The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-04
Press and Comment
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The LeWiSfOn=CIark Fair.

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The support of this undertaking has not been 1oca
in any sense of the term. This lewiston Charleston
Fair has been we'll patronized from all over eastern
Washington and Western Idaho
In writing up the 1908 organization held in Lew
iston last week, the Tribune made the following
suggestion which bespeaks repetition this year of
the splendid exhibitions heretofore made by this
joint association:
The meeting marked with considerable entht-
siasm and the newly elected board showed their
efficiency by Immediately getting down to work and
outlining their campaign in most satisfactory
That the fair this year will be the greatest ex-
h1bitlon OF its kind ever held in lewiston Charleston
goes without saying; the well-known energy of the
gentlemen who at the helm assures its success
Each member of the board is anxious to make the
TAR OF 1908 an epoch in the history of this country
and with such spirit on the part of ALL nothing but
the greatest measure of can result
Lewiston and Charleston are virtually one The
Snake river divides the two cities but this division
has been overcome by the erection of large bridge
uniting the two
The elevation at Lewiston and Charleston is but
$40 feet above sea level The soil is rich and no
place anywhere in the west is more spendidy adapted
to the raising of the finer fruits than on the land
adjacent to these two cities
No finer species of grapes and cherries and nuts
grow anywhere in the United States than in these
favored localities
Charleston, early in its history known as Vneland
established by the time famed Charles Francis
Adams of Boston
Adams went back in the hills and brought to the
valley along the westerly banks of the Snake river
near the point of its confluence with the Clearwater
river at Lewiston large body of water for the If
rigation of this desert plain He did this at an enor-
nous cost His early price these lands were fixed
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old timers questioned the quality of Adams's judg-
ment.
Steadily but surely, these splendid acres were
bought up and in or 5 years the price reached
from three to five hundred dollars per acre
Steady has been the increase and so abundant the
yield that scarcely any of these fine lands now can
be purchased for less than 81 100000 per acre
Across the Snake on the Idaho side, about Lew
ston is similar body of land which is just being
vaered by two large enterprises there and the same
results which have so splendidy obtained by this
sister community in Washington is soon to obtain
here.
These annual fairs great living, cogent examples
If the extraordinary productiveness of these two
ocalities to which nature has kindly contributed
People from everywhere, go in large numbers to
hese periodical gatherings, to the wonderful
ibts of grain and fruit and grasses and vegetables
nd stock, all of which attest to the bountfu rich
ess of these great, splendid communities.
1t is the hope of The Scimtar that the manage
tent of this yearly function will see to it that 1
ese extraordinary products, which have to do so
oignantly with the growth and development of
ese communities, be given, always, the prominent
ace in the program of this Inter State Fair No :
ace in the unfolding of the daily life of this ex- g
bition can the management afford to subordinate
y of these great resources to the paddock =
to the pool selling stand u