Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-14
2ise, Tie City of Enterprise and Beautiful Hon..

Pierce Park. This win be located about
touf miles from the city on the line of
thc intcrurhan. 10 Will bo built ON lines
similar 10 those OF Cuuey Island. New
Aurlts famous resort ana win cost
iu general improvements Ia the neirh-
borhood OF $4,000. This company's DO
pot and carhouse win cost to exceed
S2o.0Vo ". D. Pierce a Co. win build
am office building costing ln the neign-
horhood OF $4,000 ana 90 be atuared
across thc street from the postomce.
Tho Bank OF Commerce win also ada
two stories Co its present building on
the corner OF Tenth and Main. The
number OF residences planned is. one
might almost shy Infinite. especially
OF the middle class house. These spring
up almost in "a day ana there are mum.
beers OF them in construction at AN
times. Bulses total building viii cN-
coed &Lo00.O0O for 1907. and the figures
for 1905 bid fair az this time to exceed
S20O0O0o.
MANUFACTURES.
At present lumber and sugar are the
principal ARTICLES OF manufacture in
i4auo, iu Boise the factories are some
what moro varied. It's payroll u tho
manufacture OF cigars alone viii OK
coed $4,000 annually and the city has
become "a home for the candy manutac-
turcr They have three uouyauug
candy factories. The humber business
Be- also carried TO a greater extent in
the city the manufacturers there turn
ing OUT sashcs and doors which find a
ready sale throughout the country.
There is prosutIoua Dlt auG glue fac
tory, "a type foundry and many other
such, most " them small but In the
aggregate producing "a payroll which
exceeds $1,000 per day FOR every day
in the year. There are opportunities
iu Boise m "a manufacturing way Ion
some OF which local capital can be in
tcrcstcd II is believed that a cereal
factory can 90 wei and the CONNER
Oial club would Doe iu q position to help
the proper party An It's establishment.
Many train loads OF ore are shipped
out of Boise and Idaho each year, ore
which could We'll be smelted in this
state and on which a greater profit
could well be realized if Il We're smelted
here. The conditions an the Boise val
Icy are ideal for such q plant there
is plenty OF water, good shipping facil-
tiles. an excellent tonnage Of smelt-
ing ore and a steady production. Per-
haps the most lamentablc situation is
found in the wooden industry. In 1905
Idaho shipped east 25.000.O00 pounds OF
raw wool, about the same In 1906 and q
trine less i'm 1907. The percentage
OF dirt runs very high I'm raw wool
and the freight required to ship this
dirt to Boston is enormous. There Is
am opening here for a wool scourins
plant wool spinning plant and n
knitting works. such am opening as Is
rarely found in this staid old world
and one which will pour wealth into
the lap Of him who shall develop IT,
There is an excellent opportunity for
a foundry at Boise as there are mines
on two sides Of the city, a steam road
and three electric roads which alone
send enough business out of town each
year 10 support a FIRST class foundry.
THE WEATHER.
The mean summer temperature NJ
Boise Is 90 degrees and the average
minimum temperature IN the summer
"a degrees, being seven degrees lower
than the temperature OF the cores
ponding ATTITUDES IN tn east. There axe