Homestead claims and proving up, land patents, surveys, and the buying and selling of farms and ranches.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
From 1929 to 1934 Hyrum Kay of Pocatello kept writing the Tribune about a lone rock in Arbon Valley that showed the face of the Sphinx at sunset, a landmark he said valley settlers knew as the Old Man of the Valley.
In January 1928 two of Power County's oldest residents were asked to name the nameless mountains between Arbon and Rockland valleys, and they chose Rock Creek range.
In 1922 J. Parley Sorensen ran two headers on the Summit homestead he had proved up in 1914, land his descendants the Thompsons still farm and that Idaho named a Century Farm in 2024.
For nearly three decades Gwen and Lucille Hardman and their children went back and forth between a homestead on the Summit above Arbon and their hometown of Mendon, Utah, and the family kept the ranch going after Gwen died in 1937.
Between 1920 and 1925 the Arbon valley's dry farmers raised good wheat and still lost ground to falling prices, high freight, scarce credit, failed banks and tax deeds, until two-dollar wheat came back.
In November 1920 the horses, combine and hay of Lucien McLarry, who had bought the Parley Bailey place at Arbon two years before, sold at auction, and by 1922 the Bailey land was tied up in court.
In May 1920 the whole valley crowded into Central Hall to send off David B. Ripley and his wife, who had sold their east-side ranch and were moving to Oregon.
Charles A. Bailey of Wellsville made the first homestead entry on the Arbon floor in 1901, proved up three years later and died in 1905, and his widow Grace took their children home to Cache Valley.
When the Fort Hall lands on lower Bannock Creek were divided into allotments, the valley's road to Michaud had to move, Pauline farmers leased allotted ground, and by 1922 the land of allottees who had died was up for sale.
In the fall of 1917, with coal scarce, an American Falls Press farm writer found Arbon Valley ranchers hauling fuel from the same canyons that had given them the logs for their cabins.
J. R. and Annie Bailey reached Arbon with ten cents, two cows and some debts, and by 1917 a farm writer found them on 560 acres, with a greased pig still part of the family lore at their golden wedding in 1940.
In the fall of 1917 David J. Bowen told the American Falls Press how he found water on Knox Creek in 1892, built a cabin of aspen logs the next year and became postmaster of the valley's first post office.
When the Blackfoot paper found Wallace Jenks leasing reservation land in May 1917, his family had already spent several years at Pauline, and some of them would stay on until the mortgages came due.
Six years after it was a new settlement wanting a school, Crystal had about 150 families in a basin so well hidden that the American Falls Press said strangers could not find the road in.
In 1917 Mrs. E. A. Logan wrote down how a handful of squatters settled Bannock Valley in the 1890s, and in 1920 she told it again as a birthday tribute to George Arbon.
Married at Pocatello in the spring of 1915, Ida Featherston likely played the organ for a new Arbon Sunday school, died at her valley home in May 1916 and was sent home to Kansas for burial, and that fall her husband sold out at the valley's first farm auction.
Pierce Hardman of Mendon took up a dry farm in Arbon Valley before he was twenty-one, and he and his wife Ella worked it for half a century, wintering in North Logan in later years.
Through 1915 the *American Falls Press* followed Arbon Valley homesteaders as they filed in Knox Canyon and on the ranges, drilled for water, built houses and sold out.
In 1914 Ed Hooker told the Pocatello Tribune how he had shoveled down through several feet of snow and ice for a tent site when he came to Arbon Valley, where he homesteaded until 1917.
From 1909 to 1914 the land-office notices in the American Falls Press tracked Arbon Valley homesteaders turning claims into titles, with neighbours standing witness and contests over claims nobody lived on.
In the summer of 1913 a Congregational minister mailed a hill of dry-farmed wheat from Arbon with a report on the valley's crops, land and people, while he set about starting its first two Protestant churches.
Between 1911 and 1919 the land notices and valley columns of the American Falls Press followed Arbon and Crystal women as they proved up land in their own names, from wives' desert claims to a mother and her daughters on Cherry Creek.
When G. S. Randall of Arbon went home to Somerset, Kentucky, in December 1911, he went as a man who had made good, and the papers then follow the Kentucky families who came to the valley, stayed and left.
In July 1911 Idaho's land selector looked over the Moonshine and Rattlesnake country for land for the state, and found that most of the good land on Rattlesnake Creek was ceded Fort Hall land.
In 1911 Arbon had no town, but its newspaper columns told of a hotel, a store, a dance hall, a village blacksmith and butcher, and talk of laying out a townsite.
In September 1910 the American Falls Press found Arbon Valley's newcomers outnumbering its old settlers two to one and looked for a wheat crop twice the size of two years earlier.
In the winter of 1908–09 Arbon's settlers and the American Falls Press advertised the valley's open land to homeseekers, and by spring newcomers were filing on it fast.
For a decade after 1908 the Logan town columns tracked Mendon and North Logan families north to Arbon and Buist homesteads every spring and back to Cache Valley every fall.
In the summer of 1906 the church historian Andrew Jenson drove into Bannock Valley, heard how Arbon began and wrote home that its farms looked like a checker board from the top of Rocky Ridge.
In October 1904 a federal judge let the Fort Hall agent's suit over Bannock Creek water go forward against Dave Daniels and his neighbors, and the settlers asked to bring in every user.