The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-07-01
Hundred People have Happy Day-Come
Back Loaded with Trout Full Of
Jokes and Sunburnt
Height of the Big Butte How to Have Musical Festivals
Angels Food and Cream la Celestial;
Big Butte Affords Them All

which the lava came out in time
when there were eruptiOns or out
bursts from within the earth. Sew
eral places on the slopes bear indi
cations that there is water beneath
that might be tapped by boring OF
tunnellng, but the rocky conditions
OF the land below do not lend en-
couragement to agriculture unless
perhaps as an aid to maintaining a
| stock ranch. The stage station and
stock farm heretofore conducted by
Jas. Murray has recently been pur-
chased by Messrs. Holland & Zetchie
and they are preparing to put in a
new pipe line to more fully develop
the water supply.
Would Develop a Dairy
A man sitting on the summit of
the Butte and looking over the great
double valley felt deep regret that
even in the Upper Snake river valley
where all the grains and grasses and
natural COW feed can be produced
more cheaply and in greater certain
ty OF crops than almost any other
part of the world where the climtae
makes cows immune from any serious
diseases, should have to import so
much of dairy products while the
farmers are raising hay to sell at
low prices and feeding imported but
ter and cheese to the men at harvest
time.
He contemplated the natural ad-
vantages possessed by the local peo-
pie in the dairy industry, and remem-
bered that creameries have generally
been failures or were operated with
indifferent success, the lack of good
dairy stock, the lack of proper care
of the cows and the great distances
that must be covered by the wagons
gathering the cream being fatal to the
business.
He remembered that the telephone
takes persons voice and converts it
into some other form or substance
and carries it any distance and an
other instrument tuned in unison
with the first one, transforms 1t again
into voice, and delivers the message.
The wireless telephone operates on
some such principle, the only condi-
tion being that both instruments
shall have been tuned to exactly the
same key. The wireless telegraph
operates on the same principle, and
perhaps the Resurrection may be ex-
planned in a way bearing a relation to
this seeming miracle.
However that may be, the visitor
on the Big Butte reasoned that If an
instrument could be made and tuned
to correspond with the instruments
used in making the music of the
Spheres that the great musical festi-
vals of the Other World might be
transmitted by means of it, to mortal
ears.
Applying the principle of the wire
less telephone to the dairy industry
he reasoned that If cream separator
could be constructed and tuned to
match those used among the stars one
might be placed on some prominent
landmark like the Big Butte and let
1t exercise it's harmonic currents to
extract or separate the cream from
the milky way and form such strong
adjunct to the dairy business that
cows could be dispensed with alto
gether the same as automobiles are
the horse.
Blackfoot aspires to have musical
festivals, always feeds it's guests on
angels food, and should take steps
to add cream a la celectial to their
daily menu.