The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-04
BOISE is BOOMING
Push and Progress in the Fail
Northern City.
THE WATER TROUBLES SETTLED
Buildings Going Up on ALI Hands-A Sewer
System to be Built-General Pros
perity Ahead

BOISE CITY, Ida, April 2.-[Special cor
respondence of THE HERALD. He is the
politest man you ever saw" said a dis
tinguished lawyer of this state, referring
to Judge Nugent, now presiding in our dis
trict court. Old-tashioned courtesy is
having revival. The only fear expressed
regarding our new Judge is that he will be
slow in maturing mis- opinions. His legal
learning is universally conceded; and there
has been no lack of industry or promptness
in the dispatch Of business. There are six
teen divorce cases on the docket, and it
looks little alarming to find per cent of
all the married people of Ada county dis
contented with their lot and seeking re-
lease in the courts; but this Impotence of
restraint is one of the features Of our So
cial life, which will doubtless soon give
way to healthier state of public feeling
The long contest between the two city
water companies was settled o-day by the
union OF the two organizations. The ANAL
gamated company is called the Artesian
Hot and Cold Water company; cash and in
vested capital S250,000. 1t owns double
system of water pipes, extending seven
teen miles through the streets and alleys Of
the city; it has 200 acres of land on North
Boise Heights, with dozen artesian wells,
spouting water enough for 10000 people; it
has two wells in East Boise, flowing pure
hot water in amount equal to that afforded
by the cold water system. The company
| proposes to build an immense hotel in
East Boise, with immense bath houses; to
! lay off beautiful park, provide cottages
| for those preferring separate residences,
and to connect the whole with the city
through the electric motor railway. If
practicable, the hot water will be conducted
! by separate system throughout the entire
city, for heating, bathing and other pur-
poses. The officers of the company are as
follows; President, G. W. Moore; vice
president, j. r. DeLamar; treasurer, Al
fred Eotf; secretary and manager, Charles
A. Clark; superintendent of cold water
system, Peter Soma; executive committee,
II. B. Eastman, T. Regain, Nathan Falk,
Thomas Davis, ". H. Ri6enbaugh.
MIR. Moore is president Of the First Ma
tloDal bank, president of our school board,
and has been state commissioner for the
erection of most of our public buildings.
Mr. Eoff is cashier of the Boise City Ma
tional bank; Mr.. DaLamar is a state sena-
tor and principal owner of the great De-
Lamar mines; Mr.. Clark is also secretary
of our board of trade and of other impor-
tant public bodies, and Mr.. Eastman is
most thoroughly conversant with the water
system, and one of the shrewdest business
men in our city,
Arrangements are in progress for the
erection Of valuable new buildings this
year. The Boise City National Bank
building, three stories high and covering
60X72 feet at the corner of Idaho and
Eighth streets, will be the finest building
INTELLECTUALLY in the city. The Masonic
Temple will probably be at the corner Of
Eighth and Grove streets, and occupy
100x62 ieet; or they may occupy their pres
ent grounds on Main street, between Sixth
and Seventh. The Masonic fraternity
have finally decided to build, but details
are not decided upon, Should the popular
vote on May permit, the city will expeno
$40, 900 in building opposite the new bank
The Colorado Investment Company build
ing, corner OF Eighth and Bannock, will
cover 70X122 feet.
The city expects this season to expend
1000 in its new and much needed sewer
age system. A committee Of the city coun
Gil has given much time to investigating
the sewerage question, and find themselve:
surrounded by a labyrinth of conflicting
theories and new inventions, but the people
are confident that they will make a SAFE
choice.
Already larger expenditures have beer
provided for than were made in the twC
|, preceding years, and they are only pre-
Jude to much more to follow in the same
line,