The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-21
BLACKFOOT MAN
PUSHING PROJECTS
Combining Efforts tc
Push Worlds Great
est Project
WILL MEET FRIDAY
IN THE GATE CITY

BlackfOOt is going to send q team
of about thirty of its substantial
business men to the irrigation con-
gress to be held at the Gate City Fri
da. They are bent on seizing the
big opportunity that knocks at the
door of the great Snake river valley
in this the beginning of the greatest
era of reclamation the world has
ever seen. When Blackfoot with it's
modest, conservative citizenship
wakes up and goes its full length
on prospect so big that it is be-
yond the comprehension of the aver
age observer, it's sister towns c1n
afford to get into the procession,
especially in view of the fact that
the benefits are destined to fall alike
upon the just and the unjust all over
the valley. The Dubois project with
it's extensions is attracting attention
in many states already and not only
statesmen and home seekers, but the
captains of industry and commerce
are taking notice of the movement
and getting back of it with their in
dividual helps.
THE following gentlemen from the
Grove City will be in the Pocatello
gathering:
Neil F. Boyle of the Boyle Hard
ware company, E. M. Kennedy, vice
president of the First National bank,
w. F. Bergman, cashier of the D.
w. Standrod bank, M. M. Farmer,
assistant cashier of the BlackfQot
City bank, NOfear Davis, manager of
the Blackfoot Mercantile company,
F. A. Seeger7 manager of the Seeger-
Bundle company, Byrd Trego, editor
of the Idaho Republican, ]. H. Ander-
sen, Of the law firm of Thomas &
Andersen, Charles Harris, receiver
and J. T. Carruth, register of the
Blackfoot land office, ]. A. Stewart,
executive secretary of the Snake
River Plains Development associa-
tion, John r. Jones, editor of the
Bingham County News, w. B. Royse,
manager of the Boise-Payette Lum-
Der company, C. B. Dalman Of the
Brown-Hart company, w. H. STUFF
febeam of the Bingham Abstract
company, A. B. Stephens, mayor of
Blackfoot, Hamilton Wright, city
attorney, Councilmen w. A. Beakley,
N. e. Montgomery, Ernest Pearson,
Neil Boyle, County Commissioner R.
G.. Bills, L. M. Capps of the Black
foot Milling company, E. T. Peck Of
the Brown -Eldridge Furniture COM
pany, M. J. Hammond of the Delco
Light company, J. H. Early of the
Irrigated Lands company, o. Bu-
chanan, manager of the Yellowstone
Motor company, Frank Knowlden,
Frank Whitten and others.
The men from towns up the val
ley will leave Blackfoot at 10 O'Clock,
on No. AZ, and leave Pocatello on
81, at 7 o'clock in the evening. It
is expected that they will put in the
day canvassing the situation now con-
fronting Idaho. and planning the
ways to unite their energies to make
the greatest move ever yet made for
irrigation by government loans and
by combining the interests Of all the
commercial enterprises far and near
that would be stimulated by its &C
complishment. The objective Is to
combine all irrigation projects into
one great drive, political, industrial
and commercial, and from now on let
1t be said that Idaho asked for more
than was ever asked before, pre-
sented solid front in the asking,
presented solid front In its accom-
plishment, and set an example for
cooperation and booster spirit never
before witnessed in an irrigation en-
terprise. It means the creation Of q
new irrigated empire Of three mil
lion acres, more than doubling the
irrigated area of the Snake river
valley and multiplying it's industries.