| Show I PIONEER FOI FORE FORE- I TOLD FUTURE I Idaho Governor Predicted Development of West 60 Years Ago LEWISTON VISTON Idaho rob Feb 2 2 W P A Sixty years ago the gov governor gov- gov 01 nor ot or Idaho reviewed the Cu Gu eais that had preceded him In n the tho history of oC the tho United States with reference to the Pacific and made a n prediction or Dr what hat the succeeding 60 GO ears eare would bring brin The te Tt review low and prediction were I male made by William H 11 Wallace and dell ered to the tha legislature of or the tho newly Dowly created of ot Idaho The rho territorial capital was va 1 Le ton Lewis 10 ton on the tho eldo el Jo of or v at the confluence of ot the tha Snake An and l SalmOn Sal Salmon mon rh ers Captain j Lewis Lewie and Lieutenant William Clark officers In the United statu army sont west by PI Jet Jef Jefferson ferson had camped In 1804 ISO Tho address by Governor Go Wal lace lace ace In 18 1864 U back 0 over ocr er the thO score ecore years since sinco I white chIte men iret t had seen the pot ept on whIch It it was as ae delivered and toll what ho belle Cd tho the west ost might mig expect In 1924 1024 With felicitations might bo be quoted groin from On cere ceremonious cere- cere address addres the territorial executive with the signature ot of Lincoln hardly dry on hIs hie certificate of ot appointment be- be began began be began gan his ble hl talk RECALLS R ACT PASTI AST I 1 congratulate you he told the legislators upon those Indications ot of the rapid and permanent perm growth with which we wo ar are ara l lJur- lJur rounded sur-rounded rounded Sixty Sitty years ago little did President dent Jefferson dream of oC what hat this country would be toda today and much much muchas loBe loes as did ho he dream Of ot what It wilt will willbo willbo bo be 60 years hence HI Ilia listen en were ere a Do handful ot of oC tho the upper and lower branches Not all tho the l ere present Representatives ot of parts of the tho Infant territory which now are aro Montana and had been named by th but to reach the legislative e 0 Inaugural Inaugural ural they thoy had to between the trip over the backbone of ot the tho continental Divide or a journey from Virginia City and to baIt Lake City west to lan l'an Francisco north along the coast to 10 the Columbia and up It and nd the Snake rl er to Lewiston With this difficulty oC o travel In mind the now new made Tho Tho child Is h q born who see lee railroads and telegraphs connecting our great treat t centers ot 01 trado with the Atlantic and Pad Paci Pacific tic fic oceans ocean who shall not only cee 00 the Inexhaustible mineral wealth ot of this country developed dc but shall ahall I lion BOO the trade of oC Ala Aln turned from Its ancient channels end and the h road I this flue continent become the tho I great high highway WilY of travel j PREDICTS IRI He Ha lie shall see Bee the elate of ot thIS the t rh rival at those of ot the tho AtlantiC seaboard In population and wealth j I I he e a cIty on nn side cide of the continent byth by bythe the Pacific ocean In trade and magnificence ancient I Tyre when she elm sat eat as eli queen and nd her merchants merchante were princes and In tn the Interior andI I Palmyra and In the theda da dae s of ot their glory He shall see the tha capital of ot the tb nation remo rented od to the valley or of ortho the tho Mississippi not four tour days das journey fronD from either ocean Then I hall the population of tho the moun moun- mountain mountain tam tain states tates be counted by tens tene ten of oC million and Idaho shall ba bo one ot of the first of ot states itata Remarkable wa w was tb tiDe the accuracy ot of the vision laion of ot Governor Wallace Vallace In view of or the th tact fact that Le Lea laton iston the tho only settlement In the immense territory which was then Idaho excluding placer camps of oC the mountains mountain had Itself come In Into to being merely as a trading post through which the supplies of ot the gold wirt I I IWAS WAS nEAL PIONEER OON Gm Wallace ee himself an old resident of or the tho Coast cout region lie had after arter In log ing serving In the Iowa legislature and I federal office a as receiver ot of public moneys mones In la Iowa traveled to California and north In 18 1853 53 to the settlements settlement of ot Puget Sound I In tho the Indian wars of ot the fifties ho had hAel h d raised tL a COmpAny and com corn commanded mended It In campaigns campaign In the Puyallup and alIey I young younS Lieutenant at punishing the redskins on the Niches and the Yakima In Tn tin 1861 It a had occurred In the of oC Washington terri tern tory territory and Wallace WI Uce had been named to the place by President Lincoln His lii tenure was wu short hort however S I a hIS he ahe resigned to seek place as Wash ash ington's Washington's delegate Ih lb Congre Congress When hen governor of oC Idaho he ho tol- tol fol followed lowed a ft II similar courso and had hardly completed hia hla hopeful cc- cc account ac account count ot of o the th glories gloried he foresaw for tor Idaho before he resigned as S ex ox executive to wage age a It successful cam cam- campaign cam campaign for tor Idaho s e to the national capital Governor Wallace l was lS 81 52 Are Y-Are old when hen he ho made his hie sIxty er sixty sixty- ear review and sixty sixty- ear ear prediction lie He was U 68 when rhen ho died after acter iI liv 11 ing living to see seo the tho beginning of ot the tho railroAds and the tho commerce from Asia Aria and nil the To groeth th of ot the cities h ht he had bad h d 4 f j KS B DO WELL SYDNEY Feb 2 A A P- P P The filling ell banks of ot Australia show Ghow heay heavy deposits according to recent figures Something lick lIek 1 1 1 depositors In tn the Victoria State Saving bank have standing to theIr credit This Institution line hae ha lent tent a sub sub- sub substantial 46 portion of oC Il Its funds 46 45 on the first of ot last It Jun June to the trading bank banks of ot the state The money carries 5 per pen cent Interest and none ot of It Is lont bitt for tor a long term than two ears The result that pal come In steadily a at the year round only to go RO out again I In an equally steady flo flow Such advances advAnce lire are utilised by tho banks to finance enter enter- enterprise prise general prise and so are used for tor- the gen yen yen- I eral good oo |
