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*At the peak of this first mining boom as many as 70,000 whites may have been in Idaho, but by 1870 this number had dwindled to the 15,000 counted in the census. | *At the peak of this first mining boom as many as 70,000 whites may have been in Idaho, but by 1870 this number had dwindled to the 15,000 counted in the census. | ||
*Settlement was stimulated in the 1880s and 1890s by '''new mining booms in the north''' and by the '''arrival of railroads''' in the farmlands of southern Idaho. | *Settlement was stimulated in the 1880s and 1890s by '''new mining booms in the north''' and by the '''arrival of railroads''' in the farmlands of southern Idaho. | ||
In the early 1900s, when reclamation projects opened desert lands to farming, a new wave of settlement from nearby states took place in southern Idaho. Today, nearly 70 percent of Idaho's population lives within 30 miles of the Snake River. | In the early 1900s, when reclamation projects opened desert lands to farming, a new wave of settlement from nearby states took place in southern Idaho. Today, nearly 70 percent of Idaho's population lives within 30 miles of the Snake River. | ||