The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-27
PUTTING ALL THE FARMS
ON HIGH GEAR
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enough time to build a high line
system. OBTAINING the cars by this
Anticipated increased the scarcity of
coal and delayed the day when the
car would come back with another
load.
Build High Lines
Bingham county and the railroad
company should build a number of
high lines for use in handling both
coal and road materials on the
gravity system. The locations should
be carefully selected to form distri-
buting stations for coal and gravel,
and it does not necessarily follow
, that the coal shall be sold in or at
the edge of town. II high line is
needed for gravel between Firth and
Goshen, coal can be handled there
for the farmers in all that section.
II gravel is needed in Rose, coal can
be distributed from there instead of
having all the farmers drive to
Blackfoot and stand in line till they
get to the Car to shovel coal. We
should first build high lines at the
places where there is the most urgent
need Of delivering coal and gravel,
and then keep on building other high
lines in the places that stand next
in Importance, and they will be kept
as permanent fixtures for handling
coal and for further road work and
road repairs.
Builders Need High Line
In all the work of erecting build
ings in Blackfoot and for all street
work REBUILDING the use of gravel,
the most Anticipated methods are
still in use for its delivery. A man
goes with tworhorse team to the
gravel bank at the foot of hill out
of town, and it is all placed in the
wagon by hand shoveling. The
amount he can haul up the slope is
the measure of his load to town UNI
less there are enough teams work.
ing SO they can double up the hill.
When the high line Is in operation,
| the teams will go to it and be filed
in minute, blu the gravity process,
and there will be no hill to pull,
so each team can haul full load
every tine and haul many more loads
per day
The Plan of Action
The first road construction should
be on the lines of heaviest traffic.
Trunk lines should be built connect
ing the points of greatest Importance.
Parallel trunk lines should be built
about four miles apart, so that every
farm will be within a couple of
miles of trunk line. Rural mail
routes shuld follow the trunk lines.
Rural express lines and routes for
school wagons connecting with the
high schools and consolidated schools
follow the trung lines, and where.
|homes are too far from the trunk
mail for leivery on our rural lines
lines for students to walk to where
they board the school motor bus, the
family jitney will scoot them out to
the road. Motor buses will be OF
three sizes, carrying ten, twenty and
thirty persons, and the large ones
will take the routes having the
heavy population, and the lighter
ones the long runs that are thinly
populated. Distance will cut little
figure because of the high speed at
which they will travel on the smooth
hard roads. @
The Rural Express ~,
When the motor bus has unloaded
its human cargo, it drives to a ware
house and by the turn of lever in
each end OF the bus it releases all
the seats and they are quickly set
out into the warehouse which is
called the rural clearing house.
Each bus has six hours or more be-
fore it is needed to take the students
home, and it will put in the time de-
ivering express to people in the
country. Each farmer who was
wanting something from town has
sent in his order the day before and
night clerks have filled his order, la
beled it and it has been taken to the
clearing house and all packages of
every kind have been by the express
men classified and routed much the
same as the postal clerks route the
Each route will have its number cor
responding with the number and
territory of the mail route, and the
motor buses will load up and depart.
Farm Life Dignified
Each farmer will have an express
booth at the roadside in front of his
place, or at the corner nearest his
place, and into that the busman will
place his express. Butter and eggs,
cans of cream or whatever the
farmer has to dispose of will be in
the booth labeled to show destina-
ton. Two or more trees with large |
spreading branches will shade the ex-
press booth, the thoughtful follows
having planted trees in the fall of
1918 or the spring Of 1919 to have
them ready as soon as possible. |
Each merchant will receive his own |
express at the clearing house the |
same as he receives his own mail at |
the post office, and if the farmer is
not allowed the proper price for
something he sent in, the Takepar-
tisan league will send a committee to
investigate such dealer or agent, de-
termine who was at fault and set
matters right.