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 530 UNITED STATES : — IDAHO

On January 1, 1910, the number of paupers in almshouses was 97, being 29*8 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal institutions 287, being 88*1 per 100,000 of the population.

Finance. — For the biennium ending September 30, 1920, the receipts and disbursements were as follows : —

Dollars Cash in hand, October 1, 1918 .... 705,187 Receipts, 1918-20 18,461,455

Total 19,166,642

Disbursements, 1918-20 16.967,502

Balance, September 30, 1920. . . 2,199,140

On Sept. 80, 1920, the State bonded debt amounted to 3,880,750 dollars, and the assessed value of real and personal property for 1920 to 377,865,027 dollars.

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. In 1910 the number of farms was 30,807, with a total area of 5,283,604 acres, of which 2,778,740 acres were improved land. Total value of all farm property in 1910, 305,317,185 dollars. The most important crop is wheat, to which, in 1920, 1,050,000 acres were devoted, the yield amounting to 23,600,000 bushels. Other crops in 1920 were oats, 8,000,000 bushels; barley, 4,256,000 bushels; besides potatoes and hay. Fruit and vegetables are also grown. There is an active live-stock industry, the number of horses on January 1, 1921, being 262,000 ; mules, 5,000 ; sheep, 2,623,000 ; milch cows, 137,000 ; other cattle, 505,000. The wool clip (1919) was 22,145,000 pounds. The State contains (June 30, 1919) 17,606,792 acres of national forest.

The State has rich deposits of gold, silver, and other metals. About 7,000 miners are employed. Coal is mined, but not to a great extent. Iron, nickel, cobalt, mica, phosphate rock, antimony, tungsten, granite, sandstone, limestone aud lime, pumice, and salt are worked more or less.

Besides the agricultral 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 aud timber, (capital, 17,872,000 dollars ; wage-earners, 5,212; cost of material, 3,345,000 dollars aud 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 has (1917) 2,861 miles of railway, besides 113 miles (1919) of electric railway track. The principal railways crossing the State are the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, and the Oregon Short Line. In 1915 (May 5), the Celilo Canal, on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, was