The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-07-30
MINERAL RESOURCES
OF MINERAL COUNTY
VALUABLE TIMBER AND RICH
FARM LAND PART OF ITS
NATURAL WEALTH.,

Next Saturday. August l. the peopl
of the proposed new county to b
called Mineral will vote on the ques
ton of its creation and at the sam
time select the first county officer
and designate the county seat. Will
the county is in Montana, from an in
dustrial and business standpoint it il
so closely related to the Occur dAlen,
district that lively interest is felt b,
the people on this side of the divide il
the outcome of the election. The fol.
lowing article from the Muscular
giving information about the proposed
new county. will therefore be read
with interest:
The People Rule.
AT an election to be held August /
next, those residing within the boun-
daries of the proposed new county of
Mineral, are to decide for themselves
the question of leaving home and
mother and of establishing a new gov
eminent, Of and for and by the people.
They will do this under the new state
law, without dictation or hindrance
from the rest of the parent county.
They will select a complete set of Of
fcers at this same election. They will
choose site, and later, must provide
a building, where these officers shall
hold forth and do theft bidding-the
same sort of bidding" probably, as
the officers of all other counties IN
Montana are doing.
Then when all this is accomplished,
Mineral county is going to have good
roads. AS to this, definite and detail
ed plans have been made already. In
addition to this no one seems to know
just what the policy Of Mineral coun-
ty will be as regards it's future. There
are many individual ideas, of course,
but they are as varied in their aims
as they are numerous. There is no
other definite thing besides good roads
upon which all seem to have agreed,
or, in fact, about which many have
given serious thought 1t is good roads
first-and after these will come all
good things in their natural course of
events.
Unanimous for New County.
Prelmnaries leading to the calling
of the special election August / have
been under way several months. They
VITA N HI c ia M
against the warm tide Of which oppo-
sition and criticism and adverse ad-
vice could make no impression.
The new county folks have stood
their various champions and have
shown a spirit of loyalty to the cause
of division that spelled success from
the beginning. Only the most serious
ruction over county seat honors-a
thing very mprobable--could stir up
adverse sentiment against the passage
Of the general division measure now.
The only opposition that the new
county folks encountered was in es-
tablishing the dividing line between |
Missoula and Mineral. At first this |
line was located to come far enough
west to take in Lothrop and the whole |
If the river AS it now stands in the |
amended petition for division the div
ding line starts at point where the |
western divide of Nine Mile creek in
he g.
aking a zig-zag course down the di-
tide to the Missoula river between
Alberton and Lothrop, leaving the
after town in Missoua county. The |
inc then follows the river few piles
vest and then runs due south midway |
between Petty creek and Fish creek
o the top of the Bitter Root range
nd then due west to the Idaho line
t the head Of Fish creek.
Boundaries Of County.
There are but two other boundary
ines of the new county. These do
lot give it distinctive form. The
sanders county line is the northern
order: the Idaho state line marks the
outhern limits. These two lines come
o sharp point at the west extrem-
~. Like an arrow head pointing due
orthwest but with it's northeast
boulder broken off at the Nine Mile
wide, Mineral county makes a unique
CURE on Montana's map.
1t is 80 miles long The longest
ne that could be drawn through from
orth to south would pass through the
louth of Fish creek. 1t would be !
bout 35 miles in length.
If Mineral was a flat county its APP
roximate area would be 1898 square s
niles or 702,720 acres. But when ma L
ure fashioned Mineral, she had not
cquired evidently, the art Of mould l
1g plains and valleys in the graceful
that appeals to the man
Tho makes mother earth yield him a
wing and assist in feeding his city
ousins. IL
This description by comparison
,ould seem to indicate that Mineral
as no farms This Is not the case,
recently Farmers Society of Equity {
yas organized at Superior with more /
han 80 members. each man being the s
wner and operator Of tract of land S
angling from 80 to several hundred L
ores, which is being intensively Git