Show Rigby Rig b y a Coming omin g Metropolis is of Eastern b P B as tern I M M Mis dak a lio I I tot S If by I the hand of magic Rigby has grown from a few levy ci I AS years ears ago a o to one of the tho must most promising cities In all Idaho indeed aM L the mho writer has lias seen nearly nearl all of or the Gem states wondrous i el projects and growing cities with tho Inevitable conclusion that e did little in natural resource location 11 atlon and general economic prophesy s 1 eclipses them all nil Almost incredible have hae been Its advancements and today tOlla w Its Us numbers of new buildings and In many man canes crues h of o three or even een four times its size By D the clo close e of the year ea oar 1909 1309 tho the town ton of oC HIgby will have in operation a 1 d 1 r complete system of or waterworks bonds bond In the suns sum of oC liming having been voted lL for C r their construction during the summer Mummer time In 1900 1909 The Tho business g section 1 of or town will trill be laid with main mam the water being supplied from a Will located on the town park and thence pumped Into a gallon allon tank and t distributed to tho various parts of town Helso Hot Hal Springs located about 13 lt miles east cast of oC Rigby HI b furnish f apt attraction Tho springs possess some of tho the best mineral mineraI properties to bo ho found anywhere I Lands Land near Rigby with water of right can be purchased for Cor from rom JM O 1 to per acre Raw lands Jand under the tho canal are going from Crom JJ v per nero aero upward according to to Improvements and ond proximity to market marl ot app l some gome of oC these lands londs however how ever are arc rapid rapidly ly b raising raisinS in price especially those tho so well l adapted to tho the growing of oC sugar beets Tho lands of a this county not in use for or farming purposes afford uford pasturage pasturages s during the summer season lasting from Cram April to tho the last of oC October and ond ere are ik l it utilized for Cor that purpose purl oso by b the live IIvo livestock stock IStock men of the county count The stock stoll Is driven to the tho hills as soon as the spring I e opens and an back to tho the valley alley l before beCore I Ithe 1 M the winter sets sots in where they are aie fed fedon i ion t on tho the alfalfa and clover hay ha of the tho thet t t farmers and on ou this account the tho farm Carm farmers ers of or the whole county are ore furnished fl Dr a home market for Cor all aU the hay ha they the can produce and In many Instances it t Is 1 fed while the ground Is frozen right on nn the tho farm where raised thus imparting t to the lands the fertilizing droppings of or orthe S the stock The Tho county count has an elevation above sea Jell level 1001 running from rom 1700 feet Ceet to over Oer l feet Ceet as It ascends the river valley alle has grown oats ants at an elevation I of or over feet Ceet that yielded over I r t bushels to the acre acro and und weighed 48 pounds to tho the bushels The Tho climate is Ss pure healthy health and bracing IMPROVEMENTS GALORE i Since last year at this time various new Improvements have hae gone gono up in Rigby The rho Rigby Hardware company compan bas lias Jas built a new establishment costing the Furniture store a litlie lit little little tle lie older Is worth the Rugby RIby state banks homo home cost and an L the Smith block William Wah Wahl has hos a fine residence which cost c st J W V Jones one costing about 2000 and Ed Ellsworth Sr one of the tho th 1 same value alue 9 A half mile of sidewalks has been or ordered ordered ft dered by b the town board who are arc all progressive men J H Steele is chair chairman I i man and tho the other members of oC tho the thoi i board consists of oC S B D Gough Josiah 1 Call J W V Hobby Hable and W V J N Adams Adam AdamIn In fact some of oC the tho leading men of If the county count are at Mr John H Gilchrist who was county count commissioner 1 I during Is a brilliant young youn lawyer and one of tho the largest sheep owners In the tho county To him Is la due duo i largely largel the ridding of oC the saloons from franc franca Cr m a I Rigby He Is one ono of the future men HEAVY SHIPMENTS The magnitude of or the tho grain and farm Carm shipments from rom Rugby RIb are almost un unbelievable believable Yet on Oct 28 tho Star tho the hustling young paper of at Rig 4 by 1 which by b the way 11 Is la one of ot the I finest of oC Its kind In Idaho contained I this Item lIem Jm That business has been on the move b hero in RIb the tho first of the thet present t month Is best attested from Cram tho the then thoI al I figures n ures furnished The Star by b Agent louse House of the Short Line Carload ship shipments 1 ments have been boen Bran Dmn 7 Flour 5 I Hay Hogs 12 1 i i Potatoes Oats OUs i 23 7 Apples les 2 Beets Deets G 6 Honey 1 Total To tal 94 Mr Ir House estimates 30 0 more mON cars cais ere ero eroth the tho th close of oC the month providing It Is possible to secure the cats cars CHI Tho The Rigby country sure suro raised a crop this year 0 1 I Fact I Is It Is an occurrence Many a city of treble the tho population cannot say la FO so much GREAT POTATO CROP The tame same Issue contained I this Item on potatoes This week w will ill practically end po potato potato potato tato digging for Cor the present year ear farm farmers farmers farmers ers having taken taleen advantage of oC the tho excellent ex excellent excellent weather section has en enJoyed enjoyed enjoyed Joyed for tho past month The crop Is the greatest ever grown rown In this vicinity both In average and yield Instances having been reported of a yield of oC up upwards upward upwards wards ward of 00 bushel buhel to tho the acre nere John Chase four miles cast of oC town had In 20 acres from which he harvested bushels bushel bush ell At the present price his crop would bring In the neighborhood of oC 1000 Just of oC it a t 1000 from Cram 20 acres of oC ground within six months of lime time of planting the crop There Thero is nothing to equal our lava laa ash soil and Snake river waste when industriously and intelligently handled POSSIBILITIES Regarding the possibilities of tho fu future futuro future ture turo It can ibo said that when new ant I trunk lines of railroads are arc built across Idaho that TUgby Rigby stands the Ule best show of being on ono of these new arteries of commerce And thus this s not because she Is so largo large and important now as to at attract attract attract tract them but because tho the pioneers lo located located 0 the tho town In la tho the right place There Is a long stretch of or rich country be between between between tween Ogden Utah and Butto Buttes Mont which in rich agricultural ll lands great coal coni deposits wonderful mineral mineraI Indications together with vast timber resources stock ranges and everything necessary to constitute a arich arich rich and valuable country and md no con continental continental road traversing it This extent of oC country Is fairly well settled up though It does not contain a thousandth th part of the people It is capable of sus sustaining sustaining sustaining Even Een in Sn the sparsely spars l settled condition of today toda Rigby has haq developed beyond tho the present capacity of the rail railroads railroads railroads roads Other great railroad companies particularly the tho Chicago S Northwest Northwestern ern and the Burlington Burll ton systems are arc looking this way wa with the Intention of a building to the coast These two lines are within about oo feet Ceet and CO to miles east cast of Rigby already ya a short distance to annihilate In this fast ago of in ht n nu u tr affords s the only feasible C pass through the he high Rocky Rock mountain moun aln range between tho the railroad lines north and south Rigby nl b lies directly In n the wake of oC the tho south forks Corks great canyon affording a water grade g de for Cor a hundred smiles miles cast Any through trunk line lino having as u Its objective point tho the Pacific coast will naturally build as near an anair anair air line as possible In these days das of or speed peed and close competition Is In line by b reason of o Its It admirable location lo Jo location cation The building of a continental road oad through this point would benefit the valley allej more than may any an other othor one ono thing thin The vast deposits of o coal exist existing existing ing In In the mountains east C of lIf would bo be brought In for tor half halt what this commodity now no costs Title This would fos foster foster foster ter manufacturing enterprise which with the limo great groat gr lt pow em our groat Snake the largest In hl the tho th KooKy Ho k mountain country Is bound to develop dc clo In a II great rca t rity In this valley Such a road would oen up central Ida hos enormous mineral wealth known to there by b affording cheap chaap ch ap 1101 facilities Smelters would erring in ng up to the west cst This 11 would a larger home market for or the th Plc of thu the sot sol Also Atso the lumber Irons Horn the endless 1 timber surly supply now growing In central mountain would bring cheaper building material and thus with the resulting energy from fromn the matchless agricultural coal cOll mining range mange and timber re lC r e must necessarily build a great city It In eastern stern Idaho and as 11 already pointed out Rigby tho the Hub City by force of oC circumstances cannot very cry well help becoming that city It is suf distanced front from Butte on tho the north Salt Lake on the south and Boise BaiNe on the west these cities clUes being about miles each cach way from Crom that tho t It Is to build bu lid a city cI t to equal any an one ono of or them without Inter Interfering interfering fering with their growth or necessarily arll drawing any an support away awa from them thum after aftel the country becomes more dense densely ly I populated In looking at future In this optimistic way vay a there Is certainly certain In Inspiration for all to enter Into the build building buildIng building ing of a 0 Greater for Cor the pic plc picture picture ture Is not overdrawn drawn |