Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-09-26
LLOYD MORTON
NAILS A LIE.
Misrepresentation Regarding Con-
StruCtiOn Work on Canal
SET Straight.

" Ahdu OF SOOu Judgement and OF /
unquestioned integrity, who was
born and raised on a farm in the
state OF Illinois and in the pioneer
days OF North Dakota started farm /
ing there and continued at that
occupation and met with success
until 1904 he was elected to the
office of Treasurer of Barnes coun-
ty and in 1906 he was reelected to
tn same office without opposition,
has spent several DAYS on the con-
stuctiop works now being COM
pleted in order to satisfy himself
thoroughly as to what has been
done on the dams, canals. fumes
and tunnels of the Great Western
sect Sugar company of Mountain
Rome, he went last week by team
TO Camas reservoir where he sep
arated from the rest of the party
and in order to see and inspect
carefully every rod of the entire
work he went on foot leaving the
headgate Of Camas reservoir he
followed every turn and bend of the
system the entire IL miles from
Camas dam to the outlet of Long
Tom reservoir. He examined
every fluming and tunnel right up
to the last inch to Camas headgate,
every flume, every rod of canal
went through each and every tun-
mel, examined them carefully, in
several instances with a spirit
level to satisfy himself as to the
fall per rod of the canal. He went
over and under each flumc to ex-
anime their construction and he
is highly pleased with the flume
capacity, the material used, the
stills under the flume benches, the
size of the uprights and with the
bracing and ticing the girders
and stringers under the floors
these consisting of eight 3x12 to
support the floors which are all of 2
inch lumber as we'll as the sides
:, OF the post which support the sides
>, are 4xo and six feet in heightt
and four feet apart and are sunk
one inch into girders at the bottom
to prevent any possible chance oil
80 spreading and tied across the tor
with 3x6 timbers, he was es
pecially pleased with the workmer
st under Messrs.s Pilgrim and Stof
t. ford Of Boise, who have charge o.
the fluming work, these gentlemen
were both away on business a
- the saw mills on the South Boise
river. He was greatly pleased will
the workmen under these gentle
men, namely: Frank Weaver
Frank Dixon and Ed. Carlson
They went at their work system
atically and with an interest a.
though they owned in themselve,
and wanted to get it done right
Mr.. Morton has hired lots of he'll,
on his North Dakota farm an,
knows good man when he see
him work. He said that he tool
an especial interest in the flum
work owing to the fact that it ha
had been reported to him in Nortl
Dakota by knockers in Mountain
Home that the fumes were
flimsy affair and would not stan
up when full of water, that tn
uprights were AKA, the flum
sides were one irch thick an
that the cross ties and bcnc
braces were 2x4 scantling. MI
Morton is now in position (
nail at once all of these inferno
lies aud he suggests TO those pee
pie who still insist that the Gres
Western Beet Sugar company
work is not properly done to e
over the system as he has dor
and handle a few OF the timber
as he did in order that he, coul
. realize the size and heft of ii
". and on their return to Mountai
Home and apologize to John +
Garrett and his faithful and e.
ficient Manager c. c. Mortruc
and then dig a hole and crawl
N and pull the hole in after then
He Says he still hears a fail
croak of kicker, they have take
him for tenderfoot, out here the
think to buy land, but their wa
has weakened terribly since Jur
1906 and by 1908 John H. Care
will show to the people of MouI
tain Home and all others who wi
come and see what he has don,
He is now over the high point
the road he has had such te
rible time to surmount and no
has do n hill pull and II
knockers had better get 10 II
sage brush and get some lar
cleared and have little farm
this beautiful and fertile vale
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