The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-07-15
CANDIDATE SHORB
VISITS PAYETTE
CANDIDATE SHORE FINDS HIGH
ny PROSPEROUS CONDITION
IN PAYETTE VALLEY.

Towns are FIourishing, Crops arc
Good and People are Happy-May-
or COughanOur Keeps Curio
shop and Bert VenabIc Keeps the
POstOffiCe.
Editor 1ribune-Last week while
chqsins tho Republican nomination
fo Clerk of the District Court we
spent a couple of days in the beau
tful Payetto valley and we return re-
frashpd, encouraged and enlightened.
They have great country down on
the lower end of the Payette and it
has made stupendous progress since
first we cast our eyes upon it, II
was Just about % years ago since we
went from Boise to a place about
or 5 miles below Falk's Store with
old John Smearagc, and nearly 81
years ago when we were a part OF
an excursion to what is now Payette.
At that time Payette was a very
its population being made up of rail
road workmen who were construct
ing the railroad bridge across the
Payettu river and completing the
Oregon Short Line railroad. The
town was struggling along coquetting
with two names that should either
have been chosen would have been
tho death of the community-River-
side and Pomeroy. 1t emerged from
the struggle Payette, which name 1t
has retained ever since, putting in
to 1t a new meaning by its growth
and achievements.
Years ago Payette stood for a pure,
l.mpid, laughing river that meander-
ingly coursed its way down a broad
fertile, sparsely settled valley framed
by gray hills. And the river is just
as limpid, the land just as fertile
but the sparse settlement has given
way to a progressive, populous val
ley with the city of Payette as its
lower metropolis. Payette now STANDS
not only for the beautiful river, but
1t also calls to mind a pretty city
with pushing, energetic, hospitablC
people possessing all the greatness OF
culture and all the blessings Of civil
ization,
To present a 1.-THE of its claims to
attraction is a pleasure We cannot en-
terrain. Sitting upon a fertile soil
is city of wide streets, welt kept
lawns and gardens, handsome busi-
ness blocks, magnificent schools anJ
churches, we'll patronized Y n. c.
A, well housed, and beautiful homes
1t has population of about 4,u0o
and Is located at the junction OF the
Oregon Short Line and the Payette
valley railroads.. The payetto VAL
~ lailro, .IcW in cour,G OF IN
struction its temp D. airy present
terminus at Falk's Store and It's ul-
innate destination Emmett, Idaho. II
traVerses country green with hay
and grain fields and rich with acres
of orchards. All along the line are
commodious farm houses, modern in
appearance and style of architecture,
presenting incontrovertible evidence
that they are homes where reside
people of highest culture and great.
est refinement.
Between Payetto and Falk's Store
arc tho progressive, up-to-date
towns OF Fruitland and New Ply
mouth. We did not stop at Fruit
land but from the car windows we
saw several business blocks-frama
and hrick-a fino brick school house.
church or two, and many pretty
residences, all of which speak vol
hMes for tho character and intoiN'
Eenco of the people who reside there
and surrounding it-as they sur
round all tho towns wo saw in the
Fayetto valley-wero acres of fruit
trees and large patches of berries, all
bearing heavy crops.
Twenty-eight years ago where now
stands tho town of New Plymouth
nero was only barren waste pro-
uuclng rank growth of sturdy sage
brush which was the home of the
FESTIVE Jack rabbit and the shy, yell
low coyote. Now there is a Npell-laid
OUT town with modern homes and
handsome business structures lining
tn" streets and avenues. Her people
nave two pretty brick school build
'nss-one high and one common
s'nool--a fine brick NJ. p. church. a
large frame Catholic church and a
comfortable Baptist place of worship.
our old friend Plugoff, late of On
."''o' has a natty printshop there
NOHl which ha iosuna ha Maui Div