Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-07-15
THE FREE PRESS.
GRANGEyILLE. IDAHO.
FRIDAY, /: !: /; July 10. 1892
a TpiD to Deucer.

"A Twp ~ 1Cc"tCss
Last Saturday " started on visit to
Denver and found this embryo metrop-
oils a scene of great activity. Long |
strings of teams laden with lumber we're |
filing into town, carpenters we're too
busy to talk, the artesian well drill was
hard at work and several visitors from
different parts of this prairie and from
the outside country gave the town a
look OF business we had not expected to
find in so new a settlement. The build
ings now going up are OF very durable
construction and have not their equals
on the prairie for strength. Here is a
list of the business buildings to date:
Hotel, 25x6O feet, with an addition
OFFS feet yet to be added to the main
building; owned by Shissler and Ingram,
This house is very massive and braced
TO stand the heaviest winds.
!2-Hotel 2Sx50 feet. with an addition
.22x50x50 to be erected later. Twelve
rooms in present building aud as many
more in the new addition. Owned by
w. J. Henderson, of Moscow.
3-Livery stable 42x70 feet, owned by
George A. Hills, of Moscow. This is a
magnificent structure, solidly put to-
gether and would be credit to town
many sizes larger than Denver.
4-Walter Brockman, 20x50 feet, al
ready rented for one year by MI.
Gregory, of Spokane, who intends to
open drug and notion store.
GA building 25x50 feet owned by
John Vnson, painter and paper. hanger.
Boivin, of Moscow, who will put in a
stock of hardware, paints and oils.
6-The real estate and town Co.'S Of
flee 20x3O.
IA two story building nearly COM
pleted. owned by G. W. Cooper, of Cot
,fonwOod, to be occupied by Mr.. Orbison
of Moscow, With stock of dry goods,
etc.
8-Butcher shop, by Jones & Cone, Of
yGranQeville and Cottonwood, open and
doing good business.
Among the buildings contracted fol
and projected are the following: Store
building 25x5O feet for Dernham and
kaufman, Moscow; business house
.25x50 feet, put up by Thos. Tierney
Uniontown, for rent, bank building tt
go up on the corner of Main and Broad
way opposite the real estate Office, 9
drug store to adjoin the bank building
jim which Mr.. Nixon of Palouse City viii
open a drug store a feed and chop mil
to be run by Levi A. White; also
a sash and door factory to be opened b.
j. S. Sullivan, of Genesee. contracto
and builder also printing Office il
which the new paper is TO be published
The Pullman mercantile compan,
have bought three inside lots and in
tend establishing q wholesale and retail
grocery and dry goods business.
George Hills is running weekly stag
from Moscow to Denver and return
He leaves Moscow Monday mornin
and arrives at Denver Tuesday evening
returning, he leaves Denver Frida,
morning and gets to Moscow Saturda
evening, Single fare, s.. or $l4 for tn
Sound trip. His four horse stage is load
ed to its utmost capacity every trip.
The first artesian WE'LL while not
flowing we'll. affords plenty of water de
spite the obtruction of the sand pun
,being lodged in the bottom. A fey
strokes of the pump handle brought u
q clear stxeam of the liquid element
This water was struck at depth of 10
feet
The town site company are havin
the plat of the city, accompanied by al
;propriate letter press descriptive
Camas Prairie and idaho county, litht
and will soon food the country wit
them. They will be good advertise
ment for the town and country.
The artesian well drill is known az Il
I'St, Louis drill" t Is run by IL hor,
power engine and sinks from Is to
feet per day. This Is the same drill tn
found the artesian water at Pullma
Moscow and elsewhere in the Palou
country. There is no reason why a
tesian wator should not be found
over Camas Prairie. The bowels of u
earth are full of water and it is only
question of reaching it.
The town site is beautifully laid OF
The entire $40 acres is marvel of III
formity. Main and Broadway are ca,
400 feet wide and all others so fe
There are 1876 blocks in the tract, al
each block is 800 feet square and divid
by 20 foot alleys. Main street runs nor
and south on the heart of the ridge al
will make magnificent avenue. +
scenery is sublime from all parts of I
town. Six blocks in the northwest &C
ner Of the section are reserved for
public park. The court house bio
fronts 800 feet on Broadway, and si
only two blocks from Main street ha
been reserved for schools and church,
There is not better laid out town
che Pacific coast.