The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-12-24

L suhoo is the sugar Factory, an(
north OF 1t another iron bridge acros.
Snake river.
a good water system supplies thu
town with purest of water drawn
from beneath the lava beds. we have
eIectrlc lights generated at American
rams, and sewer system is in course
OF installation. A city building will
be erected next spring, a block north
west OF ID, H. Biethan's store. The
depot built in 1892 is no longer ade,
quate for the needs of the town, and
the Commercial club is asking the
Short Line to build a new one larger
and modern.
A branch railroad was built from
Blackfoot to Mackay (Houston) on
Lost river in 1.J1, and another from
Blackfoot to Derdeen is about com.
plet d the grading having been
finished last week. Aberdeen Is a
new town In the Snake river pains
forty miles southwest OF Blackfoot on
the west side of the river, about fit
teen miles southwest of Danilson
Springs, now known as Springfield
and is the heart of an agricultural
community. thomas, Pingree, Tilden,
iOtis and Yuma are some of the new
,toWps along the line of the new
lroad.
| 10 the westward and north west
!, new farms are being developed In
places as far as the Big Butte, and
from there northward to the sinks of
Big Lost river, Little Lost river and
Birch creek A new town called Nc
Collum is being laid out in the CEN
ter the old Snake river desert,
about twenty miles nearly north Of
the Northern Buttes, ON the eastern
side of the lower course of Big Lost
river. They will begin to build It
next spring, laying out the streets,
and putting In the water system,
wires and perhaps the sewer system
before building the town itself or
anything on the surface OF the
ground. It is likely to be the junc-
ton Of railroad crossing Idaho from
east to west and spur connecting
Blackfoot with the Salmon river
country via the Lemhi Valley. The
Indian reservation on the southeast
lis being supplied with the means Of
Ereclaiming all the arabic lands, and
1T will be opened to settlement in the
near future, the canal system and
reservoir being sufficiently developed
warrant the planting of crops UNI
aAer it for the season of 1910.
A dam seventy feet high and some
miles in length is likely to be con-
structed across Snake river forty
miles below Blackfoot that will be
Supplemented by storage lakes in the
Rocky Mountains in the region south
of the Yellowstone Park.
Experimental work in the applica-
ton of the cyanide process to the
mining of the fine -four gold found
in the Snake river sands has resulted
in the evolution of process that bids
fair to make millionaires Of some Of
the local people who own stock in the
company that has patented the pro-
cess and begun the erection of large
treatment plant at Gold Point, fifteen
miles below Blackfoot. The large
amount of collaborating sand and
gravel in the valley makes this an i'm
velopment of the state.
Our local automobiles have Joined
forces with those OF other Idaho
towns in an effort to make a good
automobile way into and through tic
valley to encourage that kind d
travel, and while several great rec)a
nation projects are being pushed to
reclaim the major portion Of the
Snake River Plains, private capital Is
being interested in plan to acquire
control of the slopes of the Big 4,',tte
planting so much of 1t to trees a.
may seem practical and converting !;
into great observatory park and
summer resort for people afflicted
with pulmonary troubles and Lay
fever. 1t occupies a central position
in great level plain; overlooks an
empire that will be densely populated
within few more decades, AMI by
the time the timber grows, 1t will &c
most welcome spot to thousands
who want to get away from the heat
of the great plain for periods of the
summer months.
Dry farming on the great plains Is
being conducted with considerable
success, and with greater success or
the foot hills, so that there is every
prospect that lands heretofore termed
worthless only for grazing will be
made the homes of countless thous.
ands who are now turning their at
tention away from the cities, in ar
effort to get back to the soil.