The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1908-04-18
Plan Big Publicity
Attract Settlers
Representatives Of Towns on Pay,
ette Boise Project Meet and Dis
cuss Plan to Raise $4,000.

Representatives Of commercial clubs
IN towns within the territory Of the
Payette- Boise irrigation project held a
meeting in the rooms Of the Boise Com
mercial club yesterday afternoon for the
purpose Of taking preliminary steps
looking to the advertising OF land under
the project.
The result OF the meeting was the
forming Of plan Of organization to car
ry on advertising on a large scale. The
towns represented are Boise, Caldwell,
Payette, Nampa, Roswell, New Ply
mouth and Emmett.
No Organization was effected. but
plans for one adopted at the meeting
will probably be carried ont BY the sew
eral clubs represented. The plan adj
dopted at the meeting was to submit to
the various clubs a scheme to organize
an advertising association to be com
posed Of one member from each club.
one member Of the Payette Boise Water
Users association, a representative OF
the state land board and a representa-
tive Of the government reclamation ser
vice, and from members OF the associ-
alton select an executive committee to
decide upon a plan of advertising to be
submitted to the association for its ap-
proval. There is no doubt that these
details as given will be acceptable to the
several clubs and that when members
Of each appointed as members OF the
advertising association hold their first
meeting in this city week from next
Monday an executive committee will be
appointed and plans for advertising en-
tered upon.
The suggestions made at Yesterdays
meeting which are considered good ones
will probably be acted upon and this
means that at least $4,000 will be
spent this year in advertising land un-
der the project Details OF advertising,
cost, etc, will be left with the execu-
tive committee to decide.
Whatever is decided upon by the ex-
ecutive committee the Water Users
association will be asked to approve and
it will he suggested that the plans adopt
ed he carried out.
To raise the money for advertising
each town within the project will be as
sessed according to it's population
Boise will he asked to give $1,000, Nam
pa and Caldwell each $1,000, Emmett
$500. Middleton, Parma and Meridian
$3.50. Star and New Plymouth $50, Ros
well and Kuna 500 and Payette $500
In addition to these amounts the Water
Users association will probably give
$1,000 BY levying an assessment Of fv,
cents per acre on land owned bv mem
bers of the association, and it is expect
ed also that the state, which owns lane
under the project, will give at least 500
The state owns 10000 acres and ii il
planned COR the land board to arrang
for an excursion to these lands at whicl
time 800 acres will be auctioned and sol
on easy payments with per cent inter
est.
Until this spring the Water Users
association had not been in position t
advertise lands under the project be
cause it has not been completed. Blu
that part OF it in which the association
is interested will be practically finishe
this spring and it is desired that tn
lands be taken up by settlers as soon a
it is possible to sell it. Little has bee
heard of the lands under the project /
the past but with the inauguration OF a
advertising campaign the opportunitie
this section affords will speedily 3
brought to the attention ot land seeker
Under the practically completed proieC
there are 200, 900 acres OF land, eompai
atively little OF which has been settle
. up.
one OF the plans Of advertising su9