The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-18
COMMERCIAL CLUB
OF POCATELLO met
WITH LOCAL CLUB
Problem ofGetting Park
+. to Park Highway Run
Thru Snake River
Valley Discussed
M EET THURSDAY
Aerial Field and Use of
Fairgrounds to Be
Considered

The Commercial club held meet
ing Thursday evening with sixteen
members Of the chamber of COM
merce of Pocatello present, asking
that Blackfo0t send delegates to one
Idaho meeting and one convention at
Salt Lake City to work on the task
of getting a change in the routing Of
the park to park highway to run thru
the Snake river valley.
| The theory was advanced that IL
nothing is done the route will be
made thru Wyoming and North Idaho
and all southern Idaho left out. It
was also stated that the plans call for
taking the federal moneys appro-
priated to aid in building highways
and have them all absorbed in the
park to park highway, thus taking
the federal money all away from
Idaho unless we get the routing thru
this state. a " ss7aszs rss4a' ~ 7jl
One of the speakers stated that
this would mean the ultimate clos
ing of the west enerance of the Yell
lowstone park and loss Of all tourist
travel thru the Snake river valley.
This view of the matter. was en-
tirely accepted by the Blackfoot men,
1t being considered improbable that
the new project could oVerturn ma
t1onall accepted plans for road build
ing, or that the building Of another
line Of road for tourist travel could
be expected to absorb all the travel
there is into the park and be the
means of closing up the entrance that
has always had the most traffic.
At the next meeting of the club to
be held on Thursday evening, April
FL, the matter will be discussed with
a view Of deciu.lig what action Black
foot will'take in the matter. 4
Airship Landing Field
Another matter to be presented to
the meeting will be whether Black
foot will try to provide a landing
field for aerial mail ships for use by
the government in establishing the
proposed aerial mail route from Salt
Lake City north. The government
requires field 1900 feet long and
45O feet wide, with the long way OF
the field corresponding to the direc-
ton of the prevailing winds. Such
landing fields should be reasonably
close to the town, and would be
served by autos conveying the mail
pouches between the field and the
post office.
Use of Fairgrounds
At the next meeting the question
of use of the fairgrounds this year
will be discussed and recommends
ions offered to the fair board. The
plans adopted last year for grading
ind seeding the field within the race
rack If carried to completion will re-
luire few months of good care to
get the grass started, and during that
line it will not do to have ball
games nor wild west performances
IN the grass, tho these things can be
'esumed after the second year when
planned carefully in connection with
irrigation. With each succeeding
'ear there need be less precaution,
md after the second year it will be
ike lawn. 81
The matter was discussed at the
etailers meeting and they adopted a
resolution that the plans as made last
OnA AlAuoI UO COupicIcu duu D6duIl-
ul landscape created so that races
nd ball games need no longer be an
endurance contest by the audience
'raving clouds of dust. They were
n favor of taking the project thru to
Ompletion and making it thing of
eauty and keeping down the weeds
hat have always made it look like
espair as well as making annual ex-
ems bills to clean them off.
The question of where to hold the
921 ball games and of leaving out
lid west performance at the 1891
air excepting that which can be
'ithout the use Of the center field, is
eing studied and 1t is desirable that
verybody shall be heard on the sub
'ct Thursday evening. Members of
le fair board base ball fans are re-
uested to be present to express their
lews. The grading is practically
and they have only to ex-
md the ditch, build a siphon under
le race track and seed and irrigate
le field and let nature do the rest.
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