The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-17
A Big Canal, Power Plant and
Other Things.
HUNDRED TEAMS WORKING
jammOth Fill to be Made This Win
liter. Putting on City Airs. Some
Modern Methods Employed.

We have new town every month
now, some months. Blackfoot is going
to be city soon, with its big additions,
small suburbs and tributary empires
with their local hubs.
The latest hub is town of tents in
the desert thirty five miles west of
Black foot the center. 1t sprang upover
night, but has the resources to make it
last all winter and then some. We are
talking facts when we speak of resour
ces, and when we tell you more about it
you can make your own dates and buy
lots or not as you like.
The surveyors have named the place
Windy Point, not because it is so windy
there. but because it is dusty now, and
they notice every breeze that blows on
account of the dust it raises. That is
such an ordinary statement we are go
ing to add if you believe any more of it
than you want to you deserve to lose
your job.
When we said it was west of Black
foot we should have added that it is also
a little south. 1t is about five miles
northwest of Springfield, and Spring
field is near Danilson Springs. We Wis
tied the place on the It'll inst. at 10 a M
and there were % tents on the business
and residence portions of the metropo-
lis. When we left at 1870 there were
81. and the cornet band was playing,
80! how | love grading Grading IS
the leading industry, surveying ranks
second and driving tent pins IS third
The cornet band consisted at that time
of only one piece, under the direct man
apement of Ben Williamson. an able
and accomplished grader who can tute
tune too.
A fingerboard erected one block from
the center of town bore the words,
..Smoot Street" Attached to this one
smaller line read. Keep off the side
walk. over dll theSo "o' viz ~
WINDY Point" Lined up on Brigham
street in a perfectly straight row were
seven tents in which conferred the chief
Importance and dignity of this new body
politic. The first one was used by the
members of the surveying corps, the
second was the private office OF chief
engineer r. O. Church, the next was the
sancto- sanctotum of general manager
F.. A. Sweet of the American Falls Canal
and Power company which is investing
heavily in local real estate, next was the
local office of the same company, next
to it the commissary or store, IN charge
OR E. Shrek, and down near the
corner of the block were the kitchen and
dining rooms. In the center of Brigham
street at the crossing of Cannon is the
town pump and new well just sunk by
Vim. Raef with his drilling machinery,
The we'll is 70 feet deep and has Az feet
of water, pure and good.
Just back of thecommisary and across
the alley is the granary 2Ox 40 feet, and
two stables in course of construction
each 16 x 20. At little distance is the
blacksmith shop in charge of MIR. II
Kenner who has plenty to do shoelne
horses and sharpening plowpoints. The
com pany has fifteen teams OF Its own
and has immense stores OF grain ano
potatoes. A cellar was in course OF con
structon. and part of the surveying
corps was engaged in building and tit
ting doors and floors in the tents or can
vas houses which we have been telling
about. Scrapers and grading machlner.
were in evidence everywhere, and the
camps of the laborers were scattered
about promiscuously over several acres
of the plaza.
An Era Grader was operating on th'
Low Line Canal just east of the village
1t was driven by moter OF tWelV'
horses and four mules, especially tn
mules. They were cutting the canal "
feet wide, and seven feet deep including
the height of the raised banks Con
struction work on the canal was II
charge of s. F. Rhodes, an expert Will
this class of graders
West of the village, gangs OF team
were busy with Fresno scrapers on TN
High Line Canal which is the same slz
of the other and is designed to cover al
the high plains between Spring Creel
and American Falls.
At the crossing of Spring Creek Jus
above the village some men were cleai