The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-06

and froze up they had Q good road
until the spring thaw came then 1t
would soften and so long as the sand
remained damp 1t was pretty good
travelling, but when the hot weather
came on, the sand would get soft
again. The settlers worked hard,
tried hard and died hard. They
lived in shacks and cabins and the
first generation knew little Of COM
fort. 1t was only in the last ten or
fifteen years that people got we'll
enough situated that they could 60
to building good houses and in the
last five or six years they have begun
to really modernize their houses by
putting in water systems, bath tubs
and all those. things that make for
convenience, comfort and sanitation.
There are some beautiful houses in
the Goshen country now. we'll built,
we'll finished, well furnished and
bearing most of the fine finishing
touches that stand for quality. Some
of them built on a gentle eminence
where they laid out their grounds
nicely in elevations and terraces,
with trees, shrubs and flowers. Some
Of them got their new homes" built
in time for the children to enjoy
them while they are growing up and
some of them did not get them built
until the young folks were marrying
off and leaving SO that there is the
usual sense of disappointment in the
parents realizing their ambition to
have fine home after the time
passed when they needed it the
most.
When other farmers of Bingham
county put in small patches of an
acre or two or few acres of pota-
Taylor country were raising fields
of twenty, forty and eighty acres
and such planting has continued.
Goshen has very large acreage of
potatoes and will have a heavy ton
age for shipment. The sugar COM
pany built a railroad into Goshen
railroad into Goshen few years ago
! for hauling out sugar beetts, but it
has not been used for hauling other
things excepting that in the spring
of 1922 they arranged to have ten or
twelve carloads of potatoes hauled
/ out. During the fall and winter
wagon trains were sometimes oper-
ating hauling potatoes to the rail-
road at Firth or Shelley over the
new roads that had been built so
that the sand belt has been forgot
ten. The Goshen people are now
negotiating to get some firm Of
potato dealers to build warehouses
at Goshen and enable them to more
quickly dispose of their crops in the
| fall or to store them for the winter.
| The Idaho Falls Potato association
has made some overtures looking to
that end and the peple are hoping
that the Blackfoot Potato Growers
association will build them ware
house if tn yedo not get from the
other source, or that both associa-
tions will be represented with ship
| ping facilities, for the potatoes of
the Goshen country will be sufficient
to fill all the warehouses that it is
possible for them to get and still have
the main crop to dispose of thru
some other means. This paper ex-
poets to continue taking the census
of crops in that country to get cor
rect total of all the potato acreage
planed there this year.
A Modern Home
J. l.. Blomquist was one of the
early settlers, took large tract Of
land, built a cabin and raised a
! family there. Rather early in the
game he built a larger and better
house that was one of the land
marks in that section, and about the
close of the war he erected beauti-
full house on an eminence overlook
ing the valley, laid out his grounds
in terraces and pretty curves and
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