The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-13

Boise, Sept. Iz.-topeSlai'J
canital of the great state Of Idaho!
beautiful, tree-embowered and pros
perous city, commanding universal
u,raise and esteem from people Of all
Assertions who are acquainted with her
Industries and resources.
Right here let me say that no party,
&clioue or individual can in any way
&color or influence me in my writing. L
So only through my own glasses, and
the observations in consequence are
actual facts. A play upon words
through a more elegant diction and
other means, should not be resorted to
in order that barren and unproductive
districts be made an "oasis' in the
readers mind.
People foreign to this section want
absolute facts and figures, and The
Herald is in the Idaho field to give them
in its own way. Now to resume
Boise City. the Idaho capital. is 4S9
miles by rail northwest of Salt Lake
city, and is 497 miles by rail southeast
of Portland, and by virtue of her loca-
80 and resources, commands an area
Sbf country great in itself, together with
Its trade Her commercial supremacy
will reign over the great region that is
all her own, and aside from being a
business and trade center there are
many other resources that will go TO
add to a future increase, and all fruit
ful of good returns.
THE BOISE RIVER VALLEY.
Time, high noon. The Union Pacific
overland is nearing Nampa, and I'm
startled into a more active stage by the
brakeman shouting: 'Nampa is the
Co. D-fs-
City" An eighteen-hour ride from the
Utah capital made me DESTROYS of
changing, and with great crowd of
Others / changed The branch train
vs. all in readiness, and we were soon
E&lding on our way, and through a
bon of steadily increasing interest.
len, but a few years agone the coy
" the bison, and the noble red man
all gamboled together in the otherwise
unbroken solitude. may now be seen
the stamp of civilization, with attend
ant prosperity striking out on every
hand. Along the entire stretch of nine
teen miles the honest and thrifty agri-
culturalist has wrested the arid land
from dormant natures lap, and by
pouring upon it waters of the great
streams tributary, given to the rich
lands nourishment productive of acres
of the finest fruit in the land, and hay
and grain in such abundance as would
make the old-Iime eastern farmer turn
green with envy. Nor is this all. Sub
tantial and modern farmhouses and
outbuildings go hand in hand with the
other evidences Of prosperity enumer-
ated, and a blending together of the
whole is refreshing in contemplation of
the past as against the present From
Nampa to Boise City one finds such
things, and with an increasing ratio
for every mile traVerSed But when
ahR ROiSe river Low 4,
out to your enraptured gaze, facts at
once confront you that overlap fancl-
6ul imagination. There is no longer room
for doubt: skepticism pales as mist be-
lore the warm sun, and you are found
a willing convert to the vista of lowell
ness spread out, up and down the val
icy, and far beyond discernment of the
eyes, strain them as you will, to drink
In the pleasing panorama.
BOISE A BOWER OF BEAUTY.
We slow down crossing the Boise
.<river bridge, and looking out upon the
&eXpanse of rushing waters, is observed
-. magnificent stream, one capable of
nurturing the entire Section-enough
| remaining afterwards to constitute a
fair-siZed river. Another and final ap-
-Plication Of the air brings us to a
dead stop, and 1 alight on the platform
TO run up against an elegant stone de-
Utah capital. l follow in the wake of
the crowd through the palatial and
modern structure, and wonderingly seat
myself in the free bus for the Cap
ital hotel. / was unused to such
'busses," but proprietor John Lemp
doesn't do things on small scale. I've
neen here whole week, and haven
besn able to find him yet No wonderl
He runs the Capital hotel, several
1,Preweries, a number Of large ranches
n and travels about so much in looking
after his varied interests, one can't
locate him.
Gene Horrie is the popular and
eff ut manager, and the Utah public.
on SLsering the spacious dining-rOon,
are pleased TO find the same crew Of
girls that went On strike in the Pacific
hotel at Ogden They are all here and
tell me they are in love with Boise On
this be careful how you pronounce the
word.D Next to the Capital come the
Overland and the Bancroft-good no
tells. There are a number OF others, as
well as numerous first-class private
boarding-houses. and altogether this
city can take care Of thousands when
they congregate here
AS RAYMOND SEES IT.
I can pay no higher tribute to "the
Beautiful" as Boise is commonly
called, than to liken it in a great meas
ure to Salt Lake city, and in this way:
n AS the latter is guarded on the north
and east by mountain walls, so is
Boise, and the contour of the noun
1ains is strikingly like those of the
Fofty Wasatch peaks that rear their
'~giant heads to the eastward of the Utah
capital. The streets are all denseIy
shaded, having row of frees beyond
the curb on either side of the street.
while nearly every residence is literally
buried in a wealth of foliage. Shade
and fruit trees in many instances COM
pletely hide from view the houses. and
of the latter there are all the varieties
Apples, peaches, plums, pears and apri-
cots load the trees to a breaking point.
There is fruit to sell, fruit to give away
and fruit to spurn and trample under
Soot by the resident passer-by, who il
~ used TO abundance in this way
ben gentle summer winds agitate tn.
1vily-laden boughs the luscious frui
Ames tumbli2g down in perfect show.
rs ] have stood by and seen great
big apples falling down the chimneys
in through open doors and windows. ia
the great discomfort of the hired girl.
who had them to pick UP. When il
comes TO Idaho fruit. ] am forced ia
say that Utah must look well 10 her
Iaurels, and the evidence is before me-
AS yet there is no law on the Idaho
statute books to enforce spraying. and
yet the fruit-growers here recognize