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Custer County Idaho Promises Rich Prospects for Settlers
Historical overview of Custer County Idaho highlights its mining booms from placer to quartz, thriving towns Challis Mackay Houston Bayhorse Clayton Bonsanza and Custer, vast irrigable valleys, and rail and telegraph links. It emphasizes rich mineral wealth, growing agriculture, stock raising as key industries, and plans for canal irrigation to unlock thousands of acres, projecting a bright future with schools, low crime, and strong tax revenue.
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Custer County
Idaho
General Custer
Montana
Stanley Basin
Loon Creek
Challis
Mackay
Houston
Bayhorse
Clayton
Bonsanza
Custer
Stanley
Big Lost River
Thousand Spring
Round
Puhsamaroi
East Fork
Antelope
Coster County
Connecticut
Delaware
Rhode Island
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Blackfoot
Morgan Creek
Garden Creek
Poverty
Centennial Flat
Hast Fork
Slate Creek
Thompson Creek
Robinson Bar
Fisher
Sheep Mountain
Seafoam
Washington Basin
Yankee Fork
Lucky Boy
Sawtooth Mountains
Wood River
Band of Mana
Hall