Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-20
Twin Falls Tract Is the Modern
Garden of Eden Declares
Governor Alexander

| automobile from the top OF the hill TO
the ferry and up the hill without any
stop and without any great effort on
the part of the machine to get there.
| That grade Is a perfect piece OF en-
cheering and will stand as monu-
ment for the administration under
which 1t was constructed. There are
about 200 feet of sliding rock close to
| the grade that has to be looked after
every year and will occupy about 10
i days attention annually to keep it in
constant good repair.
| II also went to Filler by automobile
and found a great deal Of completed
! buildings there and a. wonderful in
crease in population since last year,
in fact. about doubled. The civic pride,
Of the town is the highest. The la
dies OF the town have started park
ings and planting Of trees thereon on
the main streets and in five years 1t
will be an ideal place to hold chau-
tauqua meeting in the open air under
| the shade trees. At Filler, visited the
| high school, which is avery fine build
1 ing
| From Filler / went by automobile to
Berger, which is thriving place, and
| while there talked to many of the
Salmon river people and went to Bull
via Filler. From Twin Falls to Bull
there is a state highay, built by the
people Of Twin Falls county, which is
as good as any in California. Every
bridge is Of steel and concrete and
fenced on both sides and bitches con-
veyed underground across the road,
and / assure you that you can exceed
4 A. Al IA
| People Have Luxuries.
| 81 arrived at Bull Friday afternoon
at o'clock and was received by COM
mittee of citizens and escorted to the
hotel. l was invited to supper by
pioneer rancher to his ranch, one and
half miles from town, which l gladly
accepted. Well. that poor pioneer
rancher has beautiful home with rs
acres of the finest land that ever laid
outdoors, principally planted to prunes
about four to five years old. The place
is beauty spot with not weed on
! the tract.
AT this ranch home had the COM
fort of placing my feet on real Turk
ish rugs, sitting in real mahogany
chairs and eating off china inlaid with
gold leaf and cut glass and the finest
of linen. There were decorations of
roses from Utah, asparagus from Cali
fornia and many other luxuries frem
other parts of the earth, and l surely
| felt like / was governor of Idaho.
The splendid meal was served in
| the best possible manner and the ladies
present were all gowned in the height
of fashion and 1t all looked mighty
good to me to see this evidence of
I ,sAA A..
ing as / did from the state capitol and
unconsciously i felt myself looking
around now and then to see If the jani-
tor was on hand to dispute my author
| ity. | was told there were others on
the tract that were equally prosperous
as my host, all of which sounds pretty
good after hearing about the past de-
| preston.
Coming back, had two fine automo-
biles at my disposal and of course
could use only one.
At Buhl also inspected company X
of the Idaho National Guard. They
are a fine body of men and a credit
to our militia After addressing the
company, l went to the hotel to rest
for the big day Saturday, the celebra-
ton of the first decade of Bulbs ex-
| istence.
Attends Grand Celebration.
| What kind of a celebration was it :?
We'll, that is more than your paper
will hold If I could tell 1t all 1t was
a grand celebrations. something doing
every minute. Brass band, parade
good fellowship, free banquet at the
| armory for thousands with enough left
for thousand more. | must tell you
about the parade which started at /: 80
and was splendid. It took considerably
over an hour to pass given point.
Automobiles by the hundreds, buck
aroos, pioneers-I just simply cannot
tell it all. Yes. was in the parade
in an automobile and the present
mayor of Bull and the first mayor
were with me and when we reached the
armory, there were more people there
than one would have thought the tract
contained.
Addresses were made by the mayor
of Twin Falls, the first mayor of Bull
and the present mayor and our friend,
Mr.. 'Nihart, presided.
Yes, / made an. impromptu address
myself. / could not get out of IL. /
will long remember the occasion as
one of the most pleasant events have
ever Hao Tue pressure Oh participating
in.
BE careful when you go to Bull.
Everyone there talks Buhl, boosts for
Bull and will not talk anything else.
but prosperity. They are right They
4 know they have one of the best spots
on the face of the earth. Every man,
women and child has faith in Buhl.
They have no little chickering's or To-
col n
live for Buhl and tho town reflects the
spirit of the people, you feel happy
and welcome while there.
mo one asks what the crop outlook
is there. They simply ask how many
acres you have and what you have
planted and then figure in bushels and
dollars what Won are going IN hara