The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-20

and crawl ten or fifteen feet, the floor
will be covered with canvass.
Chief of Commissariat
The arrangements for the COM
missary include everything for max
ing coffee and everybody is expected
to help themselves to coffee from the
big boilers.
Forrest Kennedy and Merrill Boyle
will be chiefs of the commissariat,
leaving Blackfoot an hour and half
in advance of the procession, carry
ing materials ordered by the commit
tee on subsistence and fluids, and o.
Buchanan will bring up the rear of
the procession with some engine oil,
accessories for first and field hos
pital service. The round trip from
Blackfoot will be eighty miles and
the gasoline supply carried will be
1 only enough for emergency, and con-
templates every car being fully sup
piled with gas at the start.
Messrs. Kennedy and Boyle ex-
pect to have hot coffee banked on live
Goals for some hundreds of smilers
at the Mayohi on their arrival at high
noon.
Wind Will Not Bother
If the day is windy it will not be
found very disagreeable as the wind
is not felt much after leaving the
settlements. A very windy day is
| in, thn do
around the buttes, due to the fact
| that there is no dust at all, except
| what may be stirred up by the wheels
of vehicles. The day taken by the
| writer to view the road and select
the route, was exceedingly windy and
it was not at all troublesome as COM
pared with conditions in Blackfoot
and on the roads near town. The
program for the picnic will not be
varied on account of the weather I'M
less it is by rain.
Launching of an Enterprise
On page two of this issue is some
information about the early settlers
of the Blackfoot country and it will
be noted that just eighty-five years
ago the first enterprise was under
taken in the Snake River valley, the
building of Fort Hall on Snake river.
There was launched at that time, also
religious venture in addition to
the trading enterprise. A tremendous
development has resulted in CONNER
cial, educational and spiritual activ-
tiles since then and the visit of this |
picnic party to the Mayohi and to
the summit of the eastern butte,
marks a part of the launching of an
enterprise known as the Dubois pro-
iect. Application is being made to
congress for government loan of
many millions of dollars to carry on
preliminary work for the extension
of the Dubois project to include the
Snake river plains of Bonneville and |
Bingham counties.
Utilizing Mountain Lakes and Valleys
The water for the reclamation of
these lands is to be stored in the |
mountain lakes and valleys on the |
head waters of the Snake river and |
conducted in canals, tapping the |
river near st. Anthony and Roberts.
These canals will conduct water to
the land as far westward as Little |
Lost river about fifteen miles west of |
Sweet Sage and Howe, and reaching
down the Snake river valley to any
distance the canals may be extended. |
Great Fertile Plains
The land lying about the base of
the middle buttes to distance of
three miles are too high to be irri-
gated by this water. The great ex-
panse of agricultural land lying
north of the buttes and south of
them is hardly success for dry I
farming, but would become exceed
ingly valuable if irrigated. Crops
have been successfully raised on all
the plains, but there have always
been part failures and near failures.
The winter of 1916 and 1917
brought an unusual amount of snow
on the Snake river plains and in the
following summer, in June and July
settlers on the plains east of the
eastern butte, were moving blue
stem hay right out on the open
plains.
Much of the country within a few
miles of the buttes is too rough for
irrigation, but there are slopes and
valleys and passages extending all
thru it that are susceptible of irriga-
ton and the rough land around them
affords excellent pasture for stock.
The picnic party will see an ex-
cellent growth Of grass eight or ten
inches high when they go out next
Sunday and will be impressed with
the world of feed where there Is no
stock to consume It.
The demand for fuel will probably
result in the dwsrfed growth OF