The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-04-16
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1t customary for the medical superintendent to make BIZ
enna report the show the condition of the nst
ton years gone they have usually had 500 copies printed
at expense of about $780, the being governed by COM
petve bids Last fall Dr. Hyde did not ask for bids among the
local printers has usually been done by his predecessors but had
it done the office of The Idaho Register Idaho Falls
and the bill file approved by the board the January meet
ing The report in the usual booklet form smaller than usual
and the bill for $4o4 about double the price should
have and than double what reports OF equal number
of pages have under competitive bids shown by past
perence The bill made very unusual way some of
the separate items of the publishers alleged being written
the bill, and at excessive prices. For example:
He charged $68S3 for having fifteen cuts made for print
ing pictures Of views of the institution The market price such
should not have exceeded $42.
He charged Hand composition $43o, and any competent
printer would do the work four hours he included what
printers call makeup hand composition it would take the
printer day.
He charged for Machine composition, I2955, and care
full of the machine composition in the book at the
best market prices being paid this part of the state would make
only $3.50.
He charged for "Press work the cover sS47 and any
competent printer or preman would do It IN from 80 to IS
minutes.
He charged for "Press work on CUTS" $780, and he did
it with the small press working the poorest advantage it should
only be six hours press work and would be right to allow the
printer days time for what printers call makeeady on the
press.
he did that on the small press working the poorest advantage
a fair price for it would be $25.
The board that approved this bill was G. w. Erwin of Idaho
Falls f. Dnwoody of Idaho Falls and l. Wright formerly
Of Idaho Falls but now Twin Falls The publisher Idaho
Falls man. and the report issued by DR. Hyde and would
be his place attend having printed If the method by
which he let the job unusual and the bill exobtan there
nothing to indicate that any effort made either by Dr. Hyde
or the board to have it reduced reasonable The
board could have found by referring the records that this
double what such reports had been costing and they had been
doing their duty this bill would have been approved
For many years the asylum farm orchard and garden pro-
the
needed in the institution and considerable sold so that kept
money the contingent fund but under Dr. ydes administers
ton the production declined heavily He took charge the sum-
after the crops well under way 1913 and they har
vested very good crops In 1914 the production fell low that
the board had buy large quantities OF and deny the inmates
many things they the habit of having plenty because
the appropriation sufficient buy what they had been
in the habit of raising The biennial reports usually show just
what raised each year of every kind of but Dr. Hyde
dpped that neatly by putting the totals OF two years into
one column impossible to tell what ne did raise in the year
1914 when he had all the responsibility of seedme and harvest
During the winter when became known that he was to be re-
eved soon he hded Governor Alexander for cutting him OFT
before his full years Had this not been done ne must
have repeated the experience of the spring of not laying
the foundation for proper harvest He had not the tall poW
ING DONE he did that time have seasonabe arrangements
made for Seed he had marked much of the orchard for destr
ton in the spring because had not born much fruit under his
chief trouble alleged have been lack OF
on the dairy herd being poorly managed the milk supply
was low the hogs being bhed for and the brood
sows had been sold presumably feeding up the hgrced
wheat yet they being kept and fed by state labor and on
state wheat
In DR. Hydes report of the financial condition of the ntu
ton he made the Every item of Indebtedness due
up to date including the salaries for December 1914 have been
fully pad There file against the institution $4,000
worth of claims that have been approved by the retiring board
for goods and service delivered before the first of January
that yet paid and there being money appropriated
pay anything prior to the time the report would indicate all claims
were paid these creditors quandy know how and
when they going get their money Much of is due
local merchants for supplying vegetables meats lard -four and
other things which have always been produced sufficient quaint
ties at the institution
When Dr. Hyde relieved and Dr. POINTER took charge
he found there vegetables but potatoes and said
they had had scarcely any vegetables Thanksgiving man
was despatched into the country buy cabbage onions, apples
etc. and hurry them the asylum for The writer has been
informed that the great strips beds of hbarb and