Payette County ID Archives News.....To Weiser; From Boomerang--Notes of Interest April 16, 1884 April 19, 1884
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The Weiser Leader April 19, 1884
The Weiser Leader
Weiser, Idaho
Saturday, April 19, 1884

From Payette.
April 16th, 1884

LEADER:  Not strayed or stolen, but have been to busy to write about affairs 
lately, but now with a few lines will try and give you the combination of 
Payette.

First of any great interest is our ditch is completed, and we have no more 
winter talk about ditch building.  It is now one of our permanent improvements 
in many.

The next of importance is we have just completed arrangements for a booming 
lumber business here, and have finally found a live man to operate it.  Mr. S. 
R. Goldtrap, from the Basin, is here, and has completed negotiations for Coe & 
Carter’s boom and a good mill site, and means business.  He has 250 thousand 
feet of logs already banked, ready for driving, and has returned to let another 
contract.  This is just the enterprise we need in Payette and will help build 
our little town.  Weiser may look for a rival at no distant day from this 
little burg.  The company show some signs of improvement.  They are now 
finishing a good substantial coal house for the pump house and the pump in 
operation.  The tank and section house have been completed some time.  Lots are 
in good demand and everything points to a prosperous season for Payette.  We do 
not anticipate any very big boom but wan to see the place built up by its 
merits.  We need a good man to establish a first-class hotel here, as our 
present landlord intends retiring and going into the mercantile business.  Send 
along the man and hotel.  We learn that there is one near Weiser depot that 
could be spared.

Can’t Weiser spare a physician and drug store?  No deaths have occurred in our 
town and we don’t want any.  None of the hardware merchants have deemed Payette 
of sufficient importance to drop down with a good line of hardware, but we must 
have the hardware.  The Payette valley can not be beat for its wealth of 
farming acres, good ditches, fine stock ranges, timber, etc.

Mr. J. M. Balentine has just arrived with two car loads of fine Durham bulls, 
shipped from Illinois, and means to improve the Pence herd with the 
importation.  Fifty-two fine animals at one shipment means business.

Yours,
BOOMERANG.


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