Show MARRlED AN INDiAN GIRL IJ 1 11Rav Raymond Tells of an Idaho Romance I i G VENTURESOME YANDELL u SETTLED ABIOXG THE RED SIaxs FORTY TWO TEARS AGO I He Talks About the Opening oC thc Hcservationfc Mammoth Power r oJcet Along the Portncuf Hive Idaho Bonds U P Shops ut Pocatello Will Open Tuesday Artesian Wells I Pocatello Ida Sept ISpcJal Mine has been a pleasant and busy sojourn during the two weeks I hays been doing Pocatello and J5tnnoc county and I am not unmindful of courtesies shown me by a people right royal in every particular If Idaho n general is prolific of good cheer ladled out unsparingly here I can only say that thoe who dwell without the borders of this magnificent commonwealth common-wealth are unfortunate to a degree and many of them will here find homes and golden opportunity to amass wealth If seized upon at a time so favorable There is offered to the honest farmer a grand opening to display his energy and progressiveness and but a few years will be required to amply requite re-quite him for his labors Here is a 3itih fietd for those who delve and dig for the precious metals and whether it foe the paid miner or the capitalist who puts up the money for dcvelopemem of properties both will in their way be largely the gainer Here is a broad and as yet practically new field for investment in-vestment of capital and those who are the first to take advantage of it will be the ones to reap more largely of the benefits so accruing In substantiation 1 sub-stantiation of all this I submit for careful study a few truths I have gleaned while abroad in the fieldthe result of purely personal and disinterested disinter-ested observation in all presented only with a desire to be accurate and give to the reader a clean bill of statement for future guidance VALUATION AND TAX LEVY The valuation for this county is placed at 2000000 and the tax levy for state and county purposes is 3 percent per-cent For county there is 215 per cent and for state 85 per cent Aside from reservation lands there are 3000 sec lions within the county and the open ing will add in round numbers three quarters of a million acres This means much to southeastern Idaho and to Bannock county in particular It is currently believed that no obstacles ob-stacles will be put in the way of geting matters in shape for an early opening open-ing of these lands and once settled it means that the magic hand of capital will be invoked to bring about such changes as will give an impetus to business In all its various channels All that is needed is capital to divert and bring upon the lands the waters of the many streams that flow in abundance abun-dance all through this section And do you know that some placesfar out In the midst of these arid lands are to be found springs that well up and make small rivers in themselves Refreshing even in contemplation And such things be in abundanceIve seen them That I might acquaint myself my-self with the topography and resources of the country and tell the natives something on certain lines here at home is why I traversed and at some personal inconvenience great stretches of this unoccupied countryit was well worth it A MAMMOTH POWER PROJECT This city has a power project afoot that will not alone net good results It will revolutionize things hereabout BO soon as capital sets moving the wheels of this great industry as not only contemplated but assured to all intents and purposes Monied men from outside states and territories Jiavfe been quietly looking over the Held here in connection with the power project and realizing the importance cf it to this city and surrounding country coun-try I immediately set about canvassing canvass-ing the situation in my own way und personal Investigation enables me to state that theyve got IL And the 1 plan will work Just so long as water continues to run down hill What have they got Simply this They have 8000 horse power right at their doors for manufacturing purposes and then when so used can be further utilized in irrigating the thousands of acres lying ly-ing to the north and west along the i Orecon Short Line and Utah Northern North-ern lines The great volume of water used fow two such notable purposes and wiUout additional costthink of i i that Now to explain It in detail II High above the ciy on the benches is the first reservoir now used by the waterworks company as their supply for I the city and holding 7001300 gallons of I water supplied from Gibson Jack creek I that flows down out of the mountains Another mile further up on the bench Is another reservoir monster in itself 0 it-self that will hold 3500000 gallons It is comoleted all but to put In the concrete con-crete and cement it The sand and gravel is in part already on the ground From this reservoir to a point below on the bench and at a sufficient height to carry the canal over the rise where the Portneuf I river turns away from the mountains is a fall of 561 feet Theres your enormous enor-mous oresure right there and with it i power for manufacturing cheaply as well as watering a vast area of country afterwards What would be taken for city use would be insignificant compared t com-pared to the whole The electric light plant could be consolidated and run at I an enormous saving and the residue of I Power used for any manufacturing enterprise en-terprise that would not be slow to I avail Itself of such cheapness in running t I run-ning expenses UNENDING WATER SUPPLY Aside from Gibson Jack creek there are five other streams that can all be connected to the mains making an unending un-ending water supply From Mink creek there is now being constructed to Gib son Jack creek a ditch ten and a half jnilnS long Carl Hawkins Is the contractor con-tractor and he has thirtyfour men employed ir the work The waterworks j water-works company now has six miles oft of-t ron pipe line and six miles of wooden r conduit the latter having a carrying capacity of 4000000 gallons daily It is the Intention to replace the latter with Iron pipe and also to parallel the Jast six miles in order to bring in the < ff volume of water necessary for the power plant Measurements taken show eat at low water mark there is a supply of 10000000 gallons daily and this may be augmented at pleasure by v drawing upon the other streams tributary trib-utary ELECTRIO LIGHT AND WATERWORKS WATER-WORKS PLANT The eleotric light plant has expended probably 50000 and Is earning a fair income at present It is owned by D Swinehart who gives it his Personal attention in all its workings The wa 1 terworlcs has expended about 120000 < vJ A Murray of Butte city is the pres and real lldent anti principal owner > izes that his is in every way a strictly strict-ly ciltedge Investment now so much eo that even some Salt LSkers who who have been crying about hard times and lack of money are even iihinKi about to get on the inside I 0 ALONGTHE PORTNEUF RIVER Last Tuesday in company with two Dr Pocatellos represntative men I was bon the country for a dozen miles z 1 ovt ind lying between the Oregon atM Lint and the Utah Northern u For several miles our route was i uWiiJ I the beautiful Portneuf river viMT wJ rded if and crossed on over I 4 3 I i J < I T fI 1 Il I oJ 1 t a J J 1 1j to a stretch of country that is a poem in itself and but awaits the handiwork handi-work of man to make It productive and paying In every sense Right here I wish to say that the Portneuf river even at low water as it then was Is a magnificent stream and carries a volume of water that later on can be utilized to a great degree in furnishing water to farmers that will people that entire section about Where we crossed the river it was 100 feet wide and three feet deep swiftlj flowing Close by the ford stands a ranchers dwelling and all about it is evidence of prosperity if not absolute abso-lute comfort Stacks of hay and grain about proclaim that even now the arid I land about can be made to give up sustenance to those who by thrift and industry essay to solve the problem of farmingnow no longer a problem This rancher while of pure Caucassian extraction wedded an Indian maiden from her native heath and a fairsized family now bless them This I know from the fact that there were two brighteyed maids by the sweeping river bank gazing intenfly upon the white men invadinsr such a lone though picturesque retreat I expressed a wish to draw near and interview them but exMayor Stein said noHthey already al-ready showed signs of fear and were getting ready to fly if I approaced them In deference to his words of caution I refrained from interviewing them The lands beyond the river are rich and will grow in healthy abundance abun-dance such cereals as wheat oats corn potatoes and I believe the warm climate cli-mate would not be averse to cotton Added to this it will in time be the ideal home of the fruit grower as the fruit will thrive and ripen much earlier under such climatic Influence than in other sections less favored The rise and fall of the country for miles and miles is not alone susceptible to the methods I of irrigation but seems as though nature na-ture had so blocked out the country in its contour that man and money must needs take advantage of the panorama spread to eager and enraptured enrap-tured gaze Farther on one comes suddenly upon rich bottom lands that reach out and spread away further than the eye can discern Trees liberally lib-erally besprinkle all this great area and the thick grass stands knee high Prom out the ground here and there comes springs of pure water that form meandering rivulets as they go on to nourish and give fabulous growth to the waving green grass throughout the section Many springs form miniature ature rivers at the outset and the water can no doubt be raised to a plane insuring efficacy to a greater degree de-gree in the way of a more thorough irrigation irri-gation for the lands In their entirity Close by the edge of this rich and verdure ver-dure clad basin a white man has located lo-cated and intends to hold his 160 acres when the reservation is thrown open by virtue of having acquired and located lo-cated upon it long before the government govern-ment made of it a reservation Has he been there long YellI should say He came here fortytwo years ago the first ventursome white man at a time when white men about here had to go slow and stand in or they couldnt keep their scalps on even though it be fastened on with improved im-proved copper rivets He Is now well along on the shady side of life though hale and hearty and can look along the barrel of his Winchester today in away a-way that would shame many younger men in the chase Such a man Is I M Yandell a native of the state of Tennessee Ten-nessee He also married an Indian girl and has a grown up family of two sons and two daughters I None of them reside with him One daughter is teaching school in Michigan Michi-gan and she is daily expected to visit him He is pretty well fixed in this worlds goods having three or four hundred head of horses a herd of cattle cat-tle and a farm in California His habitation does not betoken thistt is about 10x14 feet with a partition and contains but little else than two board cots a small cook stove a Winchester and a water bucket Those seem ample am-ple for his simple tastes When he was first seen by the Indians here for tytwo years ago they were astonished and never Graving seen a white man they believed that he came out of the mountain giving him the name of Wacknay Natsie which means Mountain Sun and by that name he is today known and called by both white and red Knowing that he was In the council of the Indians to a great degree de-gree having been at one time a trader among them and they always laving great faith in him 1 had a chat with him and he is quite clear on he present situation A TALK WITH MOUNTAIN SUN He said You want me to tell you what I think about the opening of the reservation How the Indians view it and what lands they will probably pick ont Im not much used to talking to newspaper men and think Id better go slow and keep out of trouble though I dont mind telling you a thing or two Of course the Indians dont want in any way to get the worst of i and they should not There will beso much land that they can pick out a good spot and do well on it Now I figure it out like this A tract of 160 acres is a whole lot of ground to irrigate irri-gate and farm even for whites and Imf Im-f the opinion that its too much for an Indian I think eighty acres well managed is better than twice a much poorly managed and the Indian will in time find this to be so I eighty acres is ample why crowd him with land when there are so many people in the world that arq anxious to come in and take it Thats my idea and Im the Indians friend too They always did the square thing by me these Shoshones and Bannocks though the Nez Perces did me up in 1877 Yes they did Burned my house and ran off my stock and Ive a suit on with the government now for 16400 that is owing me in consequence But thats ga nothing to do with this question Now if the Indians will agree to go off all by themselves it will b better for them They dont I want to mix with the whie I always does them harm every time i You see they cant stand civilization They never have been able to standup stand-up against it and its too late to try it now I they would settle on eighty acres instead of 160 it would tend to make them closer in their work and surroundings and they would b more compact as a body occupying less ter rltory Come to me for advice Oh yes They are coming all the time but of course I dont knowhow much stock they take in it some1 maybe Mountain Sun how many Indians are there left on the reservation now I asked Well the number is put down at 1500 and they draw their rations so they are all there if they coine up to fed arnt they Now of course I how just how many there are and if oull keep it to yourself Ill tell you This he did and then I wanted to go over to the river close by and swell the flow by weeping for our Uncle Samuel Sam-uel Who Is indeed an indulgent father to the noble red man Relatives of those who have been in tthe < happy hunting grounds these hundred moons or more are drawing grub and clothing in such profuseness that they must needs auction it offand this they doa do-a can be attested by the whole community com-munity Theyre all right Now Mountain Sun will you tell me just where the noble red man intends tends selecting his lands Im Inclined to think they will pick on lands from Blackfoot on down to Ross Fork and if so they dont make any mistake when the dots all good Remember I dont say that they will but Im privileged to make a e and thats my guess It is quite clear to me that Mountain Moun-tain Sun is up on Indian matters ando and-o one in all this section knows as much of their intentions as does he Before leaving he sai4I read a whole lot and if you will send my name in for the Herald Ill be much obliged Its an awful big paper every Sunday and catches me about right ouL here Im a Populist toogoing to vote witch them once for a change It is needless to say that I sent ins I in-s nanle and he is so near right 0 fore taking that after taking he will o j I > 0 r c get out of the notion of training with the Populists i CITY AND COUNTY BONDS Neither city nor county bonds g begging for purchasersthey are not those kind of bonds proving that this is considered a desirable field for men with money to invest in i The floating indebtedness of tlhe county is only 5115000 and 95000 of that debt was inherited when cut off I from another county The warrants are all held by local people the greater amount by Mr Bunting of Blackfoot An issue of bonds to the amount of 120000 ten and twenty year gold I bonds bearing 7 per cent was about to be floated but they didnt float Not because they werent good investments oh no Buyers were plenty and they were offered par and accrued Interest in-terest by those who were jumping over one another In a scramble to get them but the court stepped in and ruled that the county commissioners could not legally le-gally issue them without submitting to a vote of the people and thus they are hung up for a time Not for long I tough And then when New York people take them all the floating inoJ debtedness will be paid off and that money will seek new channels for investment in-vestment right here at home and at a time most opportune When school bonds were offered they sold like hot cakes and altogether i shows that outsiders are more than anxious to send in their money here POCATELLO SHOPS WILL OPEN TUESDAY When The Herald stated that Superintendent intendent McConnells visit here meant the opening of the Union Pacific shops I and that those at Shoshone would be moved here bringing many families from that point it was not mistaken He I has been here the shops will be again opened up next Tuesday and this means oldtime prosperity to this city I It means even more Mr McConnell and Master Mechanic Dunn next went west with car 012 and yesterday were at Shoshone arranging the transfer details I de-tails The shops here when started j up will be filled out by the old men 1 now in service and those who will be brought down from Shoshone I state II this in order that shopmen throughout the country who are noW out of employment ployment may not be led into error by coming here expecting to catch on I I plainly say dont come unless you have time and money that is a drue to you for the trip would otherwise be in vain vainNEW NEW ROADS ARE NEEDED Whats the matter with the county commissioners No doubt these gen tlemen are O Kbut they can best man ifest it by getting concerted and Imme diate action so far a relating relatng to building at slight cost some roads and bridges that are needed needed now to bring in trade that rightly belongs here I is not necessary this article to call your attention to the different localities locltes Where new roads are needed all resi dents are conversant with the wih requirements require-ments and to that end every resident and taxpayer should constitute himself a committee of one to get action in the matter while both the time and oc casion are ripe Such timely and unit ed action would bring in a trade yearly to compensate you tenfold for the mon e y so expended If the county commis sioners do not sO vieW what Only thisthe I51116 business men then ought to set about correcting things and correct them right speedily Now is the time HEAVY RAINS i The much needed and long looked for rain came early yesterday morning moring and was far reaching in extent of ter itory I learn from the weather re port In the U P office here that it extended north to Melrose Montana east to Cokeville Wyoming COkevie south to Ogden and west to Huntington Ore gon Thats a good many square miles but not one of them got more than needed and the way It came down Great Scott It seemed as though the flood gates had gotten ajar somewhere and the mechanism wouldnt work for some hours the while it simply fell down in great broad sheets Miniature lakes were yesterday abounding in all the depressions al where but a day agone the earth was smoking in its dryness and intense heat The value in flniiaro to the farmer and stock raiser cannot be estimated i RAILWAY WATER WORKS I have to relate that the railway company at this point own and op erate their own waterworks plant and the storm converted i temporarily into mudworks The company plant is crude in itself and aside from furnish ing water to all the shops and tanks supplies the hotel and company houses I didnt supply the latter however for some hours after the recent storm as the pipes could not well handle a greater volume of mud than water The city waterworks were entirely free from the entrely scourge for several rca sons as explained to me by manager Cusack who said Rains do not so affect us as our source of supply is far different and then again should any sediment get in our conduits and ipes i would settle at the bottom of some of the eight syphens on the system At any time when necessary we simply remove a plug in the bottom of these and the pressure soon frees the line from any such accumulation an advantage great in itself Our water supply is always clear and after afer the big storm you can see in what shape it leaves us And I will say i was in first class hape water clear as chrystal ARTESIAN WELL BORING Parties are now engaged in sinking an artesian well on the east side of the city and from the general formation of the country I am inclined to think a flow of water will be encountered One thing certain if not water Iron will be found Will behas been found already ready I am reliably informed and carrying ying with it 53 in gold per ton Nor is this strange when one remembers the long and low hill base close up to the city on the southeast which from afar off is noticed on account of its ironstained appearance Iron is there and In auantitv sure as you live To verify i you have but to await action of the pick and drill awat you wont have long to wait either MORMON PEOPLE NOT GULLED As I gravitate hither and thither among the people I naturally hear pol Itics discussed more or less and only the other evening I heard an oldtime influential Mormon speak his political POltical pIece In a way that would have burned Ben Richs ears had he been within ten miles When the old gentleman learned that a Salt Lake newspaper man was an attentive listener he ap roached me with the request that I should not make public his name as he intends going on a still hunt for Ben and a few others that have fallen into the net of the political tricksters His words to the attentive group of Hs teners were as goldthey struck right home and to the core Standing erect this old man said You ask me how the Mormon people will vote and be ncr of them and with them the greater art of my life I can give one or two statements that cannot I believe be ainsaid beleve In the first place our people in Utah are not fully educated as yet in poli tics and this sunburst now coming upon them and lighting up for them a great state to be finds them especially In the more remote especal pared to grapple with politics in the garb as painted to them For years and years they have gone quietly about farm pursuits not paying any attdn tion to the maelstrom of politics Now i confronts them and they are called uoon to come forward and cast their ballots I am will nc to admit that some of them want the earth and for political preferment ferment will get out and advocate Republican publican doctrine Ben Rich for Instance stance may claim to turn over our people peo-ple in blocks of 5000 but i stand hereto here-to tell you that the goods cant be de vered The Mormon people are not toe to-e gulled in the Interests of any one man They know what they got from the Republican partyYQu gentlemen also know it Would you have us be ungrateful Would you have us lick he hand that smote us and in turn I J Q c 1 t y J L prove traitors to our friends 1 tell you such things cant be The Salt Lake Tribue has for years and years assailed us on the highways and byways by-ways and not content with this has followed us into the sanctity of our homes Its work was not alone to arraign ar-raign us at the bar of public opinion And now that same Tribune falls on our necks and weeps in its political throeswe are fine people Wherein Is the consistency A Democratic admin istration says that Utah Is fitted t join the sisterhood of states and the Tri I bune wil go to any ends to cajole our people into voting the Republican ticket tick-et but the veneering is too thinits nauseating in Its utter transparency and the authors will be made tofeel i And I tell you there was a full ton of logic In his short and pointed discourse giving his hearers to know that the Mormon people cannot be worked en the Republican racket e CORRECTION OF GOVERNMENT SURVEYS I have been looking into the matter of government surveys on the reserva tion and With the best obtainable In formation at hand am enabled to annex an-nex to previous correspondence on the j matter the following I I Since the middle of July when Instructions I I in-structions were given for corecting I marks north of the standard parallel the work of correction has been steadIly stead-ily going forward as rapidly as circumstances circum-stances would permit Mr White the deputy who did this work in the first place went over to England taking with him some of the property belong ing jointly to himself and W C Miller who is now finishing up the corrections with a regularly organized field force and it is said forcet they will have all the work finished north of the standard in fifteen days When field work is finished and the notes sent in to SurveyorGeneral Straughan at Boise it is confidently believed that he will at once wire for a government inspector to come en and pass upon i I this is done there Is no valid reason for delay in opening the reservation excepting the allotment of Indian lands In severally Of course in order to get things moving briskly i will be necessary to influence influ-ence some Washington people and it is understood that exGovernor Stevenson Steven-son will lend every energy to this The main thing now is to getthe survey sur-vey accented by the government and there Is no doubt of this unless some government inspector comes out and is filled up with red tape and his own importance rather than sense and good executive ability ingredients that go hand in hand While out in the wilds the past week I observed the field force in the distance and from their labors I judged they were hard at work to complete the correction W C Miller now in charge Is a mining engineer from the Coeur dAlene country and accredited as in every way proficient In the duties devolving de-volving upon him Certain it Is that he Is working faithfully and continuously continu-ously all through and residents have given him much credit for his work UNDERGROUND OR OVERHEAD The time Is here to open up a safe thoroughfare across the railway yards and to do this it must be either a via duct or a tunnel which I opened on B street the latter would be preferable by long odds a across the whole four teen tracks the ground Is largely made and if a viaduct was built the ap proaches would necessarily lve to b unduly long Tunneling would obviate all this and be less expensive I the crossing is made at Centre street then I the hotel must b moved put of the I movedJut way One or the other is down on the bills and for the near future as grow ing ises traffic demands action inthe prem I THE HERALD Make no mistake in the matter The Herald will very shortly get here the same day as published and this is a point for Pocatello and southeastern Idaho in itself The matter has not been pigeonholed by the Union Pacific officials by any means and will be arranged ar-ranged at an early date to the satisfaction satis-faction of all RAYMOND BOWS TO POCATELLO In leaving Pocatello arid > a hospitable people I desire to thank you for cour you tesies extended me from start to finish and may add in my own favor that In my correspondence I have endeavored endeav-ored to treat you fairly and impartially dwelling on matters as they appeared I I t6 me from personal observations and such limited information as vouchsafed I vouch-safed a stranger in your midst Stranger Stran-ger did I say Well not a stranger I from now on and through the raft of daily Heralds that greet you In future you 7iil learn to know me better Until wlh you asrain goodbye RAY RAY |