The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-13
City Takes Possession of
of Plant First Day
of November

At the council meeting on Tuesday
evening the principal thing to act
upon was to receive the reply of the
water company as to whether or not
they would accept $4,000 for the
plant and business. While waiting
for the councilmen to assemble, Jack
Hartong, in charge of construction
work for the Maquire Construction
company, was chatting with some OF
the councilmen and they remarked
about the bonds of the city of Balck-
foot bringing such good price. Mr..
Hartong said that one reason the
bonds sold so we'll was that most Of
the people owned their own homes
here in Blackfoot; they were not
renters. He said he would rather do
construction work in Blackfoot than
a good many other towns he had
worked in because people are more
honest and reliable. In Blackfoot q
contractor could leave his tools and
materials scattered around and there
was little danger of them being
picked up or disturbed. In most
towns they had to keep their eye on
tools and materials .or they would
vanish. He said he, had very sell
dom worked in towns where people
respected the ownership of the other
fellows things and where they could
lie about the streets and vacant lots
so long without being disturbed.
They Want Sewers
George Watts appeared on behalf
of fourteen residents of the fourth
ward and said they were all paying
sewer tax and none of them getting
any service. Three of the houses
were on the sewer line, but the line
was too high to drain the bottoms
of their Easements and they had not
connected. They thought perhaps
the sewer had been laid above grade.
All of these places are using cess
pools and practically all of the cess
pools will be full by spring and new
ones will need to be built at cost
of probably SIS apiece.
City Engineer Speaks
Engineer James Young said the
sewer line up that way was built on
the lowest grade it could operate on
and that the council might as well
make up their mind to put in a new
trunk. line to serve the northern part
Of town and another to serve the
southern line of town. The sewer
committee was instructed to make
and see what can be
done looking to that end. If it were
possible to bond again for this addi-
tional sewer construction and to have
the town refund to the taxpayers
who are not ON the sewer line, the
amount of taxes they have paid for
which nothing has been received,
such action ought to be brought be-
fore the council in tangible form to.
act upon.
The Water Question
Mayor Thorstenberg then read the
that had been put up to
the water company for the sale Of
their property to the city for $4,000
and after the reading Councilman
Clarke asked If the committee had
taken any action to try to get an OPP
ton on some of the property adjoin-
Ing the pump house which is owned
by members of the Blackfoot Water
to see whether they would
have room for the expansion of the
business without having to pay an
price for it. Other
members of the council were not
Interested in acting on that matter
until they found out whether the
water company was willing to sell
,r not. The matter had been gone
over pretty thoroly at another meet
ng so they demissed that subject and
heard the reply of the water COM
,any.
Attorney John w. Jones speaking
or the water company said they had