Show I IDAlfO ADVANCEMENT9 The year 1P01 closes with Idaho maintaining the remarkable ratio of growth In population that she has established es-tablished and it is even probable that the ratio has been exceeded Certainly In the Snake river valley from the southwest corner of the Yellowstone J National park to where the river forma the boundary of Oregon there has been a greater growth than ever before In this region the number of acres of arid land that have been reclaimed in the past year and planted to orchards and other agricultural products has never been exceeded anywhere In a similar period Idaho IB thc youngest of all the States In the point of Industrial development de-velopment but Is today the leader In a majority of the products that const tute the wealth of the West She Is the greatest producer of lead In America ca and her output of lead this year while 10 or 15 per cent less than in 1000 owing to the smelting combine and not because of the conditions of the mines It Is still practically 5 per ctJit of the entire lead ore output of the TJnlted States The year too Is witnessing wit-nessing an adjustment on humane lines ot the labor troubles that have troubled the Coeur dAlenes for so many years andtoday there Is no distinction made hit we < n union and nonunion miners f except In Isolated cases In fruit cul lure Idaho leads the Union In quality while In quantity whe Is rapidly becomIng becom-Ing a competitor of Oregon and In I somi Sines 0 California In the number num-ber of sheep and in the annual wool dip she Is excelled only by Montana n Jd her cattle shipments are almost as IrN1 The State Is Just now receiving in ore attention than any oth < r part ort the or-t West from immigrantP and as she has nor arid landyancl more considerable J consider-able rtreams of water that can be used for Irrigation than any other mountain moun-tain State the rapid reclamation of her soil and developsic l of agricultural I interests are assured Tn the maLe of Irrigation she now lends the world and not only the mighty Snake liver and Its tributaries but the waters of the Bear river belonging to the Ureat Salt Lake basin are being taken out and convoyed to the arid anseccvored I plains In rallmm building this has been an active year althouch tln most notable piece of new construction is j the Salmon Sal-mon river rallroiul built by the Oregon hort Line In the western part o the State the Pacific Idaho Northern reached the region of the Seven Devils country but owing to financial dlfli cuUica work was temporarily sus 1 pQnded Thi Boise Nampa Owyhee I rVillioad made somp further extensions nto C I Owyhee Olrtvand ror fr ir = IThe The mineral development of the State frr the year points out n sountlonal period pe-riod for the coming year In the Coeur IAlenes It Is estimated that 600000 vere Intelligently expended In pros ccllng and the result of this expendl uro could probably not be purchased for twelve times the amount In the region of Mackay the present terminus ter-minus of the Salmon river railroad roinlses to develop 1 copper region that will rival Butte In the central and least known portion of the Slate he riches of Thunder mountain have been exposed and the quantities and values have created an excitement that hut nexer been exceeded except In the cast of Cripple Creek And even this is regarded as hut an Index of what vlll he exposed In mineral riches during dur-ing the coming year To add to the other riches of the young State the summer witnessed the discovery of oil at various points notably In Oxvyhoe count and the development of these deposits If now under way with good promise The year closes most favorably for Idaho and other promises to place her veil up toward the head In the production produc-tion of fruits cereals 1101 cattle gold and copper as she IH now the leader In cad < THE COEUR DALENE lIINES All the leading Coeur dAlene mining ompanles arc close corporations and there are no figures obtainable as to their annual output this early they liclng secured as an aggregate from other sources after the beginning of next year but IL Is certain that the production has been less than that of last year the banner year lt the history his-tory of the camp the reduction probably prob-ably being between 10 and 15 per cent The first half of the year admittedly hhowctl an Increase In ore shipments but owing to the agreement with the femelteiH there was a decided falling c during the latter half of the year when an agreed reduction of from 23 to 3 per cent was made In accordance accord-ance with that agreement the 1Ifo4a and Frisco were closed down entirely the Mammoth reduced Its force during most of the time BO that the concentrator concentra-tor was only run one shift and the felgerPoornmn at Burke was similarly treated The Bunker Hill and Sullivan which will show Jn tho only company 1 mil Increase for the year It smelting Ha fewn trust ores Independently of the lead In WOO there was a gradual Increase in the force of men working In tbo lllferent mine until at thc end o the year there was the largest force ever mployed at one time 2300 In the ship Iplng mines 1 besides 600 to COO more In mo w ts In various stages of rievel plclrt This year there linn been a gradiThl l reduction in all except the two rrad mllen n Wnrdner the other mine hawing I total loss In working force f SW while those two have an In ftasc of 100 leaving a present fore > of approximately 1COO In addition to hce there are about 0 men working fn various prospects and on develop Imont work In minus which are not shipping which number has not varied Rrcatly during thfr year although I la S Ifirobably now slightly greater thtin at any previous time In the history of the RJoour dAlent8 These men are work WnK at the standard wages of WW pr play although In n few CS those vorklns for the newer incorporatwd t companies are receiving part of their I ay in stock The above lltfurofl arc for thenllver 4 imad and copper belts alone In aildl t Ton to which thero r wme 200 men tgprking In what is I locally known an 1 he uglh belt drained by Prichanl uvl Beaver creeks and their hrmmne Inituiv of whom are In led poo peril us rjjhe nutnb working there IH now at its minimum na winter has put R mop 4 tb all 1 placer work and during the rim I 4 of xvnter last spring the number on 1 That side of the mountain wag Jioarly Rbuble what It now K I II Adding the limber tatters fr > > Khlfr Kwvckera and others directly dependent 4I I e unnr the mines and drawing their pay directly r from the mining companies and the total Is but little short of 3000 I with a dally payroll of 10000 running through 350 days of the year Beginning on the 1st of December limo the Bunker Hill and Sullivan 1O Lw Empire StateIdaho Standard Mammoth I Mam-moth Burtalo Hump since told to the Empire StateIdaho Frisco Consol dated Morning Hunter and two or three minor companies jollied In an agreement to hire no more men at the mines but to secure all that were needed through central agencies at Wallace and Vardner it being no secret se-cret that this was simply another way to secure the same results as those at tamed by the permit system then apparently about to he abolished by the discontinuance of martial law and for a long time no union men were knowingly employed The Wallace agent was the ame man who had been the agent of the State In the issuance issu-ance of permits and the friends of the Miners union were even more bitterly opposed to the new system than they had been to the permit system Gradually however the distinctions made abandoned which had been were and now there are many union men at work in all the properties and no man is refused employment because he Is a union man except In capes of prominent promi-nent agitators or whet 9 man Is under suspicion of having been concerned In I the riots of 1S99 This has had the I effect of quieting the old animosity and I at the same time making the unions less sme lme rabid as any outspoken threats of violence I I vio-lence usually lead to a mans discharge dis-charge and once discharged for such cause he will not again he employed I While some of the new men Join the unions the larger part of them do not I r 8 I I k I 4 t D4e I I I Gov Hunt of Idaho n thc test obtainable etlirate being that of the 1 intn from Joplln not more than onetenth hi ve cone so nnd a majority major-ity of those < who have joined severed their connection wIth thr organization later The development work of thc year rcprjoscnts an expenditure ofGOOOOO t 11 I rfAfiVlir I all for lA irs iinri Ituhnn 1 nrftVAM J t n 1 t 1 I Dltlbuted otc over one UfhUl1 different companies In many cases the I work of the year failed to carry them tolL point where there was any hope of I reward and they arc still looking to time future with as much hope as over but the number of strikes has been equal to any previous year since the I touer dAlene silverlead mines were opened First among them and standing I xvlihout a peer in the history of silver lead mining iSthie Hercules A cora I cor-a G the claims include In that group I life considered by their oxvncrs to be orth JOG to 12000 l and small In I tcivsjs voie sold about the beginning I of the year on thai basl Since the 1 iMsrovory of the ore in Its last June an offer ol SVioOOOOO has been made for It but so lightly did the owners regard It that they declined separately to get together and consult regarding Us acceptance ac-ceptance Some difficulty was experienced experi-enced In finding 1 market for the ore but shipments are now being made I regularly averaging alout two carloads car-loads of crude ore per xxxok all of which comes oul of development work Owing to lack of shipping facllllies Us shipments xvlll contInue light for along I a-long time to como but with a railroad where the ore could be dumped onto the cars tlu properly Is now developed to a stage Where It could ship twenty five carloads of twenty tons each dally while Its ore xvlll yield a not profit of from 100 to 200 per ton This discovery discov-ery alone has added fully three times the cost of the years development work to the xvealth of the district Next In apparent value among the silverload discoveries was the Humming Hum-ming Bird Hi stock of which on a capitalization of lOOOOO shares had a I nominal quotation of 2 cents per share at the beginning of the year Its capital cap-ital stock was raised to 1500000 shares and then nftor Its midsummer discovery discov-ery J Us stuck was eagerly sought after at 15 oentn or better so that 1 paid onethird of the cost of the years dev de-v < lopment In the whole district The Douglar group on Pine creek xvest from W irilrer was discovered a I little over a year ago and about the beginning of the year It was bonded loSt lo-St Paul men for SOOOO Work done I since that time has wnn anted them in taking up their bond and It Is now held prlr at several times the purchase r There hive been numerous cases xvhore strikes ilave been made In lead properties which have advanced the quotatlotw on their slacks to an aggregate ag-gregate of from 10000 to 75000 each and It Is doubtful if the results obtained ob-tained by the expenditure of 500000 could b purchused for less than ten times that sum But gi eater even than these perhaps haw been the practical opening of anew a-new district bearing copper and gold In i the midst of n region popularly supposed sup-posed to carry only silver and kitd l Thin district lies south and east from Mullnn sad has been known for years unc to carry Indications of copper and development de-velopment ork has shown good copt cop-t or In small amountfc In different plnce but not until this year was anything shown which attracted anymore any-more than loral l Interest The Snow Storm was the leader In the new movement and still stands at the head of thE copper properties in that region I was first located about 1 dozen years ago anti t shaft sixty live Celt sunk on I copper ore being found al thc way down from the very surface Lalor It was abandoiled nnd lnt year It was relocated and n corn puny Incorporated to work It Among the Incorporates was the assayer of the Morning mine und he Immediately ban Investigating the quality of the ore taken from the almndoned shaft The result of his Lent was the shipment ship-ment of R carload of It which yielded 421 per ton above the freight and mel Ur chHrgerf Tts principal VHlufia were In copper although 1o carried sorh < jsold and silver That ahlilment WAS made In March and work wzs Immediately Imme-diately commenced on 0 tunnel to nil In ledge over 100 feet l below the bottom bot-tom of the hArt That point was reached in M IB y und iv i shipment o are from there gav 28 per ton jt showIng show-Ing an Increase both In gold and copper over that from the shaft Then still inother tunnel w as nrtnl to cut WO I I rlt ionr yet MIl when the ore chute I qUI cut in that It become the wonder of the vicinity For a distance of thir tyfive feet between the walls of the Icfdge was found a solid body of ore very uniform In quality carrying from 6 to 7 per cent copper and from 3 toper 4 to-per ton In gold The ore la chloride and pronounced by experts as an Ideal ore for a leaching process and the company is now negotiating with parties par-ties for a leaching plant the agreement being practically made If the body or ore is found to continue for any distance dis-tance Thus far drifting has shown the chute lo be over 200 feet long on hat level while In the upper tunnel a still longer drift was run without finding the western extremity of It In this drifting some extremely rich ore has been found but the great mass of It is very similar to that found where the chute was first crosscut That discovery gave a great stimulus to the copper bell and a number of Companies which had been working in 0 perfunctory sort of a way for a year or two began to work in dead earnest while several new ones have been organized or-ganized and started development work on an extensive scale results l so far being be-ing very encouraging Thus while the district has been seri cushy affected during the year by an overstocked lead market Us product reduced onefifth from that expected at the opening of the year while wages paid during the year were 500000 less than was estImated a year ago and even amounting to less than those for the year before It has been shown that there are still great stores of wealth awaiting discovery showing sufficiently ciently strong to attract a great deal of foreign capital there Is a general feeling that not only is the Coeur dAlene distrIct to remain the chief leadproducing district of the world but that It will very probably soon become known as an extensive producer pro-ducer of copper and gold I POCATEILO I The beginning of the year finds Poca lello the fastest growing town In the Northwest still remote from the public pub-lic domain and surrounded by a belt of Indian lands twenlyfour miles wide While the date when they will be opened for the use of white men is Infinitely ncarer the impatience at the few weeks that must yet remain Is more Intense than ever That those lands will be opened shortly or at least that thc Presidents proclamation will be Issued early in the year there seems to be no reason to doubt The I surveys of the eded lands have been I made nnd approved The classlflcntion into agricultural and grazing there Is no note taken of the mineral lands has been completed and submitted to the Interior department The allot m nts to such Indians as elect to remain re-main on tho portion ceded are made I and approved All the details preparatory prepara-tory lo the opening as disposed of and i the mailer Is now up to the executive branch of the Government If any causes exist why the 118000 acres of icdcd lands should not be available to occupancy by March 1 1902 they are not known outside of the departments at Washington During the year Just ended the city a an immediate result of the rapid development nt of Idaho and the material resources of tho territory fed by the Oregon Short Line railroad and with the opening of the Indian lands an assurance as-surance has fully justified the most ardent expectations of those who have rif r t I I i h l n I servatlve estimates place the increa tIn t-in population at 30 per cent since the census of June 100C This Increase Is I primarily due to the phenomenal Increase In-crease of the traffic of the Oregon Short I Line necessitating the employment of more men but It is also due to the centralzlnt here of numerous enterprises I enter-prises which have their actual field of operation In some of the surrounding territory that Is naturally tributary to Pocatello In the year ended there have been 110 dwellings constructed yet there Is not a house In the own to be rented Several business blocks have been erected and a number of fine ones are projected notably a block to be built by the Masonic fraternity a business block with ninety feel front now being built by LicuUGov Terrell a brewery with a dally capacity of fifty barrels now about completed by Franklin Hayes Fllegner In public pub-lic buildings an addition to the WestSide West-Side schoolhouse has been completed I of native stone al a cost of UOOO Ole Bannock counts courthouse costing 20000 is now receiving the roof and the foundation for the Academy of Idaho a State institution of learning provided for by the lasl Legislalure is Jusl beginning This structure will I cost 200000 when completed Another I building completed in the year Is the I Auditorium Pocatellos playhouse which has a seating capacity of flpO and plays the companies on the Northwest I North-west circuit The mater of dxxelllnghouses alone I Indicates better lhan anything else the growth of the populalion I Is i greater than the building in thIs gloss j In the three years previous The addi ilion i I-lion to the public schools was a necessity I i neces-sity due to thc abnormal juvenile pop illation hut It scarcely relieved the situation sit-uation and the school board is now arranging for a further Issue of bonds for the erection of more buildings The I i present public school property of Pocatello Po-catello has a valuation of 50000 I I Pocatello camo Into existence as a j I railroad town and it is to the railroad I that i still looks for the means of sup j i port The enormous Iraffie of the Oregon I Ore-gon Short Line has afforded a heaxy increase in the payroll which noxv amount to 100000 per month on tho Idaho and Montana divisions and tile i i I shops Sixtyfive per cent of this sum I Is I disbursed In Pocatello and consld enable of the remainder gravitates I here Such a money supply can have I only a good effect on business and all businesses are flourishing The Increase I In-crease of locomotives and ot loomothes cars incident to the Increase of traffic on the line has I necessitated the construction of an entIre I en-tIre nexv and modern shop plant The I contract for these has Just been closed The plant when completed xvlll cost 1 about 850000 and the Installation ot the electrical apparatus alone Is lo j I I cost SfiOOOO t The I OoO new plant comprises In addition to ten additional stalls to the present roundhouse a main shop I building 150x480 feet and separated from his by a transfer table xvlll be another l building 4SO feet IonS This Is the shop for overhauling passenger I cars and it will hold forty such cars nt one time There xxlll be sexerwl hundred feet of covered tracks for the repair of freight cam a separate HI1ulat shop for woodworking machinery a cabinet and pattern shop and n foundry with sufficient capacity to furnish castings for the entire road The main shop will be fitted xvlth four electrical cranes on travelers having a lifting capacity of ten fifteen txxontyMve and 100 tons respectively When finished the new plant will be as complete as n any In the country and xvlth It In operation ope-ration the Short Line can follow up Its work of building Iti on locomotives I and Lir8 a work that even with the present Inadequate facilities It has been pursuing with remarkable sucCess for the past year and n half Though still remote from any part ot the public domnln Pocatello Is an Important llxestock point and during the year Ut local yardi handled 215S6 horses 16S07 cuttle 208 sheep IiI hogs mtnd 127 niule With the approaching ap-proaching opening of the reservation I xxJll be the greatest point in Idaho for tio hll ntcr live stock and wool Internal Improvements to kedp pace with the growth of the city arc now engaging en-gaging much attention The valet supply during the post yeai was inadequate In-adequate nnd to meat the rowth another an-other mountain river has been appro priated and tbe headline extended to it several miles distant This work included in-cluded a strong restraining dam and the expenditures this season for an Increased xvater supply Amount to 70 000 The year 1002 xvlll witness an ox tension of mains In thc city at a cost of about the same us has been expended expend-ed In securing the additional water An Index to the Volume of business in Popalello in shown by tho fact that jsyth a population of but a little over five thousand the postoffice did 1 business busi-ness of over IOK50 for the fiscal year ending Marh 31 1901 This entitles the town to a red 1cry system and In accordance with Instructions from the Postal department the streets have been named under a comprehensive system and all houses and business places have been numbered Thc free delivery will be inaugurated at an early ear-ly l date The local telephone exchange has 113 instruments An enlerprlse that will have much to do toward the ultimate growth of Pocatello and thc development of the surrounding country Is the generating of electric energy at American Falls on the Snake river txventylxvo miles distant During the past year Ixxo companies have been organised to produce pro-duce power at this point with Pocatello Poca-tello as tile objective field Both have their work at the rixer under way and both have secured franchises from the city of Pocatello One Is the Amen icap Falls Power Light and Water company o which JH Brady Is president This companys generating plant Is I on an island in the middle of the i Snake river al American Falls andjthe work of erectingthc pole line to b lng power to Pocatello Is now under un-der way The company is incorporated unde the laws of Idaho and Its principal prin-cipal stockholders after Mr Brady are Judge Standrod and a number of other caho capitalists The other company Is the American Falls Water Power company of which W St Chapman of Chicago Is president presi-dent and F A Bridge vicepresident Including a large hotel While the town is prospering I and assuming permanency manenc itls all manency sllll prohibition and al its saloon business Is done at thc old town of Houston three and a half miles distant I is not the intention of the Oregon Short Line to stay at Mackay though thc freight earnings of the ncW point arc something enormous Tho extension exten-sion of the Salmon River railroad has already been projected to the headwaters head-waters of the Big Lost river and over the low divide to the Salmon river reaching Challls and so down the Salmon Sal-mon to Salmon City That the developments de-velopments in the central portion of the State during thc last two months of 1901 xvill necessitate a change from or at least an addition to the railroad companys plans for extension is a certainty The Important gold discoveries dis-coveries In the Thunder mountain region Indicate that in the Interior of Idaho is one of the richest mineral deposits ever found A mountain of loxvgrade gold ore carrying a streak four feet wide of the most sqnsatlonal values has beon discovered dis-covered and the Oregon Short Line proposes to put this region in touch with the world Accordingly while the Salmon River railroad may continue down the Salmon river to Salmon City and so weslward It Is now almosl assured that a branch xvlll be run from Clayton over to Bonanza and Custer and northwesterly from there to the Thunder niountaln region This line would pierce a part of the American continent of which but lIttle is known and that little is confined to a few prospeclors not thc most communicative communica-tive class in the world I is to be expected I ex-pected that the year 1902 Avlll see mineral discoveries In this region that will equal tho Cripple Creek district in Colorado The Upper Snnko River Valley Idaho has more arid land than any other Intermountain State It also has 1 iJ I I Th 1 = 1 = F fl uIiL I S I g p c itulillO N 5S z714 Mr John A Tupper of Pocatello is resident manager for tile company Us plant Is being installed on tie east shore of the Snake river at American Falls where Jl haconstructed a race x > uy and xvlng dam rnlo the river GOre GO-re and fifty feet wide By a natural gorge Inthe lava Ithas secured head 1g 0 forty feet and under tills xvlll be placed to turbines to generate 1500 horsepower So far as Pocatello Is concerned both companies are placed on an equal l foot Ins url the tact that there can be no monopoly Is regarded as the best assurance as-surance that the city xxill have a plentiful plen-tiful supply of cheap electric power That tills will induce the establIshment establIsh-ment of manufactures and various industries an arous dustries there can be no doubt THE SALMON RIVER RAILROAD The most Important piece of railroad construction In Idaho since the first railroads crossed the State from south to north and from easl to west Is the building of the Salmon lllver railroad from Black Coot to the new town of Mackay This new feeder to tile Oregon Ore-gon Short Line by I which it was con slructed is eightysix miles in length and Us construction made n record in modern railroad building I was on April 21th thai the first shoxelful of djrl was thrown and on September 30th the last spike was driven at the town of Mackay This too with a modern railway brldgQ to throw over the turbulent Snake river at a season when high waters made the work not only dllllcult but dangerous This line crosses about fifty miles of halls still desert though It is the same sage covered land that l the rich farms of the coerec Snake river Yale were cieated out of and with the construction of n few more irrigating plants xvlll produce the ijame crops in the same abundance I Is here that thousands of cattle and sheep are grazed tho year around and It is notable lhat the first consignment over the new line was a bunch of 1500 head of beef calllc that had been cale rounded up and was waIting three weeks for the completion of the railroad I rail-road This was Immediately folloxved I j by l a heavy shipment of sheep Altir striking the big Lost river the I I road advances thirtysix nillus Inlo the mountains that guard the heart of I Idaho and at the new town of Mackay It now has Its terminus While the road was projected to reach the Salmon Sal-mon river and pierce the heart of Idaho Its construction was undertaken to furnish an outlet for the remarkable ttrnlsh copper deposits In the vicinity of Mae kay Here the White Knob Copper company has one of the most extensive exten-sive enterprises in the West underway under-way The vein is one of the biggest rich copper veins ever discovered and gives every promise of permanency To wont its ores the company is erecting erect-ing n smelter of 600 tons dally capacity I I and no plant so complete In Its de i tails or s permanent in the character i I of Its construction has ever been I erected In thc West To connect mine I Ireclet with the smelter an electric railroad eleven miles In length Js being constructed con-structed This White Knob mine has I been a producer since ISSt but the ex pease of n long wagon haul for its on > sand s-and then a railroad haul to the smelters rendered the operating of It a problem About three years ago thc I present oxvners gained possession and after two car of development during which not a pound of ore was sold I they had sufficient showing to justify the building of the railroad and the extensive works they now have in hand The smelter alone Is to cost 1400000 The town of Mackay on September SOth had two frame shacks One was occupied by i Mr N H Clark the attorney at-torney for the White Knob Copper company thc piher by a newspaper he Mackay Telegraph I started out and > hopes to continue n dry lOW1 but 1 Is pnjoylng a boom that never theliiSH penr to be I substantial Wh6n the town was laid out lots were sold for H5 each Today the same lots are o eriy sought at 1000 and I very few sales are being made 1 thai 1 figure The day of the frame shacks xxra short and today there arc numerous numer-ous fine brick buildings being erected more water with which to reclaim these lands than any other State and In no part of Idaho Is the truth of this statement better shown than In the upper Snake River valley lhat portion lying between the southwest corner of core the Yellowstone National park and whet tire valley begins to narrow to xvarcl Shashone Falls A history of this section xxould be an epitome on Irrigation I is the part of Idaho that was first seen and conclomed by white men as a place unfit for thc human race to exist In Fifteen years ago there aso was not a farm or an orchard in the whole length and breadth of the val ley and it had but two towns neither of which had the remotest connection with the agriculture Its sagebrush plains were the embodiment of barrenness barren-ness In the Ignorance of lhat period The great Snake rlxer the greatest of all the Rocky mountain rivers flowed through the valley but none thought to use Its I waters nor did any believe that the soil would produce even If Irrigated The change Is like a trasformatlon In the Snake River valley the simple science of irrigation has advanced to proportions attained nowhere else on the American continent Where fifteen years ago a wagon load of farm pro ducts could not have been obtained in the entire valley today the exports or wheat barlej potatoes etc amount to tens of thousands of carloads annually nually There are today 600 miles of Irrigating canals and laterals in 0 vale and forty town of the first and second class form centers of communl tics whose everyInterest Is In agriculture agricul-ture And with II all not onefifth of the lands of the valley have been reclaimed and the water supply of the mighty Snake river has scarcely been drawn upon The work of the last fourteen four-teen years can only bo regarded as n demonstration of what may bo done and when the Snake river waters are all taken out on to the adjacent lands there xxlll he a million people In the Snake be crowded River valley and they xvlll not |