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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1907
Page
8
Community notes from Shoshone cover visits by residents and travelers, upcoming events, street improvements, irrigation contracts, and local business ads. Mentions of journalists, court reports, and school staff changes accompany notices of sales and weather-related updates.
County Surveyor John Koets and J. Lisle of the Journal visited Bliss for a brief two day trip. They described midnight walks and hay work, stopped a freight train briefly, noted fine Clover Creek farms, the Bray homestead at Blanche, and post office activity. A planned reservoir to irrigate thousands of acres near Glenn’s Ferry was mentioned, with Klwise river views and gold miner gravel losses along Snake valley.
The piece discusses the Osborne Binder fair and compares gravel to Snake River gold deposits, suggesting vast future wealth in the valley through mining or horticultural development. It quotes promotional fare details from a Seattle lodge event and ends with a cheerful Houston Post verse about sunshine and laughter.
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