The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-22
Same Cordial, Western Wei,
come Extended by st. An
thony and Sugar City.
AMAZED AT RICHNESS OF
BEET-GR0WING REGION
Journey Will Certainly Be Pro
ductiye of Great Good to
Salt Lake Interests.
(By A. F. Philips.)
Special to The Tribune.

lDAl1O FALLS, Ida, May 2l.-
When the members Of the party on the
" Booster Special awoke this morn.
ing at o'clock the train was stand.
ing at the station of St Anthony, in tins
upper. Snake River valley. OFF 10 the
east the magnificent Teton peaks in
Wyoming, the guardian as it were Of
the Jackson Hole country, reared them
selves away up in the heavens. thoil
white-capped tops almost touching tbs
sky. On the west was the snow-capped
Sawtooth sange In Idaho, whose min
eral wealth will some time astonish tho
world; away to the north was seen the
always snow-capped peaks, the great
Continental divide in Montana, the
most rugged range of mountains in the
world, and then one breathed the de
lightful air of this great valley and
heard the roar of the waters of the
north fork Of the greatest river in
the Western world the Snake river
| Well, one was glad that he was living
| that he was dweller in that great EN-
pire known now as the Rocky mountain
regions, in the past as the Great Amer
lean desert.
Many Went the Limit.
Many of the party were tired out
| having come to the special train as IL
! lay in the yards at Pocatello IN the wee
small hours this morning, after spend
ing the evening at most delightful
bali given by the ladies of Pocatello
! the annual charity ball. And what
charming hostesses those Pocatello
| ladies were Young, middle-aged and
| the older ones Wed with each other in
/ an endeavor 10 make the stay of the
visitors pleasant. There was no for
] oil Of he os ha off afa
| East, but .hc genuine hospitality or
! the great Western world. Early II tho
! evening the "booster party bad
! conference, the result of which was
q donation to the management OF the
ball Of $3.50. The proceeds of the ball
went 10 the aid of the PocatNllo hos,
J pital, but that was last night. This
| dispatch must tell OF today.
There are other towns IN Idaho be.
! side st. nthony, there are other towns
! in the country larger than st. Anthony,
! but there are none more hospltable.
Yesterday afternoon the boosters were
advised that st. Anthony would have
breakfast for the party at o clock, II
was the ladies of St. Anthony, the
! Ladies Aid society, that prepared the
repast, and il was splendid one, the
! cooking was superb, the service admlra-
| ble and the spread most sumptuous. Inc
| ladies in charge We're: Mrs. Pearl
| Parks, president of the society; Mes
danes w W. Noumans. James \. Fryer,
| Mary Wager. r. Yeaven. James Lewis
and Mrs. Sturdevant. They were as.
sisted by Il number of others, two Of
whom, the Misses Viva Stone and Pru-
dence Earl, the latter n former Salt
! Laker, did all in their power TO make
! the stay of the visitors pleasant and TO
see that they did not suuer for any
thing to eat
Welcomed by Citizens.
The spread was given in the Bartlett
opera house, where the boosters, mead
ed by Held 5 band, marched from the
train and where they were welcomed
by committee, viz; L, s. Bullows,
chairman: IL. s Sturdevaut, p
Parks and Charles NJ. Bowerman, and
the ladies of the aid society of the
PRESBYTERIAN church. After the feast
an address was made by Chairman Bur
rows, welcoming the guests, 10 which
response was made by Fisher Harris
autos were taken and the party driven
about the town, and out to see the
State Industrial school which is locat
ed there After the drive the business
houses were visited. and at 10 O clock
the special started for Sugar City.
Three rousing cheers for St. Anthony,
for its people, and for the ladies' IN par
ticular were given in the beautiful hall
and nj the station aS the tram pulled
out, The visit to ST. Anthony viii be
productive of much good To the busi-
ness interests of Zion.
Sugar City was reached At l0:45
o clock, and here. as AT other places,
royal welcome was accorded the Wis
ltors.
Here is a town of twelve hundred
peoplc which has been built up inside
of three years and where is located A
bee, sugar factory which employs about
375 persons when running at full ca
pacity The people of Sugar City
turned out en- masse to welcome the
guests, 4 parade up town was made.
Frank Dairs. chairman of the commit
tee, welcomed the party, and then car
riages were taken, and all were driven
about the town. and three miles up TO
the foothills, from which point n mag
nifcent view of the valley was OBJ
tanned. Sugar City is the center of the
sugar beet growing section of south
eastern Idaho.
Produces the Best Beets.
The saccharinc in the heets grown
about there is said 10 he greater than
in any other beets grown IN sugar beet
producing countries in the west. The
acreage sown in beets in the Sugar City
district this year is eight thousand.
Two miles from the town is an expert
ment station. where beet seed is grown
and the seed sown at Sugar City is
from this station.
After the return 10 town the va
rious merchants of the party visited
wth tho merchants for an hour, and
then the journey was resumed.
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