The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-10-27
MAINLANDS BUY AN
ELECTRIC ROAD
TO GET HERE
WILLIAM MAINLAND NEGOTI-
ATING FOR PROPERTY IN
CALDWELL FOR LINE.
Boise Valley Will Come to Caldwell
Thence to Payette, Weiser and
Other Points-Great Development
For This Section of Idaho-Noble
Sells Out.

William Mainland, president of the
Idaho-Oregon Light & Power Co., was
in Caldwell Sunday, for the purpose of
negotiating for land for terminal ia
cilties for the Boise Valley railway
which will be extended from Nampa
to this city. The plans of the COM
pany include an electric line from
Caldwell to Weiser via Parma and
Payette. 1t is also proposed to make
a number of improvements. An ex-
tension from Nampa to Kuna is in
cluded in the program.
Last Saturday the Idaho-Oregon
Light & Power Co. purchased the
Boise Valley railway. The purchase
price was $850,000 Mr.. Robert Noble
owned two-thirds of the stock of the
Boise Valley. Both he and Mr.. Main
land confirm the report of the deal
Mr.. Mainland has stated that the pa
pers had been signed and that the &C
/
take place within a month; and fur
Their that his company proposed max
ing the line one of the finest in the
northwest.
The company is backed by New
York financiers, who have the utmost
confidence in Idaho, the Boise Valley
and in Caldwell The transactions
just closed means that hundreds of
thousands of dollars will be spent in
and around Caldwell during the next
year in electric railway improvements
and extension work
To Build Extensions.
In speaking of the deal and its vast
import to this section of Idaho the
Capital News says:
R. W. Watson of New York, chief
advisor of the syndicate, was in Boise
for some time and left for the east
only few days ago. He has plans of
the entire lines of the company and
also of the extensions which the COM
pany proposes to build, and it is likely
that material will be ordered at once
for the work. The company wishes to
keep its plans as much in the dark as
possible at present in order that the
competing lines may not rush work
into the territory to be covered. The
possibilities of the company, while not
made public, it is understood, will be
the building of line to Kuna, making
the Nampa line more direct, and the
building of number of lines in the
city covering portions through which
no service is given at present.
Actual operation is to take effect
just as soon as the affairs of the Boise
Valley can be placed in the hands of
the Idaho Oregon people and that
company will take up active operation
of the city line of the Boise Valley
and its line from here to Nampa, COM
pleted about year ago and since
which time cars have been in daily OPP
Grafton.
1t is generally conceded that the
deal is of paramount importance to
Boise and the Boise valley, due to the
fact that the Idaho Oregon Light &
Power company is one of the largest
electric power concerns in this state,
operating as it does electric power
lines as far west as Huntington, near
which city its big Ok Bow power plant
is located. These power lines connect
with all of the intermediate towns be-
tween Boise and Huntington, furnish
light and power to these cities as well
as to Boise, where a seven-year con-
tract is held for the furnishing of light
In further confirmation of the infor-
nation The Tribune has received, and
indicated by the Capital News, Tues
, days Statesman says:
: To Shorten Boise Valley.
The property is to be bought, and
the right of way from Nampa is tc
be bought. Whether it was gotten yes
J terday or not is open to guess, but
: that it will be secured within the mex
: few days is an absolute certainty, il
l is said.
. The proposed shortening of The
! Boise Nampa line, by the cutoff owe
y the Morris Hill cemetery, will leav,
3 the company some six miles of tie'
= and rails, which, when the building o
the Nampa- Caldwell line begins, will