The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-05-19
CITY COUNCIL HOLD LONG SESSION AT
REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY EVENING
Motor or Gas Engines, Sewer System, Sprinkling,
Bonds and Securities, Interest, Cleanup
and Traffic Rules Discussed

The council sat until fifteen min.
utes past twelve Tuesday night and
then quit without finishing what was
before them. One committee took
three hours to report and hear dis
cussions on what it laid before them,
and there were seven committees,
One or two committees made very
short reports and one had nothing
to say. The matter of cleaning up
the town was not gone into excepting
that the street commissioner was in
structed to go on inspecting and serv-
ing notices on the worst places, and
the chief OF police was instructed
to notify ditch companies delivering
water into or thru the town, that
it will be their duty to keep their
water in the bitches out of the streets
and out of places where it is not
wanted. 1t will not matter that the
culverts need cleaning Of siphons get
choked with trash, that is for the
ditch owners to look after. The city
will prosecute if water gets out of
place without regard to how or why
it gets there. There has been some
disposition to put all burdens of
cleaning upon the city and the ad-
ministration takes the view that the
city owes the individual nothing in
the way of cleanup, but that the
individual owes it to the city, not
merely to clean up, but to keep
things clean, and if it takes some
law suits to prove that this is the
right Interpretation of the law, then
the city is ready and anxious to have
the suits. The council does not pro-
pose to go out and look after every
body's petty troubles, but will prose-
cute If the city and it's citizens are
troubled. 4
Paving Protest
l.. M. Capps again appeared and
made an oral protest against certain
paving adjacent to property which
the milling company had sold to
Ebert, the potato buyer who failed
in business, and whose lots revert
to the milling company. Mr.. Capps
was told that it was too late to pro-
test the paving, that 1t has to be laid,
but that If he wished to protest the
taxes he could do so in writing as
provided in the statute, and he was
cited to the statute under which the
must be drawn, but that
somebody would have to pay for the
paving, there being no legal way of
backing out of it now.
Motors or Gas Engine
1t has been the plan of the coun-
I'll to install two 100-horse power |
motors to operate the pumps, one for
'egular work and the other for
and Diesel gas en-
sine to be used in case the electric
oower fails or is cut off by fire along |
he cable line between the power
house anu the pumping station in the
event that the rate for electric power
becomes too expensive and the city
wants to discard it. The gas en-
zine will cost $6500, and the Idaho
oower company suggests that as they
lave three sources of power, and as
t is feasible to have two cable lines
between the power house and the
plant, they might as we'll
unit installation of the gas engine
md rely on the two motors. Repre-
entatives told the council that they
will make them a special rate on the
econd or auxiliary motor if they
will do that. They will fix it so they
an shut off one motor and start
he other and pay for only one mo-