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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-11-11
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able prices We do all kinds of
painting. vanishing. tinting. paper
ing. etc. Use the phones.
Federal Paint & Wall Paper Co.,
l3ii First Az, near University 81.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-11-11
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Was Born 81 Years Ago,

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-11-11

Manager Carl Reed said last niRht
that all tickets for the opening per
formancca will be exchanged for
tonight or a refund Of money made
hra l.. Mooney of 1903 Warren
av. WAS the victim OF youthful
purse snatcher while walking along
First av. near Broad ST. last night
The thief escaped
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-11-11
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-11-11
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-11-11
Halt Prices for All the Hats
Over Ten Dollars

Now that the season is waning our milf
merry people announce sale Of the over
lots All the Pattern Hats. all the Dress
and Exhibition Hats, are to be sold at ex-
actly one-half former prices
No finer Hats are TO be found anywhere
Rich fur and ostrich trimmed Hats in great
variety are shown in beautiful colors and
becoming styles Priced as follows
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-11-11
Selling The Finest Willow
PlumeS for Hall or Near II

Willow Plumes have taken their place
among the accepted. permanent iinery OF
women. Their popularity is increasing,
yet tho high prices usually charged forbid
their ever being common. We now offer
the seasons surplus at about half price.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-11-11

Shown IN black. white and few com
bination and plain colors.
All lengths and widths will be found at
some price--in black mostly. with few
white and combination coiors.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10
f. S. SPAULDING, DRUGGIST

There are few institutions in any
community that rank head of the
apothe cary in importance A drug
store whose patrons are absolutely
sure that their prescriptions are &C
curately compounded, and the ingre-
dents of which are pure is very near
ly ideal-such a store Is the Bridge
Street Pharmacy Established more
than three years ago, this store has
rapidly forged it's way to the front,
and is today considered one of the
leading business houses of Blackfoot.
1t is a modern place Of business in
every respect. The stock is neatly
arranged-every modern device being
used to display it to advantage. In
connection with the store, an ice
cream and soda water business Is al
so conducted, and this department
has been the means of making for the
store many friends on account of the
excellent quality of the goods and
the manner in which 1t Is served.
E. S. Spaulding, the present propri-
etor of the Bridge Street Pharmacy.
Is a young man and hustler. In
fact it Is by his close attention to de-
tails, and a desire to ever serve the
public in the best manner possible
that has enabled him to build up such
prosperous business in such short
space of time.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10

locality.
1t is now forty years since irriga-
ton was commenced in the Upper
Snake River Valley, and this was done
near B;ackfoot, by men who are still
alive and residents of this place
farming under the original systems
commenced at that time.
From these small beginnings. this,
Bingham county, has forged ahead
until it now occupies first rank in
the state in the mileage of its canals
and the number of acres covered by
the systems, and Idaho is the fore
most state in the union in this re-
spect The total mileage of canals in
this county in 1909 was 1885, or
694 miles in excess of the second
largest which is Fremont county. Its
total acreage under the systems was
758,94O, or 2O676 in excess of
Fremont.
The beginning of irrigation in the
Upper Snake River Valley WILDE cele-
brated at Blackfoot on the 18th OF
September in connection with the
Southeastern Idaho Fair, this being
the oDening day Of the four days
exhibition of vast array Of the pro-
ducts of irrigation. and Of relics OF
pioneer work in various lines. EX-
cursion trains will be run from Idaho
points within a radius Of one hun
bred miles, and irrigation. and the
development Of irrigation systems
will be conspicuous features OF the
historical exhibit.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10

| city hall being built with the usual
appointments and with one compart-
ment for the use of the Village I'm
provement Society, the most honored
most respected and best rated organ
ization in the town-a society of the
thinking, active women of the town
whose Righteousness of purpose and
effectiveness of action enables them
to turn waste into revenue, insight
Illness into beauty, Indifference into
enthusiasm, to stand sponsor for I'M
dertakings too great for the individ-
ual and out of the scope of the mu-
nicipality; and in municipal politics
to write the platforms for parties to
win on and to administer. In build
I ing the new city hall, soon to be ded-
iCated, one large room was designed
for this society in recognition of their
worth.
Commercially, Backfoot has been
limited in scope by having an Indian
reservation overlapping the county on
one side, and a sunnosed semi-arid
waste on the other side that has long
been called the Snake River Des-
ert." but conditions are rapidly
changing. The process of opening
the reservation to settlement is under
way, and since Campbell the dry far
mer has spread his science of farm
| ing the semi-ard lands so they yield
profit, the supposed waste lands are
beng taken up and successfully cul-
tivated. the greatest drawback now
being the inability of the government
to get them surveyed fast enough to
suit the settler.
Means Of transportation are afford
ed by the main line Of railroad con-
Meeting Salt Lake City and Butte
and bv branch roads operating out OF
Blackfoot as follows. The Salmon
River Branch now completed to
Mackay on Big Lost River dis
lance of eighty-fve miles with daily
train service. The Aberdeen road
lust being completed down the west
side of the Snake River a distance
of forty miles the McCollum Branch
to be built this season connecting
Rlarkfoot with the new town Of Nc
Collum situated fortv-five miles north
west on the east side nf Lower Bic
ost River IN tho Powell Tract Also
the st. Anthony branch extending via
Idaho Falls to the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park on the northeast Steam
boot ira fife is being instituted bv a
COMPANY now enoaped in building
boats to onerate between American
Falls and Blackfoot.
Leading industries, after mention.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10

or the use of the electric lights or
drink the crystal waters pumped
from the deep twin wells that supply
the town you have reason to share
that sentiment expressed by the In
dian chief when he said to William
Penn under the oak tree, $50 long
as the rivers run and the sun shines,
we will live in peace ~ for the
rivers fed by banks of perpetual snow
furnish the life-giving fluid to moist
en- plant life at the will of man,
magnetic the telephone. light the
streets and homes, and electrify the
mechanism that pumps the water,
elevates and grinds the grain, ope-
rates the sugar factory, the printing
press, the electric sign, the electric
fan. the electric flatiron, the meat
cutter, the bread mixer and numerous
other of the achievements of the pur-
suits of peace that may continue so
long as the rivers rum and be i'm
proved upon forever.
The reader will know the character
of the town when we give few gem
eral facts-facts that are necessarily
governing in their influence, and then
the details assume their places as nat
urally as logic gives conclusions, and
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10

as the concentrates carry values rang
ing from SO to $40 in gold to the
ton, and the extraction is very close,
the daily earnings will total up to
something handsome at the end Of a
months run. Mr.. Clevenger conf
IDENTIFY expects that the concentrates
will average at least $40 to the ton.
This would mean a recovery of $500
daily. From this, deduct the work
ing cost of $3.50, and total net daily
earning Of $640 Is left to swell the
Golfers of the company.
A large portion of the stock of the
company is held by Blackfoot people,
and these have every confidence In
the enterprise. Some stock still re-
mains in the treasury, the proceeds
from the sale Of which, and 1t Is SELL
Ing at par will be devoted exclusive
ly to the equipment of the diggings.
AS 1t Is, however, but small amount
of this will have to be sold to place
the proposition on regular produce
Ing basis, and 1t Is believed that the
company will be on steady dividend
paying basis before the close of the
year.
The simplicity Of this treatment of
Snake river gold. after so many years
OF partial failure, will certainly create
renewed interest in this almost in
eXhaustible store of imperishable
wealth: for the gravel bars of this
great water course contain the riches
of Croesus. of a John D. Rookie
Teller.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10
BLACKFOOT X THE GROVE CITY

ing agriculture, may be rated as fruit
raising. which is absorbing a vast
amount of capital the past few years
and is paying good returns, stock
raising, which is rapidly changing
from grades to pure breeds, gold min
ing, which is receiving more and
more attention each year, and is be-
ing followed with persistence by
hrainy men from the schools of mines
and Of experience. A beet sugar fac
tory located at the edge of town man
ufactures millions of pounds of sugar
annually and it's influence upon in
tensive farming is being felt in i'm
proving agricultural methods.
In the cultivation and expression Of
music, Blackfoot stands first as in
Dictated by handling the June Musi-
cal Festival, spoken of elsewhere in
this edition, attracting visitors from
surrounding counties to enjoy this
treat which it is designed shall be an
annual affair, forming the nucleus of
the study of high class music for
Eastern Idaho. 1t is designed that
from this notable beginning there
shall develop as worthy results in
forty years as have been brought to
pass in irrigation in the last four
decades since its beginning in this
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10
THE BLACKFOOT REAL ESTATE
AND INVESTMENT COMPANY

The Blackfoot Real Estate and In
vestment Co., Ltd, was organized by
Fl. C. Harvey and commenced opera
lions two years ago. A specially is
made of Carey Act lands and the oper-
ations of this concern extend all over
the southeastern part Of the state.
Although originally an eastern man,
Mr. Harvey came here from Seattle,
Wash, and in speaking of Blackfoot
and its future, he says. Conditions
here will force Blackfoot to become
the center of the greatest farming
country in the United States"
Mr.. Harvey is hustler. of the
type that has made the West famous
and in fact he is good example OF
the men that are responsible for this
great inland empire.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10

sought to entice the gold of Snake
river to yie.d to all of the known
methods of recovery, the problem was
never solved in a satisfactory manner
until S. V. Clevenger began a series
OF experiments; and these have been
so successful that plant on work
Ing and commercial scale is now re-
placing the small mill with which Mr..
/ Clevenger has demonstrated the
feasibility of his process
This process Is an adoption of the
well known cyanide method of gold
extraction. Beginning his expert
ments with the ordinary box sluice,
Mr.. Clevenger soon discovered that
the recovery was small, owing to the
, fact that much Of the gold was rusty,
and also that much of of it was asso-
ciated with the iron contained in the
sand. He then began to make tests
on the concentrates resulting from
sluicing the sand and gravel, and
found. much to his satisfaction, that
by submitting these concentrates to
| the action of cyanide solution. in agi-
tation, the full values of the gold
was recovered.
Mr.. Clevenger then organized the
| Gold Point Exploration & EXtrac-
tion COMPANY with the modest capt.
talization Of 800 shares, of a par
value Of 500 each, and is now equip
ping his diggings located twelve
miles southwest Of Blackfoot, Idaho,
with a Acton milling plant utilizing
an adaDtion Of the cyanide process.
In the locality mentioned the COM
panv owns $50 acres OF placer ground
on the Snake river. This Is high-bar
gravel. having an average depth OF
twentv-six feet. and carrying average
values of 81 to the cubic yard; and
| this gravel can be handled. and the
gold extracted, as cost of 20 cents
a ward.
The comnany has It's machinery
now all on the ground and the work
Of installing the same Is going for
ward as RAPIDLY as possible and they
EXPECT to be turning out the yellow
metal within the next six weeks.
In speaking Of the methods to be
EMPLOYED in handling the sand and
gravel. Mr.. CIevenger stated that the
product Of the bars would be run
] through ordinary sIuice boxes and
over RIFLES. by which methods hun
dreds OF Yards of gravel can be handl-
cd weekly. while the concentrates Will
no subjected tn treatment In the cyan
ide tanks. About forty tons OF con-
centrates can be handled daily. and
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10
c. T.. KINNEY & SONS CO., THE
BUSY STORE

1t would be hard indeed, to find
a more complete or up-to-date stock
of general merchandise than that car
ried by c. E. Kinney & Sons company
in what is popularity known as the
Busy Store, located on Main street
This firm, which succeeded the old
firm of Hart, Rowles & Kinney four
years ago, enjoys an enviable repu-
tation throughout the Snake river
valley as dealers in dependable mer-
chandise. This is easily understood
when we mention that they carry
such well known lines as Sophomore
| clothes, Mayer shoes and Stetson and
Tiger hats for men, the Iris ready-to-
wear garments and Queen Quality
shoes for women. And furthermore
the same high standard of goods is
maintained in all the other lines
which include dry goods, groceries,
notions, ETC.
The head of the firm Mr.. C. E. Kin
ney, is one of the pioneers of the
Lost river valley, in fact when he
located in this section in 1882 there
were but four other white families in
this portion Of the valley and they
were located several miles apart. For
many years after coming to this
country from his former home in
Wabash county, Indiana, Mr.. Kinney
was principally Interested in stock
raising, at which he was very success
full. Finally firing of the ardous
duties and responsibilities connected
with ranch life, Mr. Kinney turned
his attention to mercantile lines, and
with his son became interested in
the Palace Drug store, which they
later disposed of at handsome profit.
In the meantime he had become a
part owner of the business conducted
under the firm name of Hart, Row.
les & Kinney, which was succeeded
by the present firm four years ago.
Associated with Mr.. Kinney in the
present firm are his two sons YER
non and Harry Kinney, also d. l..
ONeal and Ray Raglan, both of whom
married daughters of Mr.. Kinney.
Owing to the fact that one of the
sons, Vernon, is in Nevada, and the
other, Harry, is going to school in
Des MOines, Iowa, neither, of course,
are active members of the firm. How
ever, despite life of more than
ROoseveltian strenuousity Mr.. Kin
ney can almost always be found ac-
lively directing the management of
this busy store. And in his absence
the management devolves upon Mr..
O'Neal. But as a matter of fact, the
machinery of the business is so per-
fectly organized that every one works
in harmony which greatly lightens
the burden of those who are respon-
sible for the success of this flourish
ing business.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10
RICH IN THE LORE OF HISTORY

we need not burden this article with
them.
The population of the town is
about four thousand; its government
that of city of the second class; its
elevation 400 feet above sea level !;
its prevailing winds from the south
west; its storms of consequence COM
ing from nowhere but going always
somewhere else. It's population ma
tive white Americans of various re-
ligions; it's surrounding resources
based upon agriculture, stock rails
ing, mining: its farms and irriga ing
canals and water rights being the old
est in the upper Snake River Valley.
1t is county seat town and early
became the seat of the federal court
for eastern Idaho. Its public inStitu-
tions after mentioning the court
house, the schools and churches, are
its Commercial club, the Southeast
ern Idaho Fair, the United States
Land Office. the city park, the Audi
forum, Fraternity Hall used by a
dozen different lodges, and the new
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10
SNAKE RIVER GOLD
Process Evolved for the Successful
Treatment of Collaborating
Sand

For quarter of century, or
more, more than hundred futile
efforts have been made to successful
|" handle the auriferous gravel and
sand existing along the banks of the
Snake River, in Idaho.
That the gold Is there, and there
in abundance, has often Deen most
satisfactorily demonstrated but the
great trouble has been to separate it
from the sand and gravel, from its
intimate association with the black
iron so prolific in the sand and gravel.
Sluicing has been resorted to, but the
recovery, in every case, has amounted
to but small percentage of the val
ues present. Burlaps have been en-
ployed, especially invented tables, and
even dredge boats have been brought
into use. But, Notwithstanding the
of the thousands who have
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10
A Landmark in the Long Ago, Becoming a
Modern Trade Center and Educational and
Musical Mecca-Great Historic Exposition
in September

ed less attention, as the pursuits of
peace took precedence, the occasion
for military activity passed unnoticed
as the sunrise follows the dawn.
Therefore when YOU read of Ft.
Hall it means the Blackfoot country
When you are at Blackfoot, you are
treading the romantic setting of the
stage of history, and whether you ad-
mire the stately mountains. the lux
uriant verdure of field and lawn, or
enjoy the privileges of the telephone
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10

the lore OIL history anu leSeuuS, d
commercial center from it's incep-
ton, the center of grand stage of
activity furnishing the reasons for
its being, and opulent in consequence
of it's natural advantages and con-
centrated effort along conservative
lines of business.
Bearing a name that is at first re-
pellant to the fastener, it's title OF
THE Grove City," impresses the trav-
eler when he enters the town, and the
pleased impression that takes pos
session of him as he views it's shady
streets and luXuriant lawns COM
pels him to repeat that old express
sion, whats in Nance
Situated in a vast level plain on
the banks of the seventh largest r1v-
err in the world, river whose name,
The Snake is also repellant, until one
learns the Indian origin of the word
signifies easy and graceful meander-
ing rather than the presence of any
reptiles, it lay in the path of the
earliest explorers and travellers who
came to the northwest, and none of
them save Lewis & Clark missed pass
ing within sight of the present town.
The first white men who ever pass
ed through the valley, the Astor eX-
petition under Captain Hunt, in No
vember 1911, passed within mile OF
the present city hall and city park
Later, in 1926 came the hundred
adventurers' from st. Louis, Captain
Bonneville in 1884, Jason Lee and
CAPTAIN Mckay in 1884, Whitman
and Spaulding and their wives in
1S35-the first white women to make
the trip overland to Oregon-and
later the whole emigrant population
of 'The Oregon Country passed
through Blackfoot or followed down
a water course laying to the south
of it.
The summer of 1884 witnessed the
building of trading post at FIT. Hall
there being none in the present state
of Idaho, the first raising of the
stars and stripes, the preaching of the
first Protestant serm on west OF the
Rocky Mountains, and the first known
Christian burial within the state at
TT, Hall, few miles southwest OF
Blackfoot.
The renowned writer's of history of
the northwest, notably, Bancroft,
Bonneville, General Fremont and
Washington Irving, all emphasize the
importance Of Ft. Hall. 1t was there
that strategy and diplomacy were,
matched against patriotic sentiment
and the united family units of the
American settlers, to determine
whether Oregon should receive the
influx of travel or whether it should
be diverted southwestward into the
Spanish possessions, and Oregon
won-Idaho emerging. a brilliant
daughter. 1t was at FIT. Hall and on
the plains around Blackfoot that
Washington Irving pictured the
grandest of buffalo hunts, his versa
tile mind and pen shedding actual
colors, stirring the admiration or
millions who read his works and
long to see the very landscape-a
landscape that has since been over
grown with sage brush that sue
ceeded the buffalo grass and is now
being converted into fields of golden
grain and luscious fruits.
But forts do not necessarily become
cities TT. Vancouver is not Port
land the PRESIDED is not San Francisco,
M. Douglas is not Salt Lake CITY
and 1T. Hall is not Blackfoot, but as
Blackfoot took form, Ft. Hall recelV-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-10
(By the Editor

Towns and cities have
characters the same as
individuals and by the
exercise of force of char
acter they acquire rep
utations.
Blackfoot is an old
wealthy town, rich in