The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-05-19

II 10 their speciality.
run dry or the faucet fail to supply
your needs and had to ga half mile
for water you know how. economical
you become with the fluid while that
condition lasts. You even leave your
wash water in the basin for the next
one to wash in. Germs be gol darn
ed; 1t Is steps you are trying to
save. And maybe. you don't think
some of the dry farmers wash in
second hand water unashamed, and
then when 1t is finally poured out,
pour it on the roots Of the hop vine
at the corner of the house.
A Days Drive for a Drink
AS an example of experience on
the water wagon, take the case of
the Delzer Brothers. In the year
1914 the three brothers filed on "a
thousand acres of land among the
little buttes in the middle of the
desert by the old stage road. 1t was
about twelve miles to Lost River at
the Root Hog Ford and it was dry
most Of the year. 1t was thirteen
miles to Taber switch and Taber
was importing water from a well
three miles down the line. Del
GERS rugged up water wagon and
hauled water for thmselves and six
horses from the well sixten miles
away over a rocky road. Since that
A. r. Willecke drilled q well and
they were able to get plenty of wat
er by going only thirteen miles.
Mote the use of the word Only
Then Delzers did some surveying
and decided that they could get water
if they went deep enough and they
got 1t at depth of sos feet. It's
no trick at all to get down eight
feet, but drat the six-hundred, and
especially when it is all rock.
A Fortune for a Well
Reader, how many men do you
suppose it takes on pump handle
to raise a column of water 600 feet
in the perpendicular? And if some
thing goes wrong with the lower
valve who has the nerve to pull out
that amount of rods and pipes and
fix it! 1t used to be said among
pump manufacturers that Myers
gave the glass valve seat to the
world" but Delzers did more than
that for drouth-stricken ones on the
desert-they not only tipped them
off with a drink but enabled them
to wash their feet. They put in
monster gasoline pumping plant
like they use for a city water plant,
and gasoline power whirls the cold
water up from beneath the lavabeds
into the great, storage cistern lined
with cement.
Pipe Line From the Sky
At the big butte, Holland broth
ers laid pipe line up the side of
the mountain seven thousand feet,
and that brings spring water down
to- their big cistern and waters their
stock that range over the country
at will. The price of gasoline cuts
no figure with Mr. Holland, but
somebody might tell us how the
spring is enabled to bubble forth
Just enough water every hour in the
year, when for six months at time
it is just dry, barren rocks on the
reak above. If it gets there by
of subterranean passage from
some higher range of mountains,
suppose Delzer brothers or some 9TH
er settlers drilling wells should tap
the vein and dry up the spring.
Would Holland be able to get dam
ages for destroying his property, the
spring? If you should get artesian
water at twelve o'clock noon, and
Hollands spring should stop flow
icg at the same hour, and he should
demand that your plug up the hole !
or he would sue for damage,
wouldn't you begin whiting out
cork? Ask a lawyer what rights
you acquired when you became the
,wner of the land where you drilled
he hole.
Forty Days Between Drinks
Some eight or ten miles east of
he Big Butte is switch called
Furey. People settled on the land
Ill around it one spring and so long
Is there was snow water in the lakes
ormed in the basins all went well
With them, but when that dried up
he people applied to the Short Line
o haul in car of water from Black
DOT once a week. The Short Line
vas willing and wanted to aid the
ettlers, but few years ago, we the 9
eople. had raised great hue and :
ry and demanded public utilities :
to tell the common car !
iers what rates they must charge, 9
nd the laws and rules governing !
II tariff schedules for hauling =
'eight made it necessary to refuse =
reight not listed in the schedule =
nd advertised for thirty days. =
here was rate for hauling whiskeyi a
ut no rate ON water, so the settlers !
ad to get an application up to the .
tilities commission, have them pass 3
pom it. fix a rate, advertise it for \
lirty days and then the railroad =
ould ship the water. Verify it was h
long time between drinks. 4