Wendell Area Sees Surge in Rail Receipts and Lumber Trade
The Oregon Short Line at Shoshone depot reports year over year gains with receipts more than doubling and rising monthly. Lumber shipments dominate late fall traffic with wagons moving directly from cars along side tracks. Local businesses expand, new offices and services arrive, and a special train from Gooding brings survey crews home for holidays as Wendell buzzes with construction and growth.
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Oregon Short Line
Heyburn notices and local happenings
HEYBURN, . H. Adama and wife left for Salt Lake City, Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Nelson welcomed a nice girl baby last Monday. Ras Neill is very ill at Lowell, Arkansas fame. Cassia Mining & Milling Co started operations in Albion mountains. contract for tunnel No 1 to uncover ore. Rob't Gott, visiting Enfield, IL near Cairo, reports next year crop prospects poor due to moisture shortage.
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Cassia Mining & Milling Co
Albion Mountains
Rob’t Gott
Enfield
Cairo
Electric Railroad Reaches Jerome First Train Runs In
The Idaho Southern Railway began service to Jerome with the North Side electric line, inviting guests including the governor and governor elect. Major Fred Reed bought the first ticket, Fred Bradley placed a $100 wager on the line, and the railroad plans to Milner, with steam operation now and electrification this year to follow. The project aims to electrify a vast irrigated region in Idaho.
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Idaho Southern Railway
North Side Electric
Jerome
Gooding
Fred Reed
Fred Bradley
Hailey
Milner
Idaho
1908 Brings Bold Growth to Shoshone
Shoshone enjoyed a strong year with population rise and heavy lumber and merchandise hauling for irrigation tracts. The Wood River Short Line added a daily passenger train and mail clerk, boosting local employment and payrolls. A flouring mill, bank growth, higher public school grades, new concrete walks, increasing real estate values, and a booming Sage Brush Tonic factory marked the year, along with land segregation plans and potential move of the US land office to Shoshone. A 50 member Commercial Club formed, a big lumber yard expanded, a new brick plant planned, a concrete sidewalk and building plant discussed, and the town hosted Wool Growers Association leadership with Fred W. Gooding as president. A two-story hospital nears occupancy as 1908 closes with strong prospects for irrigation and settlement.
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Hurdoeda
Wood River
Shocone
West
Shoshone
Idaho Irrigation Company
United States Land Office
Hailey
Court House
Recorder’s Office
Great National Wool Growers’ Association
Helena
Montana
Pocatello
Fred W. Gooding
Jerome Notes Rail Work and Local Happenings
Jerome daily notes show rail yard work expanding with new switches and stock deliveries. Local attendance includes J A Wise visiting, A B Stevens surveying for Henry Misplon, and W D Baker building a slaughterhouse. Christmas events raise funds, and wedding announcements mark Adlene La Page and David A. Herrisson's Dec 24, 1908 nuptials.
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A.B. Stevens
Henry Misplon
Mr. Erickson
Stanly Wilson
Snake River
W. D. Baker
John Roberts
B Canal
Richard Varnum
Shoshone Bigh School
Fred
Shoshone
W. M. Chideater
Montana
Walter Skisson
Clinton Chaney
Henry Burns
Ms. Rohrback
Rock Creek
T. H. Gammon
Messrs
Cashen and
Ott
Wagner
John Kelly
Piper
H. E. Hunt
Twin Falls
C. A. Varnum
Tom Johnson
Oxford
Kansas
Mr. Johnson
Dr. Collins
Nolan Collins
Manhattan
R. B. Brown
Wichita
R. D. Osterhout
Boise
Methodist Episcopal Church
Idaho
Oregon
Buhl
Wendell
Rev. Varnum
Hillsdals
Ee, Tee
Desert
Jerome
David A. L. Herrisson
Adlene L. la Page
Wool Prizes At Sid Winter Sheep Show In Pocatello
The National Wool Growers Association meets in Pocatello January 14 with $1300 in prizes for winning stock. About 700 animals are entered from across the country. Organizers expect a large turnout and substantial literature is available from Richard Rock, secretary. The Journal corrects a recent misstatement about Idaho's participation in a national show, noting Twin Falls events and the role of Col. P. E. Holt in irrigation discussions.
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Pocatello
Wool Growers’ Association
Hichard Rock
Poeateths
Erifpee
Associacion Bag
Pocatetlo
Idaho
Oamaka
Kaw
T. Barber
F. D. MacGowan
H. IL
Holetor
Cricken
Persis
Twin Falls
Corm
Col
Help
MacGowan
Union Pacific
Oregon Short Line Ai Roads
Amateur Players Travel for Charity Show
The Sweet Clover company, praised for a Shoshone performance a week earlier, departs Friday morning for Hailey to perform that night and returns to Bellevue for Saturday. The amateur troupe delivers one of the best local plays in months to aid the Children's Home Finding Association, supporting destitute children in need of homes.
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Big R.R. Business
Whith
The
Baptist Church
Chriaub
Riverside
Weeter Lumber Co
Ostrander-Reed Lumber Co
EB. A. Keeney
E. H. Jackson
Bull
Wendell State Bank
Hume & Bryant
Wendell Nursery
R. M. Stanton
Wendell Hay and
Hagerman
Dan Beaton
Wendell Hotel
Maho Street
Tom Best
Ira Anderson
Mr. Andrews
Carpantera
Ceiterfield Bros
Lowa
Fike
Seattle
Wash
Pie Hume
Pike
Larber
F. K. Ricker
Mr. Ricker
Major Reed
Mowilay
R. H. Tralil
Me. Stroud
Stroud-Sprague Realty Co
H. H. Fike
Hastings Realty Co
Charles L. Dingter
Ostrander-Reed Lumbar
Woondell
Mya
Dipaier
Tutt Bickley
Tito
Diver
Herr Schortman
Uyar Miare
Ley
Henry Hish
Buehler
Heoe Lass
Mr. Sprague
Strord Sprague Rivalty Co
Twin Paths
Oscar Loraworth
van Wert, D
Idaho Southern
R. R
Loosworth
Sunistes Guinan Bros
Idaho Street
Wm. H. Shepard
Guinan Bros
Wendell Commercial Clio
Sauley
John Williams
Wendell Well
P. W. Hastings
Hastings
Sivan Johnson
Hamilton
Mont
Chicago
Jim Jones
al. Gurhoth
Soldier
Electric
J. A. Wise
North Side
A. EB. Hunt
Pocatello Sheep Show and Wool Association
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