The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-01

ty, Idaho.
Idaho Falls has now a population O
] 5000, and by 1910 it will have a popu
lation of 1900, and it is safe to pre-
dict that in ten years more it will hav.
a population of not less than $1,000
souls.
A Great Water Power.
The water power in the rapids OF
Il the Snake river. where the city oil
Idaho Falls is located, affords a never
failing water power, estimated by the
United States government engineer at
125,000 horse power at low water, be-
! ing double the power afforded at Spo-
kane, Wash, and the greatest water
power west of Niagara.
Power Has Been Harnessed.
This great power has been partially
harnessed, and an electric power plant
| mas been installed that will genera e
5000 horse power and supply current
for commercial purposes to cover a
| large territory, while any quantity of
additional power can be secured at a
{ normal cost. Right of way has been
| secured, and electric roads will be
built from Idaho Falls, betting the val
ley and touching all the principal
! towns. and securing Idaho Falls su-
premaCy as a great manufacturing
center. The city now has twelve man.
ufactuling plants, including a ], 200-ton
beet sugar factory, while numerous
other enterprises are looking toward
Idaho Falls with a view to locating.
Railroad Facilities.
Idaho Falls is situated in Bingham
county, in eastern Idaho, at the point
where the Union Pacific running north
crosses the Snake river. 1t is half way
between Denver and Portland, going
east and west, and midway between
Butte, Mont, and Salt Lake, City,
Utah, going north. and south.
New Railroad Building.
The Chicago & Northwestern is now
building into Idaho through the Snake
river canyon on the south fork of the
river, from Lander, Wyoming, on its
way to the Pacific coast and il is an
almost assured thing that Idaho Falls
Will be made both a passenger and
freight division point.
Projected Railways.
At an early date a line will be built
from Idaho Falls to the Birch Creek
and Lost River mining district, and
Salmon City in the northwest. While
the Burlington survey now crossing
the country from east to west through
Idaho Falls viii open up the extensive
fields of coal, copper, cold, silver and
lead deposits known to exist and par
TALLY developed lying in the eastern
part of the county and western WyGm-
ing. While the Gould line is planning
the extension of their. system from Og-
den, Utah, to Idaho Falls, and the time
is not far distant when this city will
become the greatest railroad center
ON the Pacific slope.
The H.ta,.,., <a. A.. N.II..,...
The Idaho Falls branch line to st. |
Anthony has been extended to the yell |
lowstone National park. This will in |
sure Idaho Falls of getting practically |
all of the park travel. Heretofore the |
Yellowstone park travel has been re- |
stricted to the st. Paul route, but i'm /
addition the tourist will now have the I
choice of the shorter route by Omaha i
and the Union Pacific. the picturesque /
Rio Grande route by Denver and Salt /
Lake City through the famous Bear |
river canyon in Utah, and up through /
the fertile valley of the great Snake /
river to the Yellowstone National park
This new route will greatly reduce the
distance from California, Colorado,
Texas and the entire southeast, and
visit Denver and Salt Lake City en-
route. In addition to this diverse
routes will undoubtedly be granted as
between St. Paul and the new routes
which will enable the trourists TO make
the trip by way of Omaha or Denver
and Salt Lake City and return by way
Of st. Paul and vica versa. This will
insure all travel coming by way of
Idaho Falls.
There is no other section of the con-
tinent that has a finer summer climate
than the upper Snake river valley.
The nearby mountains, lakes and
rivers are unsurpassed for beautiful
the streams are teeming with
trout, big game and all kinds of the
featnered family, including pheasants,
blue grouse, prairie chickens, etc. etc.
abound in the forests, foothills and
fields easily reached from Idaho Falls,
while gun clubs from New York to San
Francisco, prominent. railroad men.
inanciers, doctors and lawyers have
their shooting lodges and summer ;
homes among the mountains. These
attractions make this city an ideal ;
place il which TO enjoy a summer va
,ation. Whether seeking rest, health
)r recreation, the tourist will be well
rewarded by a visit to Idaho Falls, the ;
coming interior metropolis of the Pa
life slope.
National Park.
The source of the south fork of the
great Snake river is in the Yellow
stone National park, while the north ,
Ork heads at Henry's lake, near the
Montana border. AS the rivers course
les for a hundred miles through a
'Ugged. mountainous government re- ,
serve subject to heavy falls of snow {
[ gathers its force from the melting !
snow and glacier-fed rivulets until it :
becomes mighty torrent, the volume :
# which is many times greater than
my other stream in the arid west The !
snake has its home among these per- !
)etual snow-covered peaks, and ma
ures scenic paradise for the tourist.
Source of the Snake River.
The government has just completed I
building a reservoir of mammoth pro- q
portions at Jackson's lake, on the /
read waters of the south fork while 1
mother immense reservoir is being {
constructed at Henry's lake, on the [
lead waters of the north fork of the +
snake river. This will insure the COM q
nencing. at an early date of a number r
f new irrigation projects, on a large t
Gale, at present under consideration. Y
Immense Reservoir Completed.
The upper Snake river valley is in Il