The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-21
FRUITLAND IS
COMING TO front
Special to The Tribune.)

ed by all VINO nave given lue Ques-
ton serious thought. Surrounded as
it is by many miles of the most pro-
ductive land in Idaho, with the best
of water rights, producing immense
crops of fruit when other less favor
ed localities fail, Gas evidenced this
year,, the wisdom of it's early set
tiers is now quite apparent to even
casual obstrver.
While many have missed the OPP
portunity of lifetime others have
transformed the desert plain into a
veritable Eden, and the choice red
Jonathan and Rome Beauty apples
from this vicinity are not only tempt
ing but secure first prize wherever
exhibited. At the last Irrigation con- |
gress, j. H. Shawhan, living two
and one-half miles from Fruitland,
secured two first prize silver cups for
the best apples and pears.
This being one of the earliest set
Elements on the bench, about half
way between Payette and New Ply
mouth, many of the orchards are now
in full bearing, while many more will
soon follow and results have been so
satisfactory that no better location
could have been selected for the large
| factory now being erected at Fruit
land for the manufacture of denatur-
lied alcohol, vinegar, apple butter
and jelly by the Fruitland Manufac-
turing Company.
A sixty horse power boiler and en-
CINE is being installed. Commodious
buildings are being built and the
plant will be ready for business this
fall. The large packing house of the
Melon & Fruit Growers Association
are now being taxed to their fullest
capacity, furnishing employment for
the entire community and many from
a distance. Forty acre farms are
now being sub-divided into ten and
twenty acre tracts and as the soil is
we'll adapted for raising strawberries
and other small fruits, as we'll as
cantaloupes and vegetables suitable
for canning and picking, astonish-
ing revenues are obtained from these
small tracts. The land already re-
claimed in the vicinity of Fruitland
will readily support population OF
ten thousand people and as soon as
the Boise Payette government project
is completed nearly as much more
land will be reclaimed, tributary tt
this town.
The sugar company also finds this
one of its most productive fields fol
raising sugar beets and one of the
largest loading stations has already
: been built at this point. This croI
requires large field force from early
summer until late in the fall, but
. the yield is very large, some farmers
in this vicinity having cleared $500
per acre above expenses.
With all these conducive surround
ings the future growth and prospect
ty of Fruitland is assured beyont
question and many of the land own
ers in that vicinity are making Sc
! lections of residence and business
lots for future use. Two religious
= organizations are arranging to buil'
in the near future; a new schoo
! house will be built and several bust
, ness enterprises will be cared for a
4 soon as possible; among these are
canning company. picking works
' general merchandise, hotel, etc.
Uncle Sam is already serving thi
Z community with rural delivery an
the Independent Telephone compan
will soon establish an exchange q
this point to facilitate the handlin
( of its rapidly increasing business, q
! nearly every farm house on the Frui
land bench now finds this instrumeI
one of its household necessities.
4 Jean c. Stenger has just complete
a neat residence and several otht
parties are making selections of 10
preparatory to building this fal
Among thse are M. A. Smith, P.
Silkett and j. o. Johnson, who wi
y engage in business.
Electric power will be availab
| this fall from the great Ox-Bow POI
er plant on the Snake river, fe
> miles below Payette and will be u.s.
4 by tn electric interurban line nc
building out from Boise, which W
in all probability cross the Payet
Valley railroad at this point, with
n branch line to Payette and Ontar
! Natural gas has recently been
ID covered in several wells in this vic
ity and there is every indication IL
Fl oil will be found in paying quantit
\ at depth of from 1900 to 80
feet, throughout the whole lower p
ton Of the Payette valley. A stro
l A.