Payette County ID Archives News.....A Fruit Evaporator March 10, 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patty Theurer seymour784@yahoo.com February 27, 2006, 2:12 am Payette Independent March 10, 1898 Payette Independent Payette, Idaho Thursday, March 10, 1898 A Fruit Evaporator. From Boise Statesman. L. B. Gorham has just secured from the Oregon Short Line a 15-year lease of a strip of railroad ground near Thirteenth street upon which to erect a fruit evaporator. The leased ground has a frontage on the track of 190 feet and is 100 feet deep. Mr. Gorham is interested in the organization of a company here, principally of local capitalist, to be known at the Idaho Fruit Evaporating Company of Boise and he is meeting with flattering success in his undertaking. It is Mr. Gorham’s purpose to establish three evaporators along the Short Line—at Boise, Payette and Weiser. The organization of the company at Weiser is about perfected and the matter will be taken up at Payette immediately. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/idfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb