Shoshone Plans Major Land Drawings and Growth
Shoshone gears up for a large Carey Act land drawing on Tuesday June 8 under Cyclone Bob McCollum. The town floods with visitors as hotels, tents, and rooms fill while registrants line up at the opera house to enter the drawing for Idaho Irrigation Co. lands near Mountain View.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Bob McCollum
Bob
Bob" McCollum
McCollum
Cyclone
Nick
Twin Falls South Side
Shoshone
McColulem
Twin Falls
Idaho
R. M. McCollum
South Side
Idaho Irrigation Co
Oregon
Yakima
Mountain View Addition near Sho Shone by Haddock Land Co
J W Wheeler ranch platted as Mountain View Addition facing the northeast city limits. Alfalfa field drained by an irrigation canal. streets and boulevards graded for the new order. Sawtooth range to the north with snow capped summits. Little Wood river marks northeast view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dietrich
Shoshone
Little Wood River
Mountain View
Idaho Irrigation Company
City of
J. W.wheeler
Haddock Land Company
Mountain View Addition
Sawtooth Mountains
Sidewalk Building Starts New Cement Ribbons Across Districts
Neddings and Crabtree have a busy week laying cement sidewalks in the southern city. From the Barstow residence at Greenwood and LaFayette a walk crosses to T. H. Gooding. A second path runs from Winchester corner toward the park, then east and south across the Winchester and Waters fronts. Crews work east and south of the Coolidge property at Logan and Shoshone to connect with the Ken Darrah walk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. E. Todd
Exmer
LeFayette
Shohne
Burkill
Novinger
Logan and
Shoshone
Neddings & Crabtree
Barstow
Greenwood
LaFayette
T. H. Gooding
Winchester
Park
Winchester and
Waters
Coolidge
Shoshone Streets
Modern Woodmen Sanitarium Sees Growth and Plans
Dr White and Thomas Griffin tour Shoshone region as Modern Woodmen of America plan expansion. A 60 tent second colony is readied and 25 patients are expected to be discharged as cured or improving with ongoing free care. The sanitarium will admit only in good standing members with consumptive but curable disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Modern
Colorado
Lincoln County
White
Thomas H. Griffin
Tonopah
Nevada
Woodmen of
America
Order
Aice
Shoshone
Dietrich Tract
Idaho Views by Tacoma Leader on Southern Idaho Irrigation
John A. Rea of Tacoma recounts a three week tour of Sunny Southern Idaho, praising private irrigation finance and large projects led by J. G. White & Co. and Arnold Company, noting 22 undertakings from half a million to several million dollars, with Idaho poised to become the banner irrigation state and Washingtonians active in settlement and booster work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Rea
Tacoma
Wash
Idaho
Boike
Capitol
Lion Hunter
Harrison
J. G. White & Co
New York
Arnold Company of
Chicago
Uncle Sam
Boise
Trowbridge & Niver Company
Bond House
Arnold Company
Court House Adds Cloakrooms and Offices on First Floor
The court house reconfigured auxiliary spaces on the first floor turning closets and wash rooms into usable offices. North closet assigned to Mr. Anderson. South front closet moved to Mr. Mackey due to crowding. An inner room near the county surveyor’s office allocated to Clarence Wheeler the janitor and jailer. Additional closets added on upper floor basement and two in the jail with sanitary plumbing to the rear sink. Auditor and assessor offices expanding, prompting the changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Anderson
Mackey
County Surveyor's Office
Clarence Wheeler
Also Mentioned on This Page
RM. McCodlum
Mountain ‘View
Washington
Fairyland
Gem State
Seattle
Olympia
Aberdeen
Cascades
Ida~ho
Puget Sound
R. McCullom
C. B. Hurtt
Garey Act Lands
Empire Builders
Weiser
Payette
Ontario
Yale
Nyssa
Caldwell
Nampa
Hariman
Beaumont
Twason
Miller & Lax
San Francisco
Mexico
California
Old Mexico
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