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Show IDAHO'S MINERAL WEALTH. : The new stato of Idaho has an area of 8B,2U4 miles. As a producer of valuable val-uable metals she has a record of having yielded since 1803 about $158,000,000. Last year nearly $11,000,000 in gold and silver came out of her mines, and onu county alone produced $5,500,000 in lead. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, in speaking of the mineral wealth of Idaho, says: It Is no exaggeration to say that "gold in every rivulet flows" in the central part of Idaho. Wherever the prospector pros-pector has penetrated he has found "the color." The Salmon and Its branches drain tho north side of this "strong box In the mountains." On the east of It Is Wood river and on the south is t he Snake. In the gulches of a single tributary croek of the Salmon 110.000,000 lu gold have been washed out. In the Wood river valley there Is a mine loadlieurlng silver which has yielded M.DOO.OOO In seven years. As for the Suake.tliere Is gold In the sands of every mile of li s siuuo us leugth enough, as Idaho people are fond of saying, to pay the national debt. And yet only the borders ot the great treasure Held have been worked. "The largest ami least known scope of mineral min-eral country on the PaclHo slope," Is the way this undeveloped portion ot Idaho has hoeu de -scribed. Nearly In the center of it Is a groat plateau known as tho Cainas pralrlo. The name 1b taken from a nourlsldug root, a kind of wild prairie potatoe which grows in abundance. abun-dance. All about the Cainas prairie are the mountains over which a wagon has never passed. The Idaho delegate came to Washington Washing-ton several years ago with a proposition proposi-tion that the general government should authorise the territory to appropriate appro-priate W0.000 to construct a wagon road across this region. The ditllcultlesto be surmounted were admittedly beyond the people's means to overcome. This great barrier actually cnts ort northern Idaho from southern Idaho. There Is no intercommunication. When the Panhandle Panhan-dle senators and representatives go to Boise, the capital, tney make a long dxtour to the west throHRh Washington or Oregon. Or, If they prefer, travel eastward nearly halt way through Montuna. then southward through ' Idaho and westward again to Boise. Several years ago the Panhandle people despaired ot ever being neighborly with the rent ot Idaho. They got tip a movement move-ment to auuex themselves to Washington or Montana, they didn't care which. They came to congress with a memorial setting forth that nature hiid evidently never Intended the Panhandle Pan-handle to be a port of Idaho. A bill wga Introduced Intro-duced to chop up the whole territory and apportion ap-portion It out to Washington, Nevada, Utah aud Wyoming. But the territorial pride became be-came aroused. Since then statehood movement move-ment set In and there has been no more talk ot dlsmembermentl'aud annihilation of Idaho. As early as the sixties the gold-washers shimmed around the edges of the treasure Meld. Fabulous stories are told of what wis done along tho Salmon river. There are localities lo-calities where, by means of wing dams, as much as te.WO has been taken out in JM hours. The famous placers of Oro Ftno. Florence and the Salmon river are still worked to soma extent. ex-tent. But It is from 100 to iuO lulled to the base of supplies. Kverythlugmust be brought In ou pack animals, which travel ten miles a day. Freight. Is from five cents to llfteen cunts a pound. A mining country which can stand such disadvantages will be uu Kl Dorado when the railroads penetrate It, Idaho county. In which the Wild mountulnous regiou Ik chielly embraced, turned out triWOSU in gold dust last year. With railroad facilities, such as Colorado has got, there would be S0,ueo gold hunters where there are WXJO today In this single county, and the output would etartle the nation. It Is nothing uncommon to see quartz specimens from this region which go fcJUOO to the ton |