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Custer County Idaho Offered Vast Inducements to Settlers and Capitalists
The article extols Custer County Idaho as richly endowed with scenery, varying resources, and mining wealth. It traces early placer and quartz discoveries, lists leading towns, districts, and mines, notes transportation and irrigation needs, and highlights agriculture, stock-raising, climate, schools, timber, and vast mineral wealth as keys to its potential. It emphasizes public works like railroads and telephones, and portrays a hopeful vision of growth and prosperity across Challis Mackay Bayhorse Stanley Basin and Yankee Fork regions.
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Custer County
Idaho
General Custer
Montana
Stanley Basin
Loon Creek
Challis
Mackay
Houston
Clayton
Bonanza
Custer
Stanley
Big Lost River Valley
Thousand Spring
Round
Pahsamaroi
East Fork
Antelope
Connecticut
Delaware
Rhode Island
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Blackfoot
Morgan Creek
Garden Creek
Bayhorse
Poverty Flat
Centennial Flat
Slate Creek
Thompson Creek
Robinson Bar
Fisher
Sheep Mountain
Seafoam
Washington Basin
Yankee Fork
Lucky Boy
Sawtooth Mountains
Wood River
Salmon River