The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-05-24
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/ Last Friday, General Manager H
" Plat of the Oregon Short Line
was at Blackfoot for an hour, travel
ing with special train in company
with o. E. Howard, president of the
Walker Bank of Salt Lake City, and
A. E. Sullivan, assistant cashier OF
the same institution. They were
accompanied by r. A. Pierce, general
/ superintendent of the Oregon Short
Line, making a tour of the Upper
Snake River Valley.
Mr.. Platt said he had been trying
for several months to get Mr.. How
ard to come out and see this valley
so that he would know the resources
and this trip was in response to that
invitation.
Mr.. Howard and Mr. Sullivan
went out for drive around town
in company with Frank SOrgatz and
w. F. Bergman of the Standrod
Bank, while Mr.. Plat and Mr.. Pierce
were out about town with Editor
Trego. t
Mr.. Plat said that the railroad
company is doing everything it can
to get the road in condition to ham
die the bumper crops that are ev-
erywhere in promise this year. He
said that thruout southern Idaho the
prospects are as good as he has ever
seen them. In southwestern Idaho
where they rely largely on the fruit
crop they have passed the danger
point and it is expected that fruits
and watermelons will be produced
in abundance He says it often hap
pens that when they have produc-
tion in one or two lines in that part
of the state that some other crop
is not very good, but that they have
the promise of a heavy yield In all
the crops this year. The railroad
companies are anticipating a busy
season and are getting all of their
rolling stock repaired and tracks in
shape so they can give the pest pos
sible service with their equipment.
He says he does not hope to be able
to supply cars enough to meet the
demands of all the people shipping
potatoes and they would only flood
the market il they did He, said
that last week they witnessed the
spectacle of four train loads of Ida
no potatoes in Kansas City with the
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not get bid on these train loads.
That is usually the result of having
plenty of cars to ship all the potatoes
that everybody wants to at any one
time. They would like to supply all
Of their patrons with everything
hey want at the time they want it,
yet their experience has taught them
hat it is an impossibility to supply
enough cars to meet all demands for
potato shipments at such periods and
hat If they could it would be dis
lstrous to the growers themselves.
Mr.. Plat says he expects to see
airly good prices this fall and that
lie bases his expectations on the fact
hat there is no unemployment in
he United States, that people are
for good wages and they
AVE the buying power to consume
What the farmers raise. The con-
lition is intensified in favor of the
armer by the fact that so many
'eople have left the farm that there
will probably not be the full volume /
f production that there would other {
wise have been. 4
Mr.. Platt says he always enjoys /
boxing around the town of Black !
DOT, that 1t is always clean and tidy
nd the community itself is friend
Y in its attitude toward the rail-
DAD company He says there are
wo towns in Idaho, Nampa and t
'lackfoot, where the people seem to '
axe perfectly sane and whole t
ONE view of their relations to the |
abroad company and they have al '
rays gotten along nicely together. {
'own at Nampa they have had the r
ervice of Editor Ned Jenness and I
is newspaper thru all the years and r
friendly attitude towards the rail D
Dads and the public, consistently e
ept at the task of maintaining a g
ommon understanding between t
hem. The relations of that com v
lunity and the railroad have always 4
cen pleasant and similar condi- t
on has existed at Blackfoot. Mr.. a
latt refers to the time when the ii
abroad company and the people of
jackpot were trying to decide the S
uestion of where they should build F