Editing Wallace, Idaho (section)

===Wallace grows===
[[Image:Wallace Idaho 1910 fire.jpg|thumb|Wallace after the [[Great Fire of 1910]]]]

In 1893, Wallace went from governance by a board of trustees to a city charter. The first official mayor was William S. Haskins, who would shortly thereafter be appointed as Idaho's first State Mining Inspector.<ref>"Mine Inspector Appointed." (March 22, 1893). Boise: Idaho Statesman.</ref> Haskins was succeeded by Oscar Wallace, son of Colonel Wallace.<ref name=North-ID/> By that year, Wallace could also boast of the Providence Hospital, "an institution which has no equal of its kind in the state of Idaho, and no superior of its size in the United States."

In 1898, having experienced explosive growth, the city implemented a campaign to become the county seat for Shoshone County. A similar attempt six years earlier had left Wallace a distant third to Murray. This time around, Wallace garnered about three-quarters of the votes cast.

The year 1900 saw Wallace residents looking forward to even more growth from its population of over two thousand. They were proud of their extensive electric light system, substantial amounts of paved streets and the most building activity the city had ever seen.

However, one third of the town of Wallace was destroyed by the [[Great Fire of 1910]], which burned about {{convert|3000000|acre|km2 sqmi|0}} in [[Washington (state)|Washington]], Idaho, and [[Montana]].<ref name="AmExp">{{cite web |title=The Big Burn-Transcript |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/burn/ |website=American Experience |publisher=PBS |access-date=January 23, 2019 |date=February 3, 2015}}</ref><ref name=pyne>{{cite book|last=Pyne | first=Stephen J. | year=2008 | title=Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 | location=Missoula, Montana | publisher=Mountain Press Publishing Company | isbn=978-0-87842-544-0}}</ref> Although set back by the devastation, the city soon resumed its growth, aided by strong demand for lead during World War I.<ref>"Idaho Industrial Review."  (February 18, 1917). Boise: ''Idaho Statesman''.</ref> After a post-war lull, the industry resumed its growth in the 1920s.<ref>"Idaho Mining in General Termed Active in 1922." (January 14, 1923). Boise: ''Idaho Statesman''.</ref>