The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-01
1T WILL BE THE
PRIDE OF NAMPA
Dewey, the Mine Owner, Talks
About His Father Hotel.
RAILROAD GOES TO THUNDER
SATISFIED WITH OUTPUT OF
FAMOUS DEWEY MINE.

NJ AMPA'S palatial hotel is nearing
completion. E. H. Dewey, son of
Colonel Dewey, who is putting up
the new hosiery. was registered at the
Kenyon yesterday with his wife, and
gave an idea of the hotel, his mining
interests in Thunder mountain and of
the railroad which his company is
building
Il don't know just when we can have
the opening" he said, in answer to
question. But you may say that the
hotel will be one of the finest in the
west. There are many larger hotels.
but there will be nothing finer. 1t will
have eighty rooms, and will cost $780,
900. The furnishings will be of the
richest description, and it will be fin
ished in the most attractive style.
viii it pay? Why not? Nampa is
growing. IT is on the main line of the
Short Line. people change there for
Boise, and we have two branches out
of there, one to Emmett and the other
to Murphy. An immense amount of
shipping is done from that point. Why
there has been an order in there for
some time for 1900 cars to load the
sheep which are awaiting shipment
there This is only one item. There
is a splendid agricultural country
produce is shipped from there. The
town is growing and there is an i'm
mense amount Of travel that way"
1t is reported that you are making
elaborate preparations for the open
ing"
Prepare For Opening Hotel.
'"Of course we expect to have an
opening, and father will see that ev-
erythtng Is done in proper shape, but
the story that champagne will run in
the streets like water and that we are
dredging the Atlantic tide waters for
terrapin and combing the forests for
game, is a feverish dream. We are
putting in a great deal CT canned
goods, bottled goods. provisions and
other material for the winter, but we
don't know yet exactly what we will
do for the opening, as it isn't anywhere
finished.
Thunder mountain? We are getting
out ore all the time. We have got
down now where the veins are not so
large, but we are taking out a better
quality OF ore; that is, a higher grade
ore. OF course we can't tell yet how
1t viii turn out. We are doing consid-
cradle tunneling end we are treating
the ore right on the ground in our own
MILL
Does the output come up TO vour
earlier expectations
1 think we are doing very well. and
we are satisfied with what we have
done so far. The place was advertised
all out Of proportion to its merits at
hrst, but things are settling down TO
a normal condition. A great many
people rushed in there at first and
found everything staked off To get
into the interior was hard work. ana
they did not find gold cropping out ev-
erywhere as they were led to believe
by some of the stories which were
spread about the mountains possibili-
ties The result was that a good many
went away disappointed and angry.
Ihen, too, things were high. goods
were hard 70 get to the interior and
there was no work. All of these things
mad their effect in discouraging peo-
pie"
VIII Build Railroad.
Was it not your intention to put in
a stamp mill?"
we have one in there now. but we
want to put in larger one. We
cam 90 anything, though, until we get
our line through. The road is built as
far as Long valley. This is a distance
OF about f1fty-nine miles from Emmett.
FROM Long valley to Thunder noun
tam IS a stretch of fifty-seven miles,
which has Just been SURVEYED. The
engineers just got in yesterday.
We can't do anything on that
stretch until spring. so that it win be
fah by the time we get the road
through. You see. that win help out
Immensely The way things are now
we have to haul goods for about 125
miles and it's pretty tough haul at
that.
oh. so far as the hotel is concerned
everything looks bright You see. Boise
is only twenty miles away, and that
VIII help US. Boise is a hustIing town.
and anything that helps Boise helms
Nampa, while anything that helms
Nampa must in a measure help Boise.
We think that so far as the town is
we have everything in our
favor, and we are certainIv nleasad
with the outlook" ~