People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — On to the Kootenai [ARTICLE]

On to the Kootenai

The call of 1897 is “On to the Kootenai,” the wonderfully rich mining country of Montana, Idaho and British Columbia, where so many mines of gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, |etc., have been discovered during the last year or two and new towns and industries established. The town of Rosslaqd grew from 200 people to 6,000 in twenty months. Maps and descriptive matter of the entire territory sent fre by F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., Great Northern railway, St. Paul, Minn.