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Show I u PROSPEROUS MONTPELIER. Montpelier, Ida., Juno 28, 1900. Montpelier is in the thioes of a boom of considerable dimensions in way of building and other improvements. improve-ments. At no time in Its existence has it had greater prosperity than at the present and indications point to a still greater and more extensive growth of tho town. .Buildings of a substantial character are going up in every part of the business portion of tho city, and few would recognize tho old town In the present new one and Its material ma-terial advancement. A new water system is now being inaugurated at a cost of over $20,000, and with electric light and telephone servlco already perfected, tho town Is assuming a metropolitan pose that promises to its people a successful and advanced future. Thcro are two banks, five merchandise stores, ono general dry goods store, two ding stores, four restaurants, ono exclusive dry goods store, two livery establishments, five saloons, seven., largo farming implement imple-ment concerns, three meat markets, several barber shops and a hotel that would do credit to a city Ave or ten times tho slzo of Montpelier. I refer to Hotel Burgoyne, under tho tho management of .1. N. Downing, who certainly may boast of a proprietorship proprietor-ship equal to any of tho best hotels In Idaho. Tho hotel Is new, clean and furnished in an elegant way with up-to-date llxtures and conveniences. It has a cuisine that Is unequalled anywhere any-where In the most pretentious towns and cities of the west. The traveling men have caught on to this fact and where thoy place their O. K. ono may know that it is above mediocre. Tho railroad shops here dlspenso a payroll of over ?12,000 a month, and there is a probability that this amount will bo inci'oased in tho near future. Altogether Montpelier seems to have a brilliant future and there seems to bo enough support and enterprise among Its citizens to justify tho prediction pre-diction that it will bo tho metropolitan town on tho cutoff of tho Short Lin? of tho Bear River valloy. H. |
