The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
DEFINING ROADBEDS OF DIFFERENT KINDS
Standard Names for Roadbeds to be Made in Bing-
ham County. Concrete, Macadam, Bitulithic
Dollarway and Gravel

fully made up by the time saved
while loading, even If he found no.
body ahead of him at either place
II dray has to wait for its turn tt
get to car or bin to load by hand
1t necessarily takes a long time tc
get its turn, but waiting for its turn
at the chute does not take long, be-
cause each vehicle is loaded az
quickly as it is weighed, and there
is no congestion. When a hundred
teams from the farms come for coal
under the present system, most OF
them have to line up and wait, not
only the time it takes to load q
wagon by hand, but for a long time
besides. All of this time is abso-
lutely lost for the man and team,
and it amounts to thousands of dol
lars every season. The cost of con-
structing the high line would be
saved in short time by this item
alone. Farmers desiring to buy beet
pulp of the sugar company could
| drive to the pulp bins of this high
line and have their wagons loaded
in few moments, while under the
present system they have to drive
into pit, dig it out and load by
hand, and then have a hard pull to
get out Of the pit. A few carloads of
pulp, few cars of coal and train
load of gravel could be kept on hand
all the time, and there would be no
loss Of time for either cars, teams
or drivers. Under the present sys-
tenn, the coal that is stored is
shoveled from the cars by hand, goes
into the wagons and is shoveled out
of the wagons by hand into the bins
or yards, and when sold it is again
shoveled by hand into the purchas-
er's wagon. All of this waiting and
shoveling and the loss of time for
the car while being unloaded, can
be saved by building the high line.
there will be no OCCASION for the
dealer to have storage bins at his Of
flee If ample storage bins are pro-
vided on the high line. All that the
dealer would need would be an Of
flee in the town, without scales, and
operate his motor trucks, doing all
the weighing at the high line scales,
where pulp and coal are accounted
for.
Local Builders Interested
Under this system, the cement con-
tractors could send at any time and
get gravel in any quantity they desire,
and would no longer have to consider
the weather and frost, and hunt up
man and team and dump-boards
and send the outfit out to the gravel
pit to put on a jag and haul it up
the hill at great disadvantage be-
cause of the heavy grade. The con-
tractor could determine just how
long it would take him to secure de-
livery of yard or thousand yards,
and he would know in advance just
what it would be like when de-
livered.
High Line by Sugar Mill
When the time arrived for making
roads north of the county seat in
the direction of the sugar factory and
the Porterville bridge, which people
are already petitioning for, a high
line should be built on the railroad
right-of-way opposite the beet dumps
at the sugar factory. Part of the
track is already laid, extending
southwark from the junction, where
the factory spur crosses the wagon
road. 1t is now used or storing
empty cars that are being assembled
for moving wheat. If the track was
raised on slope like the factory
spur is, and extended on a trestle
built out over the low place directly
in front or east of the factory, there
would be suitable height for bins
for gravel, coal and pulp. Coal
would be available for all the country
above Blackfoot and across the river
in the Porterville country. Pulp
would be available for loading in
stantly where a driver could get out
with full load without delay, and
gravel would be available for Black
foot, and for several miles on vari- !
GUS roads north and east that need |
treatment. Both of the high lines |
would make great saving in man
power Immediately and would help |
relieve the coal famine and fuel |
famine. They would make it pos
'ible to build and repair roads
quickly and cheaply now and for all
'uture time.
The location for other high lines
n different parts of the country for
similar purposes will be treated in
succeeding chapters.