HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: Elias Davidson Pierce made Idaho's original major gold discovery while panning for gold in the North Fork of the Clearwater River on February 20, 1860. Several million dollars in gold eventually came out of the area that later bore his name. The February 17, 1866, issue of the Owyhee Avalanche reported that citizens in Owyhee County, in response to Indian troubles, were sending out a company of twenty-five volunteers to hunt Indians. A resolution was passed at a town meeting in Silver City "that for every buck scalp be paid one hundred dollars, and every squaw scalp fifty dollars, and twenty-five dollars for everything in the shape of an Indian under ten years of age." Action was approved on February 16, 1893, for a series of state bonds to provide for the construction of a comprehensive system of wagon roads in Boise, Custer, Lemhi, Idaho, Shoshone, Kootenai and Nez Perce counties. The Idaho Industrial Reform School was established by an act of the Legislature on February 16, 1903. The institution operated in Central School on the Capitol grounds, and transferred to St. Anthony when construction began on the State House in 1905. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order on February 19, 1942, that resulted in the internment of over 100,000 Japanese-Americans in ten relocation centers. One such center was Camp Minidoka, located 20 miles northeast if Twin Falls. The camp operated from August 10, 1942 to October 28, 1945 and housed 9,397 evacuees. Seven Pocatello fourth graders and their teacher became television pioneers on February 17, 1956, as they launched the first closed circuit educational television program in the nation. The program was broadcast shortly after 9:00 a.m. from Idaho State College--as it was then known—with an estimated 8,000 viewers in schools and homes throughout the community.