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Source: The Times-News, Twin Falls, IdahoNov.儲存 08--TWIN FALLS -- With buyers clamoring for town lots in the new city of Twin Falls, all the available lots were sold by late September of 1904.The two plats filed earlier that year hadn't opened up enough blocks to fill the demand."Prospective buyers stormed the office of the selling agency, the Twin Falls Investment Company, seeking more town lots. The engineer pushed his survey at top speed promising that lots could be sold beginning October 4," Anna Hansen Hayes, wife of the man who led the survey work, wrote in an article for the 1962 publication "A Folk History of Twin Falls County."The engineer's promise set the stage for a dramatic race to Albion in that important day's waning hours. Albion was the Cassia County seat, where plats and maps were filed.When Oct. 4, 1904, arrived, a survey of the rest of the original Twin Falls townsite was complete, and a draftsman was scrambling to complete maps that had to be filed in the Cassia courthouse before legal sales could be made.Apparently, Twin Falls promoters weren't eager to miss their self-imposed deadline.We use Hayes' account of that night's long drive to Albion. At best, she said, the trip was usually 6 1/2 hours of hard driving."Ten miles an hour was too much for an ordinary team on a prolonged drive, but George Bassett, operator of a livery stable in the new Twin Falls, had a team that he was willing to hire out for the critical dash," Hayes wrote. "By round-about relayed telephone messages, it was arranged that the clerk at the recorder's office in Albion would be on duty whenever the plat arrived and since October 4 was stilmini storage October 4 until midnight, he would not close his office before that hour."The trip began at 5:45 p.m. Skies were overcast but the road was dry and the evening was cool, almost cold. Released from the hitching post at the side of the engineer's tent office, the fretting horses plunged forward and the race with time began."The canal construction crews with their heavy machinery had pulverized the loose, light soil until dust a foot deep in places filled the wide, choppy tracks. There were no bridges over the newly constructed laterals, and the light buggy swept down into the channels and up again, sometimes almost completely obscured by the clouds of dust stirred by the spinning wheels," Hayes wrote.A stop at Milner was necessary to gather two Twin Falls Townsite Co. leaders' signatures, affording the horses a few minutes' rest. Then driver and team resumed their task."The horses seemed to catch the spirit of the race," Hayes wrote, "and the pace never slacked even on the narrow, twisting canyon grade into the Albion Valley. It was 11:45 when the tired team and its eager driver stopped in front of the courthouse."True to promise, a light still shone from the window of the Recorder's office, and the official plat of the Twin Falls townsite was received and regularly recorded while it was still October 4, 1904," Hayes wrote.That final plat of the entire square-mile townsite made official its unpopular name of Twin Falls, according to local history author Mary J. Inman.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho) Visit The Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho) at magicvalley.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesself storage