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Through the summer and fall of 1915 the South Arbon news column followed hogs, grain, machinery and patients over the mountain road to Malad, the town the valley's south end relied on.
Through 1915 Arbon Valley carried its sick and hurt over the mountain to Malad, across the reservation to Pocatello or down to Ogden, until a long-distance telephone line reached the valley in December.
A year after frost took most of its wheat, Arbon Valley came down with what one correspondent called a spring malady, and by June 1915 about fifteen cars were running in the valley.
A pile of logs at John Payne's sawmill in the spring of 1915 told Arbon's correspondent a building year was coming, and the paper's columns followed the canyon mills and the new houses through the season.
In 1914 William Allard, a homesteader from Arbon, won the Republican primary and the November election to become the first man Power County sent to the Idaho House.
In 1914 a letter from American Falls to Crystal rode 239 miles of rail through Brigham City and Malad, and the valley kept petitioning until a Pocatello route came in 1916.
Power County voted to forbid the sale of liquor on May 20, 1914, 698 to 626, with Arbon going dry by three votes and Crystal by two, and the official count held up a week waiting for Arbon's returns.
In the spring of 1914 Arbon farmers offered a right of way and $1,000 a mile in bonds to a promoter whose grain cars would hang from a single rail on posts, but no line was ever reported built.
At the end of a snowy winter in 1914, an American Falls store's monthly paper carried the Arbon news, almost certainly from Mrs. E. A. Logan, and the American Falls Press reprinted it.
In January 1914 the new Power County asked its voters for $125,000 in road bonds, with a trunk road promised from Arbon, and the valley turned them down.
In the valley's first harvest under Power County, the papers followed Arbon's wheat from the threshers to the railroad, through a farmers' co-operative, a call to Tulsa and three crop counts that never agreed.
In June 1913 a man from Arbon brought word to Pocatello that Short Line engineers were surveying a branch railroad over the Malad divide and down Bannock Valley.
In May 1913 the commissioners of the new Power County spent four days looking over roads at Crystal and Arbon, opening a season of petitions, a rival offer from Pocatello and a change of road overseer.
In 1912 and 1913 Pocatello's businessmen and the Arbon farmers pledged money for a road over the Trail Creek divide, until a reservation right of way and a shortfall of cash stopped it.
When American Falls cut a new road into Arbon Valley in 1912 and drew off its grain, Pocatello's paper raised the alarm and an Arbon farmer came to town asking for a road over Trail Creek.
A five-dollar fine against Buist's postmistress in 1912 opens a look at the families who came to the south end of Arbon Valley from Brigham City, Garland and Spanish Fork as well as Mendon.
In October 1911 the Fort Hall superintendent opened the Arbon–American Falls road down Bannock Creek to the public, with no camping or fires and escorts for driven stock.
On a Sunday in July 1911, four American Falls men put 127 miles on an automobile circling Bannock Peak, lunching off a well trough and calling on Arbon's pioneers as they came home through the valley.
In 1911 the county surveyed a road from American Falls over the Moonshine divide to Arbon, and in 1912 American Falls cash and Arbon labor built a short cut, probably on that line, that drew the valley's wheat away from Pocatello.
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.
A January rainstorm in 1911 drowned three Arbon children and took the bridges on Bannock Creek; that spring Oneida County put new bridges to a bond vote.
Arbon Valley voted three times between 1908 and 1911 to leave Oneida County for a new county around American Falls, and saw two bills fail before Power County was finally made in 1913.
In 1910 a homesteading woman from Arbon won the Republican primary for Oneida County treasurer, in a year when only women sought that office, and lost the fall race to Cora Dudley of Malad.
In July 1910 an Arbon rancher came to Pocatello talking of a commercial club, an irrigation company and a Pioneer Day, and the *Tribune* put Arbon on its front page.
In May 1909 a banker, a miller, an editor and a county commissioner set out by automobile to look over a proposed road to Arbon, and when the car gave out at Rattlesnake gulch they walked back to American Falls through the night.
In November 1908 sixteen Arbon teamsters hauled a carload of sacked wheat to the railroad at Michaud switch, and the American Falls Press printed every driver's name.
In November 1908 Wilson Barnard's crew began a $300 wagon road from Bannock Creek over the foothills to American Falls, meant to cut ten miles or more from the haul of Arbon's wheat to market.
When the Pocatello Tribune reported an Idaho Falls druggist's suicide in September 1907, its closing line about his brother's store at Arbon became the oldest printed trace yet found of the Payne store.
A Rattlesnake Creek rancher graded a road up Mink Creek from Pocatello in 1906, and four years later settlers beyond the divide helped build the new road that won Arbon's praise.
From an Ogden man's 1903 bonanza to a coal company on Birch Creek and a Pocatello mayor's claims, the papers followed prospecting around Arbon for nearly twenty years, yet no report found says any of it paid.