Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-07-19

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fishing and bathing, an up-to-date half
mile track for the ponies to trot and
run on, watch Miner grow.
A telephone line is being constructed
to Jerome, and Mrs Paul r. Kartake
will be postmistress of the new town.
The Bank of Miner will be open for
business July %. Temporary banking
quarters have heen secured in the Land
office until the new bank building is
completed, which win be in about 80
days.
The new hotel, ''The Riverside Inn, !"
is now under roof, and Contractor Pat
Hall is pushing the building to compile
ton as rapidly as possible This beau
tIful and modern hotel will be opened
to the public October Is with grand
ball.
The Miner base ball club is organ
lied. The boys have ordered their uni
forms, a splendid ball ground has been
prepared, and soon there will be as gal
liant nine of pennant winners clad in
white with green trimmings as ever
famed the breeze in the valley of the
Snake.
Miner is the headquarters of the
Twin Falls North Side Land and Waler
Company and always will be. The
company have a fine headquarters
building, costing SIS, 900. The grounds
about the building are in charge of an
expert landscape gardener, who is GER
tainly making beauty spot by the
dam.
The Land company's forces are very
busy these days preparing for the grand
odening of $50, 900 acres and two town
sites, jerome and Wendell. The open
| ing of the lands will take place at Je-
rome. The townsites will both be
opened before August 1st so people can
build hotels, restaurants, and establish
themselves for the big opening. The
plan regarding the towns is to sell two
lots and keep two so that an equal op-
portunity may be given purchasers to
acquire choice lots at the big opening,
October 1st.
The contract for the grading of the
electric railroad will be let August 1st,
and grading commenced az once from
{ Miner to Jerome, beginning at both
towns and working toward the centre
The contract from Jerome to Wendell
will be let later in the season. Al
ready many land and lot buyers are on
the ground, going in from Twin Folls,
Miner, Shoshone and Gooding. Stages
viii be run from Shoshone on the main
to Jerome and also frown Twin Falls
and from Gooding to Wendell and Je-
rome.
Miner, Jerome and Wendell will be
the towns on the north side of the Twin
Falls tract. They will be connected by
an electric railroad, telegraph and tele-
phone. Electricity for power and light
ing purposes will be furnished by the
Great Shoshone & Twin Falls Water
Power Co., whicp is controlled by Kuhn
Brothers of Pittsburg, who are also fur
nishing the capital for the great north
side canal and the electric railroad The
southern terminus of the electric rail
road will be Miner, where it connects
with the Twin Falls branch of the o.
S. L. R. R. The northern terminus
will be at some point on the main line
at or near Gooding. Two years more
and the great north side desert viii be
a memory Money, brains and muscle
have obliterated the wilderness Prim-
tive conditions are obsolete. The army
progresof is marching through the
land, singing triumphant songs of
peace, prosperity and good will The
victory is all the greater because it is
bloodless, bringing so the human fam
ily gIadness, hope and happiness. The
making grass grow where none grew
before, the creating of a great common
wealth, the offering on legitimate lines
to toilers opportunity" to fortify
against the desolation of poverty as the +
shadows of the evening of life fall is
most wonderful achievement. Carne-
gle may build thousand libraries;
Rockefeller may give millions to Sun
day schools, the rich man who ,tby his
money and love of humanity conquers
a desert, making it blossom as a rose,
offering human beings chance to solve
life's problem under liberal and honest
is the greatest of the great.
A great generation will come from the
irrigated lands of the west. A high
class patriotic cisizenship will bldss the
splendid men who created in so broad
and wise manner such legitimate op-
MiIner-by-the- dam, July IA, 1907.