The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-28
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PLAYING BIG GAME
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Counting to See if Coun'
ty Will Make Hard
Surfaced Roads
HOW TO. DO IT

Bingham county Is making the
first move in a big game requiring
leader to start things as the leader
does in playing pomp, pomp, pull
away.
The city, county and state have
been dabbling in Bingham county
just little for a good many years
in road matters and 1t remains one of
the preliminaries at game of
"pomp" when they say:
"Eeney, meeney, miney, mo,
Catch a niger by the toe:
If he hollers let him 60,
Eeney, meeney, miney, mo-
Everybody who has ever stood in
the circle and been counted of by
the eeney, meeney, miney mo method
knows that somebody has to be 1t.
All the meetings of the past few
years have only resulted in getting
Blackfoot to be 1t long enough to
lay about twenty blocks of pavement,
and now we are counting around
the circle again to see il the county
will make some roads on a systema-
tic plan. If the county will get out
and be 1t in the coming bond cleo
ton, then 1t can get some state
money to put with it and~'then the
federal government will put up as
much as the state and county both.
Making a Better City
Ten days after the vote on the
county bond question, the City of
Blackfoot will vote in a city election
to decide whether they will elect
nil ,,,I
dust council. If the pave-the-street
party wins, Bridge street will be
paved out to the city limits, North
Main will be paved out to the city
limits, South Broadway will be paved
to the city limits, East Main will be
paved for about five blocks, West |
Pacific will be paved to where it |
blends with Bridge street, Shilling,
University, Stout, Maple, Oak and |
Ash and cross streets amounting to |
about four miles total will be |
graded, drained, ironed out smooth
and true and covered with Goshen
gravel few inches deep, rolled |
again and left alone. The cost of all
this will be charged against the
AUDITING property excepting at the
street and alley crossings, called
intersections, which will be paid for
by the city out of bond moneys OBJ
tanned under the new law raising the
limits for which we may bond, and
on the new and increasing assessed
valuation. The grading will all be
done in the fall, and the hauling of
gravel after the ground freezes up
at the beginning Of winter when it
can be done as winter employment
at reduced price as compared with
wages.
just How to do 1t
The means Of supplying the gravel
cheaply and in great quantities will
be to extend the Goshen beet spur
If the Short Line about 200 rods
% the gravel bluff, install steam
shovel to load the railroad trains,
laul it down to the dump-bins to be
installed, say on South Broadway, ]
lump it into the wagons and trucks,
lrive them out upon the streets and
venues to be coated, and dump it 6
tut. Smooth it out to the required t
lepth, roll it in when the frost goes t
,ut of the ground and by a little l
trimming and leveling of soft spots, {
lave hard, smooth streets. When 8
We are done we shall have the good
treets, and the people of the COM
nunity will have most of the money.
after the graveling is done and
lacked, we shall be able to dispense .
With most of the cost of street
prinkling, all Of the cost of the mud ..
ak and much of the cost of cleaning !
he dust out of the houses, thrown l
n by passing vehicles under present !
onditions.
County Leads; City Follows I
If Bingham county votes the v
onds by a good majority, the City
+ Blackfoot will feel encouraged to Y
lect the pave-the-street council in
act they will not have the nerve to 5
lect mud-and-dust council, so we ?
hall all put in together to establish Y
he railroad extension, the steam =
howell, the dump-bins for gravel and 8
he winter employment for teams e
nd trucks.
No Need Of Crushing Gravel
But somebody asks, where are
on going to crush the gravel?" k
orget it. Goshen gravel does not +
ave to be crushed. Nature pre- Il
AIRED it especially for browning h
Dads and streets. 1t is not the slick b
yer gravel. 1t is rough and of ir- is
OCULAR shape, gritty and mixed with 81
16 parts cement already to stick T
'gether and harden when wet down b.
nd packed. 1t has been tested and Of
serving for roadbeds. The gov
'nment analysis showed 116 parts
cement, and If 1t had as low as
fty parts it would be Acceptable for
owning roads, says the govern
ent. Goshen gravel is charged a
18th double the amount of cement a,
,quired to make it pass muster. m
Eeney, Meeney, Miney, Mo sc
AS we said at the beginning, it is tt
question of who is going to be It. a,
Bingham county has the nerve to
art, Blackfoot will follow suit. cl
When election day comes, the RI
7elfth Of April, "Eeney, Meeney,
iney mo" will tell what the county til
Ill do. If all the bond elections nj
q voted down, the children will be or
ling back to an old melody that W
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