American Falls and Pocatello court the Arbon wheat trade, 1912
In 1912 a new road brought American Falls businessmen into Arbon Valley, Pocatello's paper sounded the alarm, and an Arbon farmer asked Pocatello for a Trail Creek road.
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In 1912 a new road brought American Falls businessmen into Arbon Valley, Pocatello's paper sounded the alarm, and an Arbon farmer asked Pocatello for a Trail Creek road.
On a December morning in 1912 two Whiting brothers from Crystal took out marriage licenses in Pocatello minutes apart, neither knowing the other was marrying.