In June 1913 settlers over the Mink Creek divide protested sheep on the Pocatello forest, and a letter writer answered a plan to make it a game preserve: the settlers needed pasture, not elk.
In June 1913 a man from Arbon brought word to Pocatello that Short Line engineers were surveying a branch railroad over the Malad divide and down Bannock Valley.
For nearly twenty years the Logan papers followed Jack King of North Logan to his Arbon dry farm and home again, through a dry 1931, a hopeful 1932 and the death of his wife Ruby that August.