The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-07
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
MAKES WEAK W0MEN STRONG, SICK WOMEN WELL.

block OF terrtory-as yet slightly i'm
proved in point of value and OF settle
| nent. but still holding the valued tax
paying Short line-may become potent
factor.
Lincoln county lies Just south of Blaine.
II is developing with remarkable speed.
Its growth is not confined alone to the
irrigation OF its vast rich acreage, but
IL has built. is building and projecting,
many miles OF new railroads and many
new cities. During the past three years
the Idaho Southern road has built
from Gooding TO Jerome, a distance OF
twenty miles; the Oregon Short Line has
most OF the building done of its branch
from Ruper; TO Bliss a distance OF sixty
pleted, preliminary in character from
MiDnidolla through Dietrich, Richfield and
! across Camas prairie toward Boise.
During the past six years large towns
have sprung up in Lincoln county. such
as Gooding. Jerome, Wendell Rupert,
Hepburn Richfield and Hartman, where
heretofore there was undulating sage
brush no people and no titled property
| TO assess.
HALEY and Shoshone Fearful.
The new people. towns and increased
assessed valuation of Lincoln county is
calling forth an atmosphere of uneasiness
at HALEY and at Shoshone regarding the
security of their respective county seats.
HALEY fears the former blow. Shoshona
the latter
Gooding is ambitious for a county scat.
10 plan which has gained publicity, 10
divide Lincoln and Blaine counties by
line north and south between Gooding
and Shoshone and extending north TO the
mountains above Camas Prairie. nclud
ing the Soldier country, with Gooding
the seat of county government This
would leave Rupert and Shoshone in the
same county to struggle for the removal
or the retention Of the county seat by
popular vote at a succeeding election. a $
provided by statute.
SnI ihnG te ..Ia al <;,,,.
from the horizon of the east. darker col
ored than this. 1t is American Falls. In
Oneida county. and IT borders onto the
block OF territory in southeastern Blaine.
and American Falls wants a new county.
county seat. and this block of Blaine
county territory Three years ago the
people OF American Falls presented their
| claims 10 the Legislature IN a bill known
as the Power county provision. IL failed
| to pass. \ year ago they reintroduCed
their measure and again they failed.
Then they reintroduced AT the same Scs-
sion their plan under the name OF the
Shoup county bill. offering TO pay 10
Blaine county a cash bonus Of $4,000 for
this block OF land containing the coveted
thirty-onc miles OF the asScssablc road
of the oregon Short Line. but this bill
shared the same fate of the previous
measures: one two. three and out This
attempted legislation has served to inn
press those familiar with the effort q
mcrltorious legislation.
American Falls Prosperous
The American Falls country. as we'll
as the town, Is enjoying a prosperous
growth. New blood is being infused and
dry farming. irrigating and factory build
| ing Is undergoing very marked degree
| of substantial progress. This commun-
| ity has population and an assessed
valuation sufficient 10 receive Its en-
| dowments." i'm accordance with the law
| governing the creation or new counties:
| even without the inclusion OF the Blaine
county block within its boundary lines.
These people have to travel TO Malad a
| distance of more than 80 miles. TO reach
their seat OF county government.
Blaine county Will present the usual op
position TO the loss of any territory. OF
| course. Their delegation in the last Scs
sion OF the legislature formed the nucleus
I OF attach on the creation of Power or
Shoup county. But their status is To be
| slightly different in the next session and
| Il is not unlikely that they win he dis
| posed TO release the block to their south
| east to American Falls. that they may
! save to themselves the more apprcCiablo
| territory threatened by GoodinG In It's
! plan 10 relieve them Of the Soldier, Corral
| and Malsd country.
This Soldier country is fastened TO
| HALEY people 10y some ties that bind, For
! many years HALEY their trading
point One OF the Haley banks has
branch institution at Soldier Tho ma
| jur portion OF the trade Of the prairie.
aside from home patronage. goes to