The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-09-05
WAR MOTHERS HOLD
MEETING in ARC0
Resolution Adopted In
Favor of Adjusted
Compensation


mother has just returned from Arco
where she attended the district
chapter comprising the counties of
Lemhi, Custer, Butte, Bingham and
Bonneville.
There were sixteen delegates pres
ent with an average attendance of
forty war mothers. The largest at
tendance being the musical and re-
ception Tuesday evening when eighty
were present. The seven delegates
from Salmon drove $50 miles by car
for distance Of 800 miles round
trip to attend the convention. All
delegates were entertained in the
homes and Mr.. and Mrs. Henricks
extended the hospitality to their
beautiful home to the state war
mother. A sumptuous banquet was
held in the delegates honor Tuesday
noon at the Baptist church.
The citizens furnished cars and a
three hour tour was made to the sur
country to see the beauties
of Lost river and the natural re-
sources in their immediate vicinity.
The itinery included trip to the
Arco lime stone quarry which sup
plies southeastern Idaho and Utah
sugar factories with lime rock; to
the splendid strickly modern Lost
River school building, to Moore, Era
Flat, inspection of the canal system
which supplies water to the Era pro-
ject and last the Valley of the Moon,
the least known, most wonderfully
weird unexplored region Of the
United States. Not until this sum-
mer has the government sent Of
fetal exploring parties to investigate
officially the snow and solid ice caves
under the lava flow. Here are found
of the glacier which
moved across Idaho during the
glacial period and which is still in
evidence. Ladders have been put
down into these ice caves and it was
found to be humanity impossible to
ascertain the thickness Of the ice and
snow in and under these caves. Some
are moss covered caverns from
which water continually drips. The
Valley Of the Moon is twenty-five
miles long and formed by the lava
flow from the craters of the entinct
volcanoes commonly called the
Cinder Buttes. Mr.. Paisley, who
guided the member of the Geodetic
Survey for two weeks thru this lava
low with the subterranean crevices,
caves and craters, was also with the
war mothers and told the delegates
hat one Of the craters, by surveyors
was one-fourth Of a
mile deep and contained 100 acres.
The caves are different colors. The
Ie0detic party was accompanied by
! cinema man and all the wonders of |
his unknown, mysterious, subter-
'aYlean country near Arco between |
he Big Butte and the Cinder Buttes
Ind westward will be exhibited on |
he screen Of the movies in the. near |
'uture. This lava flow with it's num-
,rous subterranean caves is to be set
lside for government park.
Mr.. Botelfesson of Arco, who is a
member of the Veterans Welfare
and who attended the
he American Legion meeting at |
kellog, Idaho in August and County
Attorney Martin explained the adj
usted compensation bill for ex-
ervice men before congress and the
delegates assembled from five
ounties voted unanimously in favor
i supporting the measure in its
resent form and wired our senators
nd representative in congress that
hn war m ~ horu NJ Tho 40 Of ory1 TAo h n
istrict requested them to support
he measure and use their influence
4 securing it's passage.
Salmon's chapter is building and
quiping a hospital which is to be
edicated to the use Of exservice
oldiers. Salmon chapter extended
n invitation to be the hostess
hapter in 1922 and the invitation
Continued on so four