The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-01-10

hotels opened. public buildings i'm
proved, streets paved and the erec-
ton of large Government building
undertaken and now in progress.
To recount the improvements made
in Boise during the year would re-
quire the greater part of the entire
New Year edition of the Salt Lake
Tribune, from which the extent of
the Improvements may be judged.
At present two or three electric
railway lines are projected, which
are to run from Boise to the sur
rounding towns and agricultural
districts. ..''5
Caldwell, the county seat of Can
yon county, has shown remarkable
activity in the way of public i'm
provements. During the year it
has witnessed the completion of ex-
tensive Improvements to its public
school buildings, its college build
ings and business houses. One
creditable church building has been
erected, and not less than twenty
residences, some of the latter, cost
ing between $4,000 and $1,000 each.
A very satisfactory and efficient
electric plant has been installed,
which now furnishes light for nearly
every home and business place in
the city. If you will permit me, I
would like to inject here a word OF
praise for W. R. ~Sebree, to whose
energy and enterprise Caldwell is
indebted for this modern improve
ment A waterworks plant is now
being placed and would have been
completed had it not been for una
voidable delay in securing machin-
cry and pipes. This plant is prob
ably somewhat unique, as its water
supply is derived from twenty-one
flowing wells. The water is pump
ed from the wells to reservoir on
the opposite side of the town, which
is sixty feet higher than the pumps.
Power is supplied by two twenty
two horsepower gasoline engines.
1t is believed that water can be sup
piled to business places and resi-
dences at an extremely low price.
The plant, when complete, will cost
about $4,000. The construction
of $50, 900 hotel has progressed
to the point where masonry work
will begin about the 1st of March,
The, little town of Emmett, on
the Payette river, has received ex-
traordinary stimulation through the
advent of the Dewey railroad, oi
which it is the present terminus.
Within the year the population oi
Emmett has considerably more than
doubled, and it continues to grow,
A dozen or more brick business
! blocks have been erected; national
bank has been established; large
wool warehouse has been built, and
not less than fifty residences com
pleted. Down the river about
twenty-five miles is the model towr
of New Plymouths 1t discloses (
wonderful degree Of prosperity
Last summer fruit evaporator wa
established there, which treated
something like two hundred ant
fifty thousand pounds of fruit. A
large brick church was also erected
= and a great many other, improve
ments made.
: Payette has enjoyed its full shar
of the growth and prosperity Incl
dent to this section of country
| Some very costly and elegant resi-
dences have been built, and ais
2 a number of business blocks. TIL
t population of the town has in
f creased IS per cent, and the popu
S 1ation of the country tributary, a
u least so per cent. Payette is ur
+ questionably one of the most sui
e stantial towns in the State.
d cannot, at this time, tell about tn
/ improvements which have been er
it joyed by such communities as Parm
IS and Roswell. The occasional visitc
IF to these places is constantly su
>, nrised at the growth thew are max