Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-04-29
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The New Town of Denver. ''

The town-site boomer with his boom
is about TO invade the solitudes of
Camas Prairie, and pretty soon Granee-
vile. Cottonwood and Mt. Idaho will
be but suburbs of the magic cities which
are going to leap into existence-like
The Classical warriors of ye olden time,
iuIly armed and equipped with costly
brick hotels, elaborate opera houses and
all the paraphernalia of highly civilized
commercial centers.
The trade which has long been pend
ing by syndicate of Moscow real estate
spectators for the Ben Morris property
OF 200 acres has at length been con-
sumated, and now the gentlemen COM
posing the syndicate are going into
business in dead earnest to make money
out of it. j. p Vollmer. of Lewiston.
NJ. G. True. F. d. Richardson and w. G..
Bragg, of Pullman, Wash; f. Veatcb.
l. a. Funk, w. j. Blacker. A. T. Spotts-
wood, Jay Woodwork and l. C. Hatta.
baugh, OF Moscow; b. F. Morris, Mt.
daho, and A. A. Kincaid, Palouse City.
are the interested parties. A Moscow
paper says:
The company met IN Moscow recently
and ordained that section 20. containing
oio acres, be laid off in town lots and
mat the new town be called Denver.
Each one-tenth interest was assessed
Sio,0OO, to be paid in cash and used as
working capital. 1t is the purpose of
the company to push the enterprise.
1t is proposed to build a hotel and
establish post flee at once, put in n
general store and newspaper, and make
the town the metropolis of this mag
nihcent Camas Prairie country.
The company will, of course, do con-
siderable advertising in order to sell
lots, and in benefting themselves and
their own property they will also be do.
ing good work for Camas Prairie. Any
enterprise that tends to induce people
to visit and invest here is beneficial to
all and should be encouraged. Our
people will watch with keen interest the
experiment of metropolis building which
the projectors have undertaken, and it
Is to be hoped that they will be sue
cessful. Back in the west of England
where we were raised country with
such resources of natural wealth as this
would have its town and village at
every cross roads. With the develop
ment of its advantages settlements are
bound to be built up all over the prairie
TO accomodate the neighborhood, and
Denver is centrally located for such a
purpose. The establishment of a town
site at that point may seem premature
and an unpromising venture to us old
mossbacks, but the methods of the
modern "boomer" creates cities in lo-
calties with far less of promise than
these gentlemen possess in their location.
On the whole, while the people of this
have steadily discouraged
booming" Camas Prairie, we think
they will be glad to have the aid of the
enterprising gentlemen composing the
syndicate in advertising the varied
natural wealth which is lying dormant
in our county. We need people to de-
velope our resources and the only way
to get them is to invite them through
the medium of printers ink, which the
syndicate will no doubt use freely in
booming their individual property. The
FREE Press congratulates them upon
their choice of location and wishes
nnbounded success. There is no better
country out of doors than Camas Prairie
and Idaho County, and we hope that
each and evey one of the gentlemen in
Lerested will speedily make their per-
manent residence among us.
We are told that the company will
bore for arteisan water Immediately, and
IN the event of their striking a plentiful
low the development of the town site
scheme will be materially fastened.
In fact, town would have been started
here years before Grangeville was
hought of, but unfortunately there was
40 available water supply. But this
title difficulty may be overcome by the
discovery OF arteisan water,