The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-24

three purposes and If the dairy in
dustry could be developed the milk
routes would conform to the routes
already named. They would extend
| two or four miles apart across the
country and would be built as heavy
as might be required TO rcarrying the
kind of vehicles that the times shall
bring.
Mammoth Motor Vehicles
Ley would be built with the idea
that the passenger autos of the flu
ture will travel at a very high rate
fspeed and that the trucks carry
ing milk, express and school children
will = be mammoth affairs that re-
quire heavy road bed and they too
would travel at considerable speed
The same system of trunk lines
! would include routes to the beet
dumps and all shipping stations so
that heavy loads on the truck lines
would travel at good speed to des-
tination. The branches between the
trunk lines and the various farms
would be the last ones to be graveled.
If we did not change our plans or
mode of operation as we went along
mate of spending quarter of a
million dollars per year graveling the
roads with the kind of equipment
we have named for this. AS much
gravel would be handled for $780,
900 as can be handled by present
methods for a million dollars.
Great Waste of Today
Under present conditions Bingham
county expends about $4,000 year
for roads and bridges and the larger
part of it is expended for what may
be called temporary repairs. By
temporary repairs we mean putting
in bridges and culverts that are in
sufficient or out of line or off grade;
scraping dust back into the road that
blew away during the season land
scraping back other material into
the road that would saturate and
flatten out during the season.
A Better Plan Might be
A better way might be to sub
Bingham County Civic league, and
put in hard-surfaced roads according
to the prayer of the petitions now
being circulated, to give everybody
the use of good roads into the three
largest towns right away, without
awaiting the process already de-
scribed in these articles.
The petitions call for the bonding
o fthe county for about 100000
and expanding the money for about
seven miles of hard road of any kind
that shall be be agreed upon by the
officials in charge. The particular
roads to be surfaced on this plan are:
From Bridge street, Blackfoot,
west to Snake river bridge.
From South Broadway, Blackfoot, |
to Blackfoot river.
From North Main, Blackfoot, to
Porterville bridge.
From center of Shelley mile
north and mile south.
From center of Aberdeen mile
out in two directions.
The type of road named in the
petition is concrete, but those who
framed the petition define it as any
hard-surfaced road that may be
adopted by the officials in charge,
cement-bound, tarvia, bitul-
thic or otherwise, just SO it is per-
hard road.
Some Have Misunderstood
Persons who have refrained from
signing these petitions on account of
he understanding that it had to be a
road, should not defer
action longer on that account. If
hey are in favor of making hard
'oads on these sections, where the
heavy traffic keeps ordinary roadbeds
broken up, now is the time to signify
t by sgning. The travel will be get
ing more congested. each year and
he loads will be getting heavier. 1t
S likely that the loads passing over
hose sections will be three times os
leavy in 1920 as they are in 1918.
The motor truck is coming with it's
railer or trailers, and when they
ome down the line loaded with
wheat or potatoes, the earth will
under the wheels, and the
lighter traffic will be interrupted.
The trucks and the trailers with
'owerful engines will keep on max
n gtheir way thru and the lighter
ehicles will suffer the delay and
amage. The horse-drawn load will
ave harder time than ever getting
hru, and there will be greater eff
ort to get trucks because trucks get
hru so long as the roads are dry.
Making the hard-surfaced roads in
hese places right away say in 1919
7ill insure against such calamity as
J likely to follow if we delay pre- [
airing for the heavier traffic.