The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-08-01
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l22 Days and
Nothing Done
PnrATELLO Is
DOING TT

Qump0u on CnIS properly ana many
acres completely covered, making
unsightIy all the landscape besides
destroying the value OF the land COW
cred and reducing the values Of all
lots near It. The statement was
made that the city itself was not
kept we'll cleaned, and that vital
thing for 1t to do was to find a new
dumping ground to receive the trash
In the increased dumping necessary
to keep abreast Of the city's needs.
"A marked copy Of the paper con-
tanning the article was sent to the
PocatellO Tribune and it was re-
printed In that paper. An agitation
of the subject went on for the rest
of the year and with the opening of
the municipal campaign in the spring
of 1921, q candidate for may de-
clared that If elected one of the first
ts,srr IS he would de would be to find
new dumping ground for the city's
garbage. The people took him at
h::- --ord, elected him mayor and the
new dumping ground has been ac-
quired in barren canyon about
three miles from the center Of the
city.
A force is now employed burning
everything that will burn on the old
dump, and sorting out all the tin
cans and metal and selling it as
junk. It looks as IL they would be
able to get nearly enough out of the
junk to pay for cleaning up the prop
erty and the value of some Of the
best suburban lots of the town will
be fully restored, besides restoring
the doubtful values of property all
about 1t. P0catello is learning les
son in civic affairs, and while in the
midst of its agitation it adopted
cleanup of their property and ada
everybody was required to make a
cleanup Of their property and adpa-
cent streets and alleys. One locality
of few blocks was so loaded with
rubbish that twelve trucks and a
large number of men worked all day
to remove it. People who have
looked the town over carefully agree
that while conditions are vastly I'm
proved, yet there is need OF another
cleanup to remove the fragments
that we're hardly noticed in COM
parison with the greater quantities
that had been removed.
Blackfoot Has Reason
To Sweep Up
Blackfoot did not institute
cleanup week last spring, but the
new city government secured new
dumping ground where rubbish will
be hidden by brush or sunk among
the islands and sand bars of the
river, and it put on special officer
who devoted his time to inspecting
streets and property and telling peo-
pie what to do to get it in proper
condition. A good many people have
put their property in excellent condi-
ton, a good many have merely done
enough to satisfy the law, and some
have done only enough to get by
without fulfilling the spirit of the
law.
Iii many places the ditch banks
are higher than is necessary and are
unsightly and very much in the way.
In some cases they are trampled
down by years of wash and wear so
that the dirt covers the edges of the
side walk and grass and weeds grow
in 1t, thus narrowing down the walk
and destroying it's good appearance
and enthusiastically within the
law as walk, but yet not salts
factory and all the time advertising
that it is owned and controlled by
some person or firm or department
of local government that is dead and
ready for burial like the walk. There
are places where each irrigation
makes puddle on the walk and peo-
pie walk around it until it dries up,
for it cannot drain off, and owners
of such grounds, and the city, allow
that condition to go on from year to
year rather than get up sweat for
half an hour to put the premises in
condition. There are places where
people dump their garbage out in the
borrow pits bordering the ditch by
their homes, ais If planning to fill UP
and level the landscape by an endur-
ance contest covering many years,
when the ditch banks are foot too
high and foot too, wide and by get
ting I'M sweat with a sharp shovel
they could trim down the bank and
fill in the holes and put the whole
thing in good condition at one
stroke.
Blackfoot is going to get lot OF
advertising in the next few weeks,
and it depends upon the residents
whether the advertising will be help
fui or harmful. Blackfoot is going
to have fair at time when some
OF the other fairs will lapse due to
hard times, and the Blackfoot fair
Is to be advertised more than ever
to get the benefit Of patronage from
people who want to see a fair this
year. The improved fair grounds
and the tourist park are going to be
played up as the handiwork Of a |
community that is going ahead de-
veloping their resources including
natural beauty with neatness and
cleanliness and people will look over
the town to see if the homes l1arm0n-