Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-10-02
SKETCHES OF BOISE CITY.
FEDERAL TERRITORIAL OFFICES,

but the majority of them are contiguously To-
Gated along the upper end of Main street. The
! principal Territorial building, in which Gov.
Ballard and his Private Secretary, Capt Por
ter, and the Territorial Secretary, Hewlett,
have their Offices, is merely fair frame build
ing, without any pretensions to display, and
barely to comfort. just above is the office of
Judge Hough, Special Indian Agent. and,
though it seems to answer the purpose, the
least said of its fitness for the purpose, the bet
ter. The Offices of Mr.. Sterling, the Terrific
rial Treasurer, and of Mr.. Bishop, the Terri
torial Controller, which are some distance sep
arate from each other, are also poorly adapted
for their uses, and very insecure. The only
office, atall suitable for the purpose is that of
Surveyor-G General Cartee's. 1t is upon the
street south of and parallel to Main street, a
| little farther up than the Governors office,
and was built agreeably to plans furnished by
Gen Cartee. The style is neat, and the com
bination of strength ard comfort and adapta-
bility maintained in its structure The build
ing is of frame, but the weatherboards are
covered with mastic of earthly, gritty cement,
and the places between the frame .oist are
| filed in with brick The inside walls are
plastered and then papered and thus the
building is rendered almost fre-proOf-at least
from ordinary causes, outside, and thoroughly
so inside. While on visit at the office we
learned, from Gen. Cartee, that in about three
months some of the public lands in Boise Val
Hey will be ready for regular entry and sale
The meagreness of the appropriation to his
ofice-the paltrY sum Of fifteen thousand dol
lars-has prevented him from pushing on the
survey of any portion of the Territory as he
had hoped to have it progress He is making
the most of the narrow and grossly inadequate
means at his disposal, however, and maps are
already nearly completed, of townships ex-
tending from his base line, almost to Idaho
City. As soon as the Land Office for this di
vision of the Territory is opened at Boise City,
| there will be surveyed lands ready for the reg
ular entry of claimants and pre-empters. The
Register and Receiver, Messrs. Brown and Car
roll, are awaiting orders from Washington we
believe, in respect to the opening of the Land
Office, and will give due notice of the time
which shall be fixed for that event. A partial
diagram of the extent of the survey so far
completed. was furnished to us in Gen. Cartee's
office, by his Assistant, Mr.. Thompson, which
can be seen at our Office. toe
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
Among the public institutions of Boise City
it is proper to name the First National Bank
of Idaho, of which B. NJ. DuRell is President,
and G. M. Moore is Cashier. The banking
office is in the building of DuRell & Co. on
Main street, and we saw engaged in it as chief
clerk, Mr. Fields, long with Wells, Fargo &
Co. ln.California and Oregon, who is one Of
the best accountants. and practical banking
men in the country. Whatever our Demo
cratic prejudices are against banking institu-
tions, it is not to be denied that this bank has
filled want in the various phases of financial
transactions in the community, End of ex-
change requirements abroad The branch es-
tablishments at Idaho City, and at Silver City,
are equally valuable in the respective points as
mediums for monetary transactions within and
between these three chief cities of Southern
Idaho.
RESIDENCES AND GARDENS.
Boise Cityis too new place to boast mag
nifcent residences and ornamented grounds,
Yet there are two or three very pretty and
coramodious suburban dwellings, and gardens
there, and several more will be seen next year.
The residences of c.. Jacobs, of Davis Gate
Davis & Ritchey), and of James Fl. Slater,
are among the handsomest at present. The
grounds attached to the house of the latter
named gentleman are peculiarly attractive be-
cause of their superior cultivation. aRd' adcrn-
ment He has ten acres in fruit trees of choice
varieties, nearly all of which will bear next
year. These grounds.are also thickly planted
with all kinds Of garden vegetables. There
are, besides, large plats of the best varieties
Eof strawberries, which yield wonderfully pro
life IN their season; and Flora is represented
.Ebya Illxuriapt profusion of flowers, embracing
among the varieties, segeFalsfne exoties and
\ nearly every kind Of ordinary growth. But
4 amidst all these plants ands vines, useful and
beautiful, we saw many. shrubs OF a most
baneful species, which, ought never to be Guilt
4 waited in places where children may ramble 1t
isthe Euphorbia or wild caper, as some call it.
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