"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
Shoshone County
Organized in 1864. Bounded on the north by Kootenai County, south by Nez Perce County, east by Montana Territory, west by Kootenai and Nez Perce Counties. Area, 3,000 square miles. Assessed valuation of property for 1874, $49,260. County seat, Pierce City. Oro Fino at one time existed as a thriving mining town but has ceased to present claims to importance. The resources of the county remain undeveloped, being at present limited to the gold placer diggings existing on the Oro Fino and Rhodes Creeks. The surface of the county is generally mountainous; and. as but very small tracts of fertile land exist along the river bottoms, in an agricultural sense it is valueless. It contains an abundance of good timber for manufacturing purposes.
Officers: W. V. Hesketh, Probate Judge; John Clark, District Attorney: John Rodgers, Sheriff and Tax Collector; D. M. Fraser, Recorder, and Auditor; B. L. Yantis, Treasurer; C. F. Brown, Assessor; P. Streeter,
Coroner, I. B. Cowen, Superintendent Public Schools.
Pierce City, Shoshone Co, P O and County seat
450 miles north of Boise City, is a small mining town, situated on the north bank of the Oro Fino River, at the mouth of Canal Gulch.
Carle Francis, carpenter and joiner
Damas Hammond, general merchandise
Dunwell D W C, proipriotor Lewiston Express
Fraser D M, general merchandise
Gullusrud H, shoe maker
Jones C D, hydraulic hose maker, and blacksmith
Mauli & Haucady, butchers
Molloy John, liquor saloon
Rodgers John, postmaster
Silverwood J T, butcher
Swendson Christopher, hotel
Yantis R L, general merchandise
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