Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1909-11-18

Sewerage.
While in point of numbers the mass
meeting called by the sewer commit
tee on last Monday evening was
somewhat of a failure yet for en-
thusiasm and for support of the sew
er bonds it was a very successful
meeting Probably fifty or seventy
> : people were present when Coun-
Gilman |. r. Woodward chairman of
the sewer committee called the meet
ing to order and in a few brief
words stated that the meeting had
been called by the committee for the
purpose of making plain to the peo-
pie of Payette what the sewer COM
mittee had done so far and what it
intended to do with regard to the pro-
posed sewer system for Payette. He
called the attention of those present
to the fact that in instituting sewer
district No. l the council believed
that they were simply carrying out
the wishes expressed by the voters
of Payette at the last spring election
and it was the belief of the sewer
committee that a friendly talk on the
merits of the system would result in
favorable action being taken by all
interested in the material advance
ment and improT ament of Payette.
He then called on Mayor w. A.
Coughanour for a few words stating
that after the Mayor had talked the
meeting would be open for discus
sion.
The Mayor in a short concise ad-
dress called attention to the fact
that at the last city election there |
were two tickets in the field and
that the platform upon which both
.vets of candidates stood declared EN-
phatically for sewerage and as both
tickets were generally and Loyalty
supported he could conceive of no
sane argument whereby the sewer
bonds could be opposed. ''It is i'm
possible to improve our city without
money. To get this money we must
vote the bonds" said the Mayor. He
then called attention to conditions at
the Y. NJ. c. A. building where they
have used the last foot of their
holdings to prepare a cess pool which
in a few short months will be in
the same condition as the one they
were just forced to quit using and
then what will the Y. NJ. c. A. do
for a place to put the sewage from
the building. Conditions at the cor
ner near the Zimmerman property
were also cited by the Mayor where
daily the citizens who use that
street walk over a cess pool under
the sidewalk where in the spring
when the water is high the sewage
rises to the surface of the ground.
The Mayor is emphatic in his sup
port of the bonds.
He was followed by Hon. B. P.
DIR. j. c. Woodward, Burt |
DR.. w. R. Hamilton, NJ. F. t
Albert, VIM. Moot, N. A. Jacobsen l
and C. E. Brainard who were all l
in their arguments for the {
immediate construction of a modern '
system for Payette.
Probably the talks that should Gre c
ate the best impression and be the Z
strongest argument for the support l
If the bonds we're those made by G
nv J. C. Woodward and w. R. Ham i
aeon. DR.. Woodward for a number y
If years has been health officer 1
'gr the city and in that capacity has
naturally come in much closer touch v
With real conditions existing in the 7
,ity. He spoke of the opportunity il
oayette had of becoming the city t
beautiful, the city useful and the city
lealthful. His emphatic statement D
vas that Payette surely must get a
modern sewer system or in all prob v
.bility she would get something else. t
\ siege of typhoid fever or of 9th S
r contagious diseases as in the e
main he considered the city one Z
-ast cess pool with conditions yearly
worse and the demand for I
ONE measure of cleanliness and pro- a
ection yearly becoming more ur- S
-ent. a
DR.. Hamilton also spoke along the a
anne line and stated that in his opin-
on there we're none but what would I
oncede without argument that the n
of a sewer system would Y
mean a more healthful city. There
ras in his opinion absolutely no ar
ument against the sewer on those c
ines and the building of the system
imply meant an added safeguard VI