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Newspaper
Caribou County Sun
Location
Soda Springs, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1971
Page
4
A buck borrows a blacksmith’s pick promising to return it the next day. Four years pass before he finally brings it back, declaring he did not wait until tomorrow but returned it today. A later Soda Springs notice advertises a found white felt hat in G. W. Gorton’s chicken house asking the owner to claim it.
The 1880s introduction of sheep in Caribou County led to a booming industry centered in Soda Springs. By the early 1880s the sector grew large as Idaho and northern Utah shepherds wintered there. Joseph E. Lau ran a Henry corral from 1900 to 1915 with up to 70 000 sheep and 60 workers.
Soda Springs Idaho earned the nickname Beer Springs from emigrants and trappers due to the gas and tangy water. Lewis and Clark called the site Berry Creek in their journals. Centennial note appears in the Caribou County Sun on July 1 1971.
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