Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1909-11-04
Mr.. AINEY EXPLAINS.
Payette. Idaho. Nov. 8, 1909.

l desire to say through your paper
that the report is entirely erroneous.
l think may claim the distinction
of having drawn the first petition,
getting it signed and filing it with tbs
city clerk for a system of sewers in
Payette.
| am still staying by the proposition
and would consider it but little short
of a calamity to the welfare of the
city if the sewer deal fails.
am not we'll informed as to the
details of the proposition and for that
reason 1 am saying but little about
it.
am frequently asked for informa-
ton about things which 1 am sup
posed to be in a position to know
about and the bonding proposition
has been no exception.
I have been asked If there would
be any opposition to the bonds on
the west side and have frankly said
yes; because 1 have heard men say
they were opposed to it as it now
stands, but would favor it if the west
side was as well covered as the east
side. Now l would like to see the
west side taken care of too. A good
sewer system covering the whole
town would mean better conditions
all around; and especially better san
itary conditions. 1t might work a
hardship on the man who wants to
sell lots in the grave yard, the doctor
whose business is a little slack and
the undertakers, but the people as
whole would, 1 think, be benefited.
1 have been told many things about
the proposition that seem to me very
unlikely.
The first thing is that the engi-
neers claim that a sewer cannot be
made in the northwest part of town
because no outlet can be had in
Snake river
The next is that the sewage from
the east side is to be dumped into a
sump and then pumped into the river
Another is, that it requires S25OO
to buy right of way for the sewer.
Another is that the west side can
have no sewer because no petition
has been presented for it.
As 1 said, 1 am not posted, but
think, in as much as the water of the
Payette finds its way around to the
north side of town in the Snake, that
the Snake must be lower than the
Payette and if an outlet can be found
in the Payette it should not be impos-
sible to find one in the Snake.
l have seen Mr.. Coughanour labor
iously hauling logs out of the Pay
cite river with horses, to get them
into his mill pond and that convinces
me that the river is lower than the
pond and why then should the sew
age be pumped out of the pond into
the river?
1 cannot conceive of the necessity
of spending s25OO or any other sum,
for right of way for the proposed
sewer.
1 never heard of any elaborate pc
tition of property owners for sew
er on the east side and do not under
stand why it is any more necessary
for such a thing on the west side.
But if it is true that no outlet can
be had nor sewers on the west side
and that the sewage from the east
side will have to be pumped and that
the right of way will have to be pur-
chased and that the west side peo-
pie will have to petition the council
before any action can be taken, why
not explain the matter to the people
so they can be well enough informed
to vote intelligently on the question.
want this bond election to carry
by a majority so large that the knock
ers will be satisfied to lay away their
hammers for all time to come and all
become boosters for Payette, but l
do not hesitate to give it as my be
lief that if the people suspicion there
is being worked through some scheme
under the hat" they will bury the
whole thing so deep that an outlet
for it could not be found into the
Salton sea.
Very respectfully yours,
Not only for sewers but for all 9th
er practical public improvements
d. W. AINEY.