An airplane sows grass seed on the range near Arbon, 1938
In late 1938 a Pocatello pilot sowed crested wheatgrass from the air over 8,000 acres of rough range between Arbon and Rockland, on land leased by Carl Rudeen.
1938 in the valley.
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A prize that cost $88.50: a land offer at Arbon, 1938
In 1938 a salesman told two Arbon farmers they had won a mattress, $35 a month for life and a piece of land, if each paid him $88.50 first.
Augusta Kulock of Arbon Valley dies, 1938
Augusta Kulock, the German-born widow of Frank Kulock, died at Pocatello in August 1938 after 28 years in Arbon Valley and was buried after a requiem mass.
Joe Arbon's irrigation well and the Michaud Flat test, 1938–1939
In 1938 Joe Arbon told a Pocatello committee he was watering 100 acres from a well, and Roy Lindley backed a Michaud Flat well project that found water in 1939.