The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-21

Y. ID. Hannah's whiskers on the south.
We did not take the dimensions east
and west. 1t is a magnificent stretch
Of country any way you look at II
The town of Parma is the home OF
Fred Fiske, a Republican war horse
| ]. E. Kerrick and A. H. Lang, two men
who make a speciality of making good
rs county officers; M. A. Bates, father
of the town, publisher Of the Parma
Herald and useful citizen generally
Hon. j. M. Cason, who is trellised witt
Democracy and is admitted to be the
only simon-pure disciple of the cul
in Canyon county; D. o. Castator, pro-
| prietor of the hotel Illinois, who wants
| to be sheriff of Canyon county as
| Democrat, which is an utter impossi
bility; and several hundred other
more or less notable citizens. 1t Is
a good town inhabited by progress
sive, up-to-date people. Parma Is
alive to it's opportunities, its respon-
sibilities and to its advantages. Most
any citizen of Parma will admit that
there is a leetle country outside OF
the Parma Roswell section but it poor
stuff and the climate is not good for
growing apples. Were the soil richer,
the natural advantages greater and the
climate better, it is possible that
there are sections of Canyon county
that would come up to Roswell and
Parma. In as much as the conditions
are what they are, that the soil is no
richer than it is, that the natural ad-
vantages are no greater than they are,
and that the climate is no better than
it. is, there is an end to it of course
Parma Roswell stands alone.
At the time of which we are speak,
ing the Parma fair was just over and
the Roswell fair was just on. At
Parma there was some little fruit still
left. Just enough was left to give an
observant visitor an inkling of the pos
sibilities of the section. We were
shown currants as big as grapes,
grapes as big as prunes, prunes as
big as peaches, peaches as big as ap-
pies apples as big as cantaloupes, can
taloupes as big as watermelons, water
melons as big as squash, ad squash as
big as a box. There were corn, cot
ton, tobacco, peanuts and pawaukies.
In fact there was everything that was
good to eat or good to look upon, and
the fair was then over. 1t must have
in full blast When all the fruit and
vegetables, the grains and grasses, the
chickens and Mark Bates, the cows
horses and hogs and the other citi-
zens of the town; we say when all
these things and Fred Fiske and j. M.
Cason and Castator and c. r. tanning
of the Review we're all together in
one fair it must have been a cracker
lack AS the fair was over when we
got there We cannot tell about It, bu,
we can assure you 1t was great.
The town of Parma now is ap-
oroaching the one thousand mark IT.
population. 1t has a great many
brick business buildings, fine schools
md churches and a people who can
'ot be surpassed in intelligence, ener.
and public spirit. Parma is so situat
Il that it will always be one OF the
important towns of southern Idaho. II
the right distance from all other
POINTS and is surrounded by magnifi-
'ent farming and fruit growing eoun-
". The famous Roswell bench, re-
nowned from California to Maine for
IS fruit and cantaloupes. is tributary
Parma. The Roswell country alone
would support and justify a much
'arger town than Parma is today. Ros-
yell is the greatest little country on
'arth. 1t don't cover much ground but
it certainly is there with the goods.
Roswell was discovered by C. B.
Furtt, E NJ. Kirkpatrick and asso-
ciates. AS they were all Republicans
they induced a strong Republican i'm
migration from Illinois, and to this
day Roswell is Republican 81 to 3. The
people who settled the Roswell bench
were well-to-do, thrifty and enterpris-
ing. They lost no money, or energy
either. in coming to Idaho. They
built fine homes, fine harms Ane
churches and fine schools. Today Ros.
well is one of the real ideal farming
communities of the United States
Those farmers down there know how
to farm. For several years they regu.
larly and systematically captured about
all the premiums offered by the Can.
yon County Fair Association. This
year Emmett hung one over on then