Show I growth reached last year when wo counted 1 quarter of a million dollars mUlon dolars of Improvements within the corporate limits The building money expended this season represents a more diversi fed growth ns It has gone Into a greater variety of structures of which handsomo residences are not the least Important A hasty estimate of the S scasonH building gives the followlng record for 1900 Mori Is Sommcr store 5 11000 Masonic Temple oooo I O Hotel 1 Welser addition 12000 VemloMip tIdI t Inn fooo i Worneth leo pUnl S CO I 0 I Fuller building loft street O I Gordon building 000 S U Whlto I 2500 Ryan it Cnrr Heullys Btoro 2500 W V F E Co evaporating plant SOOO SO S Cobb Mu It hows throe stores IDCU Joness IOc1 TKlr Kroorns 10 Weaver blacksmith shop 100 < avcr laemllh J Acndcmv gymnasium foo > Kelley lumber sheds 400 Wm Hartley threestory residence 4WM Gftllownv residence G 000 Lowls Hal residence 2000 SMrloy residence 503 A 13 Anderson two residences 5000 Haas residence 350o 51 residence Dyer 2000 Other buildings 15000 Total 103100 < 4 I In the coming spring the flew waterworks water-works and electric light systems will I be established the bonds voted wi fol I these purposes having been sold to Mn I non Lewis Co Chicago on Decem I ber flth for SI5T75 to run twenty years 1j r at C i per cent Interest with privilege of r payment In tn years The City Coun 1 and the people generally arc work i Ing energetically to enelgetcal encourage public 1 encourIC publc 1 improvements and establish Industries They base great hopes upon the extension exten-sion of the Pacific Idaho Northern f i railway to tho great copper mines InS I In-S the Seven Dovlls and the recent developments devel-opments In the South Peacock the Blue fi Jacket Helena Arkansaw and Decorah r mines prove the depth of the ore chutes c and give promise to the proposed i smelter and to tho S lnd new railway of large and profitable tonnage TH PAYETTE VALLEY I Hon A B Moss In reviewing the situation from the standpoint of a merchant mer-chant says of that section of Idaho The past year in the Payette valley has been one of great productiveness Prosperity has l attended the efforts of every class of Its people The extent of the development of Its uncultivated lands has been a surprise to the most sanguine Miles of sagebrush land has been cleared leveled and made pioduc tire This has been largely done by people coming here from the East Kvery pound of farm products finds a ready market and at bettor prices to the producer than the average Eastern farmer can realize foi the same article In the East Among the many newcomers new-comers one hears nothing but praise for the conditions that exist here as to climate soil and general surroundings surround-ings and all seem pleased with Investments In-vestments made and are advising friends to sell out where they now arc located and Join the procession to the Payette valley The result of the labors of the farmers orchardists and stockmen stock-men in this valley brings business to the merchant the railway companies work for the mechanic and the laborer la-borer and plenty of money not only V for business wants but for Improvement Improve-ment In the different towns in the valley val-ley New and modern homes are taking tak-ing the place of the old house on the farms and S20 gold pieces in the pockets t pock-ets of the settlers Is not the exception the rule Cattle hOses sheep and hogs are being co nstunlly shipped from Payette to bolh Eastern and p Western markets Over 1000000 pounds of wool was received and stored at S Payette for the wool season of 1900 4 Nearly every dollars worth of returns from tho sales of the varied products of the valley and mountain ranges adJoining r i ad-Joining are put In circulation here There is over 160000 sheep today wintering win-tering in the valley being fed the hay 6 that the farmers have raised and for which they received from 1 to 560 L per ton In the stack The growing of fruit will soon be the most Important I Industry as well as the most remunerative k remune-rative one we have Tho reaull for the 1 past two years has clearly demonstrated demonstrat-ed thjs fact Tho superiority yt the Payetto valley fruits over those prO y duced In tho Eastern Slates combined with the great help given our growers by the Oregon Short Line railway nncl the Pacific Express company In tho 5 matter of low rates to all points In Idaho Montana Wyoming and Oregon Ore-gon has practically glvcn the markets of this great intermountain region to the fruit and vegetable producers of Idaho thus furnishing to us tho best i4 market for our products that exist today in the United States and tluiB saving of freights combined with good prices for fruits IB amply levaiding tho pioneers In fruitgrowing For their efforts in starting an Industry that was somewhat experimental In the outset kh I is only a matter of a Short time a when the lands In the Payette and other great valleys In this part of r Idaho will rival the famed fruit valleys 1 val-leys of California because our climate i and soil combined with intelligent irrigation irri-gation have been found all that Is S needed to produce fruits of nearly every 1 known variety These are not excelled 1e and rarely equaled in any country ks Many trainloads of fruit were shipped c out from the Pnyette valley in 1300 5 and the output will largely Increase mI every year In the future so It is not to at be wondered at that those who have 5 come among us and found new homes are pleased with the outlook and are th wending for their friends to come and join them here In Idaho Payette and cii other towns in the valley are growing ld fast and tho character of the Improve ga ments are a credit to them in every jch ments Every dollar invested In any line satlsfactor3 returns ing of business is earningsatisfactory bI turns Prosperity is not only with us iiet but we have without question only started to put In the crop whose harvest larlec future will nil our in vest w1 fl granaries n years OPcr TJ S LAND OFFICE BOISE i0U The Boise district embraces the log BOUthwcslern portion of the State Including ct porton Salmon territory from the eluding the tl river on the tcrrior to the south line of vlIl the State and west from the township ice line between ranges 3 and 10 east I which hetween crosses Snake river at a point 3p just west of Glenns Ferry to the Idaho c0 line It includes the counties Oregon ihcluceg ori of Ada Boise I Canyon Owyhocr and C1Ii1 I ashlngton and a portion of Elmoie me nnd > Idaho and contains a land surfac C c1 of 12JWC20 acres of this area 1112000 12fH20 of the surveyed p3I 1M i surveyed 1250000 acres ntiI veyed portion being located leaving a pOlton large portion of the surveyor andprac rcPtf tlcallv nil the unsurvcyed land as yet ifl unappropriated jarge The lands In this district are dlvcrslr dore lied Being mountainous in the north are with numerous wellwaterod valleys d ° and large bodies of timberpine fir River 10i0e spruce tamarack etc the Snake alit valley cutting through the central portion u I1 por-tion cuttng southern part being principally lon arid plateau offering ex en cipally a high Otcllg CIPi ry fltockraislug facilities In the citi ccllent ato1raI8iug tacltls ipatC1 northern portion embracing Boise the 11rthern porton northern part of Elmorc and > nh tt of Idaho S Ington and the southern part uOduiC counties is located miny fertile mpun I mlliiirc mnff nr lf I > HH SOttltd hay nuelt I LUIM abundance ii w wing wood water and illellC grass The Snake River and adjacent d05 o valleys are arid but large irrigation ts ales supply water to the settled sec O while new Irrigation projects arc an3 tions Ir1gaton whlt J a being promoted each year thus affording s ° ° the afford-ing the ucwcolrrcr an opportunity toot OdufSd secure Government land In this rich ot fruMlgrowlng and farming seton land IIC agriculture All unappropriated jO Al un pproprlate nrlculufO ull t Js J locatable by citizens of the United O1 Ktiteu under the provisions of the q fr r homcBtead and desertland laws Each citizen being < the head of a family Is i An clt SSS cnilitlcd to flit upon lf0 acres as a hon t ad and earh rmldpnt citizen t 1m homostead can locate an ud having a hO1Ntt 1 10ctl ut J ft vlPJ a L5t I ilitlonnl MO acres under the desert land I i 1tIonnl tree title In acquired to homer tlfl stead trnel after proof ot five years tlnc CS Improvement thereof roKldnnce and thclcor le 1 ° lChlenC aJd lmpOCPHnt ld e title lo y dcfcQrt > tractbclpg passed < f after proof of reclamation and payment of MJii per acre Land valuable chiefly for its timber or stone Is 1 obtainable under the tim her and stone act The price is tm per acre Koch citizen male or female Is vesled with Ihe right to acquire ICO acres of such land patent being earned tel weeks after filing on proof of nonagricultural j and non-agricultural payments character nonoccupancy The office of this district Is located at i I Bolso The officials I are James King KinG register and Edward 13 Garrett rc I 1 1 colver LAND ENTERED IN 1S99 AND 1900 I 1300 1S39 niftss ° r entry Acres Acres I ni Acre Original I homcslead on J J FllriS G2077tl 1053767 60iio 167 I Final homealQjiil entries 18197KJ 1I779K5 J Original desertland 011 1Wi6 liDC tries 10m3 J 7RSJI3 I Illiul Cash doeoriland entrlps commuted entries L13111 102775 II E IHC 1I24R 10S9S1 O Timber and sloile entries 525113 41100 I MInornllnrtd tries 131517 211C9 Slolc selections 332jy 11779Kt Total 1002SSt2 83030II Last halt of December H < Is estimated esti-mated est The receipts through this office In I 1900 were S3301S73 In 1899 1533129 THE NBW YORK CANAL I The New York Canal company Hm llcd f organized with a capital stock I of 300000 divided Into 15000 shares of a par value of 20 each The officers are W C Annett president and general manager George L Cole vicepresi I dent Ed Smith secretary Fay D Young treasurer and they with Charles Flfcr comprise the board of directors O E Jackson is the general I counsel and the principal office is located lo-cated at Boise I This corporation is i the successor In interest through various Intermediaries Interme-diaries of what was known ns the Idaho Mining and Irrigation company which was engaged in the year 1890 In he I construction of what is now tho New York canal in Ada County Ida hloh after Investing some SUOOOOO or 700000 Jn the enterprise failed and left it In an ncompl ted state but with n vast amount of construction work performed per-formed In November the year 1899 the New York I Canal company actively engaged In the completion of the canal on a smaller and more practical basis and has ever since been and now Is engaged i I en-gaged In the prosecuting of the work I J and as a result now has to its credit a completed canal of about fourteen miles In length taking water from the Boise river on the southerly bank thereof about nine miles easterly from Boise City and extending southwesterly ovcr f the beautiful lands lying south of Boise ready to spring Into rich productiveness on the application o water to the sol The head gate of thc canal are built in solid rock in a bend of the river sold roc where least likely to be troubled with sand inflow and have a capacity of about 20000 inches of water The average f aver-age capacity of the canal as at present completed being about 16000 Inches except throughout the length of six miles which has a vastly greater Capacity ca-pacity being forty feet In width on the bottom and seventy feet in width on top with twelvefoot banks thiy being the portion of the canal as completed by the Idaho Mining and Irrigation company the remaining portion of the canal as completed thus far by the New York Canal company Limited I having a width of only sixteen feet on the bottom Ihlrlyfour feel on lop and with six and onehalf foot banks I is thc purpose of the company to further extend Its canal to Snake river I and put in reservoirs so as to ultimately ulti-mately Irrigate I at least I 50000 acres of the valuable lands lying In the Boise I and Snake River valleys that arc now only awaiting the magic touch of water to redeem them from an arid waste I Construction of this canal means even mon to Boise City as it affords an almost al-most unlimited waterpower by reason of the fact that directly opposite Boise I the canal I is l 125 feel above the level of fhe river and by eiilargment t of the upper end of the canal twothirds of Bois rIver might be conveyed through it and returned to the river at Boise after having bcon utilized for power purposes and without in any way Injuring Injur-ing water rlghlK of other canals head ng on Boise river below Boise City Theonly way ofsecuring water from this ranal Is by the purchase of Its water slock as it Is not a public carrier car-rier rierThis water stock has been selling during dur-ing the past year at 00 cents on the dollar meaning about SG25 per acre to the farmer for his water subject to an annual pro rata maintenance but the company Is about to advance the ralcn of purchaso o Its water slook In the early part of the coming year What this cnlorpriso means for Boise City and the country surrounding I cannot wel bo painted in words ons to do the subject entire Justice and can only be comprehended by one directly on the scene of Its operations A good hotel In any town is a valuable valu-able and important Institution In the old days when the mining camps were I Jlrst struck In Idaho many prominent men wero brought together and for yearn their only homo was the fireside mine host himself side and table of hinlele general interested in mines and a man of opinions of experience and I knowledge of affairs The old Coin stock bonanza days the mines and men of Virginia City the Cpmslock club as portrayed by Judge Goodwin seem to have been duplicated in the early days of Silver City Ida when that camp was In its highflood of prosperity pros-perity The old Idaho hold where Tim Reagan presided for so many I years had a history and could tel of great events In the lives and fortunes of hundreds of mining men who took part In the drama of life In that bonanza bo-nanza camp Who Is there tp call the long roll of sturdy pioneers who conquered con-quered the wilderness subdued the savage foes opened the hidden treasure treas-ure vaults built the roadways water ditches and lolled underground I the history of War Eagle and Florida mountains was written it would read like L thrilling romance The next best thing however Is to sit down with Tim Reagan around the homelike fireside fire-side of the Capitol hotel In Boise where ho now presides as host assisted by Frank Blacklnger as manager and Mark Leonard as chief clerk all from the old Owyhee camp One can here lstcn to the story of the pioneer miners mi-ners or get a true idea of the mines of those districts and meet with a circle of mining men and mountaineers from all parts of Idaho To the traveling men or those coming to a now Stai for Information a reliable encyclopedia of events or localities Is worth a great deal And that Is one reason why the Capitol hotel under its present man agement is so popular Of course the I good table pleases many but the gathering I gath-ering of mountaineers of mining su perlntondentR engineers managers and a good sprinkling of stockmen politicians politi-cians and Eastern capitalists at llic CapItol hotel in Boise City Is equal to I a square meal for tIm satisfaction it gives the inner man S |