The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
City Hitching Racks
Plan Meets Obstacle
Continued from Page J

many of the Indians have not adopt
ed all of the white mans customs
and some of them never hesitate to
use the street for toilet. They make
their campfires in the street and
along the fences and when they go
away they leave all sorts of trash and
rubbish in front of peoples houses.
| The city has not been very prompt in
| looking after these things and clean
| ing it up so everything has looked
tacky some of the time, due to these
practices. The campers are obliged to
have water from some source and
they annoy the nearest residents
good deal in going to their places to
get water If there is no outside tap
then they have to be admitted into
the house to fill their vessels and it
!, is a subject of constant annoyance
to the people. They have put up with
great deal of this in that locality
and they feel that the rest of the
town does not appreciate the sacri-
fees they have been making for the
town on behalf eff it's visitors and its
commerce and while they are not OPP
posing the development of the water
works, they are asking the city coun-
Gil to consider all these things and
favor them as much as they can. They
are asking for the removal of the feed
yards at as early date as can be
arranged without loss to the owners.
Mr.. Hesse, who operates the feed
yards, has done the best he could
to keep them in sanitary condition
and has usually been able to keep
the manure hauled away every day
During the past few weeks when it
has been rainy and the roads were
soft, he has had difficulty in getting
this hauling done and the condition
has been somewhat worse on that &C
count, but he says he has done the
lest he could at all times, but in
handling stock and feeding and car
ing for them, it is never possible to
keep things sanitary like paved
street Mr.. Hesse says that an agri-
cultural community need not expect
to get entirely away from livestock
and the annoyance it brings. Black
foot depends on the farmers for it's
business life and the feed yard and
the handling of stock comes in as
part of it. He calls attention to the
fact that the odors from feed yard
are not worse than the odors from
garage, neither are the noises. Thu
several garages nearer the center OF
town than the feed yard. keep up
their noises at all times in the day
and night and no petitions have been
presented to the council asking for
their removal. The construction of
ter of town that is bound to bring
it's noises and odors during the day
and at midnight is approved and
lauded by the press and local people.
When these teams have been haul
ing manure thru town to the lots
where it was to be used, they have
been ordered off the streets and in
structed to go around thru the SUI
burbs and back in by the nearest
route. Gravel teams continue to use
the paved streets, week after week,
sprinkling gravel which in turn is
crushed under the heavy loads follow
ing and does actual damage to the
pavement and no objections or re-
strictions have been operated against
this.
People hauling pulp thru town to
use in the development of their live
stock industry that is perhaps most
needed of anything in this valley,
have been ordered to take the side
streets and keep away from the bust
ness blocks on account of the odor
of the pulp. If a teamster hauling
pulp desires to go thru town and do
some shopping, the persons who OBJ
ject to this practice are not looking
to the best interests of the town
when they make objection Some
body generally hauls the slop away
from the hotels and restaurants and
there may yet be objectiors filed
against this practice. The other al
tentative would be to leave the slop
accumulate or require the restaurant
re ople to pour them into the sewer,
bones, feathers and all.
The town people should consider
whether or not they can afford to be
so finicky. Somebody has to do some
disagreeable tasks; somebody has to
put up with disagreeable odors. On
the other hand the people living in
the more favored residence districts
might do we'll to consider how they
would like to have the pumping plant
and the feed yards, tie racks and
camping grounds for the travellers
and Indians planted just across the
street in front of their residences.