Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1910-06-24
SHOSHONE
IN BOOKLET.
WRITE Up OF SHOSHONE RE-
SOURCES THAT WILL GO OVER
ENTIRE UNITED STATES.
COMMERCIAL CLUBS LEAGUE
OF Boise Are Issuing the Book
LET and all Interested May Learn
About Southern Idaho.


About Southern Idaho.
The following article is the Sho-
shone write up that will appear IN
the new booklet to be published by
The League of Southern Idaho Com
mercial clubs, with headquarters
at Boise.
The League is extensively adver-
Used as a bureau Of information
and many inquiries from every
state in the union are received
each day. One of the Leagues
booklets is sent to every inquirer
and he is given such other specific
information as he may desire.
The list of these names is sent to
the Shoshone Commercial club
every day and notation of what
each person desired is made by
each name.
The Shoshone Commercial club
then sends to the same people par
iicular information about Shoshone
and vicinity and invites their fur
iher investigation.
All of this takes money and the
only way that money for the club
can be successfully raised is by
the dues of its members.
If you own property in Shoshone,
if you have any business or So
cial interests in shoshone, if you
want to help to make Shoshone the
best town in Lincoln county, give
your name to the secretary, E. q.
Nerrifield, and get in on the good
work. The dues are but
dollar a month and the ultimate
GOOD Of the above described cam
paign is inestimable-
sHOsHONE
The County Seat and ''livest"
town in Lincoln county.
Shoshone was established in the
early eighties, and, for decade,
was quite the busiest town on the
line.
At the time the railroad shops
we're closed and until Shoshone
again came into prominence as a
stock center, there was little or no
advance made.
For several years Shoshone has
heen Headquarters for a gOOdly
nunmber Of the largest stock and
land owners in the Northwest.
With the present reclamation of
the vast areas surrounding Shosho-
ne. her future is guaranteed.
Within a few miles south of Sho-
shone is the Twin Falls North Side
tract of 10000 acres: Immediately
east of Shoshone lies the Dietrich
tract of 40,0OOacres; few miles
north east of Shoshone is the Rich
field tract of 10000 acres and to
The north and west are the North
Shoshone and the North GOoding
tracts of 10000 aggregating
the immense total of $4,000 acres
of irrigated land in this one county,
of which Shoshone is the geograph-
zeal center and county seat.
Shoshone is a beautiful town in
which to live. A far cry to the
new town of an irrigated country 1
sprinkled and brilliantly lighted
streets. its many beautiful lawns
and homes and its miles of cement
walks shaded by an abundance Of {
trees.
Shoshone is but a half days {
drive to three of the scenic wond- {
ers OF the Continent .TheBlueLakes. {
the great Shoshone Falls. and that n
wonder and triumph of engineer Z
ing skill. the Miner dam. lt
Tourists from the ends Of the y
earth are voluble in their expires
sions of awe and delight upon view 7
ing the wild and rugged beauty of r
Falls, that terrible catar- J
act in its plunge deep into the can
Won. surprising even Niagara in {
depth. beauty and surrounding. {
Blue Lakes. the home of |. B. a
Ferrine.is beyond description. Here ;
the Snake canyon widens and :
down hundreds of feet to the level a
of the river are seen galaxy of /