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1.1 Blackfoot,* Broadway & Bridge St., bank on left. Turn right
25.0 Cross RRs
onto Bridge St. and then left at RR onto Main St.
25.4-26.5, avoiding left-hand diagonal road just beyond. Pass
Wapello Sta. on right 30.9.
36.4 11.4 Firth, P. O. on left, sta. on right. Straight thru.
Straight thru, passing sta. on right. Thru 5-corners
42.5 6.1 Shelley.
42 6. Pass Cotton Sta. on right 46.3. Cross RRs 50.5-50.9.
8.5 Turn left with road and at first 4-corners just beyond, turn
51.0
right onto Oneida Ave. Thru irregular 4-corners 51.1.
51.2 0.2 First right-hand street; turn right across switches onto
Shoup Ave.
0.1 Idaho Falls,* Shoup Ave. & Broadway, bank on left.
51.3
GARAGES— Browning Garage, Park Ave. & “D” St.
Turn right onto Broadway one block.
51.4 0.1 Cottage Ave., freight depot on left; turn left along RR.
51.6 0.2 4-corners; turn right under RR. on left; turn left.
51.7 0.1 Irregular 4-corners, small wooden bridge
0.3 End of road; turn right one block.
52.0
52.1 0.1 4-corners, store on right; turn left.
53.0 0.9 End of road ; turn left.
54.2 1.2 Fork; bear right. Cross RR 55.0. Cross RR 65.5.
59.4 5.2 Prominent diagonal 4-corners; bear left.
66.7 7.3 4-corners, brick house on left; turn right three blocks.
67.1 0.4 Left-hand road ; turn left. Keep ahead.
67.3 0.2 Rigby, flag pole in center. Cross
67.5 0.2 4-corners ; turn right and left at 4-corners just beyond.
long wooden bridge over Big Feeder canal 69.4.
70.1 2.6 End of road ; turn right.
71.6 1.5 4-corners ; turn left with poles.
72.4 0.8 4-corners, small wooden school on right; turn right with
poles.
0.5 Left-hand diagonal road just beyond small wooden bridge;
72.9
bear left with poles along RR.
73.0 0.1 Lorenzo, sta. on right. Keep ahead along RR. .
Cross long iron bridge
0.2 End of road, store on left; turn right.
73.2
over Snake river 73.4.
73.9 0.7 Fork, just beyond small concrete bridge; bear right. Cross
long iron bridge over Bannock Jim slough 74.5.
75.2 1.3 End of road ; turn right across RR.
75.4 0.2 Left-hand road ; turn left.
0.4 Thornton, right-hand diagonal road, sta. on left Bear right
75.8
along RR. Thru diagonal 4-corners at Winder Sta. 78.5.
4.7 Right-hand road just before RR crossing; turn right two
80.5
blocks, passing stone church on left.
80.7 0.2 4-corners, store on left; turn left. Cross RR 81.2. St. at
81.3 0.6 4-corners; turn right across RR, coming onto Main
small green in center.
largest town
in
the county
•Blackfoot, Ida. (pop. 5,000, alt. 4,503 ft.), valley, is the It is the supply point of a coun-
located at a point about eight miles north and valley. in
try that extends out for a hundred miles
from the place where Blackfoot river and the all directions. The potato growing industry
Great Snake river join. It is just one mile of the west centers here, the annual ship-
north of the Fort Hall reservation and is one Falls district being
of the principal trading points of the Indians. ments from the Idaho
more than 50,000 car loads annually. The Fort
The city came into existence because of its Produce Co. is operating here the first potato
natural location for a stage station in the its kind in the country.
early 60’s, and it has since grown to be one processing plant of
Millions of pounds of sugar, manufactured by
of the richest farming centers in the moun- the great factories in the valley, the largest
tains. For many years Blackfoot was known is located at Idaho Falls, are also
as Grove City, because of its many trees. of which Idaho Falls is the
•Idaho Falls, Idaho, (pop. 10,000, alt. 4,708 shipped from this point. Falls-Yellowstone
Idaho
the
ft.), the county seat of Booneville county, and beginning of this city to the southern en-
the commercial and geographical center of the highway from
trance of the Yellowstone park.
irrigated district of the Upper Snake river
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