The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-11

! II they operated on the cooperative
plan. seventy-five or eighty per cent
could be saved.
The natural flow of the river after
the twentieth of August will be
greater than 1t is before that time
and the amount of water needed for
i irrigation will be a great deal less
then so it is clear that getting the
use of more water for the next few
weeks will serve greater purpose
than similar amount of water de-
/ livered in the canals in the upper
valley after that time.
The Corbett slough manifested it's
generosity by offering to loan 5000
inches for few days to the Black
/, foot Irrigation company. The River
side Ditch company offered to loan
half of their allowance of 5000
inches to the Trego Ditch company
, for four days. A number of canal
companies looked over the situation
; in their localities and decided what
were the most important crops to
be saved and planned to save them
: if they could and let the rest 60 in
order to divide the water with other
companies, whore better crops could
be saved with the. same water. Most
Of the canal companies passed reso-
lutions binding themselves to carry
out any agreement whatever that
their representatives saw fit to
make, even to the extent of giving
up all of their water when asked to
do so. Some of these canals posses
the best water rights in the valley
and such generously was. roundly
applauded. + H
Delegates were appointed for the
different canal companies as follows:
Danskin Ditch, Lewis Robbins and
George Williams; Corbett Slough,
James Young; Watson Slough, j. e.
Williams; Wearyrick, ]. Anderson
and l.. P. Adams; Riverside Ditch
company, Everett Green and j. G.
Bond; Blackfoot Irrigation company,
J. D. Jensen and Hank Boice; Snake
River Valley Irrigation District,
John Kelley; Trego Ditch company,
Joseph Wilson and Van Capps;
Aberdeen Springfield Canal company
D. H. Blossom and Marion Ginger;
Lavaside Ditch company, William
Plant, Lewis Felt and ]. s. Gardner.
When this meeting was adjourned
they Immediately called to order to
discuss road matters. Lewis Felt
was appointed chairman and H. B.
Kinney secretary.
The Road Meeting
Half an hour was spent in dis
GUESSING matters connected with the
expenditure of the bond money for
construction of new roads. Many
speakers expressed many opinions
about the methods being followed
and practically all of the speakers
admitted that they knew very little
about the matter, or that their in
formation was very incomplete.
Marion Ginger of Aberdeen said
that contracts for about fourteen
miles of road had been let in the
south end of. the county to outside
men and that these men were en-
ploying dry farmers from the
American Falls country, all residents
of Power county ,and that residents
Of this county asking for employ
ment are being informed that they
have all the help that is needed. Mr..
Ginger said that this was viola
ton of good business and not accord
ing to the policy OF the board as an
nounced last winter saying that local
people would be given the preference
or the first chance to do the work
and secure the money.
A number of persons said they
did not approve of tearing up the
earth during the dry season as it
made the roads impossible for the
rest fthe year. They did not know
the program was for finishing the
job, but they hoped it was such that
the roads could be used again during
the busy season in autumn. Some
said they thought too high prices are
being paid per yard for moving the
earth and some thought that work
was ill directed and time was wasted
in places. 1t was stated that meu
were receiving as high as 80 cents
per yard for fresno grading, where
the haul was very short and that
seemed too high.
Another stated that where grading
was being done, clay was being
hauled in for the top coat and
dumped on the ground and then
afterwards shoveled into wagons and
hauled onto the grade.
One man said he thought it was
poor time to be building roads
when there was prospect of partial
crop failure, he thought it might be
better to loan the money out in an
effort to break even on the interest
expense. This was answered by
man who said that if there was
crop failure that was the very time
to push road construction and give
people chance to make money out
of road work to make up for the loss
of crops in so far as they could. He
said the bonds had been sold, the in
terest would have to be paid and 1t
would be a blunder to stop construc-
ton work unless there was some
thing radically wrong with construc-
ton.
: Some of them understood that
each voting precinct was to be APP
portioned it's prorato Of the bond
money to be spent as the people Of
that precinct desired. They quoted
the county clerk and the county COM
missioners as having made these
statements. Others said that the
'+atements as published by the Of
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