The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-03-22
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replied that he had talked with Mana
ger Austin of the Elko company and
that while he felt sure that the COM
pany would help materially he was
not authorized to pledge anything.
The citizens and commercial club OF
Jarbidge would aid. He would dolate
his team and men for twelve days and
other assistance would be given in the
same way besides money contribut-
ions. No definite pledge had been
taken regarding the amount given
Reference to building to the mouth OF
the canyon he understood surveyor
to say that it would cost about $4,000.
He was unable to state exactly what
Jarbidge would do about raising that
sum. but he was morally certain that
it would do a good deal Commits
sioner Carlson said that the govern
ment money for work in Idaho would
not be available until later while that
in Nevada was now available.
Judge A. W. Ostrom speaking for
for Bull said that the delegation from
his city believed that the main part
of the trade resulting from the build
ing of the road would come to Twin
Falls. They were not asking that the
Rogerson route be abandoned or that
improvement on it cease. Jarbidge
had become a great camp and peo-
pie there would have to get their sup
plies somewhere, and should get them
from this city Bull had helped Sc
cure the Hansen bridge for the east
end and this would cost about $4,000
from the west end district which
would result in no special benefit.
This sum with that of $1,000 that had
been previously voted would fall on
| the taxpayers of his district. This
would amount to $4,000 which his
district had helped vote on itself, from
which it would get no benefit. Should
the county vote this amount for the
improvement of the road over the Lii
ly grade, the Bull district would sup
ply the other $4,000 or $4,000 needed.
Chairman Carlson said that the
commissioners would frequently like
to do things which they found impos-
sible. The total levy for bridge and
roads was three and a half mills OF
this one mill was for bridges and was
not enough. Twenty per cent of mon
les raised want to the Bull Indepen-
dent district. The cities and towns
were then given share so that the
total left for roads was small. The
commissioner had no power to ~aise
money for this purpose by special
levy, while such power was possessed
by the Bull highway district. The
result was that Bull would have rs
10. l,l 90, "a
rest of the county, although there
were five times as much mileage in
the rest of the county. He said the
rest of the county had helped secure a
bridge for the west end.
Speaking for Rogerson, J. S. Bus
sell said that his town wanted the
road which they had built to Bear
creek improved and extended They
were not fighting Bull in any way
He believed that roads should be built
from both places. He said that in his
opinion the freight would mostly be
hauled from Bull or Rogerson ard
not from Twin Falls or Filler.
/ A. ]. Iuker spoke in favor Of the
road to Bull over the Lilly grade
He had Travelled the road as now laid
out, reaching Jarbidge in two days
l and had ridden over it on horseback In
one. He said that the building OF the
! Lilly grade would shorten this much
In his opinion the length of the road
had been overestimated by Mr. Hud-
son. He thought the road from Twin
Falls to Jarbidge over the Lilly grade
: would be seventy eight miles. 1t would
be twelve miles nearer to Bull and
eight miles nearer to Filler than tc
this city from Jarbidge. 1t appears
according to this estimate that Twin
Falls would be seventy-eight miles
Filler seventy miles and Bull sixty
six miles from Jarbidge. According
to the Hudson estimate the distance
in each case would be eleven miles
greater. By way of Rogerson it is
seventy miles to Jarbidge from Twin
Falls; thirty miles from Twin Falls
to Rogerson and forty miles from Rog-
erson to Jarbidge.
} A. L. Swim was called upon and
suggested that it would be good idea
to throw the Bull district into the
county and have the whole county
vote a big bond issue. A. j. Peavey
advocated the same plan. Replying
to the proposition to dissolve the Buhl
highway district Chairman Taylor
who was at one time a county COM
missioner, said that funds had been
once successfully divided by agree
ment between the county and the dis