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Show 44 IMMIGRANTS' .AND SETTLERS' GUIDE pany, can be made not only coinfortable but in many respects delightful. ~maha and Nebraska City are the beRt outfitting points, and all along the route to Fort Kearney where the several road~ intersect, and beyond Keat~ney to Denver, are trading posts and "ranches" where exh~ usted outfits may be replenished. .Denver is the terminus o~ travel naturally from the East and West. ~ere tra~ns a;e made up for " Bannock," Salt Lake <;J1ty, California, New Mexico, and the East. It is the rendezvous of trade and travel, as well as the principal market in the Territory. Water and grass are both abundant. Daily coaches p~ss each way over the road. The time consutned in a ~r1~ by _coach fro~ the Missouyi River to the gold I eg1ons ~s usually SIX ~ays. E_m1grants with good ox tea~s Will make the distance In from 30 to 40 days. Pa1ties of 25, 50, or 100 emigrants by clubbing together, can provide the necessary outfits at reduced rates, ~nd cross the Plains at an expense, it is said, not exceeding $25 each. At the close of this series of articles on the new ~~ates and Territories, will be published a complete Itinerary and table of ~istances of the great . overlan(l route a?ross "the Plains," from the Missouri River to the ~ac~fic, and we refer to that for much useful intor· mation m regard to the means of reaching those regious. ./ TO THE NEW STATES .A.ND TERRITORIES. 45 THE GOLD FIELDS.-( Continued.) IDAHO. Area, 8.26,373 Square Miles, Acres, 208,373,7 20-Population, 40,000 -Capital, Lewiston. Idaho is an Indian word, signifying " The Gem of ~he Mountains," an appropriate name for the attractive region which by organic act of Congress, dated March 3, 1863, \rears this appellation. It was carved out of large portions of three other Territories, viz. W asbington, Dakota, and ~ ebr~s~a, thus making the chain of the Rocky Mountains.divlde it a little west of its centre line. It extends a distance of 650 miles from east to west, and 560 miles from _north to south, embracing upwards of 326,000 square m1les. BOUNDARIES. The Territory is bounded on the north by British America, east by Dakota and Nebraska, south by Colorado and Utah, and west by Washington and Ore-gon. The immense region of country embraced within these limits-an area which the general reader will be better able to realize fron1 the comparative statement that it is seven times as large as the State of New York, and five times greater in extent than the six New England States-,vas, until within the last three years, a trackless wilderness. The rapidit;r and extent of mineral discoveries during that period (since 1860) have attracted the attention of capitalists and miners, and in defiance of |
