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Show OAKLEY TO OGDEN IN SEVEN HOIS BY AUTOMOBILE The light snow of the past winter together with the good condition oi the roads has made it possible to use futomobilec the year round From Oakley to Ogden Is but a good day's ride by auto. indeed Thomas J Keough of Malta manager of the Raft j River Land & Livestock company, drove through in seven hours. He took the ioute via Strevell, Ida., and the Keough ranch, where they took dinner, then proceeded over the pass at the head of Cassia creek instead oi following: the route usually traveled trav-eled by way of Albion. In the early days the trip would have required five or six days with an ordinary' team. A shorter route, not exceeding 180 miles, would be from Ogden through lower Black Pino valley and the pass between be-tween Rait river and the Black Pine mountains at Strevell. Ida, then westerly through the Raft river val ley, crossing the low summit at the southerly extremity of the "city of rocks," thence following picturesque Birch creek into Oakley. By the expenditure ex-penditure of a Bmall amount of mon ey this road could be put in good condition con-dition and would afford a short line trom Ogden to Boise via Twin Falls It follows a considerable way the old Kelton to Ft. Boise and Ft. Walla Walla singe and freight route. In five years Oakley has acquired railroads, electric lights, modern school and academy buildings, miles cf cement walk, an opera house, and a million and a half dollar reservoir which at present waters 35.000 acres, which acreage can be nearly doubled. This is but a fair example of the western west-ern development possible where earnest ear-nest and energetic communities "put their shoulder to the wheel, and roll along." In the words of one of the favorite songs at Oakley. Plans are being made for a shipment ship-ment of ?.0 elk from Jackson's Hole to the Cassia, or western, division of the Minidoka forest, the Idaho legislature legis-lature having passed laws protecting elk and deer in that forest. Until recently people heve not ap-previated ap-previated the value of the Juniper of southern Idaho. It Is the best post timber obtainable at any price, outlasting out-lasting Imported cedar. It Is estimated esti-mated that half a million Juniper post3 have been cut In that region In the Oakley on the Goose creek road would meet as many as 25 wagons loaded with 100 to 12.". posts each, and this road Is but one of several leading Into In-to the valley. In the last year Supervisor Su-pervisor Campbell or his rangers issued is-sued almost 2000 free use permits to cut dead material, posts and poles During last field season the Five Lakes, near Mt. Independence, were stocked with young western brook trout, furnished from tho Hay Spur state hatchery. These are a chain of pretty little cascade lakes about 15 miles oast of Oakley Tn the very top of the mountain peass Lake Cleveland, a large single body of water, wa-ter, lies about five miles north, un der the snow-capped crown of Mt. Harrison Har-rison This is a very deep lake, formed form-ed by a slide that dammed a mountain moun-tain canyon. . OA |