The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-10-19
New Townsite to be
Built on Reservation

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rights of way OF the Oregon Short
Line and the telepragh lines con-
nected with the road, making alto
gether. seven pole lines crossing It.
It is connected with the power sites
Of both the Idaho Power company
and the Utah Power company.
The streets are lettered, A. b. G.
and D. from the railroad west, and
numbered from one to seven from
south to north.
Fine Soil for Gardens NJ
The land comprised in the town
site Is sandy loan containing more
or less wild growth Of weeds such pc
grow in dwarfed condition without
irrigation. The land can be easily
graded and irrigated and will be
very productive. especially with the
addition Of !, fertilizer containing
humus. or vegetables matter Of any
kind.
2 The opening OF the townsite rests
now with Receiver Peter g. Johnston
Of the. Blackfoot land office, and he
is awaiting Instructions from Wash
ington. ...,.4'%
For Civic Center
Provision has been made for re-
serving block 40 in the center ofsthe
town for school purposes, and blocks
80 and Al adjoining 1t for parks:
The front OF Main street has already
been paved, and paid for, and no
paxing tax will stand against the
property. It is on the Yellowstone
highway connecting Salt Lake with
the national park. Water for irriga-
ton will come thru the Blackfoot
reservoir on the headwates Of the
river Blackfoot forty miles to the
eastward, conducted via the Black
foot river and the government
canals tapping the river one mile
southeast of the town of Blackf0ot.
Water for domestic use can be OBJ
tanned atSany place by drilling down
about sixty feet thru sand and
gravel and probably strata Of lava.
The water is cold and pure and suit
able for drinking. H
Plenty Of Schools
Within a mile of the new town
site are three schools, one public
school maintained by Bingham
county, one school for girls main
tanned by the Episcopal church and
one maintained by the department
of Indian affairs exclusively for the
Indian children in which about 800
pupils are now receiving instruction.
The townsite is twelve miles
southwest of Blackfoot and about an
equal distance north of Pocatello,
and has from seven to nine passen-
ger trains a day, there being nine
during the park season in the yell
lowstone. 1t is on truck line OPP
Grating between Pocatello and,
Blackfoot. 1t is the seat of govern
ment for the Shoshone and Bannock
Indian reservation with its 1860
Indians and the control of the stor-
age reservoir at the head Of the
Blackfoot river. 1t Is about ten
miles east of the original site of Ft.
Hall that was built in the TT. Hall
bottoms by Captain Wyeth for a.
trading post in 1884 where the flag
of the United States was first raised
in the intermountain country and
by which the claim of the United
States was established to the terri
tory as against the claims of the
British. The Fl. Hall bottoms,
10000 acres in extent, are to be
utilized for the American Falls
reservoir if constructed, and by ex-
changing water in, this reservoir for
other water now stored in Jackson
Lake and the Blackfoot and the pro-
posed Swan valley reservoirs, water
will be available for practically all
irrigable lands in the Ft. Hall
country and northward to Dubois,
including $4,000 acres lying to the
eastward and south of Ft. Hall and
westward from Pocatello towards
American Falls.
Will Establish Business
Several applications have already
been filed for the privilege of buying
lots in the new townsite for business
locations when it is opened to pur-
chase and the government is now
erecting hospital of twenty bed
on the east side Of the
track, besides some structures for
housing workmen during the period
of construction.
The First Bargain Day
Stock yards have recently been
completed at the edge of the town.
site for holding cattle sales and for
shipping and loading. The
annual roundup of cattle on the
reservation this year will be held
from October 23 to 20 inclusive and
On October 80 a sale will be held at
The stock yards and they will be Of
tered in carload lots for cash, pay
able as they are weighed. There
will be about 1900 Indian cattle,
mostly Herefords, and 1900 belong
ng to white men, in the roundup,
)ut only about $50 will be put on
sale.
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