Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-14

famor city privileges, ans or which
one thc Bell has recently spent $780,
600 iu improvements aud the other, the
independent U.s. placing AN its cables
ln underground Duudutts. a street car
line that viii connect the important
sections of the city. three banks a
t1cut.r numerous lumber Yards. arti-
fetal stone works. many retail stores
of ail kinds. large wholesale houses.
among which rises the large and com
modious building OF the futile Mer-
camille company. sugar factory brew
cry s8Wmill, box factory planning
mills. Crcameries. dyeiug and cleaning
houses wide streets. miles OF side
walks. beautiful homes, public parks
and two lakes. All of this forms a
nucleus for "a large city soon TO be
built-oue in which people can live an
health ANA happiness with all the COM
forts of life while laying up bank ac-
counts
Oue of tho lakes referred TO in tho
foregoing para graph is the govern
mcut reservoir with 2S miles of shore
line and aIhmcrgiug 1000 acres OF
land. This viii always Pe a beautiful
sight for Nampa.
The Nampa chamber Of commerce
has this 10 say OF the spirit OF the
people and the press that did SO mucn
Co work the magic that has created this
city OF the Mesa:
PEOPLE HAD FAITH.
When you consider that practically
an of these institutions and conditions
have been brought about i'm the past
five or six years, you viii realize that
the people who have done this have
had faith ono their city and country,
and among the valuable aids TO this
class of work is the newspaper, OF
one of whose heading bears the in
scription, Always Boosting, Neve~
Knocking Il has been a power in
the up-building of the city, for there
are few cities of the population OF
Nampa that can boast of having real
live newspapers.
GOVERNMENT IRRIGATION.
The United States government Is as
sistiug iu the reclamation of over 3O0.-
600 acres of magnificent fruit and
farming lands Goa an undertaking
known as the Boise Payette project
and the first section of this great work
Will Doe completed next year
Tho acreage 90 be So reclaimed is
part of "a magnificent tract Of more
than $4,000 acres lying along the
Payette. Boise and snake rivers in the
immediate vicinity TO Nampa, Cald-
Well Emmett and Boise As "a matter
of record, Nampa is the geological
center of the entire acreage Already
ia the vast tract some 10000 sores IS
under cultivation, leaving the balance
or about 300. 900 acres to be reclaimed
I'm order 10 obtain water for this fer
tile land large dam is TO be con-
structed on the Payetto river together
with another OF similar size on the
Boise river. The latter dam viii be
completed next month sometime This
"a fa 90
delivering the water OF that river
through a large canal 20 the big reseF-
fpir which is located just four miles
south of Nampa This mammoth res
eiFotr VIII also be completed next year.
lt alone covers some 10000 acres OF
territory.
PAVED STREETS
Determined not 10 be outdone by any
other Idaho city, Nampa issued bonds
for street paving on large scale this
year The result is that during Octo-
Der last contracts were awarded for
the paving OF "a blocks with bitulithic
pavement. IN this same connection the
city fathers made Il obligatory on the
part OF the telegraph company to place
it- overhead wires I'm conduits UNDER
ground.
sim some better idea. can be had Of
the wonderful growth OF Nampa when
Tie statement is made that the in
H-" wa NNAfstANAN ~ NkNA ~ III the CITY
proper and surrounding country was
$500 900 during the past II months. This
IS general increase Of &c per cent in
given space OF time and an actual
Increase OF so per cent since the year
1905.
WILL RUSH THINGS.
Tho Boise Valley railroad broke
ground in Nampa last month. teams
being put 70 work north OF thu Oregon
Short Line tracks U Is the intention
10 construct new 50-foot bridge across
indian creek. Nampa and the railroaa
company divide the expense OF this pro-
Ject
Work OF construction on the other
'hd or thls important project has been
accomplished 10 "a point about 81
miles from Nampa. II b. the inten-
Ton 70 work from Nampa and meet
worimsn on the other end.