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Show YEAR 1915 IN P0CATELL0 MARKED BY DEVELOPMENT Amount Expended in Construction Work in Past Twelve Months Is Estimated at $2,000,000; Many Improvements Made. Special to The Tribune. POCATELLO, Idaho, Jau. 1. Nineteen Nine-teen hundred and fifteen was one of the most notable years in the history of Pocatello. Twenty new business structures struc-tures costing $1,500,000 were erected, in addition to 5u0 residential properties, which bring the total tip to at least $2,-OUO.OuO. $2,-OUO.OuO. The city reeentiy sold 400,000 worth Of water bonds and will very shortly decide whether it will purchase the old plant of the Pocatello Water company or construct a new plant along Hues that will better serve the rapidly expanding ! needs of the city. The citv council recently authorized the inst alia t ion of a new lighting system sys-tem which will cost approximately $(30,-UO0. $(30,-UO0. This step was taken after a thorough thor-ough investigation by the city engineer of th'a system in use at Boise, which is considered onf of the finest iu the state. The best features of this system will bp adopted anil many new ones added. When installed it is claimed that Pocatello Poca-tello will le the best lighted city in Tdnho. Within the past two mouths move-imvif move-imvif s wee set on i'not to establish a stni 1 yards and packing house here, but t hr-sc p!ms have not yet ma terinli7od. PvYiM'tly, l)0vn'pr, a number of butchers ; formed a eonibinat irm -with tho butchers I of adjacent ci I is. and Ihore is every j reason to believe th;;t befnre 1910 parses ; into hitnry Foi'atplin wWl have a stock j vard, cold slurugr d;mt and parkin a : linnse with innple facilities to handle an I imnifTioo pi a ill ity of bef . pork, mnt-j mnt-j ton nnd other produce. ! Car System Planned. Another indicul ion of the city's ex ; pjinsiou is the f a--t that n corporation J was recently organized to build a street ,'r-ar svstein' within tho otty. This nlnn i i conti'mplates branching out tn adjacent. 'on'Miunirics :md ultimnteiv creating a network of elect ric lines to rnver the Mill' he;i st crii pnrt of the t ate. T!io city h'A one of the mu-t modern finr M-A-er s .'cue wf-t (T 'h" Kn'-kies. Tins i 1 i'0". n a - rot! 2' rrMic'-- :is the I jnt''i-,0'-!:i'i4 t-pe. rtnd i abrupt two Snrde in 1 r-'r b . Thi- in adult ion to ll''nn n-ile of oidin.'irv ev.-er. I There rue evo-n miles or bitnlithic jpnvnrent and three miles of cement j Mdewfilk in Poare'lo and the present ! bcMinLT pvtcm in. buW nine block of if'ti'-ter bclii in 'tie bncirie.q renter. !Thi- wji! be crrerjH- nddrd to who the j im-'W svMvri i ir.strtlh'-b j T-ie in;vr,:t:.-r (.f 'hi- 'itr n n Tail-; Tail-; p. I center ,r. ben o-,ip!i:'.si7"d by the j i i cii Phorr T.in. 7n addition to its I .;-. :,: sVj c nr.d vrd?. the company ha ipiiiit oe r,f imp fiiiT depots on it i line. ThU ct -:;pT.,r,-. rr,.t in the neih-h-rhond of .".'O.DdO. lUti'dirtg Operations. Au.L-ng the nfTv bmldMu''' Trhirb have been ctrnrleted and wLich arc in the crnn -'- .i -ron-truM ion kvt ' . jt ;s b'.ildil.. eostllii! ..;.'Vi'; the Kiks ' .!t :".'-. i. ;jud t V d hj.niel- bu'.hll.'. :i iM.i-r-U.f" !'" ''. Tl;nl will r I p: - mxi i', . b- 1 J This huiH:r,r ,r of 'i-e tyr '"'i'h stores on a-' nr-t : ! r a ud a !:'! above. On t be nn" i I- of ei! y a Bn?n- ber of buildups r.re being erected. The most important is the Trapp & Pierce building ou East Center street. John H. Townsend recently erected a parage par-age building at the comer of Sixth and Center, which occupies a quarter of a city block, and which will shortly be occupied by an automobile company. com-pany. Among recent important business enterprises en-terprises that have come to Pocatello is the Nibly-Channel Lumber company com-pany of Twin Palls. The plant i& mod ern in every particular and ret'1 resents an investment eof approximately -"V Ol'O. There is also every reason to believe be-lieve that a crvat tanning p!:i:.t will shortly bo erecied juT. outride the city limits and t-a;ern cupi: alisvlia vo recently ir.ve-: ignted cedent drpusita south of the city with a view to developing de-veloping this resource. Another important addition to tho city's financial institutions is the Home Building a- Loan association, a corporation corpo-ration capitalized at $-50,000. The association recently moved into its permanent per-manent quarters in the Kagles building, build-ing, corner Arthur and Clark streets, where it held open house and distributed distrib-uted to school children several hundred savings banks to encourage thrift. Association Officers. A. C. Hinckley, superintendent of motive mo-tive power of the Oregon Short Line, is president of the association; H. T. Poynter is vice president; M. J. Pailey is treasurer: B. A. Cummings is counsellor coun-sellor and Charles C. Bowerman is director. di-rector. Of the sixty school districts in Bannock Ban-nock county, Pocatello is the largest and contains five wards. The board of t rustees is composed of William II. Bohlsehied, William .1. TIarvev, John Hood. AValter H. Peck. Pr. O. B. Steel-ey Steel-ey and Robert Tschudy. Walter K . Siders is superintendent. There are sixty-six teachers and while conditions in higher grades are somewhat crowded, crowd-ed, owing to the fact that the central hi eh school building is being reconstructed, recon-structed, this condition will soon be relieved. Pupils have been drilled in fire practice and while the system has just been installed the work so far has proven all that is to bo desired. Adopt Savings Plan. Another plan recently adopted by the board of trustees is the establishment of a savings system. The pupils deposit de-posit so much each week and when a certain amount is accumulated, the pupil pu-pil takes his funds and goes to a savings sav-ings bank and deposits it. The placo of deposit is optional. One of the most important factors in educational matters in Pocatello and southeastern Idaho is the Idaho Technical Tech-nical institute, of which Miles F-Reed F-Reed is president. This institution is 5ti i-A-ilil - tlid mitcvrnvvili nl' thrt end - eniy of Idaho, which was established at, Pocatello by legislative enactment in 1901. The institute is made up of a group of eight buildings on a beautiful beau-tiful campus and is conducted by a faculty ot some twenty members. Tho Technical institute specializes in tho industrial arts, homo economies, commercial com-mercial subjects and mutdc and agriculture. agri-culture. The equipment consists of laboratories, shop practice facilities, libraries li-braries and an experimental farm uf 100 acres where the essentials of practical prac-tical agriculture are taught in actual practice. St. Joseph's school is another of the educational institutions that has contributed con-tributed to tho educational advancement advance-ment of tho city. Its music and art departments are recognized aa among the most efiicient in the stale. Pocatello also supports a public library. li-brary. This is loeated cluse to tlio business district and there aro 1 t.OuO volumes. Railroad Y. M. C. A. Few institutions of any kind have exerted such a wonderful influence ou the community in which they have been located n.s the railroad Y. M. C. A. This association stands tirst in tho west and third in tho United States and Canada in point of membership. K. A. Krussman is general secretary and the! board of directors is composed of R A. Krussman, A. O. Hinckley, L. P. McClung. W. U. Heare V. A. Jones, H. B. Whittlesey and d unes A. Weed. A number of modern apartment houses have been built here. Th most costly of theso aro the Quinu and Fargo apartments. One of the richest sections tributary to Pocatello is the Arbon valley, ;i tract of 100,000 fertile acres, one-half of which is in wheat. The annual production of wheat in about l.OOO.Ooil ruishels, most of which is handled through Pocatello. There has been a great deal of prelim i nary work done with tho idea of building a railroad line into this rich valley. Pocatello lies in the center of a mining district that is destined to be-onie be-onie ono of the most important in the state. The Fort Hell mining db- (Contirmed on Following PaRe.) . i l.Xffir'"' - ..,.-- :',!-. . . Hirers; ; p p- rt f , i i pj r t - , . ' r ,-!'" " , It,'- I- ' ? r - - f -" f ) i -sr"'- 7 ' - ; ? '" .. ; : ; i '!. ," V.t L . . i ' Above Vas).iii;!'i.on avenue an:l TJi'Cnty-f.ftli i r?!t. ous oS the principal business comers in 0','dcn. Bc1oa Kow kiuderaiteu building at Utali School for the Deaf and Biiud. POCftTELLD MIES ' PROGRESS il 1815 (Continued from Preceding Page.) trict has long been protected, and withiu the lust, two months there have been Jit least three strikes inade that promise, to uncover oio bodies ot' hiijli-ient hiijli-ient magnitude to put the district on the shipping list. One strike that gives particular prom-is prom-is is fhat on a gmur of ebims just i i n i i 7 east oi" the city. .Here a hoflv of ore has been ut that k rich in sold, silver sil-ver and copper. Another js that unw being worked by Uenrv Aner. This group is known as the Apollo and consists of six claims, located eeven miles southeast of here, along theight of way of the Oregon Short Lino railroad. rail-road. Work done on these claims consists con-sists of au 87-foot doublc-compartmeut ; shaft and several hundred feet of tuu-' nel. Values have beeu encountered that assay as high as $03 per ton, 31i' ot which is jol1'- Considerable work is also being done-on the Fort, Hall Mining company's claims and the. Belcher Bel-cher mine is also being developed, i Among proposed improvements men-I men-I tion must be made of the new Valentine Valen-tine building, at the corner of West Center and Arthur streets, and the new theater building which is under construction. con-struction. Those two structures will cost approximately $300,000. The Valentine i will be a three-story-ptfie'e building w-ith ' banking offices on the first floor and a series of office suites above. The theater will be of the very lateid-.-sign. Work of reconstructing (he Central high school, which was destroyed by fir i last December, is being pushed ' with vigor. This structure is of white stone and is being enlarged considerably. There will be a new west wing which i will contain several rooms that was designed de-signed to relieve congested conditiona before the fire. Poeatello is one of the important wholesale centers of southeastern Idaho. At this point practically every big t?a It I Lake house has a branch or local repre- ' soutative stationed. Among the important impor-tant industries may be mentioned the Elkhorn Livestock & Dairy company. Jo Poeatello this compauv has a modern . model creamery plant, while just outside the city it owns a dairy ranch. Great sDevelopment. Tho retail section of Poeatello is developing. de-veloping. ,The stores carry the very latest in style and high quality goods. Center and Main streets, the two principal prin-cipal .business thoroughfares, .-.present a very me'tropolitau appearance'." The Poeatello general hospital is modern in all particulars, ?ti the equip ment is 'the latest known. .to surgical and medical science. Thi .institution, which is supported jointly by city and county, was constructed at a cost of $12,56o. The building is.- of com nt blocks and it is located on Weal Cestor street. ' . The city supports one of the most aggressive ag-gressive commercial dubs ijr'the west. George Stoll is the secretary, and under;-his under;-his experienced management the cJub;. has accomplished much good. .,-''' In summiDg up, it may be said thai -the population now stands at 16,000,. that the citv boasts a payroll of over $200,000 per'month from tiie Short Linw ' alone, that nisaj new industries are be-. . ing started and every indication point.. . to a period of great development. The banks are in excellent condition, ther being $2,."00.000 on deposit. 4 Only recently the secretary of the United States chamber of commerce, Edward Ed-ward F. Trefz, predicted that Poeatello had an even break for becoming not onlv the ' most important city r.f the slate, but that a population of 100,000 was by no means without the range of possibilities. ' When 'the bureau of research of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the rorld nought information from the in-lermountahi in-lermountahi country, on which i basV1 . their estimates' of tho coming year 'p , commercial activitv, they chose -Poeatello as tho ppint from which to collect the .figures. The city has two well-equipped newspapers, news-papers, issued morning and evening, and as a field for investment the opportunities opportuni-ties are un?urpased. |