Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-12-09
Cleaning the Neponset
ANOTHER suGAR-coATED PILL
WITHOUT SUGAR. FOR
"HlNKYTRux"

Hyde Parkers who are hoping
that the Neponset river may soon be
made more, II not completely, whole
some may possess their souls with
patience. 1t will be cleansed and the
Legislature has appropriated $3.50, 900
for this and has ordered the State
Board Of Health to proceed. Ca
zette, Aug. rs, 1911.
At last our dreams of having riv-
err instead of mudhole are begin
ming to take a material form and to
be realized. The Board of Health
has started what Is to be known as
the Neponset River Improvement.
The scope of its work is not, as yet,
decided in all it's details, but in
general way extends from Walpole to
the tide water region near the Wal
ter Baker mills at Dorchester.
Hyde Park people should certainly
be keenlyl alive to this task, and es-
pecially since the engineer-in-charge
IL graduate of our own high school,
and known to many people here. He
is Mr.. Edmund M. Blake, graduated
from Amherst college and the Law
renee Scientific school at Harvard
university, once manager of the ia
NOUS "all-star" football team, made
up OF old high school players, which
humbled everything In this part OF
the country, in the nineties. Mr..
Blake maintained an office of his
OWN up to about three years and a
half ago, in Boston, when he went
to Idaho on sanitary and irrigation
projects. In 1905 he was commits.
stoned by the government to go to
Italy to make a study of the rivers
there in connection with irrigation,
where he remained for three years.
His present force consists Of four
field parties of four men each, the
former subdivided into two base line
and two cross-section and sounding
parties.
The contour of the cross section Of
the river, and its course have SO ma
terially changed since 1896, when the
original report was made, that a new
survey will have. to be finished be-
fore definite plans can DE completed
for the detailed carrying out Of the
work 1t will be the task Of the
office force to put into graphic form
what the parties in the field have
covered in their notes, thus carrying
he work along inside as fast as out
side. The outside work will be he
gum by one party at the Baker mills
Ind by the other at Paul's bridge,
10th working up stream, and relay
rlH until the whole section is cover
ID.
The present area of the water shed
Il the Neponset river is in the
of 55 square miles, in
luding the various tributaries, such
Is Mother brook and the like, the
rainage from which can be much
nore easily taken care Of after some
4 the compound curves of the pres
mt course are reduced to straight
Ines, and some of the mud and va
ious kinds of filth in the bottom
re cleaned out. 1t is possible that
uction dredges may be employed in
his work, II the muck proves to be
seful Tor fertilizing or filling pur-
oses, and in this case can be depos-
ed, by means Of pipe lines. The re-
loval Of bottom deposits will tend to
lcrease The velocity of the flow Of
ne water in the river, and hence to
Iiminate some of the ponds of stag
alton now existing in the region
nown as the Canton meadows.
This Is rather sizable job, and 1t
J estimated that three years will be
sed up In its completion, during the
lpse Of which we shall have the ben
lit OF the residence here of Mr..
lake and his assistants.--Hyde
ark, Boston, Gazette.