The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-10-13

l tloi, ana mas only Sixty cars llSC0C
for service for the teachers. A much
larger number may be needed If the
day is fair, and people in the country
are requested to ring him and list
their cars for service for the trip. A
QUESTIONABLE is being sent out to the
500 teachers to see how many oi
them wish to take the Indian excur.
sion, and cars must be supplied fol
as many as respond to the invitation
This is Bingham county's big oppor-
tunity and the whole community
should lend a hand in making it a
success.
The Big Cattle Sale
The most imposing scene of the
roundup will be when the cattle are
brought together for sale, and this
will be the day the institute closes.
The different bands will have been
gathered from the great meadows
consisting of about $4,000 acres
dotted with punches of woodland,
with creeks and cold springs as II it
had been Handicapped by some pros
porous farmer desiring to give the
animals the maximum of comfort in
sun and shade and wind breaks.
Viewed from the bluff they will be
seen converging to the place agreed
upon, with riders urging and guiding
them forward, the herds moving
leisurely and the riders seeking to
check and drive back those that at
tempt to break away to other herds
or to return to seek companions lost
in the miX-up. -.
Ralph Dixey and his band Of hun
dred Indian cowboys will conduct the
and it is likely to be one Of
the last of these great events of the
regular cattle business In this part
of the world because of the coming
of the great American Falls reservoir
that is to cover 10000 acres includ--
ing the Fort Hall bottoms, and that
will seriously affect the plans Of the
cattlemen so they will have no fall
and winter range. With the de-.
of the Greater Fort Hall
project storing water in the upper
reaches of the Blackfoot river, and
spreading it for irrigation on the
great benches and all the little val
leys among the foothills, the summer
range will be much supplanted by
small farms and ranches. Thus will
he necessity for the roundup disap-
pear as did the equally spectacular
'ound-ups among the white cattle
nen Of former decades.
When the teachers excursion goes
,ut across the great valley that lies
the encircling bluffs, they
will be on the Oregon trail; they will
,e where the first traders and trap |
,ers sojourned in this valley hun
lred years ago; they will be where
captain Bonneville witnessed the |
,uffalo hunts and nightly feasts
tmong the Bannocks described by |
Washington v Irving. They will be |
vhere the flag was first unfurled In
II the great American plateau on |
august 5, 1884; they will be where
he first Protestant sermon was
reached west Of the Rockies July
z, 1884. They will be where ten
cres of abandoned wagons once
tood-the mark of abandoned hopes
I people travelling toward the set
Ing sun when cholera ragged and
resf graves lined the roadside for
90 miles. They will be in the bot.
ON Of a prehistoric lake that is soon |
D be storage reservoir 10000
cres in extent, and about thirty feet
eep, where the site of the old fort
J marked by monument. When
ley cross the river on Tilden bridge
hey will cross near where the
ioneers forded and entered upon
heir trip across the dreaded Snake
ver desert that stretched away,
lent, somber and terrible into in
vistas of dust and lava
eds, long since conquered by irriga-
on and automobiles.
Garry kodaks and field glasses II
Ou can.