The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-09
council WANTS
GRAND CONDUIT
Officials Will Attend
Meeting of State
Engineers
L E We MONDAY

At the meeting Tuesday evening
the council by unanimous vote ap.
proved the idea of holding joint
conference with the mayors and
other representatives of towns Of the
upper Snake river valley at Pocatello
Monday evening and Tuesday to con-
slider the feasibility of fourteen cities
and towns from Ashton to Pocatello
joining forces to 'build-a grand con-
duit to conducts the waters of Big
Springs down the valley to supply
water for domestic purposes and fire
protection.
Various members of the council
and City Engineer James Young
commented on the matter as pre-
sented in this paper Monday evening,
and altho Blackfoot is working on a
plan to secure the waters of Putnam
springs, fine stream issuing from
the slope of Mt. Putnam twenty-five
miles away, yet they said that If the
towns less favorably situated regard
ing an available water supply wanted
to convass the Big Springs project,
they would enter into the investiga-
tion to see what could be done. If
Blackfoot's participation in the plan
would help to make it a success,
Blackfoot ought to 60 in.
Editor Trego was asked to speak
on the subject and to make sugges-
tions to the council, and he ad-
dressed them on the subject of the
rgeater development of the in
dustries of the whole valley in case
this project became reality, clos
ing with working plan which the
council adopted for presenting their
views to the representatives of other
communities and to the convention
of engineers at Pocatello next
Tuesday.
1t was suggested that the council
seek to secure the cooperation of
the commercial club, the rotary club
and the farm bureau, and to confer
with General Superintendent F. H.
Knickerbocker of the Oregon Short
Line to see if they will be interested
in this proposed conduit to parallel
their road for 143 miles where they
have upwards >of a dozen pumping
plants to supply their locomotives
and yards and depots.
The main Blackfoot delegation
will go to Pocatello on Monday after
noon, tho the advanced guard will
go down in the morning. Some of
them have made reservations of
rooms at Pocatello for periods vary
ing from day or two to the full
week ending Friday night when the
pure seed how closes.
A Civil Engineers Comment
George B. Stone, cviil engineer
of Portland, Ore, and an associate
member of the American society of
civil engineers, was in Blackfoot
"wednesday and TOOK Keen inter-
est in the suggestions about the
grand conduit.
Mr.. Stone said the size of the
undertaking was somewhat astound-
ing at first glance, but that it was
needed, and would probably solve
the city water question for all the |
towns in the line mentioned. He got |
a dozen copies of the paper outlin-
ing it; and said he wanted to send
them to some eminent hydraulic en-
gineers whom he thought it would |
interest.
Mr.. Stone will make a short ad-
ress before the Idaho civil engineers
at Pocatello Monday evening, and
will give some movie illustrations of
the discoveries and tests made in
cement construction in hydraulic and
road work. ror the rest of this
week he is visiting towns up the val
ley and said he was going to take
the measure of interest shown by i
them in the proposed new water sys-
tenn based on the grand conduit we
suggest.
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