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

(when that bunch of Blackfoot boost
trs read that word towns" about g.
900 noses will go up in the air and
5000 voices will repeat in chorus,
towns towns = Blackfoot town?
BlackfoCt's city, you Rube,") Guilty
they're right Blackfoot is one of the
oldest, richest and solidest cities in the
Snake river valley.
Blackfoot is a city Of homes. Homes
have trees in the yards, roses by the
walks, arbors and vines and sweets
scented flowers in the gardens.
/. Is Railroad Town.
Backfoot is railrod town Of i'm
portance. The Butte division Of the
Oregon Short Line is the main artery
of transportation for Rlasckfoot, Bing-
ham county. and the upper Snake river
valley The. Mackay branch runs 80
miles. out through the. rich Lost river
country and into the heart OF, mineral
wealth In the sawtooth range, tying
that DISTRICT. in itself an empire. to
B,ackfoot, the distributing center. The
Aberdeen branch is built from Black
foot for 40 miles through the Garden
# the God Of Creation the big.
smooth farm land Of southwest Bing-
ham-the Aberdeen country.
Blackfoot is city of 5000 people.
has all OF the things that any place Of
like population is expected to have
and good many more than have most
There is a beet sugar factory at
Backfoot that makes millions Of
pounds of sugar each year; there are
mills that grind every twelve months
hundreds of thousands of bushels of
grain; there are banks that are solid
and strong; primary, grammar and
Thigh schtols, where the very best
teachers that money can buy are en-
ployed; there are lawyers, doctors,
butchers and bankers. real estate deal
ers, moving picture emporiums and a
pcstoffice; there are newspapers (good
ones,) printers and preachers and Sum
day school teachers, and a few foolish
follows that wear checkerd vests;
there are miles and miles of sidewalks
made of cement, business blocks built
of brick, boosters and people who are
ttoo tired to boost; there are libraries.
social clubs, societies. lodges, lumber
yards and one lonesome undertaken,
who is generally idle; there's court
house, commercial club, hotels and
restaurants a live bunch Of merchants.
and once every year there's a mighty
good fair.
| Blackfcot, railroad, market and dis
i tributions. center for Bingham county,
! ought to be the metropolis CT the upper
Snake river valley. Backfoot is a
modern, up-todate city with good
water system, electric lights, abundant
power available for. manufacturing
purposes. is enc of the largest shipping
ppints In eastern Idaho, is backed by
hundreds OF thousands of strong. fertii
acres; has an interesting past, a pro
gressve present and apparently a mag
nificent future ~
Rlackfcot Is good place to be.
bingham county, with. Its, broad
stretches Of farm land amply supplied
with water. the thousands ct acres yet
Untouched by human endeavor. and
Iaackfoot the beautiful ambitious city
Ia the heart Of the upper Snake river
valley. send out the call for psople-for
people who have the lust for home
In their hearts, for Bingham county il
a home land. . big broad home land.
ami acktoot Is a city Of homes.
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