The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-08-12
MACKAY HAS GONE AND DONE II

Az uS IOWu Vi Mdckdy, many tlm<
in the limelight heretofore on accoui
: Of big enterprises carried forwar
= courageously by outside capital an
y ending in disappointment followin
failures of shutting down when leas
= expected, has just done the most uI
expected and perhaps the most dam
Z aging thing of which they were car
! able.
We refer to the publicity given tn
condemnation proceedings in connec
ton with tn ebig dam, statement O
which is given elsewhere in this pap
or.
1t is hard to believe that any in
telligent community would deliber
ately cut off their own nose for thu
good Of their face, but in the light O,
recent developments Mackay is opex
to that criticism.
A tremendous enterprise was beins
carried on in their valley that was
bringing business and putting new
life and permanent productive in
dutry into their community and the
adjacent country for nearly hun
dred miles, of such far-reaching ef-
feet that 1t benefited all and injured
none, of such a complicated nature
That all their industries and business
of today were directly and heavily
interested in its success, and yet they
;ook a step that stopped construction
York, causes the settlers to lose cour-
we, destroys the confidence of PROS
pective investors, will keep home
eekers out of the country, and may
srevent the financing of the project
IN time when unfortunate shortage
money had to be met and over
Eome with resources in sight-the
Eartly completed project
The situation confronting them to-
ay Is that of depressed business, no
FORK being done, no certainty as to
men 1t will be resumed, no money
pay contractors who would in turn
ass It On to laborers who owe thous-
ADS OF dollars at the various stores
"a banks in the valley. It is said
lat financial relief was all arranged
M the money almost ready for use
men this blow was tsruck, and that
alt 10 held up it will be hard blow
business all through that country
pm Mackay to Powell and Howe.
~ this is only the immediate result.
1e result Of blocking the work of
4 plantation Of so great project. be-
III y beyond estimate.
\ THE Lost River Valley has never
I'm the subject of so much talk and
much unfavorable publicity as now.
IL a the people who have pushed the
N Yesrigation that resulted in the
AZ down, are being accused of
pugh evil doings to afford food for
ious thought.
liver since the first plans for a
srvoir were given publicity in that
icy seven years ago, the people ,
2 been harboring pictures Of a I
nstown flood sweeping through
r valley, and 1t seems this thought
worked upon their nerves until
eppeals to them as an almost cer-
result of turning water into the
rvoir.
p the other hand they contend '
the reservoir will not hold water. Q
they are prepared to stand the i,
~ OF double failure without ap- \
iating that the one would count e
\ the other-that is, if the whole Z
try about the reservoir would Q
Ike sieve, enough water could Q
be impounded to make wash "
and II there is not enough drain y
into the basin to fill any consid- d
ie volume of the reservoir as s,
OF them state, there could be no g
sx and no flood. f
~ be that as it may, the people e,
ackay are all wrought up over IL
natter In one phase or another, al
present solid front against the
letion and use of the reservoir, B
course those of us who live at
ace Of hundred miles from
Gene Of action can very easily \,
ain feeling Of security which or
under the shadow Of the dam 70 70
impossible to rid themselves in
in this they have the sympathy &c
erious consideration Of every e e
who gives the matter any o'e
ut. yet it is impossible not to an
e that in all they have done m m
are mot held above criticism. wa
IS time charges and counter an
ts ill the air, and in almost 1I'
instance where the subject is ex,;
discussion the charge Is made the
was politics, personal feelings
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