The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-12-24


out for the cars.
The Salmon City & Idaho Falls
Electric Railway will soon be real.
ity, II energy, grit, determination
and bard work can do it. That's
what the Club OF Commerce deter.
mined last night, and the money for
the preliminary work and the promo.
Uion will be subscribed today. Sem
ator Mcbride OF Salmon believes he
can interest capital to build the road
ii he can offer bonus of two hun
dred thousand dollras-a at least he be-
i YES 1t strong enough to try on bis
own responsibility and won't collect
a cent Of it until he succeeds, And
he will succeed. The money will all
be subscribed by Monday, and then
it's up to him. He'll succeed, too,
because he's got the right PROPOSE
tion and the energy to push it.
The subscription isn't exactly a
bonus, either, because every sub
scriber has the choice of either TAX
ing preferred stock to the amount of
his subscription or giving the
amount as a bonus.
According to the subscription list,
work is to Ae started before Decem-
ber l. 1909, and must be finished by
June l, 1911. The construction will
naturally start at Idaho Falls, as ma
teriaS can easily be transported, so
Jbis city will receive the first bene-
fits of the road.
It's the biggest thing that has
happened in Idaho Falls for some
time, and its got to 20 through.
So dig
Last night the Club OF Commerce
met to consider the proposition OF
promoting the building of an electric
! railroad from Idaho Falls to Salmon
2 City. The movement VS. started by
the people of Salmon, and Senator
Mcbride, who has been in the city
! for several days is in active charge
e of the work. After few prelimin
D airy remarks stating the purpose o.
D the meeting, president Holden intro
duced Senator Mcbride.
Mr.. Mcbride stated that the peo
d pie Of Salmon lad reached a stage
e where it must have railroad, anC
they would prefer that that railroad
= run to Idaho Falls. They had in
< ducements to assist building rail
5 roads to other towns, especially Dill
+ ion and Butte, but they preferred
Idaho Falls if the people here woulC
: meet them half way. They believ,
y that Idaho Falls is the cominl
S metropolis of Idaho, and they wan
i to.assist the city in their own stat
TO grow by being connected with il
by rail and doing their busineS
" through it.
e The electric road the senate
u pointed out. is the successful an
II popular road everywhere, and is rap
y IDLY replacing the steam road
J. Every condition warrants an electri
: equipment on this project, as ther
y is plenty OF power on both ends d
% well as in the middle, if necessary
> Mr.. Mcbride said he would prefer tC
&c resign the floor TO some more abl
u speaker, TO more fully set out th
% details OF the proposition.
The president called OF b. j
Briggs, Who covered the .esSenti;
ID points pretty thoroughly. lie sal
., hat while be was familiar with Tn
or proposition only in a general way, /
- conld easily realize the immense in
IN portance OF the road to both this cit
-. and Salmon. "Yuu think you kno
the resources Of your country here,
said Mr.. Briggs, addressing himse
particularly to the old timer
he "You have seen 1t gros to what it
e nov but IL has always been ma
n. from the OF tSide, from Iowa or \
On braska or some other state, vi
.C- came in and took hold and show,
or YOU how TO develop the possihilitie
rs Don [ get so engrOSSed in your ov
Isi resources, your own affairs, TO forg
NJ the res urces OF your neighbol
= Around Salmon is a vast mini
10 country. a small agricultural distri
-tney think it is a large one-anc
> biz stock c0u ntry. Unite this
MS farm country with that big mini
on country. with bands Of steel, a
re- make them one. fureet that tb'
ci- is anything between the two co
NJ muniliss. g.. He said he could read
up see Why Salmon should subscribe
snt hundred thousand dollars, as II
he must have a railroad. However, ;
his mons advantage should not Hind
lice 10 our own advantages, which VOL
he at least equal. 1t might prove