Rebuilding the Arbon Valley highway, 1946–1954
From 1946 to 1954 valley residents, farmers and county officials pressed Pocatello, Boise and county boards for better roads out of Arbon Valley, from Mink Creek to Holbrook to Highway 30.
1951 in the valley.
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Four pupils at Mercer Creek, and two empty schoolhouses
In the fall of 1951 Mrs. G. W. Bradley taught four pupils at Mercer Creek, in the Crystal country; by May 1955 that schoolhouse and Crystal's had stood empty for about four years.
Arbon Valley ranchers join a posse on Bannock Creek, 1951
In June 1951 Arbon Valley ranchers joined a Power County posse hunting a Michigan family who fled a theft at a Bannock Creek home and walked over 30 miles to Inkom.