Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-12-12


pipe. The wood pipe is not salts
factory.
Mote: This we think is due not
so much to its being wood but to
the fact that Narnpa is always look
ing out for something and aims to be
ready when it comes to take it in,
i. e., she extended the wood pipe
beyond the actual use limits in an
ticipation of rapid town expansion
and demand and on those lines of
wood pipe where this rapid expan-
sion did not take place there we're
dead ends of this wood pipe, and,
later, when it became necessary to
tap the pipes, it was found ths
they were defective and had to be
taken up and cut off in varying
1enths to reach good sound pipe,
and put on new collars. This was
all lost and dead work, out cost
money and time
All measurements OF water are
by meter, all the towns having
found that this is the only safe
method. Nampa does not sell me-
tiers but puts them in and takes a
QCpOSlt VI plO anu Ciot SCS . CCbtS
month rental. This is 80 Is per
cent on the sloan exceedingly
high rate of interest on the users
own money and seems inconsistent
Upon discontinuancc of the use
of water, the $40 deposited for me-
ter is refunded less about 20 pes
cent. For water rates we refer you
to the printed rates, rules and reg
ulations herewith filed.
Nampa appears to be deriving
some revenue from her water sys-
tenn, but uses it all in extensions
of the system. A sinking fund has
been created to meet bonds and in
terest by lcvying a IL mill tax
In 1906 the assessable value was
$500, 900, In 1907, $1,000, 200.
-Nampa has Sc warage run off of
about 20, 600 gallons each. % hours
and conveys it 10 four septic tanks,
these tanks cost So, 900 about, and
were guaranteed to turn off the
sewerage 90 per cent pure. Nam
pa says 1t don't do 1t. From the
tanks It is turned into the gravel
of dry creek beds. The town en-
ploys a pumper at SIS per month,
the street commissioners and his
help attends to the extension, taps
and plumbing, so we were unable
to get at the cost of operating and
maintaining here. We filed here
with a copy of Nampa ordinances
and other printed matter on this
subject. We omitted to state that
the water is pumped into an ele-
waited steel tank for pressure deliv-
cry.
We were unable to find the city
engineer or examine a plat of the
town to determine how much main
and lateral the city has laid.
We were shown over the town
and made acquainted with a num-
Der of the business people by Mr.
F. H. Davis, chief of police. II c
also took us to the Commercial
Clubs elegant rooms.
CALDWELL, IDAHO.
Water works, municipal. Cosi
$50, 600. Bonds issued at a small
premium at s per cent on $40, 600,
balance city warrants.
This plant is a pump from wells
to reservoir system, and gives about
so pounds pressure. Pumping is
done by two Smith valve pumps
run by % h. p. Morse Fairbanks
gasoline engines at cost of SIS pei
month fol- punper and SIS for gas
oline. This last item, be believe
to be a mistake. We think il
more correct to say $500 per month.
for this item.
Water is delivered from reser-
voir through IL inch wood pipe
and then through 10 inch pipe; i:
California red wood and Washing,
ston fir, wire wound, and esti,
mated by Clerk to be five miles o
it. All water by meter.
Caldwell has a superintendent
of water works who attends 1,
everything in connection will
plant. We we're unable to lear
exact net cost of operating anC
maintenance.
The system seems to be all RICH
$50 far as we could learn, but as
matter of fact we had more diff
Guilty and learned less facts abou
this system than any other town w
visited, owing to the fact tha
we were unable to meet any c
the council, and the clerk not bein
fully conversant with the detail
of the system, nor could we make
meeting with the city engineer