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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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oil from lava decomposition is exceedinglyrich, production is abundant. The chief dis-tricts irrigated are those near swift streamswith shallow channels, as the headwaters of theSnake in the east and the district around theBoise and Payette in the west. Over 600.000acres were irrigated in 1900. In 1902 a greateffort was made to increase this by nearly onehalf, irrigating 276,000 acres in the Snake Val-ley by two great canals, with power developedat Shoshone Falls. The chief crop is hay, whichin 1902 amounted to 955,676 tons, valued at$5,256,218. Next to this was wheat, 6,021,946bushels, valued at $4,215,362; other cereals, asoats and barley, produced several million bush-els, but wheat made about three fourths of thetotal. The State raised some S4.000 worth offlaxseed. The raising of vegetables to supplythe mining towns is assuming importance, andthe fruits for which the Pacific Slope is be-coming noted are shared by Idaho, chiefly applesand prunes, grown mainly in the Boise basin,—
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IDAHO the fruit product beinp about $400,000 a year.The stock-raisinp; imprest is very important,nearly half the surface of the State being pas-ture ; but the long severe winters and deepsnows make it precarious and costly in pre-cisely the sections best adapted to it, and thenorthern packers and cattlemen generally wintertheir stock and draft animals in the Snakeand adjoining valleys, where they can live andforage in the winter. The most important itemis sheep, which are increasing with great rapid-ity; from 1,956,407 in 1899-1900, they numbered4.541,815 in ig02, fourth in the United States.Idaho ranks third in the wool clip, which was21,639,387 pounds in 1902. The sales of wooland mutton together in 3902 were $4,775,000.There are some 60,000 dairy cows in the State,and nearly half a million meat cattle. A/j»t;!^.—Idaho ranks high as a miningState, having rich deposits not only of gold,silver, copper, and lead, but of iron, coal (severalnew mines opened in 1903), salt of excellent

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