The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-04-29
GOOD ROADS MEETING

On Tuesday evening a good roads
meeting was held at the Commercial
hub rooms in response to call by
DR.. W. L. Patrie, president of the
Good Roads association of Blackfoot.
On calling the meeting to order
! the doctor stated that having put
plans in motion to get an appropria-
| ton from the federal government to
| make a road through the Ross Fork
sands the next important thing SEEM
ed to be securing county aid to make
a passable road between Blackfoot
and Powell A bridge has already
been put in at what is known as Root
| Hog Ford on Lower Lost river and
| that this gives us connections with
both Powell and McCollum, and that
many settlers on the tract are obliged
to get out somewhere to trade, and
the many loose rocks in the road, the
quilted condition where it washes in
the spring and fall, and the mud pud-
dies where the road lies across bas-
in, make it imperative that something
be done in the interest of the new
taxpayers out there and in the in
terest of trade relations with the
nearest towns
The matter was discussed at con-
siderable length by DR.. Patrie, Fred
w. Murphey the wholesale cigar man,
H. E. Jones of the real estate firm of
Jones & Doyle, W. H. Stufflebeam of
the abstract company, E. C. Rowdon,
the Irish baritone singer and music
teacher, #. H. Christy of the First
National bank, r. G. Parkinson of the
Parkinson Real Estate company, D.
r. Jones of the Blackfoot State bank,
President L. R. Thomas of the Com
mercial club and Clifton Albertson of
the firm of Hall & Albertson, mer-
chants at Powell
Discussion as to what to do to the
road brought up the question of
whether to follow the old route all
the way, and why or how the road
ever was laid out so crooked. Editor
Byrd Trego of the Idaho Republican
said his observations had led to the
conclusion that the buffaloes laid out
the road. That it came about in this
way. The melting of the winter
SHOWS resulted in water accumlating
in low places, and allspring and ear
| ly summer the animals would go to
| the ponds to drink, and then go out
over the plains to Craze and on to
the hills to enjoy the breeze and fight
the flies. Trails were beaten between
the low places and the high rough
lands, and these ran at various angles
according to the location of the diff
ferent ponds.
When traders and trappers came in
to the country with pack outfits in
1926 and later they followed these
trails, and when the wagons came
from 1910 to the Sixties they follow
ed the beaten trails with their useless
meanderings, and the freighters did
he same. and this is the road they
beoueated to the settlers of today.
A comittee consisting of l.. r.
Thomas. w. Fl. Stufflebeam and H.
2. Jones was appointed to investigate
the matter of laying out new road
n places, and the best means of treat
ing the whole matter, and report to
The meeting next Monday evening.
A discussion followed as to wheth-
or It will be best to have good roads
work done as a committee or de-
partment of the Commercial club or
rs senarate organization, and this
will be brought up again at the next
meeting A delegation will wait up
on the commissioners at their next
meeting on Tuesday the 10th of May
TO ask for an appropriation for the
powell road, and to ask that some
thing be done to get action in cover
inc the dozens of culverts that are
standing up above the road bed all
about the country.