Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-04
Emmett. the Rapidly 0rowi
County Seat, Announces ~ 4
mess Better Than 1vsr 1e
fore.
Plant Of Boise -Payetts Lumber
Company Employs 40 peo-''
Excellent Crops q M
Kinds Harvested.


Emmett Jan. 3--The year 1v1t
brought to close was by ali odds
the most -prosperous In the history o.
Emmett. the rapidly growing county
seat of Gem county. Practically every
merchant In Emmett reports the big
gest years business ever known in tkia
community. The big growth In buat4
ness here Is reflected in the great In
crease in the total resources Of the
two splendid banks.
The large contributors to Emmett's
prosperity in 1919 are: First the great
sawmill plant here OF the Boise Pay
cite Lumber Co. which up to the time
In December when the annual repairs {
We're started. gave employment Mt
good wages to over $50 employees. Most
of these men are being kept on the Z
company's payroll throughout the wine
ter. 1t Is generally known here Tint
the orders for lumber are so great a.,
to have practically swamped the ship
ping department which continues IL
work day and night in an effort Il,
catch up with the tremendous delnand
II is understood the great plant WIN
be operating again full blast a. soon a.
the annual repairs to the big mill arc
completed and as soon al the ice in the
big log pond melts sufficiently to per-
init the floating of logs.
ALL READY AT coBAkToN.
Last fall the company completed the
building Of its extensive system pfg
logging tracks in the vast timber belt
1t owns In Long Valley, south OF Cas-
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sn.,.s,rs ao t.' any iOstAns nehu
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tha co,,,na,,,, =, Gooai wi L.. ,lei'cv.
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and th,,s s,,r,,;.h ~ aue Isslll,Sts
n,iate s,,nni,. Of Los ~ ~. 1I sS ~.
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s snr .e', -, ~ ln,s ',s - No.
ness n T,,,,,att
600 49, -.,- $3.50
ysov,oU TUo,, NnOrs
ne secona Ply con.riouloh % IN
ies.s prospsr'.y ~ lsls NE uue 1Eo.s
growing and shipping industry and
ere ars nh,o,nag ~. tha,.. rr., IA @,SS3;
NH g. ,o,a, n".h vns.,,s, e ~
.a,1, af ssoo mo s@.s,., ,,ssse..te = 80
which r,as ,,aid o,,s a. NJ sherc =
wages To- the small army 81 WORKER
ran,,i,ad "a sat tha fr,,it IN onrd thc
cars ready for shinment "a ostaiSo
markets.
There three hio fr.1lit naCkfnQ.
.tora.e and shinniry pia,,ts IN I'm
nett as follows. Emmett Ft,,it Grow
ers, Irpion CIV Davton mana Ger. This
plant al the close 81 the 1919 season
had shipped 30 cars OF apples, II
cars OF peaches and four cars OF
prunes. In addition. Mr.. Dayton su
perintended the picking, packing and
shipping of IA cars Of prunes out Of
Parma. nine cars of apples out Of Cald-
well, and SO cars OF apples at New
Plymouth.
The Emmett Fruit Growers associa
ton. r.. p. Shaw. manager. had
shipped Al cars of apples. TX cars or
prunes. so cars of peaches eight cars
of cherries.
The Earl Fruit Co. r.. B. Hiriemar.
manager. shipped out Ia cars az an
pies, nine cars of peaches and several
cars of prunes.
1t is probably safe to say that the
average return for the fruit ahipned
from here In 1919 was: Apples. ~
cars, $500 per car, Sl3Oe00. Peaches.
119 cars, $1,000 per car. SIZE 900. PruneS.
IL cars, $500 per car. sa4.7oo. Cher
ries. eight carloads. $1,000 per car.
$4,000. Apricots, five cars, $1,000 per
car, $4,000.
The foregoing were shipped through
the three packing houses. In ad6f@
ton. many thousands Of dollars worth
Of fruit was sold locally. and to OUT s
side BUYERS who hauled il out II &
trucks, autos and wagons.
.erAae Mer eennn 4 *
~ 1913 W. t,,.,, 1890 ..,s.z
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