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

new road leading to the cemetery
! The warehouse has been in use les
THAN year and is a reproach upol
the county and its management an,
particularly upon the individuals II
charge of 1t. Whatever it may b.
upon the inside as to order and car
of its contents, the outside present
the appearance of disorder and ute
disregard OF the preservation o
, values or protection from loss.
At the north end of the warehous,
are some willows and logs that ar,
unsightly and the willows gather
trash that blows about till it find
lodgment. Along the front Of tn,
warehouse are patches of broker
glass, the remains of windshield
thrown out in front to get rid o.
them, and on ground travelled b,
cars, tho not exactly in the road
There are also strips and scraps Of
sheet iron of every description scat
tered all about the front and south
ern end of the warehouse. This
scrap metal probably has no value
but it may be damaging to cars and
it gives the place sloveniy appear.
ance. There is some old machinery
a monster engine and a loading ma
chine, the latter having been dis
carded by some contractor and added
to the county junk yard. There is
a portable elevator or loader in
tended for elevating gravel into
wagons, bought by the county in the
fall of 1919 and never used much if
any, not having capacity to make it
profitable to operate. 1t has been
| hauled up to a point near the ware
house and left standing in brush and
trash. Limbs of apple trees are lying
all about and under it, and it needs
| only time enough to gather some
drifting weeds and Russian thistles
blowing about, to make proper set
ting for fire when somebody drops a
match or cigarette or when there are
sparks from the passing engines, to
burn it up.
Running Road Graders
There were five road graders vary
ing in size from the medium to the
very large ones, standing around in
unkept condition. Each grader has
blade two or three yards long that
carves the earth and pushes 1t side
wise when it operates properly. In
| order to have the machine do eff
ficient work the blade has to be
bright and smooth so it will "scour."
One of these blades was bright for
the most part, but it had spots on
that prevent complete securing. All
of the others had great patches of
rust and soil on them, making it i'm
possible for them to do more than
carve and push the dirt ahead of it
or move it sidewise imperfectly.
Parts of the surface of some of these
blades were caked with soil from half
an inch to two inches deep, and they
had been "put away in that condi-
ton without a mark indicating that
anyone had made any effort to shovel
off the crust and stop the rusting and
ruin of the vital part Of the machine.
Broken castings and discarded parts |
of autos and machinery lay scattered
about quite promiscuously, indicating
slatternly management or lack of
order, as If everything were dropped
wherever 1t happened to be, and
without even thought toward get
ting them out of the way of the /
movement of machines or cars NOV
ing upon the grounds.
Censure Public Officials
The custodians of this property are
subjects for censure from every
point of view. They do not protect
the vital values and efficiency of the
machines. They do not put the dis
carded materials away where there
will be no further damage from
them. They do not protect against
ire and accident. They do not have
my system and order, and If the in
'ide of the warehouse is as dis
orderly and unsystematic as the out
tide, it is safe surmise that the
do not know just what ,
s in the building or where to find :
t, and where they have been clean
ng and repairing cars and machines,
here may be trash and greasy rags
wing with combustible materials
eady to set the whole structure
fire by spontaneous combustion.
anyone who will permit the grader
ladies' to get caked and rusted, and
ut them away in that condition, will
robably put away other tools in like
ondition and leave combustibIes q
there they are menace, as the case
+ the brush and trash under and :
bout the gravel elevator.
Incompetent Custodian !
This property is in the hands of t
lstOdian acting under the super a
lsion of the board of county com O
lissioners, and your committee is in h
,rmed that the commissioners re- 9,
emily visited the warehouse for the
urpose of making complete in
,ection of 1t. If these conditions g
xisted at the time of their visit, the =
lstodian should have been repri- -
landed and instructed to put thing u
order. If such action was taken =,
' the board, then it is manifest that :,
le custodian did not obey instruc- .
ons. The whole situation is a sub :,
'ct for censure, and the custodian =,
the property should be speedily =,
ught how to take care of tools and ~
achines or he should be dismissed =,
Id some competent person put in - ?,
large who will do all the needed "
lings voluntarily and without wait a. a.
g for orders. -
High School Grounds -,