OCR Text |
Show Bp : 1 Cboise's hity thousand club 3". FSIOW BOOSTING GEM STATE usr I J BY C. B. ARNEY. peda. to The Tribune. BOISE. Idaho, Nov. 5 Some lonthS sin.-c. as an mtljimct of he Boise Commercial cluh, a Booster lnb, known as tlio Fifty Thousand club, rn' organized here. Cornelius Miles, bi-chf nnivspaper man, formerly with lie Idaho Daily Statesman was made ecrctarv, i" charge of tho club and it8 ozy room on Ton Mi street. Under his lanacenienl a systematic order of ad-erti'in,; ad-erti'in,; koi;.' forib, eliiefly. liroudii I'"- ivo daily papers ol tins ily, and in llis capacity as tho director f this effort to brinir the city an in-rpasod in-rpasod population, Mr. Miles has been iiiinent'v .successful. The headquarters re idfilh I'ualed on the street leading roin tin Short Line depot to the ciiy. nd . roiiiu occupied by tho club is ull it (i-iiducls all tho time, showing i lie p-uU'Ch . the soil adjacent i Tjnii In addition there is in these cii.lfiuartrrs a inuft loanilicont mining xliilit. fyf i . .i- the cane in the early setllc-3 setllc-3 Jiii' ni rf all ilirfie Idaho towns", mining ?5 'waEI ,n ' hief industry of tho.e who 75 made Jl.iice a town. 'During the last W -few ran of the growth of the city, howpfi'. 'his industry has given way $M 'p Mie igri( iiltural. grazing aid fruit )0 'iii(lurir, lo the extent of comparative -Iosk "f irJerest in the origiiuil industry, tfita mining. I.ni the groat mining exhibit U$ (at fir- Ijiiisr StHti fair this year and $B tlipirl' number of important deulb fipw i r ii.si- of closing, this ancient at-'vU at-'vU nc;iioii in taking its proper jfcta ;filat i" t'ie gnat growl h and develop- ment of linise and the surrounding contributory con-tributory country. -i Senator and Mrs. 13. V. O'Xeil of Wallace are at the Idanha in this cit' todaj-. Miss O'N'eil has .just returned from an extended trip abroad. .v Tiarncy, as fi is good .friends choose to call him, is the banker and politician who made - lleyburn senator in 100.'!. Harney was in the state senate at the time. Since, (his accomplishment he has been on tho delegation to Iho Republican Re-publican national convention and is now serving his party as state chairman. We took occasion to ask the gonial chairman todn" to discuss politics. Barney smiled. Smiling is a natural accomplishment ac-complishment of Chairman O'Ncil. Me smiles continuously. Kvery time his face slips, it lights on a smile! l-'ver ready for an emergency, Harney Har-ney replied:" "It lakes about three-quarters three-quarters of an hour to eook a veal C. J. SINSEL Of Boise, Idaho, who goc3 east to rcy-resent rcy-resent Boise's exhibit at Council BhiifS; Chicago and Otnalia. stew. If you fry it with a furlc at twenty or twenty five minutes you will f find it lough, raw and unpalatable. 1 . "tiive it its time and it will bo ten der, juicy and prime for the piece de c resislanco of tin; meal. "This Idalio "ga ine is at (he twenty I minute stage of its progress." " " ' i Ur. Oeorge Collister owns one of the j best commercial orchards in Idaho, sit- ualyil at Collisler slalion on Iho Lloise Intcriirbau electric line, between j P.oiso and Caldwell, throe miles from the capital. . The doctor smiles aL his folly in his f neglect to provide proper defense I against late frosls. which cost him a I partial los of his apple and prune crop in this year of general' failure. A late frost in A pril caught the fruit , this year in most of the orchards of this valley. Tho doctor has pursued I he plan "of the fanner who locked the stable aTlcr the horse was stolen, so far as this year's crop of fruit is concerned, con-cerned, lie slates in a most optimistic optimis-tic vein, however, the assurance that he is now provided with the battle-inents battle-inents of prevention against a repel i- tion of the loss sustained this season. ( lie has purchased enough smudging stoves to use in his orchard for the future, and they cost but a mere noth ing in comparison to the loss of a year's j crop of this high grado fruit. Orchardisls must prepare for war against lalo frosts, if they would, be on (lie saTc side of the fruit -industry in this or any other valley of the j mountains whero fruit, grows to greater i perfection than in any other part of I this country of ours. While tho use of (he slovo as a pre- i ventalivo of injury by frost may not bo necessary to exceed two years out of five, each commercial orchard should bo adccpiatcly provided for the emer-i emer-i gency. , Tho prccaulionary measure will be profitable, if one wishes to pursue I he ! i business of liorliculhuo on a paying basis. Thus proivded, the elements of danger from late spring frosls van-- van-- ish and Iho irich reward will be the ' portion of he who tempers industry willi wisdom. Mr. -T. C. Sinsel. tho veteran fruit grower and shipper of Boise, Tdaho. leaves hero on November Oth for the Koiso Commercial club to lake charge as supervisor of their horticulture and agricultural exhibit at the meetings of Iho second annual horticultural con-"ress con-"ress and exposition at Council Bluffs and the United Stales Land and Irrigation Irri-gation exposition at Chicago. The former for-mer event opens on November 5lh and closes on the 201 h, while the latter opena on iSrovember 20th and runs until un-til December 4th. i For these two great advertising events' Mr. Siusel has procured the I'.hoiccst part of the exhibits at the Boise intennountain fair, as a foundation, founda-tion, and has added to this display until he will leave hero with two earloadH or G0.000 pounds -of fruit, grains and grasses. In this elegant display he Jias 420 boxes of .lohuathan and Rome Beaut v apples. After arranging the exhibit at Council Coun-cil Bluffs. Mr. Sinsel will leave this display in the hands 'of such well-known men of Boise as Will. II. Gibson. T. S. l). Manville, B. V. Unrst. D. -Ii. Hub-i Hub-i bard and G II. Shellenborger. These I well-posted Boie boosters w-ill then tako Iho Council Bluffs exhibit on to Chicago to augment tho display then-and then-and aid throughout this greater function func-tion in pointing out the splendid qunl-i qunl-i Uii's of Boise and soul hern Idaho. After tin' close of the Chicago event i J the entire display will bc placed on ex-! ex-! hibitiou at the Omaha Corn Festia. Besides Home 20 silver loving nips, woti by Boise at exhibit ions all over the country in the past years. Mr. Sinsel takes with him additional silver medals previously awarded, which till two -large trunks. At all these eastern shows a full line of pictures and booklets descriptive of the virtue. of I he country will bc distributed. dis-tributed. The location of the Hoiso Commercial Commer-cial club's oxhibit at Chicago is ideal. Tt. is next adjoining the space .retained by tho government for ils clnborate displav. and so arranged lhaf all who see this splendid government collection must pass down aisles past the IJoise reservation. ( onnected wlh aid near h m ihi. floise r ver alion are (he vaf ouV booths of other south Tdaho towus. as Twin Falls, Idaho Palls,- Shoshone! Blackfoot and Weiser. Jt is reasonably estimated that the southern Idaho commercial clubs are preparing for an expenditure of about ?2i3,000. between now and January 1, in showilig the crowds of - the east, at these, Ihree functions, Council Bluffs, Chicago and Omaha., the actual products of this magic irrigation irri-gation section of the gem of the mountains. moun-tains. To the credit of tho Oregon Short Iiine railroad, it should be stated that thev have and are shipping, free of cost, both ways, and made like arrangements arrange-ments with the Union Pacific and Northwestern railroads, the total of the. exhibits going east from these live, up-to-date, Idaho towns. |