Letter from James Ephraim Steele, 7 May 1898
Iona, Idaho,
President Wilford Woodruff and Councelors
Salt Lake City Ut.
Dear Brethren:
Replying to your favor of the 3rd
Inst. in regard to forming two new stakes out of the
Oneida Stake, and its effecting the Bingham Stake
or the Wards you mention, "Blackfoot and Riverside."
Will say, the County line dividing Bingham
And Bannock Counties running East and West, is
Some thing like 13 miles South of Blackfoot, near
Ross Fork on the Indian Reseration. When the line
tuches Snake River running West, it then follows the
Corse of said river South and West to the American
Falls, Thence due west to Blain County. Leaving
all that Country, West and South West of Blackfoot
and on the west side of Snake River in Bingham Co.
Blackfoot is located on the East side of Snake River.
While Riverside Moreland and Tilden are located
on the west side of the river, so that any stake line
runing north far enough to imbrace Blackfoot
and Riverside, would of necessity have to take in
Moreland and Tilden Wards. Thus cutting off four (4)
wards from the Bingham Stake.
