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Boise (City capital of the State)

city, capital of the State of Idaho, and county-seat of Ada co.; on the Boise river and the Oregon Short Line railroad; 45 miles S. W. of Idaho City.

It occupies the site of a former trading 554 post of the Hudson's Bay Company; is in 347 an agricultural and a rich mining region; and is supplied with pure hot water from 212 a flowing boiling well. It contains the State Capitol, erected in 1885-1887, a penitentiary, United States Assay Office, 52 State Library, National banks, public li- BOISE brary, excellent schools, hospitals, and other public buildings. Its industries include meat packing, stone quarrying, and manufactures of cigars, cement, etc. It is an important wool market. Pop. (1890) 2,311; (1910) 17,358; (1920) 21,393.