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The fertile Payette Valley has three-fold more water for irrigation than 



can ever be used 



New Plymouth, the Town of Promise 



The present terminus of the Payette Valley railroad is New Plymouth, a lively place which has taken on 

 new life since the building of the railroad. New Plymouth is a town of great promise; its future is bright. It 

 is a town laid out and built after the ideals of a band of pilgrims who came to the Payelte Valley a number of 

 years ago from Chicago. They were people who had grown tired of the turmoil and rush of the big city, of the 

 crowded streets and stifling air, and who came west in search of an ideal spot on which to build an ideal city. 

 They came to the Payette Valley and New Plymouth is the beginning of the fulfillment of their dreams. The 

 town now has three general merchandise stores, one cold storage plant, one fruit evaporator, one hardware, one 

 drug store, lumber yard, livery stable, meat market, hotel, jewelry store, millinery store, blacksmith shop, livery 

 barn, photo studio, barber shop, paint and oil store, two churches Congregational and Catholic bank and two 

 substantial brick school buildings, one of which cost $5,000 and the other $2,000. At present its population consists 

 Of about 300 people. It will draw much from the Payette-Boise irrigation project, which is being built by the 

 government. There is plenty of land left in the Payette Valley which can be purchased for from $35 per acre up, 

 including perpetual water right, and this same land when improved in orchard, melon or beet-growing land will 

 be worth from $200 to $1,000 an acre. 



A flHlion Dollar Beet Sugar Factory 



A $1,000,000 beet sugar factory, with a capacity of 240,000 pounds of sugar daily, and ca- 

 pable of taking 1,200 tons of beets every 24 hours, will be in operation for the campaign of 1908. 

 This factory will employ 300 men, and have a daily payroll of about $1,000. The main building of 

 the plant will be 400 feet long, 85 feet wide, 4 stories high. The value of this factory to Payette will 

 be inestimable. Between $500,000 and $600,000 yearly will be paid to the farmers for the raw prod- 

 uct, while the plant will have a capacity consuming the product of ten thousand acres. Soil, water 

 and climate of the Payette Valley are particularly adapted to the growth and development of this 

 industry, and the sugar beets grown hereabout are enriched with from 15% to 20% of saccharine 

 matter. One hundred carloads of machinery will be required to equip this plant. This giant industry 

 has been secured for the Payette Valley through the herculean efforts of the Commercial Club, and 

 the fact should be emphasized that there is greater unanimity of endeavor on the part of the busi- 

 ness men of this city in all enterprises looking to the upbuilding and development of the section, prob- 

 ably, than any community in Idaho. 



For further particulars address 



C. E. BRAINARD PAYETTE, IDAHO 



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