The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-03-17

rbe SDOrtsman's Paradise Will Some
DAY Be Greatest Mining Country in
the WOrld-WOnderfuI Possibilities
Of This Wonderful Part of Idaho
Graphically Told.
Dir J. c. Leonard of Salmon City
has in Caldwell Wednesday making
arrangements for lecture he will de
.ver in the city hall SATURDAY evening.
Dr. Leonard is one OF tie live wires
Il the state of Idaho. He is / lee
1rer, promoter, cartoonisl, politician,
Musician to the body ami soul, publ
cist, traveller, geologist and many
sther things too numerous to men,
+ on There are two things that Dr.
leonard is not. He is not prohibi-
honst and he is not a socialist, and
ge would advise you to accuse him of
either. He has fought Indians,
tudied geology, travelled extensively,
lied to get into the Idaho legislature,
Z we'd y years and done many other
! ings requiring courage of high
rider,
4 While in Caldewll Dr. Lenoard
allied to pay his respects to the press
nd particularly to the Tribune. He
Blew in the first time Saturday after
boon. We heard him coming. 1t
Gems that upon leaving the car the
octor took up with c. w. Cooper
lnd they argued the question of So
lialism up to the The Tribune door,
|he argument increasing in vehem-
lnce until the doctor entered the Of
! ce
care you the rabbi OF the sanhedrin,
Ehe high-cock-alorum, the Juwhang-
Ihangti of the joss-house? am the ia
nous or notorious Doc Leonard, au-
Thor of the Obituary of a Mule, pub
from ocean to ocean and across the
SGa. | have just given our friend
Cooper a drubbing on socialism,"
WAS the salutation with which DR..
Leonard greeted us. 81 have moth
ing to sell and won't bother you
Iong Keep quiet | will do the
Ealking have miles of talk. | can
firing it out by the day in the pulpit
pr on the platform. am lecturer
pnd | tried to get into the Idaho leg
Stature, but my friend Frost of Sal
non City thought otherwise and here
am as chiper as a squirrel and u
FEARS old. | thought perhaps the peo-
pie of Caldwell would like to hear
ply lecture founded on science, seas
pned with wit and highly garnished
Clth the dreams of lively fancy. /
Pm the duck who delivers the goods.
ne mayor permitting, I will deliv-
lr my lecture on "The Birth of Our
Earth" together with geological rec
prds at the city hall Saturday even
ng, 70 keep out children and lame
ucks mentally, I shall charge an ad-
nission fee of rs cents. Kindly tell
PIE people about the lecture.
i have travelled this country over
pom stem to stern. | have studied
zoology both by book and by observ-
lion, | stampeded over the west
ears before most of you were born.
perebrate these facts a few minutes. !"
Dr. Leonard recently wrote an arti-
le on the Stanley Lake country
moving the mineral resources of that
district, Below will be found the ar
pcle IN question as published by the
Polse Statesman.
In the picture of Stanley Lake,
ormed by glacial action, you will no
ice the canyon out of which the gla-
Flcr travelled, driving a morain, at the
Ilght of the picture, about 400 feet
PlSh and three or four miles long,
'0'n'hg the glacier to the right, where
melted, leaving the lake one and
'h'-hatt miles long, three quarters Of
mile wide, and 400 feet deep. The
.'ne was when the earth was from
''o'o to 1000 feet higher than it Is
low. That meant perpetual ice and
now. Glacier travel at the rate Of
rom one inch or less to six feet a
Jay The immense weight picks up
r'at rocks as large as house and
.n's ont the canyon These are called
N1lnre's engraving toosls.
The Sawtooth range is mostly of
I'anlte formation, The movment of
ne glaciers worked out the softer
'ronnd, leaving those massive granite
''aNS standing, some of them $4,000
''' above sea level. The picture
.o2ws the north end of the range,
ook'ng south, where for forty miles
n'se granite peaks at short intervals
','nd out as sentinels, giving the
granger an occular demonstration of