Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-05-24

if there was extra business. The light
| system was put in soon after that. \
second house was built on the hill the
next summer. that would be in 1898,
and about the next two or three years.
there We're only a very few houses
built on the hill. In 1895. the Normal
school. or about that time was in
course of erection. and probably built
in 1895 to completion. that at cost Of
about $4,000, and situated on the hill.
within the city limits.
Soon after that, they began to agi-
tate the irrigation of the tract over
Nineland, across the Snake river, and
after a failure of one or two projects
one was put through resulting in the
application of water over there, from
Asotin creek. Washington. the water
being applied probably about 1897. and
that body of land then was sold out in
Orchard tracts Of two and a half to
ten or fifteen acres, and planted into
orchards. They began to sell that land
after the water was applied, and the
prices have run up to the present time,
with the improvements. in the way Of
orchards they have over there. and one
thing another" Here the court sus-
tanned an objection of plaintiff attor-
ney to the prices Of the land.
Soon after the application of water
over in that Vineland district across
the Snake river. a bridge was put in
connecting the city Of Lewiston, with
the Vineland district, steel and iron,
with concrete abutments, about twelve
hundred feet long. spanning the river
Then the first railroad came into Lew.
iston. Idaho, the Spokane & Palouse,
from Juliaetta, Idaho. in the summer
and fall of 1898. and during that year
and the next year there was built from
that road. branching of at Potlatch, in
Nee Perez county, the Clearwater Short
Line railway. about seventy miles into
Sites. Idaho county. and a branch Of
twelve to fifteen miles was built Of that
road. branching of at Spalding. in Mes
Perce county. Idaho. and running
southeasterly to Culdesac. The Nex
Perez Indian reservation had locked up
several hundred thousand acres of land.
think I made an offer on the Mes
Perce reservation. Il will not repeat it.
Prior to the commencement OF this
action. and about 1900 or 1901 or 1909,
there was erected upon Normal Hill. in
this city a hospital, three story, stone
and brick structure. at a cost of about
thirty-fiv or forty thousand dollars,
and about 1895 there was erected on
the hill sisters school for girls at
cost OF about seven thousand dollars.
Prior to the commencement Of this ac-
ton. the population over in vineland,
just across the Snake river, was fifteen
hundred or two thousand people. The
population of Lewiston, according to
the census of 1890. was eight hundred
and some people and according to the
census Of 1900. 2,42s people. and by the
year 1908 the population had increased
from 1900. Of the city Of Lewiston to
1903. to about $500 people. The popu-
lation of Nee Perez county, according
to the census Of the United States gov
eminent was between $500 and $500
people. and according to the census of
1900 was over $4,000. A large increase
was also made in Asotin county, WASH
ington. just across the river from Lew
iston, and in Idaho and Shoshone coun-
ties which adjoin.
"A new high school building was
built in the City of Lewiston from
brick and stone in the lower part of the
city, sometime within one, two, three or
four years before the year 1903 Before
the year 1903, the Normal Hill in the
city of Lewiston became very largely
settled and built up with residences.
scattered over an area of a mile, about
and about the year 1901, think sub
stantially all the lots in the Yantis adj
dition were sold. the Yantis addition
lying just east of the land in contrc-
versy, and somewhat north. a portion
of it. and between March. 1900, and the
beginning of this action. the largest
portion Of the property on the hill in
the city of Lewiston changed hands,
and was almost all subdivided in that
period into subdivisions
About from 1895 to 1909 there were
probably from 10000 to 200, 900 acres
OF timber land located In a tributary
region to the city OF lewiston Vast
and innumerable mineral discoveries
were made in the country tributary to
Lewiston. and practically all OF the
productive mineral development in
North Idaho, including the Occur
d'Alenes was developed after the year
1890.
"A provision for the extension Of the
city limits of the city Of Lewiston.
which was made In 1908 had been
agreed upon, and by local organiza-
ton, prior to the commencement of this
action, and sewerage system was in
stalled during the SOS. after the year
1892. through the business district of
the city of Lewiston. and a project for
the extension Of one over the entire
Normal Hill district had been entered
upon before the commencement Of this
action. and subsequently carried to
completion. Quite a number of miles