The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1913-11-07
PIONEER DIRECTORS
MAKE splendid
RECORD
Debts Are Paid and Taxes Re-
duced by Pioneer District
Officials.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
Board Has Maintained High Standard
OF Efhciency-Work Done is of a
Permanent Nature-People Should
Stand by Greenslet, Dickens and
Street at Present Time.

The present Board of Directors of
the Pioneer Irrigation District are
certainly to be congratulated in the
way in which they have handled the
affairs Of the District during the pres
ent administration, which began Jan.
lst, 1910. The Directors: L. E.
Greenslett, Joe Dickens and A. G.
Street have kept an eye on the ex-
penses of the District and endeavored
to cut down the expenses, in which
they have certainly succeeded.
When you think that on Jan. LIST,
1910, outstanding warrants amounted
to $4l,o73.2l, with more than $4,000
interest accumulated thereon and a
judgment against the District in favor
of w. A. Simpson, which, with costs
and other expenses, totaled nearly
$1,000, have all been paid, together
with the expenses of the examination
of the soil expert carried on THE last
year and water tests in a water suit
to establish the priorities of the Boise
river amounting to 81 1885, the
readers will certainly join with the
Tribune in saying well DONE"
Also, in the way of permanent inr-
provements during the last three
years, the Board has put in cement
siphons under the Idaho Railroad,
new bridge across the Phyllis canal
at Nampa, cottage at the head of
the Phyllis canal, cement dam
across the middle channel of the Boise
river at the head of the Phyllis canal,
a piling and plank cutoff for the
south canal, cement heading and
waterway in the Phyllis, steel fumes
for the Phyllis canal across Mason
and Indian creeks, and large amount
of cement in both Caldwell and Nam
pa. These permanent Improvements
alone, as above enumerated, have cost
$l6,178OO.
The District has been in operation
| for eleven years. After ten years,
the bonds of the District, which rep
resent the cost of the works, COM
menced to mature. Prior to that
time, the District was merely paying
interest on the bonds. In addition
to paying interest on THE bonds. the
Board also has paid off $lO,5OO on
the face of the bonds, the same being
all the bonds that became due last
year. The amount of the bonds which
were paid last year reduced the inter-
est $630.O0 All of the above has
been accomplished without increasing
| the total assessments, in fact the as
sessments have been lowered. This
year the assessments were lowered
| 10 cents per acre and $12, 10000 of the
bonds will be paid off the coming
year. While doing THE above. the
board has been careful to keep every
department of the system in good
condition and have met the expenses
of working out the draining system
and have contracted with the United
States to build said system, which
contract was voted BY the people in
1912, which includes its ratification
in courts besides the extra elections
necessary to have been held. While
taxes are being increased in all other
organizations. the Board of Directors
of Pioneer Irrigation District are cut
ting down expenses and reducing
taxes. The board is certainly entitl-
ed to the praise that it is receiving
and the Tribune takes pleasure in
mentioning these facts and in men,
| tioning the names of those who have
been so energetic in looking after the
welfare of the District.