History of Adams County Idaho
From the northern part of Washington County the county of Adams was
segregated and created by an act of the legislature of 1911, said act
having been approved by the governor on the 3rd of March of that year.
The new county was assigned to the Seventh Judicial district of the
state and Council was designated as the county seat. The general
characteristics of Adams county are the same as those of the county
from which it was created and details concerning its resources are
therefore not demanded, as adequate description is elsewhere given in
regard to this favored section of the state.
The area of irrigated and agricultural land in Adams county is 28,349
acres; dry-farm land, 19,149 acres; natural meadow and pasture, 4,676
acres; grazing land, 19,770 acres; desert, waste and swamp land, 4,774
acres; mineral land, 1,638 acres; standing timber, 92,364 acres;
cut-over and burnt timber land, 4,208 acres; orchard and vineyard, 88
acres; total acreage of patented lands, 134,538.76.
The alert and progressive town of Council, judicial center of Adams
County, is accredited by the Idaho State Gazetteer with a population of
six hundred. Council is situated on the line of the Pacific & Idaho
Northern Railroad and is sixty miles northeast of Weiser, the capital
of Washington County. The town has a hank and two hotels, a weekly
newspaper and a Congregational church. It is the center of a most
prosperous part of Middle Western Idaho and is one of the aggressive
and promising towns of this part of the state.
Thirty-one miles northeast of Council is located the village of
Meadows, which has a population of about one hundred and fifty and
which is two miles east of New Meadows, the latter being on the line of
the Pacific & Idaho Northern Railroad. The village has a
Congregational church, a bank, a weekly newspaper and a due complement
of business houses.
New Meadows is "a new and thriving village at the northern terminus of
the Pacific & Idaho Northern Railroad, thirty-six miles north of
Council, the county seat." It has a bank and a commercial club, and
here are located the general offices of the railroad company mentioned,
as well as those of a well ordered telephone and telegraph company, the
building utilized for these general offices having been erected at a
cost of $30,000 and being the best railroad building between Portland
and Salt Lake City, as well as the most substantial of the kind in
Idaho. The village has its interests well represented by a progressive
weekly newspaper.
Source: [HISTORY OF IDAHO
VOLUME I; BY HIRAM T. FRENCH, M. S.; Publ. 1914; Transcribed and
submitted to Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
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