Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17
NANPA FESTIVAL
OPENS TUESDAY
Great Preparations Have
Been Made for Weeks
Celebration.

Nampa, Sept. 16.-Interest in this
city is concentrated upon the annual
Nampa Harvest Festival, initiated as
an annual celebration, reflective of the
progress and development of Nampa
and it's immediate surrounding terri
tory six years ago, which will begin
Tuesday of next week. Marked activ-
ity upon the part of the business men
of this city, preparatory to the sig
nificant event, is to be observed
| throughout the city.
Monday the citizens of the city in a
number in excess of 200 will make
the loop the loop excursion, which they
have arranged for the purpose of CIV
! ing the festival the fullest measure of
publicity in all the neighboring inter
urban cities and towns, and at each of
the points visited in the interest of the
festival, addresses will be made by
! leading business men of this city.
There will be music galore. The
band of the Great Workman Shows,
which has been secured as an amuse-
ment feature for the festival, will give
a concert at each of the points Wis
tied and songs of local composition
laudatory of Nampa will be sung by
| the boosters, and there will be no ces-
sation of effort. upon the part of the
cxcursionists to make the day one of
| import to their city. Assurances have
been received of the heartlest CO. oper-
alton upon the part of both Boise and
Caldwell.
At Boise, it is understood that the
boosters will receive the glad hand and
be made to fully realize that they are
in Il city of hospitality and are the
recipients of the city's good will. The
launching of the annual celebration the
morning following will occur under the
most suspicious conditions.
YEARS ACHIEVEMENTS.
AS the business men and other citi-
zens of this city survey the achieve
ments of the city and the marked de-
velopment of the vast area of country
surrounding the city which has been
brought into profitable cultivation con-
sequent to the completion of the world
renowned Arrowrock dam, providing
abundantly for water for irrigation
purposes upon which these lands have
so long depended since their last fes-
tival they view the future complacent-
ly. This survey reveals also won
derful progress and development in a
way, LOT OUT as
concrete evidence are new buildings
, and industries approximating a sum
in excess of $350,000. The era of pros
; perity and progress ushered in upon
the city some months since has lost
none of its force. and throughout the
city its growth and great prosperity
are attested by building activity and
: incessant commerce.
The progress of the tributary coun-
( try along agricultural, livestock anc
dairying lines is none the less pro.
nounced To the contrary, sage brust
( deserts are fast giving way to beau.
r tiful farms with modern residences anc
t commodious barns. Every community
= is filled with cement silos, so indi.
cative of old and thoroughly developed
! communities. and countless number:
t of pure bred cattle and hogs are t.
be observed upon the unexcelled pas
f lures of these farms. Truly, to on,
who has kept in close touch with al
( this vast area of new country the pas
= few years, its rapid development Seems
4 n history Of almost unbelievable prog
e ress. 1t is as if though the magic want
: of progress had been lifted over it an,
= its sage brush deserts converted in
single day to the proverbial land o
= milk and honey. Through the exhibit
S of the festival will be reflected the fer
s tility of the land and the rapid de
S velopment of the livestock industr,