Rebuilding the Mink Creek and Garden Creek Gap roads, 1937–1938
In 1937 and 1938 the Pocatello papers followed the realignment of the Mink Creek road to Arbon Valley and a WPA crew's rock cuts on the Garden Creek Gap road.
1937 in the valley.
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Camas diggers at the head of Midnight Creek, 1937
In 1937 a Pocatello man, objecting to an elk hunt, recalled Indians digging camas at the head of Midnight Creek about 1904 and the sheep-worn meadow he found later.
A red-haired stranger in the Pauline wheat fields, 1937
In May 1937 a manhunt from a Downey disappearance case briefly reached the Pauline wheat fields, where two farmers had met a red-haired stranger.
Roy Lindley of Arbon and Idaho's war on the golden eagle, 1937
In April 1937 Roy Lindley of Arbon protested when Idaho's new game warden called off the state's drive against the golden eagle.
A snowplow accident and frozen drifts: Arbon Valley, February 1937
In February 1937 a road worker on a Fort Hall crew died after being pinned by a snowplow near Arbon, valley people fed starving ducks, and drifts froze too hard for the plows.