The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-02
IMPROVE FAIR
GROUNDS, PARK
More Comfort and
Beauty for Tour
ist Guests

The local fair board has been get
ting some ideas and plans from Filler
the county fair of Twin Falls county
The organization there has forty
acres in the grounds and it is all
raising trees, grass or something
that is growing into greater values
and usefulness every year. They
have tyenty acres of grove that is
developing into a beautiful park.
Auto tourists camp there, and they
have three electric ranges for them
to cook on. They simply snap the
switch and the stove is hot An
electric heater keeps tank of water
hot and always ready for use. There
are about forty thousand dollars
worth of buildings on the grounds.
What Filler Is Doing
Our local fair board sees in their
work an inspiration to greater eff
fort on our part to make our grounds
attractive and productive. We have
not many trees coming on, and near
ly all of our grounds is still O. bar
rem desert, yet we pay assessments
on water rights that are not being
used and naturally revert to the
state in the course of time if it is
proven that they are not being con-
verted to beneficial use.
Our Best Advertisement
The great amount of satisfaction
expressed all the time by the auto
tourists is stirring interest and am
bitiOn to make the tourist camp
more complete. Most of the camp
ers prefer ordinary stoves to electric
ranges, yet both might be provided
side by side for their choice and
as an advertisement. 1t would
make Blackfoot more famous if
tourists all over the country were
saying in connection with our fine
tourist camp grounds that both wood
stoves and electric ranges and fuel
were supplied, as we'll as electrically
heated water always on tap, kept hot
by the flow of the river. 1t has
an advertising value that inspires
interest in the country. The cook
house should be enlarged for next
year or another one built at anoth-
er part of the camp.
Multiplying Natural Beauty
Editor Trego proposes an optical
demonstration of beauty for the
tourists in the way of banks of vari-
colored hollyhocks on two sides of
the park so they will be emblazoned
on their vision when they enter the
camp from either direction, and
when they get up in the morning
no matter which way they look they
will behold a feast of color in the
borders of the camp. Mr.. Trego Of
fers to hand-pick the seeds and min
gle the colors to get the variegated
effect, and to furnish some plants a
year old next spring that will bloom
in 1921.
Long Bank of Flowers
Arrangements are already made
for setting 16O plants of the mon
ster perennial pea vine on the east
front of the fair grounds bordering
the new pavement, so they will climb
up on the woven wire fencing and
hang their annual bloom thru the
fence facing the Yellowstone high
way. 1t is the. nature of these
blooms to turn in the direction of
the morning sun if given chance,
AID that will poerate just right on
the Main street side of the fair
grounds. Mr.. Trego is labelling the
vines as to colors of bloom and next
month will pick the seeds and keep
separate the red, the white, the pink
and the light pink and will keep
them labeled in the sprouting boxes
and at planting time so that the diff
ferent colors will come in rotation
all along the front for a quarter of
a mile facing the travel and the
passenger trains.