New Britain herald., 1924-01-23
TIME HAS REALIZED
 COWS PROPHECY
Sixty Years Shows That ExeCu- tive Was Far Seeing Man

Lewiston, Idaho, Jan. aS.-sixty years ago the first governor of Idaho reviewed the 60 years that had pre- ceded him in the history of the United States, with particular refer ence to the Pacific Northwest, and made a prediction of what the suc- ceeding 50 years would bring.
 The review and prediction were made by William H. Wallace and de- liyered to the legislature of the newly created territory of Idaho. The ter torial capital was Lewiston, on the site of which, at the confluence of the Snake and Salmon rivers. Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark, officers in the United States army, sent west by President Jefferson, had camped in 1904.
 The address by Governor Wallace, in 1864, cast back over the three score years since white men first had seen the spot on which it was de- livered, and told what he believed the west might expect by 1924. With felicitations which might be quoted iioit diy CSlSl1OIllOuo duuftSS, IilS territorial executive, with the sigma ture of Abraham Lincoln hardly dry On his certificate of appointment, be- gan his talk.
 ''I congratulate you" he told the legislators, upon those indications of rapid and permanent growth with which we are surrounded.
 Sixty years ago little did President Jefferson dream of what this country would be today. and much less did he dream of what it will be 60 years hence"
 His listeners were handful of members of the upper and lower branches. Not all the eleetees were present. Representative of parts of the infant territory which now are Montana and Wyoming had been named by the voters, but to reach the legislative inaugural they had to choose between the trip over the backbone of the Continental Divide or a journey from Virginia City and Bannack to Salt Lake City. west to San Francisco. north along the coast to the Columbia and up it and the Snake river to Lewiston.
 With this difficulty of travel in mind, the new governor made this predictions: "T'he child is born who shall see railroads and telegraphs con- meeting our great centers of trade with the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; who shall not only see the inexhausti- ble mineral wealth of this country developed, but shall see the trade of Asia turned from its ancient chan nels and the road across this conti- nent become the great highway of travel.
 He shall see the states of the Pa cific rival those of the Atlantic sea- board in population and wealth: he shall see a city located on the west orn side of the continent by the pa- cific ocean surpassing in trade and magnhcence ancient Tyre when she sakss queen and her merchants were princes. and cities in the interior sur- passing Palmyra and Perscpolis in i the days of their glory.
 "He shall see the capital of the | nation removed to the valley of Mis- I sissippi. not four days journey from | either ocean. Then shall the popula- | ton Of the mountain states be count i ed by the tens of millions and Idaho | shall be one of the first of states"
 Remarkable was the accuracy Of ] the vision of Governor Wallace in I view of the fact that Lewiston, vir- I tually the only settlement in the im- fl mense territory, which was then | Idaho. excluding placer camps of the | mountains, had itself come into | being merely as a trading post | through which were handled the sup- II plies Of tho gold seekers.
 Governor Wallace considered him. II self an old resident of the coast re- \ zion. He had, after serving in the \ Iowa legislature and holding federal | office as receiver Of public moneys in II Iowa. traveled west 10 California and \ north in 1853 to the settlements of Puget Sound.
 Tn the Indian wars of the fifties he \ had raised company and command cd it in campaigns in the Puyallup and Snoqualmie valleys while young Lieutenant Philip Sheridan was punishing the redskins on the Eaches and the Yakima. In 1861 a vacancy II had occurred in the governorship of Washington territory and Wallace II had been named to the place by II President Lincoln. His tenure was short, however, as he resigned to seek place as Washington's delegate to congress. When governor of Idaho he followed similar course, and had hardly completed his hopeful account of the glories he foresaw for Idaho before he resigned as executive to Il wage a successful campaign for 1daho's delegateship to the national capital. Governor Wallace was 52 years old H when he made his sixty-year review and sixty-year prediction. He was ss when he died, after living 10 see the beginning Of the railroads and tele- graphs, the commerce from Asia and Il the growth of the cities he had | prophesied.
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