A journalism student's portrait of Arbon Valley, 1947
In November 1947 a journalism student wrote up Arbon Valley for the Pocatello Tribune: power on the way, a road being marked, and a 1912 homesteader who had stayed through the Depression.
1947 in the valley.
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Jeanette Pocatello and Margaret Calvin visit Crystal, 1947
In the summer of 1947 two women visited the Wrensteds at Crystal, admired the valley's wheat and told stories of their people, among them that Mink Creek was named for Jeanette's grandfather.
Frost in the Arbon and Crystal wheat in a bumper year, 1947
In 1947 frost cost Arbon and Crystal growers 20 to 30 percent of their grain, some far more, in a year when the rest of Power County raised a bumper wheat crop.