Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-08-20
SAY, STRANGER! LEND MI YOUR EAR.
Ave Story About "Grove City," Blackfoot,
Idaho--It Will Interest and Profit You.
And Shake Hands, Too, With Some Of Her Leading and
Progressive Citizens
BY E. WILL ELLIS.

loo miles distant, whose gold, silver
lead and copper propositions sometimes
employ 1900 men, supplies for all o.
whom are bought in Blackfoot, and .
daily stage lipe running between here
and Challis, the center of the famous
camps. A trisweekly stage also run,
from here TO Tilden 30 miles southwest,
! A goodly quota of trade is likewise
drawn from the Indian Industrial school
nine miles eastward, $50 students are
under the supervision of 80 Governmen,
employees.
Our immediate environing country
is agricultural, prodigal in its products
though as yet but in the infancy of its
development and utility.
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
Far advanced Blackfoot too, in edu-
cational and spiritual engines: 1t has a
winsome $4,000 brick school house, an
enduring monument to the zeal of the
citizens for the mental uplifting of the
rising generations. Here some $50 pupils
are taught by five profieients OF whom
Prof. w. G. Pike is principal, and from
primary to and inclusive of the ninth
grades are taught. The present excel
lence o. the school is in large part due
to the board of trustees: James McTuck-
er, Il. w. Curtis, \. Written.
OF churches there are: The Meth
odist, with $1,000 house, and Rev. ].
K. Yost, officiating, the Baptist, with
an 800 structure; the Episcopalians,
with $1,000 house, and the Mormons
have an organization, whose bishop is
Edwin Watson.
Added to the headships of school,
and church are six attorneys and two
physicians to constitute our profess
sional aristocracy.
OF LODGES,
we have the A. f. &. A. ~, and an
Esther Chapter; G.. A. r.. |. o. o. F.,
and Modern Woodmen, all fiourishing.
There are two newspapers THE
BLAcKFooT News, the pioneer paper
and home print, and the New Era,
all printed elsewhere. The editor of
the The NEWS was Col. Jno. w. Jones.
but who is now in Manila with his reg
iment, and this suggests that there
were twenty volunteers from here.
three times the towns quota, and so
much for our patriotic resources. The
present editor and proprietor of THE
NEWS is Percy Jones, bright young
man.
On our county directory are: Sheriff,
h. +. Coltman: Auditor and Recorder,
Geo. F. Gagon; Probate Judge and
superintendent Schools, A. G.. Whit
tier, Treasurer, w. a. Woodin: As
SCISSOR and Tax Collector, w. D. Huff
faker; Coroner, Lester T. Mitchell;
Surveyor, Chas. D. Chaplin; Commits
sioners, j. L. Bumgarner, Milan d.
Andrus and Robert ID. Andrus.
Lorenzo r. Thomas is Register and
Geo. B. Rogers, Receiver, of U. S.
Land O.Kce. The postmaster is C. B.
Wheeler and the r. r. Agent, J. A.
Collins.
The Justice Of Peace is: Geo. L.
Wall. The police officer, E. p. Sweet.
The business portion of Blackfoot is
of attractive
BRICK AND STONE STRUCTURES,
the stone being quarried near by. The
town is tented in trees, hence is called
"Gfoye City" The great Snake river
10 but mile to the west, and the largest
canal in Idaho'is near by, supplemented
by four others. Both business and
resident lots are 25xl25 feet, the former
sell at from 5000 to s40O; the latter at
from s25 to s75. Blackfoot's altitude is
1900 feet, and one can see with nude
eye 10 miles to the west. The corner
stone of civilization and commerce WIS
laid here in 1880 by Geo. B. Rogers
and G. w. Bergman, and surviving
prominent pioneers are: James Nc
tucker, Jos. Parsons, H. G.. Dipuel. w.
a. Downing, J. A. Parsons, VIM. Kirk
patrick, Henry Dunn, and Misslen Bros.
Shake hands now with some of our
prominent citizens:
LORENZO r. THOMAS,
Register OF the U. S. Land Office
Blackfoot district, is young man
whose prominence and popularity would
make it inexcusable, on our part. TO
omit mention of in this work, for from
no few viewpoints his has been a re- |
markaoie career. He is the youngest
man to De honored with the office he
now has flled and honored in turn. by
common consent, since October 10Th.
1877, as he Is yet but in the sunny wears
OF %. Moreover, he is the first Nor.
mon bred boy" to receive an impor.
tant federal appointment in Idaho nm.
der any administration, and the fact
that he has been thus recognized, des.
pite hitherto strong prevailing pre-
judice against his sect, speaks more
for his intrinsic merits and
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