Show I An Town T oven Forg Forging ng to fie the Front Fronta II III a syn tr n y k I v fF t d d td u c R r M t 1 tF J YF I Y d J Y y 1 S n 4 t Y l t tl i a y v l 32 v II I l K K t y I L r rI q I I Rigby Ida Special to The Herald Rigby Ida May 5 Rigby is fast taking her place among the important towns of eastern Idaho While all her hor business comes from the extensive and magnificent agricultural l country that surrounds the town for fifteen miles mUes mileson on every side she has sufficient sl traffic In all lines of busness to give her a permanent and steady growth An ag agricultural agricultural agricultural basis is the best and most sure to found a town upon and therefore there therefore fore ore resources are now attract attracting attracting attracting ing the attention of capital seeking in investment investment vestment Anderson Bros Broom bank established two years years ago with a capital of now has over on deposit practically all of which belongs to the farmers This shows the farmer to be in ina a pros prosperous prosperous prosperous condit on There is no reason why they the should not be thus when some land in this vicinity produced over per acre last year ear in sugar beets The country hereabouts has the larg largest largest largest est and best irrigation system in Amer America ica leathe the great feeder canal system which is many miles in length and over feet wide at the head During the years of the thc set settlement settlement a crop cro failure has never ver been experienced These th have hate haye all aU combined to make land very valuable in inthis Inthis inthis this part Dart of the valley The Rigby opera house bouse has been put on the Denver Dener circuit which insures competent and good plays in future fu future future ture to its matrons natron atron Anderson Bros bank has just pur purchased purchased purchased chased fifty feet on the corner of Main and First West st with the in intention intention intention it is claimed of erecting a modern bank building and moving their Institution from its present location to the new site The Rigby Hardware company has also purchased eighty feet frontage on the opposite corner from the bank property and it is claimed the they intend to shortly erect a large building of stone suited to their growing grow growing growing ing business the same to cost in the thene thene ne of or General Manager W H Bancroft and an Superintendent Buckingham together with th Chief Engineer Ashton A and Super Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent of Motive Power Dunn came camu Into Rigby in tit a special today They met with a committee from the Rigby Commercial club dub to consider several seve al ai matters important to their road and t ie towns interest among which was We e improvement of their depot grounds b parking them alid tiel also enlarging their warehouses which have hae grown too small for the increasing business here hereIt hereIt It is also stated on good authority that the matter of branching off here with the new line up the South Fork of Snake river to be commenced it is said as soon as the Yellowstone Park extension is completed was talked over The condescension of the Short Line als to stop over here bere and confer with ith our Commercial club shows they are interested in the development and growth of Rigby This country is destined to become a great grea t fruit producing section If the number of trees unloaded and dis distributed distributed by various nurseries at this point indicate anything The stretch of or country for about ten miles wide run running running ning nin west at the mouth of the South SouthFork SouthFork Fork of Snake river riper is remarkably free from late spring and early earl fall faU frosts which fact has haf caused the people to en engage gage gae very verp largely in the fruit business The Snake river valley is becoming noted as a sugar producing country Last week an au entire train load of sugar was loaded at the Idaho Sugar com factory a few miles south of or Rigby and shipped to Portland |