The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-07-05

Hired Man hands in this little squi
for the good of the cause. Ten veal
ago the honest people in Payette va
ley. would say. "whatcher goin' t.
Caldwell bout? They amt nothil
there" The Payetter thought he ha
it all and a down hill pull. To loo
upon the valley at the present, iii
calm minded and honest sport, dc
cded he can freely forgive those pee
pie for their early claims. Of cours
they made this one mistake, the
thought they had it all They do cer
tainly have 1T.
One man pointed out a forty acr
patch for which he gave Is dollars pc
acre just sixteen years hence. He ha'
20 acres set in trees at ten per tire
growing, with contract that renew
ais should be made at the expense o
the nurseryman. He kept the plac'
six years and sold it out in breathles
whispers for SIPS per acre. He wanted
to keep it quiet that he would hav'
the conscience to tax a newcomer fo
that sum- Last. year the same trac
of land sold for more than 1000 al
acre and nobody whispered about it
They have either lost their conscience
or else the orchard lands are really
getting to be valuable property.
Men are standing around pointing
out this orchard and that place, and
adding why, could have bought that
for $3.50 an acre three years ago, and
now it is going at $775." A high tract
next to the hills that was open gov
eminent land three years ago, is now
receiving water from pumps $50 below
and nobody ever thinks of that tract
ever going at less than four hundred
dollars in five years.
1t is supposed that some earthly
calamity like the election of the entire
Democratic ticket, or the invasion of
the locust or cut-worm, or some mid
summer frost for a series of years,
will be required to ever again bring
the Payette valley down to earth. OF
course nobody tells of the failures
and foibles and the losses. I'VE only
hear of those good men who got their
money OUT.
Thh Tribune man stood on the
station platform and saw the wind tip
over a garage on the auto within and
at the same moment in the opposite
direction, an Elk monument made of
copper and standing in the center of
the city fountain basin, toppled over
by one branch of the gust. Boards
travelled here and there about the town
and various men came to the glass
doors and windows or else stepped out
entirely, to see what belated people
they could see fastening to shelter.
The little Poison Ivy rail road runs
a tooter out and back every day, and
this accommodates quite number of
people who work too hard to hitch
up their colts or crank their car after
hours. That little road is not as long
as some, but is exactly as wide as the
Short Line, and its superint ndent
and general manager is much wider
than most any Short Line official. The
road takes you along famously and it
hardly every runs off the rails. This
fall the P. v. is going to do tremen-
dous business. Its locomotive is a |
regular cottontail compared with a |
snowshoe or the standard jackrabbit. |
1t is cayuse in among a bunch of
Percherons. but if our big engines
had whistle in proportion to size,
it would be whopper indeed.
Forty years ago some men in charge
of a band of horses were crossing
over the Payette river few miles |
above the site of the present beau
tiful berg, but were unable to put the |
animals into the water, on account of |
the tremendous school of salmon that
were lodged in the ford. 1t took lots
Of strenuous work to route the fish and
cross the frightened horses. Not so
today. Fish hatcheries below, change
in salmon habits, unnecessary des-
truction and frightening of the fish,
have reduced the, crop to a very mar
row margin.
Cold storage buildings, warehouses,
packing houses and canneries are to
be had on every hand near the depot.
Many beautiful homes, fringed with
rare roses and luxuriant flowers, re-
fuged in lawns of exquisite green,
upon which played calm sweet little
boys and girls, ever under the eagle
eyes of loving mothers who peered
out through shining windows in af-
fectionate alteration, and the tramp,
amp tidHAP VI TIC business man on
his way to lunch, or the laboring man
upon his road to work, all go together
to give our little sister to the North
rightful space on Idaho's map. OIL
course Payette is not metropolitan
like Caldwell. Our street cars make
difference. Our gang of men and
women who so the Chautauqua at
Boise and set rub up against so
many defeated candidates as well as
those yet to be defeated, our close
proximity to the bargain sales on
sale days, and our disposition to cut
out the mail order houses and buy here
in town, and our growing reputation
as a convention city or special day
leaguers, all keep US forever out in the
open ahead of Payette and all such
elegant small cities. Payette has a
handsome Y. M. c. A. building. The
association now has 800 members and
two splendid secretaries. The bust |
ness men of the entire region have
Joined in making this a work of fine
distinction. The secretaries take de-
light in showing visitors through the
plant.
The canteloupe is coming gently
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