Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-08-08
WATCHMAN, WHAT
ABOUT THE WATER
Sh0shouc Citizens Still Drink Mud
and Filth While Water Com
pany Fills us on Promises.

A few months ago the busy ~
state board of health, that benifl-
cent state institution which has It's
Headquarters in a dingy private OF
flee in the Falk building at Boise
where private citizen is not wei
come TO lntrude and ask for infor-
nation or relief and from which IS
Iues the volume of cheap lnforma-
lion printed and inhaled at the eX-
pensc of the state of Idaho and
which accomplishes no earthly good
sent its representative in the per-
son Of its secretary, a man named
FaIk TO make an examination OF
conditions prevailing ON the water
she'd between here and Richfleid.
This Falk person made super
fetal examination Of the shed, but
sufficient TO cause him to say that
the water being being furnished TO
the city of ShOshOne was filthy
and unfit to use. He is supposed
to have filed report. He was
supposed to have represented to tht
state board OF health that prompt
action be taken. He would not
even drink orangeade made of the
water we drink every day when 1t
was offered to him by Ike Hill.
Yet after repeated promises made
bv this efficient board of health
which is maintained for the bene-
fit of the people of this state and
paid for by the people, it is I'M
possible to discover anything re-
garding the water situation ex-
cept these two things That the
new superintendent of the water
works in Shoshone keeps the pres
sure screwed down to one half and
keeps making glib promises that
the plans are on the way. How
ever" as he remarked 10 the Jour
nal, they probably will not be
ready until fall and by that time
the water will be clear as irriga-
ton viii be over for the season by
that time"
We are quite willing to admit
thatM Mr. Miller is a good man in
/ ms place Tor the company. he
was smooth enough % get the vii
laee board to pass a new water or
aiaance for him dividing the city
into lwo wards 50 that The drain
on The siandpipe would be reduced
Dy han each DAY and this coupled
with his neat trick Of turning the
valve away down about eight
o. O'clOck each morning enables him
to make a good SLOWING TO the
company OF the amount OF water
he is using. But-as was the case
the day the Tom Ollie house burn
ed-sOme day we are going TO get
caught with fire and before the
uperintendent can get over 10
the works and start the pump and
open THE valve the trouble will be
over. The franchise specifically
states that the tower shall be kept
full at all times and that the
bitches shall be filled every two
weeks to irrigate the trees with
out any expense to the village or
the citizens.
II Mr.. Miller has made monkeys
of the village board by promising
certain things in return for the
passage of the two ordinances, let
them execute a right about face anC
repeal that ordinance which is the
only just thing they can do to the
citizens of Shoshone.
We have no desire TO quarrel
with the Kuhn interests, nor with
their local representatives, but it
seems rather queer that the state
sanitary commission can go after I
a private water plant and get action
and that when they go after
Kuhn plant that the state board /
of health takes the case out of the (
hands Of the commission and then
dilly dallies along Through the sum
mer and does nothing. Certainly
the people are entitled to some in
from its paid represen-
iaswes, to say nothing of action.