handle the business extending east and west, north and south from Butte to Salt Lake City. The road crosses here nearly at right angles. It has a State school, substantial business blocks and commodious homes. Pocatello has valuable mines in the vicinity and the whole section is engaged in stock raising.
East of here is Soda Springs, then Montpelier, the outlet for the Bear Lake valley, and, with Paris, on Bear Lake, and Malade, on the south, are the largest southeastern Idaho towns.
On the line north is Blackfoot, where is located the State asylum. Blackfoot has a branch line running to the town of Mackay, where smelters work the ores of the mines of central Idaho.
I inhale the sweet perfume of sage brush as I run along to Idaho Falls. I
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