The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-05-26
Chapter XIV.


new place. A. j. Snyder came to
town Tuesday to attend a board
meeting Of the asylum, and he
handed in a document on road mat
ters that is interesting.
Readers will remember that in our
issue of May we told about five
men down on the Pingree-Springfield
road drawing county money for drag
ging the roads. when the commission
ers have said they would spend no
money for that purpose this season
but il the roads were dragged 1t must
be done by donations.
We said 1t had been reported that
A. j. Snyder had been dragging the
roads with his tractor and county
grader, and that somebody went out
where he was working the outfit and
on somebody's order, took the grader
away from him and went to dragging
the same road for pay. 1t was said
that Snyder was peeved about II
after he learned that some people
were being hired to do what he was
engaged in doing free.
On May IL we received letter
from L. Shelman, dated May IL, In
which he said that he had paid
Snyder for his share of the road
dragging, and that he could have had
his pay sooner If he had called for
it. At another place in the letter he
said he had paid Snyder the same
price that he was paying for man
and six horses for dragging, and that
Snyder and the tractor could not do
nearly as good work as the man and
horses. He also said that others had
donated more work than Snyder had,
yet he had paid Snyder for some of
this donated work, and Shelman's
letter left the inference that Snyder
had accepted pay for the work he had
intended to donate.
Snyder's Document
Snyder said that the mail arrives
at Springfield at 1880 and l O'Clock
and that when they got their mail at
l o'clock on Tuesday, the tenth, the
day OTTER the publication of the facts
regarding payment to the Pingree-
Springfield men for road dragging,
and two and half hours after the
paper had reached the Springfield
post office, there was deposited in
their box one voucher of Bingham
county made out to A. j. Snyder for
three hours work with tractor and
grader on the eleventh of April, for
1926 and o. KID. by L. Shelman,
road overseer. The document was
dated May S, and was in the Snyder
post office box without envelope and
without postage or any note of ex-
PLANTATION. 1.-THE whole voucher is in
Mr.. Shelman's writing.)
Snyder says he had not made any
demand for payment and he has not
presented it for allowance and war
rant, and it was probably the pay
that Mr.. Shelman's letter referred to.
and it was probably the warrant
which Mr.. Shelman said that Snyder
was now in possession of and which
he might have had sooner If he had
called for 1t. Snyder left the docu-
ment with us without comment, and
we pass the information on to our
readers without further comment.
Will Shelman Explain?
We call upon Mr.. Shelman to ex-
plain why he made out the voucher
to Snyder. On what date did he do
it. Did he read the tax article of
May and then fill out the voucher
and ask the post master to place it in
Snyder's box? Was it upon that act
that he based his statement in the
letter when he said that he had paid
Snyder and paid him rather more
than the work was worth? Was
that the basis on which he made the