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Show PINGREE TOWNSITE COMPANY IS SUED Blackfoot. Ida., Sept 5 The Pln-gree Pln-gree Townslte company, a holding and promoting company for the pro motion of a townslte named after loiin PIngree of Ogden and located about eighteen miles southwest of Rlackfoot, on the Aberdeen branch of the O. S. L. railroad, has been sued by Charles B. Tltcombe of Salt Lake City for damages of $25,000 and ac crulng damages at the rate of $250 per month. The townslte company was organ ired about five years ago. largely through the activity of Murray Sulll van of the engineer's office of the Short Line, when It was definitely known that the Aberdeen extension was to become a fact and In anticipation antici-pation of such extension Considerable holdings of land were acquired by a subsidiary company along the projiosed right of way and construction of buildings upon the townslte was begun soon after the Short Line began the construction of the Aberdeen line. The hotel building build-ing and store are of lava rock and composition and of very attractive architeiiure The cost of construe tlon. through mismanagement. was large and the enture has never been a paying proposition. Mr Tltcombe alleges the Pingree Townsite company entered into a con tract to exchange the property in qnc-stion for Salt Lake City property, but now refuses to complete the trand action. Hence the suit, which Mr Tltcombe is bringing through his it-torhey, it-torhey, W. A. Lee, formerly of Salt Lake City. oo 1 |