Elmore Bulletin (Rocky Bar, Idaho)
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772 issues from 1889 to 1905, published in Mountain Home, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
Mountain Home, Idaho, was developed by the Idaho and Oregon Land Improvement Company along the Oregon Short Line Railroad in what was then Alturas County. The town was the main shipping point for minerals coming out of the mines of Rocky Bar and Atlanta, Idaho. Mountain Home’s first newspaper, Range and Valley, was published by Asa Abbot, first in Rocky Bar, then in Mountain Home, with the printing press originally used by Theophile E. Picotte to publish the Wood River Times. In 1888, Abbot sold the equipment to George M. Payne, of Hailey’s Daily Inter-Idaho. Payne enlarged the paper to four pages with seven columns and changed its name to the Mountain Home Bulletin.
In the Bulletin’s first weekly issue, Payne published a column on the “County Division Issue,” discussing problems stemming from its large size and impassable, mountainous geography and the long distance to the county seat in Hailey. This issue was resolved in 1889 when Idaho’s last Territorial legislature divided Alturas County and created the new Elmore County, with Rocky Bar as its seat. With this change, Payne moved his newspaper operation 65 miles north to Rocky Bar, a mining town with a population of 1,000, and updated the name of the publication to the Elmore Bulletin. Even after the boundary changes, the Bulletin continued to cover news of Hailey, Shoshone, and other towns formerly in Alturas County.
In June 1892, the Alturas County seat again moved, this time to Mountain Home, and once again the…
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- Mountain Home, Idaho, United States
- Language
- English
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- Chronicling America
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