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Avail Yourself of this Opportunity. The Last and Best Portion of Mrs. Sarah C. Thompson's land is platted, and WILL BE PUT ON THE MARKET MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 We will put on the mar ket this w'eek all the land platted, from Main street to and including Normal Hill, known as MHS. S. C. Thompson's Second Ad dition to Lewiston. This property is located in the center of the residence por tion of the city, beginning on Main street and extend ing to within one block of the new $40,000 High School building on Normal Hill. Mrs. Thompson is desirous of selling this prop erty AT ONCE, and the price and terms are such that give everyone an oppor tunity to get a home at small cost. W'lkm Ry / -&S " * ■J«. X, > - 1 ■ SIT f-KiiiiUiimn LEWISTON WATER FRONT An investment of $50.00 not only provides absolute safety for your savings and starts you on the road to a competency, but offers a good investment as a gen eral business proposition. While attending the Fair, investigate this offer; you can make an investment that wili double in amount in a short time, as well as provide yourself with a good home site. Doubtjess every person has felt at some time that he would like to be a land holder, that he would like to have a little piece of the earth of this great country that he could call his own. This is a worthy sentiment, but to select his piece of land in the heart of a populous community, where the greater pressure of population will increase the value of his hold ing, combines business and sentiment. Lots are 50 by 142 feet on 80 foot streets and 16 foot alleys Price, This Is the Finest Location in This $50 to $300 City for a Home or Future i Each Business Property £ Fire, Life, Accident and Liability Insurance Potvin & Howe 314 Main Street DO IT NOW LEWISTON IDAHO We buy, sell and exchange city and ranch property on a straight * commission basis, protection to both buyer and seller. * PROGRESSIVE IDAHO LAND OF OPPORTUNITY A Review of Some of the Resources that Make Idaho a Favored Locality for the Home Seeker and Investor The state of Idaho is one of the last in the union to bring into development its resources. This development is now wpll under way. Millions of capital have come and are coming; into this state from the other states increasing the output of many mines, building lumber mills in the vast forests of tim ,bcr, bringing in.o productive fertility through irrigation thousands of ocres of arid lands, increasing the immense flocks and herds of sheep Olid cattle making green fields and orchards and gardens, snd growing cities and towns So that thé Indians and the outlaws ate only in the picturesque tales of the past. The man who goes to Idaho looking for the play of six-shooters and wild frontier life is disappointed He will rind wild deer and elk and bear in the mountains, but no. wild men. The strangers who visit Idaho carry mon weapons than the natives. There is no more gun-play in Idaho than in Penn sylvania. The story of the state is one of industrial development .of progress, prosperity, arid opportunity. A Romantic Beginning. I.,ke many other states of the far west, Idaho's growth began with the discovery of gold. Arçd if the legend [ j : j I j j is true, an Indian squaw was responsi ble directly for the coming of the first large body- of settlers. Captain E. P. Pierce, a frontiersman, was in Idaho in i860. when an Indian, a member of the Nez Perces tribe told him of a strange 'thing that he had seen. The Indian 'had been camping at night in the mountains, lie said, with two compan Ions, when suddenly a brilliant light. like a star, appeared among the cliffs, The Indians believed it to lie the eye i»f .he "Great Spirit." and the savages were filled with superstitious fear. In the morning they sought the source of 'he strange illumination, and found irn bedded in the rock, so firmly that they < ouUl not remove it. a shining ball that .he Indians at once concluded was the "great medicine." Captain Pierce, thinking that the Indians had found gold, organized a company and set out to look for the treasure, but the Xcz Perces refused to permit him to make the search, and would probably have driven him from .lie country ' id not the friendly squav,. "Idaho's Indian Mother," guided him and his company through the wilderness. They out their trail, sometimes over rugged rocks, through impenetrable i ■ | : thicket.- of growing cedars, until they reached at last the nor.h fork of the Clearwater river. There they stopped to rest. < me day a member of the com pany, as an experiment, "panned" the and of a creek for gold, and in the first pan found about three cents' worth of the metal. The panning was continued until he and his companions had taken out about eighty dollars in gold dust, when they went back to the town of Walla Walla. Wash., with it. Another party started out for the re gion soon afterward, arriving there in November. I860. And the next spring a member of this second party walked out through the wilderness on snow shoes with 3S00 worth of gold dust on his back. He to!d of his discovery in Portland, Ore. Intense excitement fol lowed. and then began the great gold rush into Idaho. This is the story of the discovery of the Oro Kino mines, a district that pro duced millions of dollars in gold. Dur ing lstil and 1862 the rush continued. California miners by the s.earner-load went from San Francisco to Portland and from • there, w ith thousands from Oregon, they poured into the new coun try. The population of the district reached 25.0G0. Out it was a tickle and changeable population, deserting one "city" for another in a night. Hut the working of Idaho's placer mines had fairly 4>egun. The miners who followed where the squaw of tile Nez Perces had led ihe way soon spread to all parts of the state. Other gold camps were established. Idaho City was founded ip the Boise basin, where ,he output of the famous placer mines is estimated at from three hun dred to live hundred million. It was possibly the richest placer camp in the whole world. Afterward Boise City, which is now the capital and metropo lis, was built. And Idaho entered into a new chapter of its life. The French, the Indians, and the I c Americans all had a part in giving the state its varied nomenclature. French Canadians made journeys into Idaho and established a mission long before the discovery of gold that led to the state's rapid growth. They left such names As Boise. Coeur d'Alene, Pen d'Oreille, and Malade river. The Mor mons from Ftah made a little settle ment. too, from which they were driven by the Indians before the civil war. and they left the name of tne county of Lemhi, taken from the Mormon scrip tures. Lewis and Clarke crossed the state twice on their tour of exploration to the Pacitic, and the town of Lewis ton. one of the largest of the state, bears the name of one of the two lead ers of that historic expedition. But the name of the state itself is Indian. The word "Idaho" is said to be the expression with which these savages greeted the rising sun. and In the mountains the name came to be ap plied to the peaks where the sun was usually seen to rise. So that the In dian word might translated to mean "sunritfe mountains." or "the gem of the mountains." Lumber Interests of the State. No facts about this new state of Idaho are so astonishing, to one who has not made special investigation, as the lumber statistics. The timber area of the state contains ten millions acres. Eight million acres are available for manufacture into lumber. There is an average of 10.000 feet of timber or. every acre, as shown by Fnited States government surveys. This would make a total for the state of eighty billion feet. For manufacturing purposes this lumber is worth $14 a thousand feet. l?o that the total value of the timber is, according to authoritative estimate, the enormous sum of $1,120,000,000. Idaho has the largest white pine for ests in the United States, perhaps in the whole world. Sixty per cent, of the timber of the state is white or yel low pine, wood that is in constant de mand. And he supply in the United States, once so abundant, is rapidly diminishing. Pine. Ur. tamarack, and ! cedar are the principal varieties of Idaho timber. In northern Idaho the forests are at the head waters of the Clearwater, Potlatch and St. Mary's rivers, and in southern Idaho along the Boise, Payette and Weiser rivers and their tributaries. This timber will be brought to the mills by floating the logs down the streams, "driving," as the lumbermen say. and by hauling on branch railroad lines. The lumber kings of the country have already bought half of Idaho's timber land. Large saw mill plants are in operation in thé northern part of thé state and several are planned for southern Idaho. The land has been bought for the construction of a new mill at Boise that will saw fifty million feet of lumber a year. Frederick Wey erhauses .the Minnesota lumberman, and 'his associates, have bought 100, 000 acres of titulier land on the Payette river, and are Spending $150,000 to im prove that stream so that the timber may be driven to another large milling plant which will be built near Boise City. Another large lumber concern, the Barber Lumber company, owns tracts of timber land on the Boise river and is already building a lumber mill. Lumber which is cut and sawed in Idaho now is being shipped to Wiscon sin and other paires in the east, where it is manufactured into furniture, doors, sashes, etc. The local market is increasing, too. so that the'lumber in terests have become of great import ance to the state. Half a billion feet of lumber are manufactured in Idaho every year. This is another Interesting contrast to the stories of bears. In dians, and desperadoes. Sheep and Cattle. To be a sheep man In Idaho is syn onymous with wealth. During the last I decade or two many fortunes have been made in wool and mutton in the state, [and according to the estimate of J. C. ' Dressier, state sheep inspector, Idaho j will probably rank second In the United I States this year in the aggregate num ber of its fleecy herds. There are now about three million five hundred thou sand sheep in Idaho. In winter they graze in bands through the warm val leys of the state, and in summer they wander back into the mountains, plucking the grass from the ravines until fall comes, when they turn back into the valleys again. In May the annual crop of wool is taken, and the sheep-shearers reap a large harvest. Last year this har vest of Idaho wool amounted to twen ty-two million pounds, and brought in the market about two million dollars. Besides this, the shepherds have a large source of income in the sale of most of the male lambs each year. The estimated value of sheep per head is $2.50. so that these migratory inhabi tants of the state represent nine mil lion dollars. That Idaho, being one of the heaviest wool producers of the union, should he without a woolen mill to refine and make Into cloth this great product, seems absurd; but an organization for ihe establishment of large woolen mills In Boise City has already been formed. Among the bands of sheep in Idaho range great herds of cattle. On the ranges of the state are nearly a million cattle, worth about twenty million dol lars. > Remarkable Mineral Wealth. Idaho is fifth In the sisterhood of states In the production of precious metals. More than half the lead that is mined In the entire United States comes from Idaho, and the important lead mines are confines to what is comparatively a small territory in the (Continued to Page Three. )