Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-20

of the land being ~ feet above low |
tide. The slight undulations furnish
shallow, natural reservoirs or fresh
ty of mosquito, and the ground tends
to be lowest in the middle. When the
town was originally built no attempt
was made to fill the low ground, either
in the streets or on the building sites,
so that the entire surface was prac-
ticanv nnagm're; when the nnag-
mire became impossible certain of the
streets We're crudelV improved by fill
ing especially bad mud holes with soft
rock or other material. In september,
1905, a systematic effort was begun to
formulate n general plan for the prop
CT sanitation of the city; in February
last temporary relief measures were
taken, while in July the prosecution of
the work was begun in good earnest.
The results are already visible in the
sewering. draining, suffering and pay
viii be required before the work of
sewerage and street Improvement will
be completed. but the progress already
made Is very marked bitches have
been dug through the town, connecting
the salt water on both sides, and into
these the ponds, which have served as
breeding places for the mosquitoes, are
drained. These bitches have answered
their purpose, for they are probably
the chief cause of the astonishing
diminution of mosquitoes More bitches
of the kind are being constructed.
Colon Water Supply.
1t was not practicable. with the
| force at the commissions disposal and
| in view of the need that the force
should be used In the larger town of
| Panama, to begin this work before
| early last winter. Water mains were
| then laid in the town and water was
| furnished to the people early in March
from temporary reservoir. This
reservoir proved to be of insufficient
capacity before the end of the dry
season and the shortage was made up
by hauling water over the Panama
SO supby yhepe he at ye s bes
water. Since that time the new reser-
voir back of Mount Hope has been
practically completed. l visited this
long and half a mile broad 1t now
carries carr some 5Oo1oe.ooo gallons q
with certain other photographs OF
what j saw while 1 was on the 18TH
mus, Nothing but cataclysm Will
dry season TO haul water for the use
of Colon and Cristobal.
Colon Pavements.
rode through the streets of Colon
seeing them at the height of the rainy
season, after two days of almost UNI
exampled downpour, when they were
at their very worst Taken as &
, whole they We're undoubtedly very
| bad; as bad as Pennsylvania avenue
! In Washington before Grants admin
7 stration. Front street is already IN
"a | thoroughly satisfactory shape, how
n ever Some of the side streets ar,
y also in good condition. In others tn
= change in the streets is rapidly goinj
y on, Through three fourths of In
% town II Is now possible to walk, eve
!. during the period of tremendous rair
a | in low shoes without wetting one
70 feet owing to the rapidity with While
a the surface water is carried away 4
T. the bitches. In the remaining one
- fourth of the streets the mud Is yer
y deep-about as deep as in the ordinar
20 street of q low-lying prairie river tow
% of the same size in the United State
during early spring. All men to whom
smoke were a unit in saying that IN
20 conditions of the Colon streets weT
,s 100 per cent better than n year ag
In The most superficial examination
49, tho town shows the progress that hS
IN been made and is being made in ms
an cadamizing the streets. Complaint wa
in made to me by an entirely reputab
OF man as to the character of some
OF the material used for repairing ce
a. tain streets. on Investigation the cor
r. plant proved well founded, but IL al
he appeared that the use of the materi
al In question had been abandoned, Il
10 commission after having tried II in oil
III; or two streets finding II not apr
e. pirate. q