The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-04

north OF Pocatello, and twenty-five
miles north Of Blackfoot; these two
being the largest towns tributary to
1t, and from this it will be seen that 1t
has sufficient area all its own to make
a great and thriving city in the COM
ing years. It was formerly called
Eagle Rock, but popular sentiment in
terpoSed to the end that its name was
changed, and fittingly so. 1t was given
the name of Eagle Rock from the
fact that out in the midst of the wildly
rushing and turbulent stream, and just
above the town, a, giant rock reared
ats head and on its hoary and weather.
beaten crest the American eagle reared
his young in goodly numbers, and safe
for the time, from the inroads of civ
Slization. But the time came when
the almost inaccessible haunts of the
noble bird of freedom were no longer
safe from invasion from the venture
some and rapidly increasing white
mantle change was so written and
ordained in the records of an increas-
ting civilization-then its march slowly
and relentlessly wrought out for the
town the new name-ft emblems to
the deep, sonorous sounding of the
troubled waters surging through a
deep assure in its lava Businesses.
A BUSY PLACE.
GlnleTlOS I0G NOHI1 the SOuIn
the train swings around a long curve,
and a moment more You alight in
wonderment at the scene presented to
view, if arrival is among the business
hours of the day. At this season of
the year, particularly, q sense of life
and anima ton greets the visitor that
at once instills the belief that. Idaho
Falls is a business place" And little
wonderi On all sides are seen farm
wagons heavily loaded with grain and
potatoes. On any day in the busy
week there can be seen more than 100
teams, all bringing in potatoes and
the different cereals, and going out in
return ladened with merchandise and
such farm machinery as is needed in
cultivation of the large and numerous
farms scattered about for miles and
miles. Did I say ''scattered?" That
show later on.
term is no longer applicable, as L shall
Right here, ! wish to say that the
visitors first glimpse of business life
is presented in the vast shipments Of
farm products The yards are filled
with cars waiting to be loaded with
rain and .'spuds" Not a car load,
nor a dozen car loads daily, but
upwards of a score of car loads
every day in the week-think of 1t.
IDAHo'S "SPUD" IS KING.
And the Idaho "sp1ld' is kng-make
no mistake on this. And they are great
big felIows-sound as a dollar-their
average weight would battle you to-
throw ore over a, two-Story building.
/ picked up one Of them from a choice
lot. and when I put that fellow on the
scales he pulled down five pounds three
ounces-how's that? To say nothing
of wheat shipments, the shipment of
the luscious and phenominally abund-
ant sspUd'' alone makes whole train
load from this point daily. Last Sat
urday. 1 saw twenty-four cars loaded
with them, and then the Union Pacific
was rightly charged with being ten
cars short for the day-had the cars
been had they would have been loaded.
OF course, such things will happen now
ami then on any well-regulated road,
as the distribution of cars at such
times taxes the ingenuity of the trans
portation department TO the utmost
From the best and most carefully
culled sources Of information, learn
that there viii be 1000 cars of "spuds"
shipped from this station this season.
Where to? Oh, to many distant points,
where the people clamor for this Idaho
product-say Omaha, Kansas City,
st. Louis and Denver. Buyers are
here from those points and want ALI
they can get. Some of the large bust
ness firms here act as agents for out
side points, and altogether the volume
of business done betokens for the place
a bright and growing future.
THE UNION PACIFIC BRIDGE.
But stroll with me northward toll
where the railroad crosses the river
it's on the verge of town Here's the i
Union Pacific's great iron bridge-but
stay. Its bridge-yet it's two