The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-03-02

AS the time draws nearer for de
Gliding the question of buying or no.
buying the water system and operat
| ing it as municipal enterprise, il
is advisable to probe every avenue
by which the town might do better
than to buy the old system. Fol
that reason we offer the following
suggestions for consideration of the
public.
Buy New Site
Buy a half block of ground on the
west side of town, preferably west OF
the City Hall, and lay out a theo-
retical water system assuming that
the town will fill all the space be-
tween the two rivers as far up as
the sugar factory and down to the
line of Snake river bridge and the
Kirkpatrick farms. Have some COM
petent engineer make the surveys
and draw plans for the whole sys-
tenn.
Employ Expert Engineer
In connection with the creation of
the plans, let the men of the town
come together and bring to bear up
on it the forecast of what the future
should bring in the way Of districts
devoted to special lines, and requir-
ing special attention in sewer and
water service Let the men OF the
town exercise their insight into fu-
lures and predict and determine
where the warehouse district shall
be and plan for it; where the fac
tory district shall be and plan for
that: where the stockyards shall be
and plan for them; where the
slaughter houses and packing houses
shall be and plan for them; where
the union sorter, grader, storage and
shipping yards shall be for whole
sailing potatoes and plan for them
with all the needed yardage, track
age and roadways and the starch fac
tory with plenty Of room for hand
ling the products of as great ter
ritory as they can make tributary to
the institution; where the apple
packing houses shall be with their
sorters- graders, packers and ship
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to handle the by-products.
Have Some Town Meetings
Let the men of the town meetings
determine that these things shall
come to pass, and that they Will
forthwith address their energies to
the task of making it so. Let them
stand at the elbow Of the engineer
for the proposed water system and
direct him to lay out the plans with
a purpose of serving all these inter-
ests without having to ever tear up
and change the pipes as to size, dl-
rection or extent, and when the plans
have been we'll matured and are con-
sidered good, let the city fathers cali
an election of all those who nave
big- broad minds, for the purpose OF
voting upon question affectlng tne
welfare of the town. In order tnat is.
the law may be observed, they Will,
of course, make the call to extend
also TO those who do not think mucn
hut who do whatever the crowd
does: those who think but little ana
"knock" every mans project but MS
own: those who think keenly and al
ways see mountains in the way ana
also those who think they think but
who are adept mainly to useless
things. Let the city fathers submit
to them the question of bonding the
commonwealth to the city limits and
to the limits Of their courage, TO
secure money to bore wells, install
standpipes and machinery, and lay
city mains such as will be needed in IN
the larger city which the men Oh
vision carry around in their minds III s
and of which they dream in their
daily walks. Let the men or the
town say to each other, Now 1t i
is up to us to see that this thing
goes thru, and that our families OF
voting age sustain this movement to
Law the foundations for greater
town and a better town than we
thought possible while we were
sleeping and not taking the trouble
to dream"