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Idaho a Land of Tomorrow and Vast Untouched Mines
A lengthy portrait extols Idaho’s vastness and resources. It traces settlement from French-Canadian trappers and a 1854 Mormon colony, notes Idaho’s 1868 organization and 1800 statehood, cites placer mining’s rise and decline, and calls for a north-south railway to unlock timber, agriculture, and ore deposits, with Coeur d’Alenes producing 40 percent of national feed. The piece emphasizes development, migration, and the potential of an unprospected wilderness.
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Idaho
New England
Bancroft
Nature
Port Lemhi
Union of States
Orofino Creel
Rockefeller
Wells-Fargo
Orofino
Elk City
Florence
Lewiston
Lapwai
Warrens
Pierce City
Boise Basin
St. Joseph
Geeur d’Alenes
Great
Snake River Desert
Bitter Root
Rocky Mountain
Coeur d'Alenes
Seven Devils
Salmon River
California
Federal Treasury
Abraham Lincoln
Union
Star of Empire
Colorado
Nevada
Western Tidewater
United States
Oregon Short Line Company
Thunder Mountain
Buffalo Hump