Salt Lake Herald | 1891-05-17 | Page 1 | Affairs at Idaho Falls

Affairs at Idaho Falls IDAHO FALLS Idaho via Eagle Rock Rock Idaho May IGSpecial telegram to THE HERALD t TI RDJTho three hundred excursionists excur-sionists from Denver Portland Salt Lake Ogden and Butte who came in on Thurs day on the first of the overland excursions for this point are commencing point to return home and they all seem well pleased with Idaho The city made things pleasant for the visitors On Thursday was the barbecue barbe-cue and an immense throng partook of the fatted animals That night city talent ciy taent presented pre-sented the Crystal Slipper in the new opera house and the house was packed wls packed Last night was given a complimentary ball L to the citys guests The ctys sale of lots occurred oc-curred at auction and brought figures the sale exceeding a expectations A contract was let for a 25000 hotel The Odd Fel lows have let a contract for a threestory bLune ouuam Utler contracts let this tweek will bring the number of buildings to be commenced at once up to one hundred Heavy rains fell during the week making the roads in excellent condition while the fields of wheat are looking their finest All speak highly of our resources and none of the excursionists had any idea of the volume i vol-ume of water passing through Snake river and when they saw it they were enthusias tic There will be two or three wi more excursions ex-cursions this summer for the purpose of Bringing people into view the wonders