. The Pacific tourist . , Centerville, Placerville andSilver City. Boise City is the territorial capital,a city said to contain 8,500 people, and locatedon the Boise River. There is not much agri-cultural land in the Territory, but a few of thevalleys are cultivated and produce excellentcrops of wheat, barley and oats, with potatoesand all kinds of vegetables. Crops are raised by are quite a large number of Chinese in the Ter-ritory, mostly engaged in placer and gulch min-ing. They are industrious and frugal and willfrequently make money from claims that havebeen abandoned as worthless by whit
. The Pacific tourist . , Centerville, Placerville andSilver City. Boise City is the territorial capital,a city said to contain 8,500 people, and locatedon the Boise River. There is not much agri-cultural land in the Territory, but a few of thevalleys are cultivated and produce excellentcrops of wheat, barley and oats, with potatoesand all kinds of vegetables. Crops are raised by are quite a large number of Chinese in the Ter-ritory, mostly engaged in placer and gulch min-ing. They are industrious and frugal and willfrequently make money from claims that havebeen abandoned as worthless by white men. Sofar as developed, the Ten-itory has some richmines, and those in the Atlantic District are be-coming somewhat noted. It is claimed that therichest known gold mine in the country at pres-ent, is in this district. In addition to the sup-plies, etc., shipped from Winnemucca, over6,000,000 pounds of freight were shipped fromKelton Station to this Territory in 1875, andmore than this amount will be shipped the pres-. VIEW LOOKING DOWN THE SHOSHONE FALLS. irrigation. Boise Valley, the settled portion ofit, is about GO miles long and four miles wide,and is the most thickly settled of any of thevalleys in the Territory. The nights are so cooland the altitude of the valleys is so great that ex-periments in corn raising have not, thus far,turned out very well. The second line of publicconveyance spoken of, runs from Winnemucca toSilver City. It is claimed that this town is equal in popu-lation to Boise City. It is sustained by tliemines located near it. At llattlesnake Stationthere is also a connecting stage line for RockyBar, a mining camp^ near which placer andgulch diggings .have been discovered. There ent year. Much of it has been, and will be,mining machinery. A railroad through the Ter-ritory is much needed, will aid greatly in thedevelopment of its mines, and will be a payinginvestment from the start, or, at least, in a veryshort time after its completion. The Snake andSa
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