Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-20
new MEADOWS
| HAS BUILDING ERA
Extensive improvements
Under Way-Railroad
Adding to Its Plant.
(Staff Correspondence)


New Meadows. Oct. 19.-The p. & I.
N. railroad is building here a four stall
round house. which with the heating
plant. etc, will cost about $4,000. 1t
is Of solid brick construction and stands
Immediately to the west Of the present
round house, which will be converted
into a machine shop which will be
equipped with $4,000 worth Of up-t to-
date machinery. George Brinson of
New Meadows is the contractor in
charge Mr.. Brinson built here the
$4,000 P. & l. N. depot; the new Hotel
Heigho which cost $4,000; the $4,000
bank building. and the $4,000 school
house. Colonel E. NJ. Heigho Is the
moving spirit in these enterprises.
Hotel Heigho was recently opened by
Mr.. and Mrs. Fairfield. experienced
hotel folks of New Madrid. Mo. Forty
four rooms Of the hotel are furnished
together with the lobby. dining room.
kitchen, etc, at a cost Of $4,000. Most
of the furniture in the lobby. dining
room and guest rooms Ii of mahogany.
The dining room service 10 splendid.
Tho hotel is beauty.
improvements.
w. r. Mozier, the auditor Of the p.
& I. N, is completing pretty five
room bungalow at a cost Of $4,000. d.
+. Newton Is the contractor.
H. s. Buckbee. freight engineer Of
the p. & l. N, Is building a neat $1,000
bungalow.
Fred Suiter Is building for l. r. Smith
an office and sleeping room over the 8.
s. Co.. store.
J. H. Hill. cashier of the Meadows
Valley bank Of New Meadows, will
build this fall on his ranch at the west
edge of town a neat $500 bungalow.
Mr.. Hill had 41-foot well drilled on
his ranch. The water Is OF excellent
quality and comes within four feet VI
| the top.
p. A. Metz. the contractor, Just I'm
ished the new shelving in the post
office drug store for w. E. Webb. who
| recently moved his drug store there.
p. A. Metz and James Kessler Jointly
| built 30x60-foot one story frame
business structure at cost of about
$500. Mr.. Kessler Is the New Mead
ows jeweler and is now occupying the
west half of the new room with a nice
jewelry stock
N. e. Jenkins just bought half in
terest In the Harvey Knowles meat
market.
| George Brinson. who operates a lum-
Der yard and hardware store here. re-
Gently moved his hardware stock up
town into the Hancock building.
| James Loe now has Al horses. mostly
Shires and Percherons. that weigh
from 1850 to 1900 pounds. Mr.. Loe still
owns the great stallion Jocund, II years
old. who up to six years ago raced with
nearly all the fast running horses In
the United States. Within the next
year or SO, there will be In the state
Of Idaho no less than 75 Jocund colts
that will be entered In the running
races at the various fairs and race
meets.
Growth Of Bank.
| Oct. 1. 1911, when the Meadows VAL
ley bank Of New Meadows was month
old the deposits were $2s,400 and the
total assets were $41.40O. A year later.
on Oct. /. 1912. the deposits of this
bank were $7s.1OO. and the total as
sets were $4,000. This Is good
showing and speaks well for the effi-
cheney OF the cashier. J. H. HILL
500 Cars Of Logs 70 Boise.
Balbach Bros, Of New Meadows. have
the contract for shipping from New
Meadows 100000 feet Of logs to tho
Boise Lumber company Of Boise. This
represents about 500 carloads Of logs
Balbach Bros. have 10 men at work On
this contract The first carload ship
Iments OF these logs were shipped "a
Boise several days ago.
Three Threshin9 Machines Busy.
Three threshing machine outfits are