Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-10
REGULAR MEETING
OF THE TRUSTEES
ROUTINE BUSINESS ORDER OF
SESSION AND CONTINUATION
TO TUESDAY, FEB. Is
Village Finances i'm Good Condition
Water Works Question Touched
UpOn-AlI Bills Allowed and
Lighting Service Commended

The board of village trustees met
in regular first-of-the--mo session
last Monday evening at the CONNER
cial club rooms, the full membership
being present.
After the reading and approval
of the minutes of the last regular
meeting and the special meeting of
January 10, Chairman Whitson de-
cided that the regular business be
delayed that an early opportunity
might be given a committee from the
Commercial club to present a COM
munication
President Tricknor, chairman of
the committee said:
MIR. Mayor and gentelmen of the
council. AT a recent meeting of the
Commercial club we were appointed a
committee to bring to your notice
the necessity of a water works sys-
TEN for this city, to the end that we
may have adequate fire protection and
the further more vital protection to
health that sanitary methods afford
We appear before you, not as die
tators, but to inform you that the
Commercial club, composed of busi-
ness men and taxpayers, is behind
you in whatever action you may take
in this matter, whether it be the
granting of a franchise or the hand
ling of the project by the city itself.
We wish you to know that we are
alive to the necessity for action that
confronts you in this matter and that
you have our hearty cooperation in
speedy and necessary action"
Clerk Purtill then read a petition
from the water users association ask
ing that the city assist in the work
OF securing water for irrigation pur-
poses for this season by buying re-
ceivers scrip, at 81 per acre, for the
100 acres of land which the city
owns. The chairman did not think
the procedure would be legal and re-
ferred the question to City Attorney
Owen who stated that while it would
be clearly within the province of the
board to pay a maintainance fee, he
was in doubt as to the purchase of
the certificates, but would look the
matter up.
Citizen Gardner was present and
petitioned the trustees that the
streets in what is known as the Gar
reit addition be opened. He stated
that recently notices had been post
ed that forbade children using the
old path across the alfalfa field tC
the highways and this necess1tateo
such a roundabout journey for the
children who attended school that il
was impossible for them to come
home for lunch. He understood that
the ground had been plated. The
mayor stated that if the addition
had been plated and accepted the
board could open the streets. II
not, it would be necessary to resort
TO condemnation proceedings 1t was
learned that the land in question
was plated in 1892, four years prior
to the Incorporation of the village
and the city attorney stated under
the conditions it would be necessary
to ascertain whether any lots haC
been sold in the addition since the
Incorporation of the village before
action could be taken. This h'
would do at once and the mayor con
tented Mr. Gardner with the assur
ance that all possible would be dom
TO relieve the situation as the incon
venience was fully appreciated b,
the board.
Clerk Purtills report of financia
condition of the village on the first o
the current month was adopted ant
appears most satisfactory. 1t is a
follows: