William H. Mathews, Summit-end homesteader, dies, 1946
William Henry Mathews, who homesteaded at the Summit end of Arbon Valley and raised a large family there, died at Pocatello on Christmas Day, 1946.
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William Henry Mathews, who homesteaded at the Summit end of Arbon Valley and raised a large family there, died at Pocatello on Christmas Day, 1946.
Jewell Horton, who homesteaded south-east of Pauline, clerked an Arbon meeting, was Arbon's justice of the peace and Pauline's grain agent, died at Pocatello on September 9, 1946.
From 1946 to 1959, Utah want ads offered Arbon Valley dry farms of up to 1,600 acres, with combines, granaries and wheat allotments; one asked $160,000 in 1957.