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Show WONDERPUL GROWTH OF NAMPA, THE TOWN I'M THAT COLONEL DEWEY HELPED TO MAKE "mr ; f BY C. E. AENEY. .' i wcJal to Tho Tribune. """5 SAM PA. It!:i.. Xov. (5. If the spirit iCoIonel Dewey e.ouM return to o;ulii J'U (hy :iiid silently review the progress Mvainpri.--tlic e;n-v liistorv of which H t'1-'"' so with. lie would fit rathe : ih of Mitisfart imt. :iikI, ro- "nine to his more neaeeful rest, would iVIioii Colonel Dewey, eitilit ynvjxs S; laid the foundation for a hundred- I 1 His.mil dolliir hotel, at, Xninpa, ami :lHRiti hi'tll and eqtiipped it -in mot-fa mot-fa I if lit. ui st)r, he was eriticised se-.?)' se-.?)' Tor wliat his commentators y 'A tiu-tj over zealous folly. vS jp it said to his lasting credit that fi pulC'iiieiit. wi better than that of . jcriiii-s. His venture wjjs eminent-. r.t-jA Hioxeful. and as he foresaw with plmtir aci'iiraev. the town sustained iPnlacp hotel right royally and today m fsnrroii inline structures in this sub-M sub-M W'"', junction citv, compare favor-h favor-h 'j with tins inaunificeut hostelry : :ch stands, as a iiioniiinent. to the 3 cood judgment of he who designed it. and lived only a short lime to cii'oy the. comforts it affords. Nampa today lias a ponulation of .l.jOU. 't'he countrv surrounding, like the town, is in the midst of a healthful health-ful growth. The. majority of the now population settling here is from f'lio middle western states; Town being lirst in the list of those furnishing the '.'reatest number of newcomers. This TRU DEWEY PALACE HOTEL.. AT NAMPA, IDAHO. new ponulation is buying land within a radius of ten miles of Xainpa, principally prin-cipally in IU and iiOacre (rants, at nrices ranging from j?S0 to $12.r5 per acre, though many 5, JO and i'O-acre tracts are beinir sold for small fruit and for winter apple culture. Xainpa has many railroads, which entitles en-titles it to the distinction of being styled the junction citv of Idaho. In ISSI. the Oregon Short Line built, through Nam pa. In JSS9. the Uoisc branch was built, extending to Uoise, twenty miles to the north and east. In 1S07. the 13oise. Xampa and- Owv- hoc was built to .rurphy, a distance of thirty-one , miles to the south. In li)0;l, the Idaho-Northern was built to I0inme.ll. ( only-eight miles to the north west, aud a month since, tho Boise Vallcv electric line was completed, a distance of twenty-ono miles, between Nam pa and Boise. t Tho following list of manufacturing and other establishments are tho just boast of the city, vis.: A flouring mill. planing mill, foundry and machine shop, grain elevator, sugar beet factory, steam laundry, saw mill, ice plant, browcrv. creamery, briek plant and bottling bot-tling works. A contract was signed today for the erection of a new city hall building on tho .block to the west of the Dewey Palace hotel, the cost, of which will be approximately ?' 1.000. The pressed brick for this structure will be shipped front Salt l.alte and the.-cut stone from Hoisc. A new fire station is now building at a cost of nearly $10,000. Tho eitv is spending $20,000' on now cement sidewalks. side-walks. $25,000 on tho installation of cast iron water mains to supplant tho wooilen pipe line, and $121,0110 on bith-ulitic bith-ulitic asphall-um pavement. The city is provided throughout with a serviceable sewerage system, and an ample supply of pure city water pumped trom wells from 100 to 2G0 feet in depth, electricity electric-ity generated from the .Swan Falls, thirty miles, distant, being used to propel pro-pel the pumps. Knergy from thin powr plant also supplies light for Nam pa and power for operating "purposes. Nampa has good public schools, presided pre-sided over by Superintendent, 1'. (i. Kraege, assisted by twenty-eight; teachers. teach-ers. A class of cloven were graduated last year and the I !!()!) I'.i 10 class will probably consist of fifteen graduates. I , flic I'lirollineiil of the schools of Nam- j , pa is 10J0. ' Since .Inly of the present year- $.'!(i0,-000 $.'!(i0,-000 worth of buildings have been erected erect-ed in Nampa. An electric light foreman fore-man advised today that, he was oxer-seeing oxer-seeing now tho wiring of eighteen residences in Nampa, all new aud modern mod-ern houses. m " ftdwurd H. Dewey i the mayor of Nampa, and the president of the school board, lie is also at the head of the Hoihe-Xainpu Owyhee and tin- Ida l ho & Nortliern railroads, which were a .portion of tho vast estate left by his father, Colonel Hewev. ! I " ' What Nampa is today she has made 'from b ss than 10,000 acres of irrigated Ian. I The I 'ayel te-Hn'p-e reclainat ion project pro-ject will bring under cull hat ion an ad dilional 100,000 acres of the same rii h j soil, chietly tributary to Nampa. A portion of this new "land will lie wat i-retl from tho Deer Mat reservoir, which approaches Nampa on the south-wot south-wot al a distance of three miles. This large reservoir has a short line of tv.cn lv-eight miles and a bed covering between be-tween 11.000 ami 12,001) acres; a capacity ca-pacity of KSl5,0t)0 acre feet, and will, when' tilled, have a maximum depth of ; .i.ty feel. YYilh this added acreage tributary to Nampa. this people may well pre- t pare Tor greater things to come to l hem, for in thix empire contiguous to ? Nampa then; is opportunity for a '. great agricult uml ami horticultural cm- r "im |
