Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-06-30
mAHos BIG BABY, SPOKANE
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!. aisle. 'Haybur-r-n lives in Spo-
s,De. ASK ony of the byes.'
DAnd several of the Dyes nodded
sssent.
eof course, Spokane pronounced
o0oke-anne, Spok-cane and Spoka-an-
-, is not really in Idaho, but it
.,ond be. 1t is the product Of north
u.bo and that section to a very
hrge degree still supports 1t. The
dtuation reminds me sof an obese
.sby and a nursing bottle. Spokane's
M baby. That the bottle is not
drained is no fault of the husky and
hungry child.
So Richly Green"
when you look at the map of
idaho, all so richly green with Mr..
Puehots forest reserves, you may
vOnder why some one had not broken
"a that chunk that looks like an
pmaciated ham and handed 1t over
% one of the adjoining states. 1t
seems small and inconsequential in
COMPARISON with the broad expanse
Of irrigation projects in the south.
But 1t is a very large territory. 1t
takes longer to travel over 1t than 1t
does to reach it from Boise, and that
expresses a period of time challeng-
Ing the credulity of any one who has
never been laid out at Tekoa. Te-
koa is the junction just over the line.
One can go to Spokane, of course,
and one always does, but one need
not do so. One can start at Tekoa
and wonder at the diminution in the
visible supply of that yellowish pow
der that is shot out of al tin can.
Bonner is the northernmost Idaho
county. Its principal industries are
lumbering and near governors. A
bumper crop of the latter is promised
for the next two years, while there
is still enough timber standing to in
tsrest the United States assistant dis
trict attorneys and their retinue of
expense account experts. The prin-
eipal town is Standpoint. Not so much
sand there, either, excepting in the
.Taws of the plucky inhabitants who
are carving a city out of the woods
and connecting it up by trolley lines
with mines and mills.
One for ClagstOne.
There is plenty of good farming
land in Bonner, and there will be
more when Speaker Clagstone gets
over running for governor and puts
through his drainage project. That
may be next year.
"Kootenai is next. At all events,
the politicians up there think it is.
The resources are somewhat similar
to those of Bonner, barring govern
Ors Kootenai raises a double crop
Of state auditors, however, which
brings the balance to a level. No at
Tempt at invidious comparison is
meant when ! say that Occur d'Alene
Is one of the most picturesque and
active towns, not only in Kootenai,
out In any county of Idaho or any
other state. Nesting in the noun
talns, with lake at her feet and a
FERTILE plain at her back, she can
claim greater variety of substan-
aal resources than the average town.
numbering predOminates, but mining
and agriculture are always depend
aole-and, then, there's the tourists.
Shoshone, the home of peace
ometimes-and plenty, the produce.
Oh more lead than comes from any
OAer section = everybody knows
ABOUT that county industrially. With
all her mining activity and all her
evidence of prosperity, however, Sho-
saone is still as ominous as her deep
korges. We think of her with min
sea pride and pain, for there the
oaik Of Idaho's mineral wealth is
pfOdaeed, and there also, was TO-
Iented and carried on a bloody con-
spfacy' whose trail leads to a grave
uOWn In the Caldwell cemetery, where
aleeps martyr to the principle that
ue law must be supreme.
Latah, with her broad wheat
Aeids and her thriving towns, her
university, with its intermittent fuss
O'er appropriations; Nez Perez, with
1sf timber, her mines, her bank
sandals, her Schleischer wine farm,
-ef thompson lease, her marvellous
ssflealtural output; Idaho, also with
Asr mines, the home of the Florence
.usn' where the pioneer farmers
used rutabagas for miners gold
az chief Joseph's band raised the
= 'ners scalps for fun, where there
~ now broad prairies teeming with
Ups rooted in the skeletons of those
no fell 6ukt;-- = g.