Idaho - AHGP/Lemhi County/Langley 1876 Directory

"Pacific Coast Business Directory for 1876-78," Compiled By Henry G. Langley, Editor of the California State Register, Pacific Coast Almanac, San Francisco, 1875. Gazetteer and Business Directory of Idaho Territory

Lemhi County

Organized 1869. Bounded on the north by Nez Perce County and Montana Territory; south by Alturas County; east by Montana Territory; west by Idaho County. Area, 2,000 square miles. Assessed valuation of property for 1874, $149,760. County seat, Salmon City. Principal towns: Leesburg, 200 miles northeast of Boise City, and Oro Grande, situated on Loon Creek, and distant 150 miles northeast of Boise City. The Lemhi Valley, having a length of 75 miles, is susceptible of a high degree of cultivation, producing all the cereals, vegetables, and fruits common to the latitude, furnishing sufficient for the towns and mining camps of the county, and exporting large quantities of flour and grain to Montana.

Officers: Thomas McGarry, Probate Judge; John Hogan, Clerk, Recorder, and Auditor; R. F. Foot, District Attorney; J.G. Finnell, Sheriff; Eli Minert, Treasurer; C. W. Manasco, Assessor, and Tax Collector; M. Williams, Coroner; I. P. Jewell, Superintendent Public Schools.

Fort Lemhi, Lemhi Co,

20 miles s e of Salmon City
Andrews Norman J, postmaster, hotel, and general merchandise
Kenney, George A, physician
Purinton Arthur Rev, clergyman

Junction, Lemhi Co,

P O 50 miles s e of Salmon City
Stephenson A M, postmaster, and hotel
Winters M C, teacher

Leesburgh, Lemhi Co,

P O 18 miles n w of Salmon City
Colvin &, White, butchers
Edwards E S, general merchandise
Moerler C, blacksmith
Mohr Rudolph, clothing
Willis C C, billiard and liquor saloon
Wood James D, postmaster

Oro Grande, Lemhi Co.

P O address Salmon City, ninety miles south west of Salmon City
Baxter James, general merchandise (Loon Creek)
Morgan John, blacksmith

Salmon City, Lemhi Co, P O and County seat

200 miles northeast of Boise City, is situated at the junction of the Salmon and Lemhi rivers, at an elevation of 4,130 feet above the level of the sea. The town is at the head of "prairie schooner" navigation, but carries on a considerable trade with the surrounding mining region by means of pack trains, and with the farmers and stock raisers of the Lemhi Valley, in the usual manner. This valley is quite extensive and fertile, and produces largely of all kinds of grain and vegetables. The region is extremely healthy, but subject to severe cold in winter, the mercury of the thermometer showing 46° below zero during the winter of 1874-5. Corrinne, on the C. P. R. R., is the depot of trade for this county.
Amonson & McPherson, boot and shoe makers
Beatte E F, attorney at law
Carter C, carpenter
Ellis Wilson, butcher
Finell & Stahl, blacksmiths
Finster & Wentz, livery stable
Jacobs C, carpenter
McGarvey Thomas, salmon dealer
McNutt & Phillips, general merchandise
Mulky E, hotel
Potts David, livery stable
Shirk J, carpenter
SHUUP George L, postmaster, and general merchandise
Snook John, painter
Spahn M & Co, groceries, saloon, and brewery
Stahl David, carpenter
Williams K, hotel, and livery stable

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