The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-23
(From the Pocatello Daily Tribune Of
Monday, August 10, 1907

" I0M tle f0caCell0 DAILY tribune o.
Monday, August 10, 1907
The first day Of the sixth quarterl,
meeting of the Eastern Idaho Pres.
club in this city yesterday was i,
brilliant success. While the attend
ance was not SO large as had been an
ticipated, still the representation o.
the newspaper workers Of the ter
counties covered by the club was
fairly complete. Forty-eight men ant
women from Montpelier to Mountain
home and from Ashton to Bull were
present, to attend the meeting and tc
partahc of the boundless hospitality
of the Gate City and of American
Falls.
The larger part of the delegates ar.
rived Saturday night from the north
on the Yellowstone limited train
Others came in from the east on No
7 and No. 9, Saturday evening. The
remainder arrived on No. 10 from the
east yesterday forenoon and on No
2 from the west. They were met at
the depot by a reception COMMITTEES
and escorted to the Bannock hotel
where club headquarters were estab-
lished
The program of entertainment OF
the visiting editors and their wives
was carried on to the letter. The
first feature was trip by special
train to American Falls at 1890. The
train consisted of baggage car, a
day coach, and the service car Of Su-
perintendent Olmstead of the Idaho
division Of the Short Line, who went
with the excursion, accompanied by
Superintendent Stevenson of the Mon
tana division. The forty -eight club
members who made the trip were sup
plemented by about 40 prominent Po-
catello citizens with their wives. The
run to the Falls was made in fast
time, the Power City depot being
reached at lilo. A reception COM
mittee headed by Ben Howell and l..
l.. Evans met the train and escorted
the excursionists to the American
Falls opera house, where the wives of
the members of the Power City Com
mercial club had spread one of the
finest banquet lunches ever served in
Idaho. Two long tables were loaded
with good things, and the stage of the
opera house was heaped with exhibits
of dry farm products, in the way OF
fruits, grasses, vegetables, wool, etc.
An attractive feature was live
sheep, happy inside huge crate. An
immense trout, 26 inches long, was
Aanked by big box of smaller fish
Of the same variety. Timothy, seven
feet tall, grown by K. I. Houtz, near
Rockland; magnificent oats grown on
the dry farm of J. W. Davis near the
Power City, wheat from the dry farm
at Rockland Of C. A. Warner; plums
and prunes grown without irrigation
in Snake river orchards; potatoes Of
record breaking size, raised without
water; mammoth beets and turnips
grown on non-irrigated tracts ada
cent to the Power City-these were
some Of the interesting exhibits which
attracted the attention of the editors
and caused wonderment.
When the Pocabello visitors had
eaten their fill from the grooming ban
quet boards, which were presided over
by bevy Of the prettiest girls in
southeastern Idaho, First Vice Presi-
dent E. A. Strong of the Press club,
arose to introduce Hon. James H.
Wallis of Rexburg, who in stirring
speech Of appreciation Of the hospital
ity of the people Of American Falls,
formally extended to the Power City
Commercial club hearty vote of
thanks. Major Fred r. Reed re-
sponded to vociferous calls for a
speech and in his happiest vein called
attention Of the editors to the growth
and development and progress and
prosperity Of American Falls and the
immense country Immediately sur
rounding it. Hon. James H. Brady
followed with characteristic speech,
in which he told some interesting
facts concerning the immense power
plant at American Falls owned by
the company of which he is the head.
Colonel Avery C. Moore of Occur
d'Alene spoke eloquently of the mar
velous development that has attended
upon the irrigation of the arid south
east. Three cheers and tiger for Am
erican Falls wound up the occasion.
The visitors were then escorted
across the river to the American Falls
power plants. Sixty thousand horse
power are here available for manufac-
turing purposes, for heat and light.
Current is transmitted to Pocatello,
Rlackfoot and other points along the