The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-03-01
General Manager Shelby Suggests
Plan for Weiser
TOWN CAN join RAILWAY
The Big Tank Is to be Moved to Snake River
and weiser Can Use 1t by Simply Lay
ing Pipes.

A pure water supply is the one
point of greatest importance to the
family and to the community The
one great question that cuts the
figure in human happiness is solely
dependent on this factor-health.
The Arabs have saying that Goods
best gift to man is water" and the
history of the progress of the race
is marked by the noble specimens Of
bridge architecture erected to carry
the pure water from the mountains
across the plains to the sites of pop
ulous cities. Greece, Rome, and
the far of Indies are replete with
these wonderful monuments. China
and Japan add their contributions to
the evidence that water Of pure
quality at any price was indispen-
sable, The pioneer is content to
drink from the spring or river. The
hrst supply for small municipalities
is taken from wells Constant use
gives in most instances an unlimited
faith that the clear cold fluid must
be pure ~ have the best well of
water in town, is a common express
sion, and yet thorough analysis
would demonstrate that it was a
compound of chemicals generally
detrimental to human health In
every household the tea kettle is an
analyzer, and from its coated side
can be read the lesson Of danger
From wells supplied or fed by sur
face water comes the more direct and
deadly typhoid in all its dreaded
types.
And so the question is reduced to
the proposition of no health, no
> happiness-and no health without
, pure water. Convenience and clean
, liness follow as matter of course.
How to apply all this to our case is
the object. Weiser as at present
, situated is in deplorable condition
o regarding water supply We have
e enough and easily obtained, and on
O this fact seems the chief difficulty.
Il If it were necessary to sink hundreds
: of feet we would by this time have
h had a water system, or no town
O would have been possible. AS it is
o with present methods, if an epidemic
OF typhoid should sweep through oul
community, it could be attributed
. only to the fact that the natural
means to avert it had been stupidity
neglected or ignored.
Snake river with its great volume
of water as pure as mountain snow
and springs can give, pours over
grand cataracts, aerated by contact
with the lava rocks; no purer supply
is possible and none more easily OF
cheaply made available.
General Manager P. P. Shelby
suggests a remedy for Weiser's pres
ent condition. The Pacific & Idaho
;. Northern railway company has con
" structed very complete water plant
the tank and pumping works being
mechanically satisfactory, and supply
abundant, but the water has proveo
of 80 vile nature that it is unfit fol
, domestic use, and its effect on loco
70 motive boilers so direct as to fairly
+ preclude its further use for this pur
pose. General Manager Shelby ha
given this matter very close atten
ton, and investigation has been or
. dered by him to ascertain the mos
" available point on Snake river to re
locate the present water plant OF tn
le company and connect with the pipe
now laid.
1t would seem that the best inter