The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-07-08
JOLLY CROWDS ATTEND
THE PINCREE OPENING
Special Train Loaded With Boosters Breaks the Mono.
tony of the Sombre Plains--.Awakening
to Possibilities

Saturday morning the excursio
: train that left the yards at Blackfoo
to make the initial run into Pingre
for the official opening of the sale O
lots was loaded with jolly booster
who do not stay away from new move
ments that bear the imprint of layin,
the foundations of new enterprises O
placing the corner stakes of new EN-
pires.
The day was one of those perfec
ones of which we have so many, ant
as the train passed out among the fine
farms and orchards that line botf
sides of Snake river a representative
of the Blackfoot Commercial clut
with his megaphone dispensed infor.
nation about the various objects ol
interest along the way, keeping the
excursionists advised about the big
canals and the location of the main
| projects that are making the new ter.
ritory on the west side of the river
from Blackfoot to American Falls a
notable tract on the map of the Gem
State.
The train passed out over the
tracks of the Salmon river railroad to
Moreland, distance of six miles, and
there took the branch line leading
southwestward parallel to the Peo-
pies canal and the one constructed
by the American Falls Canal & Power
company. The canals were running
full of water and the fine fields of
grain and grasses gave charm to the
landscape which the thoughtful per-
son could not escape taking as an OBJ
ject lesson to show what is possible
on each acre of the vast plain stretch
ing to the westward, where the green
tracts were less in evidence and the
sombre gray of the primeval plains
beckoned the homeseeker and home
builder The Commercial club lect-i
urer explained that to the westward
and southwestward lay the American
Falls Canal & Power comapny's seq
regation of $4,000 acres, a part of
which the new road Is built across,
farther out, beyond the canals and
the settlers cabins was the territory
embraced in the Blackfoot North Side
project of 10000 acres, and beyond
that the great belt of unurveyed
plains now coming to notice for dry
farming.
To the southwestward among the
farms lining the river was pointed out
the location of the Gold Point mines,
situated seven miles east of Pingree,
where large reduction plant is be-
ing put into commission to handle
the great deposits of placer gold first |
by sluicing and then separating the
fine gold from the concentrates by
the mass of high values in
a strong solution of cyanide contain
ed in great tanks, the gold being TAX
en- out in solution and carried into
other tanks where it comes in con-
tact with and is absorbed by zinc
shavings and the mass of zinc and
gold is afterwards retorted to separ-
ate the values.
Arriving at Pingree the train was
met by throng of people from the
ing over the pretty townsite, people
country roundabout, and after look
on the great shady ver-
andas of the hotel Pingree, and en-
joyed the splendid view of the sur
plains, farms and distant
Dinner was served in the
dining room of the hotel, and while
some were at dinner, others were be-
ing shown through the building.
The hotel is built of black lava, the
design being unique bungalo, ver-
anda extending around three sides,
with fine cement floor. The building
IS two or four stories high according
% how it is counted, there being
basement in which the cooking is
lone and in which is the mechanism
hat handles the energizing parts of
he institution, the heating plant, the
plumbing that distributes the hot and
;old water to the floors above, the
physical supplies that are intended
% supply all the wants of the inhabi-
ants above.
The ground floor contains the great
,ffice with its mammoth fireplace
'uilt of lava the dining room with It's
very modern appointment, the read
ng and writing rooms and various
smaller rooms for clocks and bag
rage.
The first floor contains the ladies'
,arlor and private rooms, and the
econd (or fourth) floor is like the
econd except that the rooms have the