The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-03-04

neople who are making prepara-
t;ons we learn that between one
and two hundred houses will be
built here during present year.
Ten or twelve residences, begun
since the first of January, are now
in various stages of construction.
These facts again dispose us to
urge the necessity of public i'm
,vements. Extraordinary efforts
should be made this year to open
Ill and improve new streets. At
tention is called to the fact that
Kimball is the only feasible street
traversing the breadth of the town,
and Third south the only practic-
able one traversiug its length. Ev-
erv other street in Caldwell, before
getting out of town, is interrupted
by a bridgeless. section Of Indian
creek, an impossible irrigation
canal or a strip of wild land, or dis
appears in a quagmire. The pub"
he thoroughfares should not be suf-
fered to remain in this condition
for another year. 1t retards the
growth of the town, depreciates
property values, interferes with
business and generally disgraces
the community. Accompanying
Improvement of streets should be
extension of the city water works.
Sooner or later this must be done,
and it should be done now because it
will operate as an inducemeut to
strangers seeking to build homes, as
we'll as encourage those already
here to improve their properties.
The street lighting ought also %
be extended. There is a large
section of the town paying taxes
for water and light for the benefit
of others. That is charitable, but
it isn't business, and, moreover, it
isn't necessary. Then, again, the
building of a respectable city hall
ought to be pushed. All these
things are necessary to the growth
and stability of the town.
Right now is a critical period in
the affairs of Caldwell. Right now
the status of the town may be set
tied for all time. Right now an
impetus may be given to its growth
and development that may carry it
forward for years to come. For a
good many years the irrigation
problem presented difficulties and
created uncertainties. That is now
solved and practically settled. The
surrounding counliy is going for
ward by leaps and bounds. This
town must keep pace. In fact it
must lead, or soon it will be out
grown and outclassed by its neigh
bors. Don't make the fatal mis-
take of lying supinely down and
shouting, caldwell is all right"
The trail from Chicago to Portland
Is Uttered with the remains Of
towns whose inhabitants stood
around yelling, 1--WE are all right"
Today they are as melancholy
spectacles as ill-kept graveyards.
Eternal push is the price of su-
premacy.
In passing, we want to suggest
some important facts. Three years
ago. all kinds of property in Cald-
well was worth less than half of
what it is today. In other words,
the people were upon the average
my per cent poorer then than now.
AGAIN, three years ago property, in
town. was worth so per cent less
than 1t was ten years before that.
90 we may see that in the matter
0f nnance, the community went
steadily down hill for nine or ten
years. touched the bottom about
'nree years ago and then slowly
ana painfully began the upward
Climb. Meantime, until within the
last year, other towns round about
OUT climbed Caldwell. Nampa,
Emmett, Payette and Parma, all
made n comparatively more progress.
sAaiQWell had arn1Y;raJ n sost ocn: