#Dan popkey for free
The merchants had $1,500 in cash and offered the use of an office building for free for a year. When the wagon reached the Snake River, the Reynolds brothers were persuaded enough to ride on ahead and listen to what Boise’s businessmen had to offer. Once Lincoln won the Civil War, Boise might become the capital of a new state.
Boise, not Idaho City, was where people were going to come and stay and build a new society. It was situated on the main mail and express routes, including the Oregon Trail next to Fort Boise. Boise was the future!Įstablished the year before, Boise’s population had already reached 1,000. It already had a newspaper, the weekly Boise News. You can just imagine Riggs’ pitch: Yes, Idaho City was the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, with 7,000 residents. Like a modern-day business recruiter, Riggs promised the brothers the support of advertisers in the growing business community.Ībraham Lincoln had just declared Idaho a territory the year before and Boise businessmen were trying to move the territorial capital from Lewiston to Boise. He met the brothers at the Grand Ronde River and spent the day riding alongside their ox-drawn freight wagon, making the case for them to set up shop in Boise. When Dick and Tom Reynolds left Portland with a printing press in 1864, they thought they were going to the mining boom town of Idaho City to open a newspaper.īut Boise co-founder Henry Chiles Riggs had other ideas.
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