The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-05-25

the old process of taking as much as
quit, and there is plenty for everyone.
These water rights should be very val
liable some day, more SO than the land
itself.
'The county has good highways built
on common sense plan, well crowned
in the center and well graded and none
Spoke ON "Citixenship.'
Blackfoot has seven churches. /
spoke Sunday evening at the Baptist
church, the pastor Of which is Rev. Mr.
Austin. 1t is as pretty a little church
as you would see in any city. spoke
to a large audience; every seat was
filed, and for intelligence and atten-
| ton they could not be excelled. My
subject was citizenship / was glad
| to speak to the men and women who
were present OH the subject in which
we are all so interested. There is no
poverty in Blackfoot and everybody
seems to be well fixed. Every family
seems to own its own home with ground
! enough around it for garden.
1.-The two banks at BlackfOOt might
| well be taken for models for any place.
The Standrod bank is a model of what
can be done with pressed brick exte-
rior and Italian marble for the interior.
The First National bank is a gem of
white marble and terra Gotta. The in.
terror and exterior are white and it is
attractive as anything could be in a
town ten times the size Of Blackfoot.
"Blackfoot is growing steadily. 1t
has outgrown its old corporate limits
and needs elbow room and the enthu.
siasm of the people for the love of their
town is about just right for expansion.
"Mr. Eccles, dr., Of Ogden, has been
to Blackfoot and by his presence there
and his capital he has electrified the
town. Everyone now is talking Eccles.
paving, storm sewers. new school house,
smelters, electric railroads. With Mr..
Eccles' capital and the people of the.
town with enthusiasm and willingness
to take a chance, they will all win,
and it is my honest opinion that Black
foot is destined to soon be a city of the
first class. 1t is about to burst from it's
shell of conservatism and will let the
world know it is on the map and one of
the best towns in the State Of Idaho.
| mere Is cuOuSH COuHttr tIlUutdIH "
Black foot to make a town of 10000 peo-
| pie or more,
The Sugar Factory.
"The sugar factory is a great asset
to the country. With sugar around the
So mark per hundred, and beets only So,
there ought to be pretty good profit
to the stockholders, and no doubt if
they get the beets they will be only
too glad to enlarge the factory, which
is already one of the biggest in the iii.
termountain states.
cit is positive proof that everyone
is doing well III Blackfoot ami that
everyone has money, for hardly anyone
walks any more. They all have ma
chimes, and high priced ones at that,
and by looking at the street filed with
splendid automobiles it looks more like
large city than a county seat of a
far western state.
"One of Blackfoot's greatest pride:;
is the educational facilities, and they
are justified in so feeling. ! visited the
high school some time ago and they can
well be proud of it. 1t is brought up to
a plane of highest efficiency and is pre-
sided over by splendid educator and
4 corps Of teachers.
I.tSL vi 1u'ldN '.'V / ttN'tiVSSS''
the primary grades. The children of
both schools marched TO the center of
the town, and | think there were fully
400 children. They were lined up and
carving flags and iu was certainly a
good index Of the community and thu
way the children are reared. They are
a credit to parents and teachers. No
other town has any greater advantage
in an educational way than has Black
foot. 1t is only another instance of the
good educational facilities that abound
in Idaho, preparing by education tn.
Younger generation for the battle OF
life. All business i'll BlackfOOt is pros
porous. Traders come from Arco
Mackay and Challis, $50 miles distant
and from nearer points.
''Blackfoot is the junction town fol
the north and south, the east and the
west. and the people from the interior
get their supplies at this point, so yol
can see the advantage it has along this
line. The country the two railroads
cover running out Of BlackfOot is a
big as some of the eastern states.
Bingham county with it's cattle an'
sheep ana sugar beets will always b.
prosperous.
Big Stock Center.
"The cattle and sheep associations O
Bingham county alone have nearly 40,
900 acres of land leased from the State
besides government lands and private
w owned lands, and great many o
those big owners reside in Blackfoot
educating their children there, which IL
itself is big asset and keeps the none
they make in the country, and they de
serve praise for the benefit derived
from their money.
"When the Indian reservation !
thrown open at some future date, whicl
is bound to come, there will be stril
of country south of BlackfOot that cal
not be excelled for richness anywher
in the country, and there is water for
already. The government constructed