Payette Enterprise (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
800 issues from 1909 to 1924, published in Payette, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
The town of Payette sits at the confluence of the Snake and Payette Rivers in southwestern Idaho. Payette grew slowly in the 1870s from one combined store and post office building to a small village featuring a distillery, hotel, blacksmith, meat market, stores, and a saloon. Irrigation efforts in the late nineteenth century allowed Payette to bloom into an agricultural community. Starting with prunes, Payette farmers expanded their offerings to apples, potatoes, onions, wheat, oats, barley, corn, and alfalfa. The town was served by two railroads; the Payette Valley Branch offered passenger service up to the Payette Lakes and the main line of the Oregon Short Line offered passenger and freight service. The town was incorporated in 1891.
The Payette Enterprise was established in 1909 as the successor to the Payette Valley Enterprise. It was edited and published by T.J. Brown and owned by Brown and Will Wells. The Enterprise published weekly on Thursdays with six pages and seven columns. It focused on news of the Payette Valley, including Fruitland, Little Willow Creek, New Plymouth, Letha, Irrigation District 06, Washoe, North Payette, the Oregon Slope, and the lower Payette Valley. News from Fruitland could sometimes be found in columns titled “Busy Fruitland Items” or “Fruitland Department.” Church news, “YMCA Notes,” news from the local high school, classified advertisements, and legal notices were also regularly published by the Enterprise. The “Personal and Local…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Payette, Idaho, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress