The Caldwell tribune. [volume], December 22, 1883, Image 4

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Mms in a description
HHte Boise. Caldwell,
pffr l States cx-Sonator
tulips, is advantageously
l»e |outh bank'of Boise
icre'than 1Ü0 miles north
iye by rail, 150 miles
«■one, thirty miles west
i »ml about 100 miles
NBr City, Oregon. To
in' fix its location with
Mll add that Silver City
a* fifty-fivo miles; the
Mils of Payette Valley
and Falk's Store are
i twenty miles north of
Sad the "Boise Basin"
for its rLoh mines, is
'northeast of us ; the
dj Owyhee farming
fto 86 miles west of
md thH jf-known Weiser Kc
with Jity for its centre, is
miles 1 lÄ- it of us. In other
ds, CalSwc in (lie heart of the
1 agvicultur gion' fol-med by the
Ltion of 1 Payette, Weiser,
Iheo and hour Valleys with
l e River V , the junction of ail
B importai ers bcùpg within a
■s-btoftm j /
■g a lUuidi ouö2,6Ü0 feet above
the Rite surroundings a
^Bsfcgo brlain relieved at the
ocîge of >wn site by the rich
^B of bei groves flanking the
thl current itself, with
^Hand th ad, smooth emerald I
or a golden stubble. The
_ is at* of Salt Lake City,
SStougl uce luscious fruits, I
ind id still invigorating i
?ot ^ Wealthy growth
A Bn 'a , liiere is nothing
ft At ve iu our streets
Bajff* hrougli sago and
and see us a
■r/md wo'll show you a
HaBrr-bTrtrthç whole north
Buud of. Listen why:
■cultural empire.
fc Caldwell, in the im
(lonaed by the confluence j
freat rivers already noted, i
[body of farqiing lands mil- j
s in extent—the largest ag
ek between the great prai- '
plains of. the Columbia. In
and facilities for irrigation 1
ssed. it is mainly the rich,
bat produces sage brush to
( its natural state, and all
fits wild vegetaftles of this
I èàîtifated. Wo can
;s upon acres of apples, ;
plums and small fruits,
jfJJlßiD stretches almost .
'eye can reach, of wild j
afvaitiiig claimants and [
ivLafge irrigating canals I
fens, and still larger schemes I
^binder thousands ot these |
dnmediately available,
isy, 70 miles long; Payette ,
Wiles long; Weiser Valley'
','g; Malheur and Owyhee
I 50 to 75 miles long each,
f smaller valleys, all with
rive, abound iu evidences
[tagricullitre, and invite the
i settlement. Iu these val
■-to CnJdwell there are not
BO inhabitants, so home- .
■a be lonesome, and our
Bhjkurcd the creation of a
He. BAmong the old-timers
I uBkwell-to-do, with sat
^Bkmts; especially is j
^^Bose wlm have en- t
an industry for I
ÆS north and south is j
Tîood roads connect
11 the settlements above |
Font Mining
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/" everywhere. Only bb
■ a superb road,are the fa-■
Quines and Silver City,
Pm gold and silver have
/fand whence a steady
ft has been maintained
.years.. This is the
£ 3 vhich ores have been |
* 100 to 1,000 tons worth
IVUlOyOOO per ton. Silver
jiKis re received its supplies j
^country from Winne- j
^distanton the Central
V^r?ud rejoices with us in
\ a u et the iron horse at
VL 1 o nt3liror . .
iea forty to fifty miles
*. • i^dng districts of the
'A?' .Äy^JacemUe, Cen
^ioneerville, Ban
' c *. c Jiho aggregate have
yiem of $1,000,000 a
0 Atecn years. While
what it once was,
H at th.iV expected from it
v . . o the quartz mines
11 ifin m >w * D o better. The
niimrnr a ™^ and the
Uoo non f/r ^ anner yield from
each, yearly,
Um h.,. r :f mer ly 300 miles
Henri, su PP lied ov<il *
» by wa-y of Bo*se,
la J? lu laUid by the
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I^B^^^^romising silver
ers of
neral resources.
Iso has within a day's
1 mineral regions which
J Idaho to the outside
5ch haresincO repeatedly
Fho v
Upper Weiser, adjacent to both of
these districts are very good showings
I of coal, and near the latter is one of the
best mica deposits in the United States.
South of us 20 to 30 miles are the great
Snake Kiver gold beds of which the
Tribune readers often read, while east
1 of us up Boise river 100 miles arc the
" well known old gold and silver mines
.and Kocky Bar,—mines
which have produced many fortunes
and are receiving a great impetus from
the completion of the (Oregon Short
Line.
These various mining regions, vast iu
extent and richness, will always furnish
a splendid market for farmers in the
j country tributary to Caldwell and will
furnish us much business of varions
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ouk timiikk i and*
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Along the Boise, 10 to 75 miles east
of us, and along the I'ayetto from 50 to j
75 miles north, are some of the heaviest j
forests east of Puget Sound. There are
hundreds of thousands of acres of pine
equal to the best in Michigan, which |
can readily be floated down the river
and sawed at our doors. The scheme
lias been demonstrated feasible by the
railroad contractors who have lloaled
down hundreds of thousands of ties
and large quantities of heavy piling to
the boom at < 'aldwell. Two mills are
now busy on Payette, 18 miles north
of Caldwell, turning out all kinds of
rough and dressed lumber, and there is
a capital opening here for similar en
terprises. These regions must supply
an immense extent of treeless country
east and south of us, hence the lumber
of Atlanta
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railroad affairs.
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amweii. t ms is tue nrst point tor
"^Tablo fo^ exte^siv^ riilwav im
, < v' tfinS1 '« mil way 1m
protements, and it is the only point
trom wmcli a practicable route can be
ouiu to oi>e rit> Jina t ie mining re
| S l ns oeyona. i no noise \ alley oranen
»as been located on inis route, anil it is
a question of time about its muu
j it ma } be next year or tne year
j a i;1 ; mt certain it w wnen jui ti
* ro,a vainweii. ine natura rai -
jva^r loute to tne uppei pm tion ui tne
I alette ) alley is irom neie, Jite\\i>e to
the mineral districts ot l w} lice, l i
; loull .i ,n , . n , . poiu i au»,
l ms sliould be an mipoitant nuiwa>
uontie, ana tne t>uort Line company ias
appropriated grounds for yards, mild
mgs, etc on such u\isn scale as to
piovo that its projectois apprécia e e
met. Owing to the failureiot the com
to sink piles tor me vvo grea
bndges across ©nako mci a
«hört (.istance west ol leie, an
entire ohaiige of plans is nee
ossary, involving much d#lay i i
construction of piers. Hence Cald we
will be the western terminus of the Ore
gom bhort Line for three oi our
lf " ot all winter, havoA rai- j
road pay-roll ot some >- , » P®' 1 '
month, and the usual vigor and grow h I
of a strong terminal towa. »
Caldwell a NATURAL CKKTBK. 1
Thus Caldwell stands in the geo
graphical center of an agricultural,
grazing, mining and forest empire, and
--Jr-T- m.liil u.. 111 i I for
,Tjng Jolt Boigi! off
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| industry Will soon be onoof ourgreatest.
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thirty miles to the east, Caldwell is
crowned with undisputed supremacy.
Even if the Boise V alley Branch is
built it will simply make Caldwell a
railway center to which Boise City
must always bo tributary. Most new
towns are dependent upon the develop
ment of the country to build them np.
Here it is vastly different, for the coup
try is already settled and prosperous,
and it was only a question of where the
railroad located the depot for. a large
and flourishing place to be founded.
What Salt Lake City is to Utah and
Denver to Colorado, Caldwell will bo
to the vast and rich region above out
lined.
ouk i'lONüKiw, business, etc.
.
Among those ot your acquaintance
and Idaho's generally who have cast,
their lot with us arc T. T. Danielson,
Esq., of Shoshone ; Mr. Shilling, of
Biaekloot; Collin Bros., of Boise City;
Judge A. J. McGowan, of Hailey;
Mess. Sebree, Holt & Kcisel, of Ogden ;
Messrs. Bramble & Dickenson, of
Blaekfoot and Shoshone; and immer
ous other well-known citizens of Black
foot, Shoshone, Bellevue and Boise.
Improvements in progress are a free
bridge across Boise river, a first-class
hotel—we have several small ones
already—waterworks, a good school,
printing office, etc. Among those in
contemplation are a foundry, flouring
mill and electric light. Here is a good
opening for a.most any lino of business,
Parties who contemplate coming, should
remember that wo are right iu the cen
ter of Boise Valley, 30 miles of it being j
on either side of us, with a large pop- I
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ulation already established to supply,
and competition only with Boise City,
off the railroad, at the extreme upper
en( [ ot - va u e y and thirty mues
aw;l y.
a town lot room.
As might be expected a place with a
f uture aH bright as Caldwell's affords a
g 00 d chance for coining money in real
es ^ 9# The Idaho & Oregon, Land Im
p rove me n t company ami the Oregon
short Line company control some 3,000
acres of Ihnd here, and, nnlixe tho plan
often followed, are pursuing a liberal
policy to secure Us development. They
bavo placed such figures on lots that
t j ie b uver has a chance to make some
thing himself, and to those who supply
i ni p or tant improvements, they do even
hotter. Business lots sell at from 8100
to 8300; residence lots from §50 to $100
an j t j 10 host arc going in a way that
nuist he gratifying to the man who
v ^ 1 qtes the deeds.
a plack kok a home. |
The period has passed in Idaho when
the majority of our population expect
eil to remain only for a -»eason—until a
J) n g e ^.f or "strike" was made, and
then lly with the wealth accumulated to
other .lands, leaving the territory just
that much poorer for their stay. The
fatJijjeg w ho remain with us now for a
twelvemonth can, as a rule, be counted
£° r j^ a ho alva/s. They find many
things about tie "Gem of the Moun
tains" to love j n l live for—her almost
perfect cl i male, magnificent scenery,
opportunities lor money making and
whole Sonled people would win a mis
anthrope. In casting around for a per
h«»nu*, are alreatly hmk
'.il^tej^iii account
lariiilH-^^^^urli
ter climate and its pj^^^^^^uuiilies
for schooling. Caldwell will therefore
not be an ephemeral "summer camp,"
solid healthy city to which will
gravitate much of the culture, wealth
and political strength of Idaho and
eastern Oregon. •
Caldwell, the Operating Terminus of the
Oregon «hört tine—Only Ten Days Old,
But Experiencing an Unprecedented
Boom—A Bright Future In Store—The
ComUl * ci, y ot
Tel *« r "> to tie Omaha Dally Republican,
Caldwem., Idaho, October 4.—Your
correspondent finds here what bids fair
to be the magie city of Idaho. It is the
bpeiaungteiminus of the Oregon Short
Line, -IGi miles west of Granger and
1,343 miles from Omaha. It is 204
miles from Caldwell to Meacham, Ore
gon, the eastern terminus of the Oro
gon Railway and Navigation company's
railway, which is to form part of the
Union Pacific route to Portland. Cald
well is therefore 381 miles east of Port
land. The town is only ten days old,
but is experiencing a boom which sur
prises Idaho, being the first town which
has enjoyed anything of the kind since
the settlement of the territory. . Thou
sands of fertile acres of land are tribu
tary to the town and the completion of
the railway has brought a rush of land
seekers, speculators and settlers. Sev
eral influences bearing upon the town
are making themselves felt to
the advantage of the place. It
will be the terminus of the rail
way for a considerable time, at least
until the big bridge on the Snake river
but a
Capital.
THE MAGIC CITY OF IDAHO.
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1 is completed. It is therefore the dis
I tributing point of a section of country
200 miles west and north, and 100 or
; more miles south. All stages and
freight teams for interior points outfit
and®load here. Irrigating 1 canals are
being constructed which will reclaim
the largest body of grain and fruit lands
in Idaho. The valleys loading towards
Caldwell comprise the largest area of
agricultural lands between Nebraska
and Oregon, and several of them are
already thickly populated. An agree
ment has just been made between the
Idaho and Oregon Improvement com
pany, proprietors of the town-site, and
a local corpuratiou, for the construction
of a largo canal ana a system of water
works. Merchants at Salt Lake City,
Denver, Ogden and Boise City see* a
bright future for Caldwell, and are pre
paring to erect business houses and
open stores. A free bridge across
(the Boise river will be completed
inside of sixty days, and will con
cenlrate the heavy emigrant travel at
this point, as all other bridges across (
streams which cannot be forded are i
built by private individuals who collect *
toll. Wealthy citizens of the surround
ing region are purchasing residence
properly and are coming here to reside,
All thèse facts simply show that Cald
well has in-pired that sort oJ confidence
which tells for its future prosperity,
Tho writer is satisfied that it is the com
ing city of Idaho. It has all the ad
vantages of location, surroundings ami
facilities for trading with a large scope
of country. Boise City, the capital and
present principal city of the territory,
i-thirty mih;s <Ji-t (. Silver City, one
City, Idaho, Baker City, LaGrnndu,
and Union, Oregon, and a score of
smaller settlements, are also accessible
from theeast only via Caldwell. Thebest
part of Idaho, excepting only the Wood
river re gion, i s tributary to this point.
Tho Rival Towns.
Prom the Omaha Bee.
i here is bitter rivalry between the
new town of Caldwell and Boise City,
Idaho, though thirty miles apart. The
Oregon Short Line created the former,
and its location is such that at present
it is paralyzing the older town by its
enterprise and goaheadativeness. Boise
citizens are struggling hard to stem the
business decline and have
bonus of about $60,000 to induce the
Short Line to build a branch line from
Kuna, fifteen miles distant. This offer
has been met with
ation upon the part
Oregon Short Line managers that
if the branch is built at all it must go
from Caldwell. Passengers for Boise
do leave the cars at Kuna, but the
freight goes on to Caldwqll and is there
distributed by immense trains of eight,
ten or twelve horses to the wagon.
Boise is within two miles of the head of
the valley, and everything below it will
now work
river toward
raised a
the deelar
of the
from it. Down tho
--well the feeling of
satisfaction at the discomfiture of Boise
is very manifest. The wealthy farmers
and stockmen say that the rule has
been to oppose them when they could
not help themselves, and now that they
can help themselves they are turning a
cold shoulder toward Boise, and are
glad to do it. This is why they hail the
growth of Caldwell with delight.
away
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B. Miller, late register 1 . S.land office,
Boise City, in reply to a series of ques- 1
tiolls ab J ut Idaho, truthfully covers !
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ni.my important points to bu considered
by tho intending settler:
"Referring to your letter of the 2d I
inst., making inquiry in relation to the
climate, amount of arable land, the !
prospects of new settlers, etc., 1 w41
state that the climate here is fine in
summer; while it is quite warm in the
sun, yet in the shade it is always cool, ■
and at niglu in the warmest weather
you will need a blanket over you when
sleeiiing. The summers here certainly i
remind mo of my experience in Cal ifor-1
nia in 1850. There we could work all I
day in the hottest sun without feeling
oppressed by the Inat. I do not recall i
any day that I have felt uncomfortable !
here. The fact is you can endure more i t
here than you could in a more level
country, the air being more exhilarat- -
ing. There is a buoyancy in the step
of the people peculiar to those residing I ,
in a mountainous region. While the 1
summers are cool ami* plea$ant, thè •
winters are delightful ; perhaps noti' T
one-half of the people in the territory I
have overcoats, and of the half who!
have,-not more than one in ten use
them except when riding. Asa result °
of the mildness of the winters, tho ! !
dwelling-houses as a rule have thin j •
walls, and p eople li^g comfortably in j
houses whicbtfMM|^^|tenantuble in j
an of
li*'•
about one acre in twenty, the balance
consisting of mountains and their foot
hills, which cannot be reached by irri
gating ditches. None of the valleys arc
wide, and a large portion of them have
to be irrigated'to raise crops. However,
irrigating is not near so expensive or
troublesome as 1 had supposed before
1 came here, and with the main ditches
once made, the farmer his but little
trouble and can control the flow of
water as he pleases ; and with an abso
lute immunity from ram in the sum
mer, he can count with a reasonable
certainty on a pleasant time for harvest
and the number of bushels he will
raise.
"The crops generally raised
wheat, oats and barley, and all the
vegetables common in Iowa and Il
linois. Owing to the cool nights in
summer but little coru is raised. All
kinds of fruit trees and shrubbery grow
finely here ; the finest varieties of rose
bushes, which can only be raised in
Iowa with extreme care, live through
the winter without any protection.
While fruit is not a certain crop, owing
to the mildness of the winters which
prevents the ground from freezing to
any depth, and retarding the too early
blossoming of tho trees, which some
times results in the fruit being killed by
frost, yet the varieties grownh£j^aj^■(^ , *
greater than any portion of the luiiled
States if we except California; fre
quently in the same garden you will
see trees loaded down with apples,
pears, peaches, nectarines, apricots,
plums and prunes. The fruit yield of
last year was simply enormous, while
the crop of this year is good. I fully
realize the difficulty of explaining the
climate so that it will be understood
are
Iowa man. In mid
winters we may have one day a snow
from five to eight inches deep'and will
wonder how on earth the cattle, sheep
and horses are to live out on the range
without feed, when in perhaps twenty
four or forty-eight hours wo feel the
"chinook" (coast wind) commencing
to blow, soft like an evening breeze in
summer, but steady, and in a short
time the snow will disappear and the
ground become completely dry. As
you are perhaps aware, all kinds of
stock are allowed to run out on the
range in winter without feed, and as a
rule come out fat in the spring. You
can perhaps get a more correct idea of
the mild character of the winters here
when I tell you that birds which are
usually migratory remain here summer
and winter. The wild geese breed and
remain here at all seasons. , ___
"A man coming here f*am Iowa
would at first dislike the eoitotry, and if
profane, w^ 'd '.he fates or more
li^ilj the fellow who tempted him to
come. If in summer tho roads will bo
deep with dust, the valleys will appear
more narrow than they really are, and
when not irrigated the grass will ap
pear like dry hay, while for miles some
times he will see nothing but sage brush
and jack rabbits; but takeout irrigating
ditches and cover the sage plains with
water and the sage will disappear and
the land which before appeared worth
less will produce upon an
as much wheat to the
raised on the best Iowa lauds, while tho
farmer and stock raiser have
endless mountain range
taxes to raise their
The real business will be farming
raising and mining. IV bile fo
will be made for perhaps ages to
at tho last named business, sloe
ing and farming will be the
tain investments. Stock-raising^^H
always be good, for as I said befS^H
costs nothing to raise stock, and fanS
ing will always pay well as the mines
will consume all that can be raised
the valleys, and the produce will
maud higher rates than can be obtained
I in the states.
i "I could pick out here and there, all
! over the territory, valleys that whole
I neighborhoods from the states could
I move into and find homes, which in a
short time they would not exchange for
\ their old ones. But I would not dare to
I do it, because everything ,hore is so dif
J ferent from what they Eafve been
to that for a few months after their ar
rival, they would lie awake nights on
I purpose to hate me for deceiving them,
j as they would at first suppose I had. '
; There is one thing that would startle a
j newcomer, the meats which he would
' find on his table in winter would be fat
j and juicy, superior to the famoussteaks
j of the I'almer and Grand Pacific, and
I he would be informed that they
I cut from cattle killed off of the
by
an
average twice
aire as can bî*
the
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use
were
range ;
( while if ho would go and inspect the
range from which they were taken he
would see nothing that he would deem
it possible for cattle to live on, and if
he would turn a cow fresh from the
states on the same rasige and tell her' ]
!that she must care for herself, she; 4
would commit suicide at die very
thnmrht, and her owner would- not
Warner
He Kaew the Habits of the Family,
t«,„ -minw
1 he Campton family have lost by
death hve or six children, but the birtlis
^ re much in the ratio of the
deaths, so that the family are far from
being childless. A few weeks ago there
'Y as another death in tho family, and
, e undertaker's assistant called at the
" 0llse * A small boy met him at the
door.
"Is your pa inP n
"What do you want to sec him about,
sir \
"I want to ask him when the funeral
ta ^ e place."
"You need not see him at all, then, if
t | iat w what you want, lean tell vou
î* ,at * l*a always buries us at t o'clock
n the afternoo.i
, , u . . Yery Narrow,
j0i ' on , ,,c 0 7
ii( . v **.•! wn,to a Y aokoeeditor, 1
T -^„ enta| send us mqgo *Nai
an * ess ^ <îi n beat this: 'Last
'■» lie express tram was nearing
»tshvillo, a .,tmng(*r accidentally got
° 1 ,f * il ! ' ,|J L seeing the engine and
<l u c * .• r i î f* mt . lna * tî " t(> dx himself
i ' !*)• >'f ! ' ! ^ :l,r,s ^ hank, and 'drew
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