The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-12-01
torial squib:

=, 'A'N AOiiO"llIS sensible eQl-
The latest from Boise is that Gov
ernor Hawley is seriously considering
Salllng a special session of the leeis.
lSLure 70 revise the revenue laws.
= hey undoubtedly need revision, but
Ihe governor would let up on his
c1sn valuation agitation, we could get
saiong very nicely until the next regu-
lar session. However, we know what
II means to oppose the governor, so
VIII not pursue the subject beyond
this brief suggestion.
The Gooding Leader has an inter
esting account of race between an
y. ). L. train and a deer and uncon-
sclously suggests that the railroad
company employ deers regularly as
pacemakers. If the plan would bring
the trains in nearer on time it should
be adopted. The Gooding paper
says:
Oregon Short Line Train No. 18.
which in common with all Other
trains, has been pulling into Goodinq
from one to FIVE hours late eyerV
day. wa; only twenty minutes late
last Sunday.
Ihis unusual occurrence caused
some comment, and inquiry develop
ed that No. Is and a deer had had a
race up the right of way several miles
out of Ticeska. In a sudden burst az
speed the train outdistanced the fleet
looted animal and arrived here nearer
or schedule time than is customary.
But it was the deer as a pacemaker
that got the speed out of the locomo-
tive.
According to Joel L. Priest, Oregon
Short Line industrial agent for the
state of Idaho, 10000 carloads of po-
tatoes will be shipped out of the state
this fall and winter. When asked if
he could give any idea of the number
OF cars of fruit, wheat, oats, hay, po-
tatoes and other farm products that
would be shipped Mr.. Priest said:
That is too much of a job for me.
| would not undertake to make an
estimate, but know that it will be an
immense quantity.
There is no way of ascertaining
how many cars have been and will
yet be required to handle Idaho's i'm
mense crops this year. From all Sec
tons come the same story and the
same cry, Cars, cars. Give us more
cars |"
Every day the railroad yards at Po-
catello become congested with loaded
cars which have piled in there from
the north and from the west. There
are cars of potatoes, cars of wheat,
cars of oats, cars of hay, cars of grass
seed, cars of ore, cars OF every kind
of Idaho product rushed into that
gateway every day. Every day a trip
across the new viaduct just completed
across the Pocatello yards will dis
close hundreds of cars filling the
tracks and awaiting to be assembled
into trainloads destined for common
points. Perhaps IS trainloads day
would not keep the yards at that point
clear, and those trainloads would not
be the little, light trains which middle
aged people were familiar with, but
they would be the trainloads of from
SO to 90 cars-and all loaded with
Idaho products.
Stations and sidings along the main
line of the Short Line both north and
west of Pocatello and even east and
south, which never before were
known to demand car for shipment
of product, have this year demand
ed and filled0from 10 to 100 cars of
potatoes or wheat or oats or hay.
This is no fancy boomers story; it
is a story of hard facts which can
readily be certified by inquiry from
any section of the state. Even Po-
catello, which never has demanded a
car for shipment of an agricultural
product before, has already shipped
20 cars of wheat this year. Little sta
tons west of American Falls which
most of us have never before heard
named, have shipped as high as 100
cars of wheat, and American Falls it
self is shipping unknown millions of
pounds of the same product. All along
the Twin Falls branch every siding
and station has its demand for cars
for the shipment of potatoes and hay,
much of which is going back as far
as St. Louis to be fed to the cows and
horses of that section.