The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

case" will give no information; they
are only looking for crime if it ex-
lists. Matters of profit and loss are
not in their line.
People buying automobiles have at
times placed too much store on air.
The grand jury now Sitting on the
cushions and self-starters. But
thoughtful people want to know
which car comes back home on it's
own power. Eight years ago the
land agents were tickling the buyers
with stories of power plant on the
American Falls tract at the Big Fill.
1t souded good, but in winter the
cataract is dry and in summer it is
hot. The water is being used for
irrigation and the stream is variable.
People at the Big Fill are hoping the
power line will be built soon from
American Falls and it probably will.
Blackfoot housekeepers are wishing
for electric heaters because they
think it will be the end of SCOT and
dirt in the parlor. Vain hope. The
inevitable dust of life and activity
settles on the electric radiators and
turns into SCOT and then floats with
the draft of the heat and goes all
over the room. We have seen it
float like the puff" of the old parlor
heater.
When railroads were young they
consisted of short, Independent lines.
They had mania for bankruptcy.
When they were organized into great
systems with both ends at tide water,
the commerce of the continent pour
ed through them and they served
purpose. 1t will be that way with
electric lines. When trunk lines
reach the length of a valley like ours,
with feeders at convenient points and
tem, each generating plant will re-
ceive market price for its Juice
delivered into the system; and those
built by politicians on city councils
may or may not operate at loss.
Consolidation is proceeding rapidly
in the Snake river valley, and iso-
lated plants can no more afford to
stay out than an isolated railroad
can stay out of the system operating
around it. They all get in.
The larger system building their
lines in harmony with what Is COM
ing in future years. are reaching up
and down the valley. The system
serving in Bingham county extends
from American Falls via Pocatello
to Blackfoot, and is about to begin
obstruction to complete the circuit
Of the west side of the river via
Aberdeen, Rockford, Springfield, Pin
gree, Rockford and Moreland. II
lightning strikes one line they use
The other. Throwing switch re-
supplies the astonished public before
hey have time to light candle.
People all through the Americal
Falls tract, from Aberdeen to More
and, want electric light and power.
Prepare for bad news; they cant
get it unless one of two things comes
% pass. Copper at 8 cents a pound
strung out to every farm house would
make the cost of lights prohibitive
Unless there Is house on every 40
l0res or about that average Moral:
t you have 80 acres of land. sell half
" it and get family on it. Get
zach of the neighbors to do the same.
Use the money received for the land
o buy stock and build barns and
arm more profitably. The other al
ernative is to get the price of copper
Town to where it is as cheap as
human life in Eurone.
People are apt to think that those
living close to the line can get SER
4 by stringing wires to it direct.
But at ca h point Nhe"e Juice" Is
Inverted, there must be transform
r. anil that mako IL nacaaaarV RI
AVE sub-stations, so the towns along
he transmission lines are teh points
rom which distribution is usually
made. There is only small amount
t the territory in the county that
an be profitably supplied under pres
mt conditions, but when the large
arms are cut to smaller ones SO
here is the equivalent of about Is
antilles to the squire mile the li.,ht
nd power can follow