State 1t is
bounded on the north by Snake River, on
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the State of Nevada, md on the west by Ore
gon. The area of the county is approx
mately 1890 square miles, or about equaling
in size the average New England State and
being more than three times as large as
the State of Delaware. The county is tray
ersed northwest to southeast bv a short
range of mountains from which it's name
is taken. The surface is generally rough
and broken, it's tillable lands being mainly
confined to narrow but fruitful valleys along
its numerous streams and the plains border
ing on Snake River. It's altitude varies from
about 1920 feet on Snake River to 1924
feet on the summit of War Eagle noun
tain, with slightly higher unreported ele-
walton on its neighbOring-Quick Silver
mountain. It's principal water courses
run north and empty into Snake River, and
nearly all of it's arabic lands are north and
east of the mountain range The southern
and western portions of the county are very
rough and broken, cut by deep CANYONS bu
nearly all the area producing a pasturagC
where vast numbers of cattle, horses anC
sheep Craze and fatten during the summer
and subsist through the winter without be
ing fed. These portions of the county con
stitute one of the most important grain.
sections Of the State. The timber on thi
section is principally short, stubhv growtl