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 454 UNITED STATES : — IDAHO

Dollars Cash in hand, October 1, 1910 .... 967,716

6,858,682

Receipts, 1910-]912

Total

Disbursements, 1910-12

Balance, September 30, 1912

7,826,398 6,545,745

1,280,653 On Sept. 30, 1912, the State bonded debt amounted to 2,364,250 dollars

sinking fund 400,000 dollars, and the assessed value of real and personal

property to 120,000,000 dollars.

The Militia or National Guard of Idaho consists of a regiment of infantry

containing 59 officers and 592 men.

Production and Industry.— A great part of the State is naturally arid, but extensive irrigation works have been carried out irrigating 3,266,386 acres, and there are now being constructed works to cost 18,811,000 dollars for the irrigation of 480,000 acres in the State. The most 'important crop is wheat, to which, in 1912, 510,000 acres Avere devoted, the yield amounting to 14,566,000 bushels. Other crops ir, 1912 were oats, 17,017,000 bushels; barley, 6,916,000 bushels; besides potatoes and hay. Fruit and vegetables are also grown. There is an active live- stock industry, especially in sheep, the number of which in 1910 was put at 4,248,000, and the clip (1911) at 16,500,000 pounds. Tlie State contains about 19,643,355 acres of national forest.

The State has rich deposits of gold, silver, and other metals. About 7,000 miners are employed. In 1911 the output of gold amounted to 65,688 fine ounces of the value of 1,357,900 dollars ; of silver, to 8,184,900 fine ounces of the value of 4,419,800 dollars; copper, 4,514,116 pounds (564,265 dollars) ;lead, 117,159 short tons (10,544,310 dollars) ; zinc, 3,180 short tons (362,520 dollars). Coal is mined, but not to a great extent; in 1911 the output was only 1,805 short tons (4,808 dollars). Iron, nickel, cobalt, mica, phosphate rock, antimony, tungsten, granite, sandstone, limestone and lime, pumice, and salt are worked more or less. Total value of mineral output in 1911, 17,588,340 dollars.

Besides the agricultural and mining industries the State has manufactures of considerable importance. In 1910 there were together 725 industrial establishments, employing a total of 9,909 persons, including 8,220 wage- earners, with a total capital of 32,477,000 dollars, cost of material being 9,920,000 dollars and value of output 22,400,000 dollars. The chief of these industries are the working of lumber and timber, (capital, 17,872,000 dollars; wage-earners, 5,212; cost of material, 3,345,000 dollars and value of product, 10,689,000 dollars), and flour and grist milling (capital, 2,038,000 dollars ; wage-earners, 125 ; cost of material, 2,025,000 dollars and value of product, 2,480,000 dollars). Within the State there are 260 lumber mills ; one at Potlatch is said to be the largest in the world and can cut 750,000 feet daily. Idaho has also 46 flour mills.

The State contains (1910) 2,178 miles of railway, besides 145 miles of electric railway track. The principal railways crossing the State arc the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, and the Oregon Short Line,

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the Secretarj^, Auditor, Treasurer, and other officers of the State. U.S. Census Bulletin, No. 37. Census of Manufactures, 190r», Census Reports on Wealth, Debt, and Taxation, Washington, 1907. The State of Idaho [Institutions, Industries, Resources]. By the Commissioner of Im- migration. Boise, 1905.

Resources and Attractions of Idaho. St. Louis, 1893.