FULL NAME State of Idaho

1907 Clarence Darrow successfully defends "Big Bill" Haywood and two other Western Federation of Miners officials found not guilty of conspiracy in Steunenberg s murder. William Borah, the prosecutor, is elected to the U.S. Senate; he servesuntil his death in 1940. . establishing the initiative, referendum and recall.

1912 Voters adopt constitutional amendments

1914 Moses Alexander is elected the first Jewish governor of any state.

1915 Arrowrock Dam, completed on the Boise River, is, at 354 feet, the highest dam in

the world. . 1922 Farmers are receiving less than one-third of 1919 prices for crops and livestock. 1927 The American Falls Dam, on the Snake River near Pocatello, provides irrigation

water for one million acres. Completion of U.S. Highway 95, the only land connection between northern and

southern Idaho.

1931 Adoption of a state income tax and a tax on private-power combines.

1932 As a result of the the Great Depression, average income has fallen 49 percent since 1929. Cash income of farmers has fallen by almost two-thirds.

1934 Idaho is first among states in silver and second in lead production. Shoshone County has the nation's largest silver mine (the Sunshine Mine) and the three largest lead producers. The state also ranks third in hay and fifth in wool.

1936 The Union Pacific Railroad creates Sun Valley as a ski resort.

1939 Per capita income has risen to $452 from $287 in 1933.

1942 Nearly 10,000 persons of Japanese ancestry are sent from the West Coast to an

internment camp at Hunt.

1951 The Atomic Energy Commission's National Reactor Testing Station, near Arco, successfully uses atomic energy to produce electricity. Opening, at Lewiston, of Idaho's first pulp and paper plant.

1959 Completion of the Brownlee Dam on the Hell's Canyon stretch of the Snake River.

Idaho is fourth among states in irrigated acres—2,330,000—comprising54 per¬cent of the state's farmland.

1965 A state sales tax of three percent is adopted.

1972 May 2. A fire in the Sunshine Mine kills 91 miners.

1973 Completion of the Dworshak Dam on the Clearwater River.

1975 Lewiston becomes a seaport with the dedication of a $344-million deep-channel waterway linking the Snake and Columbia rivers to the Pacific Ocean.

1976 June 5. The Teton Dam on the Snake River collapses, killing 11 persons and causing at least $400 million in property damage.

1980 Creation of the 2.2-million-acre River of No Return Wilderness, the largest wilder¬ness preserve in the United States outside of Alaska.

1982 The Sunshine Mine and Bunker Hill mine and smelter are closed because of low silver prices.