The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-03-21

after eating the small bowl Of cereal
made from Idaho oats, seasoned with
Blackfoot sugar and covered with
cream that came from a Jersey COW
fed on alfalfa meal ground in the mill
at Shelley.
The west is civilized The race Of
boosters that live in Idaho are harm
less. Nest OF them are busy con-
quering the earth. Some of them sing
in choirs. Others have Sunday school
classes: A few are owners of Alex
ander cats. Fewer still put lovely sky
blue ribbons ON the necks of their
dear little Spitz, are regular devotees
Of pink teas, bridge whists, and carry
the cutest calling cards ever. have
heard a runner that one Blackfoot
booster has even accomplished the diff
ficult feat Of eating peas with fork.
notwithstanding the fact that a IA
nous Connecticut philosopher declared
long ago that cit couldn't be did"
Can Find It All Here.
Listen: If you want the frills and
frivolous fobles of "sawciety's" saun-
terlngs you may have an abundant
plenty Of just that in many Idaho
towns. If you pine to part your hair
on the equator, spend hours of time at
manicure parlors CT in front CT an
amorcus mirror, or give series of
parties for poodles, you may do the
whole nerve-racking stunt, provided OF
course you have the money to indulge
your desires. III be perfectly frank
there are people in Idaho, in Blackfoot
who would welcome you, admire you
and think you were great I'll be per-
fecty frank again and quote an old
friend, Tucson Bill, "whatth'ell sood
would it do and what benefit would
you be to yourself, Idaho, Blackfcot OF
anything else?
Get this. The call from the west,
frcm Idaho, from Bingham county, the
upper Snake river valley is not for
Chollyboys, Chappies of Silk-hat Har
rys-it's workers with grit the west is
wanting.
The call that comes from tn earth ir
the big broad Snake river valley is for
men who are big-for men and women
with the nerve and energy and faith
IN themselves that it takes to subdue
the sill and force the stretches of fer.
til land to produce the things that
mankind must have to live
Infinite nature accomplished com
plete preparation when it spread cut
the hundred and sixty thousand strong
loamy acres in Bingham county, filleC
the high canyons of the Rockies with
the glaciers and banks of sncw ant
then shot out across the desert the
majestic, the sublime Snake, with its
redee ming flood that red-blcCded mel
might come in the fuIlress CT time. co,
quer the river, baroness its power ant
lead the water, a gentle, submissive
servant, out over the land that the gar
dens and meadows and fields of erair
should drink and live and flurish anG
bring forth, at the time of harvest
'scme forty, some sixty and some ar
hundredfold. And men came to the
Snake river valley, away hack there il
the early years. when the price was
solitude, poverty, struggle bitter, re
lentliness of the untouched desert. Me,
4 came and brought their wives and ba
bles, and there we're hearts that sill
emily broke. hands that were roughsho
ana knotted and gnarled by the tot
that was ever intense, and there wer,
faces scanned with sorrow and head,
frosted with white and bowed will
the griefs Of losses that came in thu
darkness Of nigh. to those little dirt
covered homes that were built Of cot
tonwood logs. And the years snppe<
along and settlement slowly seeped "
from the south. Those who were herr
smoothed for the ones who came hte1
the rough. hard places Of pioneer life
Now, after the lapse Of the years, 211
800 inches Of water runs through tn,
bitches Of Bingham county-160, o0l
acres are provided with the water tina
is the life Of the land
Monument to Nerve.
IL Civilization has come to Snake rive.
valley. An empire is built and building
Ia monument to the nerve and TIL
faith and energy Of the pioneers VIII,
first came into lspd that was wild
uncouth. filled with the terrors tina
come where. settlement is young;
tribute to the goodness Of nature tina
prepared the earth in the rough and Z
the ambition Ct men who have pol
ished its surfaee>with+ their labor IN
sweat and toll.
The west called tn the beginnin
with the lure Of home to the stron
hearts, brave hearts and red blood Q
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