Rare & early Idaho Territory newspaper...

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June 27, 1874

OWYHEE AVALANCHE, Silver City, Idaho, June 27, 1874 This is a quite rare newspaper from 16 years before Idaho became a state.
Silver City is a living ghost town located in southwest Idaho. It is not a tourist town, but a place where visitors can get a feel of what the West might have felt like in its booming days. Silver City even had a brewery and a bottling plant. Some of the mines produced ore well into the millions of dollars during their lifetime. Silver City started its decline about 1889 when the inevitable began to appear. Even at that time the city still had six general stores, two hotels, a newspaper, two lumber yards and several doctors and lawyers.
The front page has: "Working Claims by Tunnels" "Improve the Breed" "The Mining Laws" and: "Broke the Sad News Gently" which is a narrative by Mark Twain.
Four pages, very nice condition.

Category: The Old West