The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-12-12
THE BEAUTIES OF IDAHO.
Speech Delivered by J. J. Pulse ir
Richmond, Va.

The following is clipping taken
from one of the Richmond, Va, papers
and referred to a speech delivered in
that city by J. j. Pulse, who represent
ed the Idaho druggists at their meet
ing held in that city. In it he tells of
the wonders of the Gem State in rath-
er flowery language:
Lift all of New England and New
York bodily mile above the level of
the sea, add 5000 feet to Mount Wash
ington and 1000 to Mount Mitchell;
throw in dozens of peaks just as high,
all punching holes in the sky with
their snowy peaks; pile up everywhere
hundreds on hundreds of mountains
from 10000 to $4,000 feet high; exag-
gerated 5O-fold all the wild notches.
gorges and glens of eastern America
and multiply them by scores; send
cataracts and cascades leaping and
roaming down thousand dizzy preci-
plces and channels; toss in promiscu-
ously parks larger than whole states
in the small mentioned east and gar
dens Of small area.
statutes of gods, genni, gnomes,
titan centaurs and unnamed monsters
thousands of feet high, hewn by ages
on ages of wind and wriling waters
cap all mountains with everlasting ice
and snow and clothe their shaggy sides
with waving forests Of valuable tim
Der; fill all the valleys to the noun
taln's feet with orchards and gardens
vineyards and grain fields bending be-
meath the fruitage, and dot the hori-
zon bounded by pasture lands with
f1ocks and herds waist deep in the very
WantonneSs of plenty.
"Underlay the whole vast area with
gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc and iron
ores; marble Of a hundred hues, an
thraclte, bituminous and Ignite coal !;
salt, sulphur, soda, lime, asphaltum,
gypsum, and nearly every other min
eral and metal in human use.
Through countless, wondrous can
| yons pour mighty rivers with water
power enough to run all the world S
machinery. Smite the rock-ribbed la
boratories of Omnipotence and let the
healing goods gush forth rich in mir
acle healing virtues for the alienation
| of many of the ills that flesh is her to-
In the whole transcendent scene
are 25,000 miles of mysterious noun
tains in whose rock walls lie enough
wealth to pay all the national debts of
the world and leave a fortune for
every man, woman and child from
Cape Cod to Yuba Dam. Over all is
spread climate whose glory is un-
surpassed under heaven since sin and
death crept into Eden, with the trans
lucent splendor of skies their crystal
arches above the far-famed Bay of
Naples or the sheet of water known as
Williams Lake, on whose shores lie the
ranch of that glib-tongued bunco-
steerer Of the range and you have a
poor, puny idea of Idaho.
ut is where mountains of gold and
silver ore wall in valleys that yield
from SO to so bushels of wheat, rs to
100 bushels of oats and 500 10 900
bushels of potatoes to the acre
1T is land where every man makes
his own rain, and crops never fail
Where rewards of industry are as sure
as the degrees of God, where wonder
treads on beauty's heels and riches
run to meet the earnest seeker. It's
| recources are as boundless as it's lim-
| its and as varied as it's sunsets in pris-
matis splendors. Such is Idaho, the
Gem of the Mountains"