The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-01-07
ADVERSE VOTE Is
AGAIN RECORDED
AS TO CITY BONDS

The result OF the election held In
Salmon on Tuesday was adverse to
the purchase OF a first right to the
waters of Jesse creek. the vote be-
ing 211 to 144. 1t required 236 of the
total vote cast, which was 355.
BY precincts the vote was as fol-
lows:
Brooklyn 100 for and 54 against.
Depot 19 for and 81 against.
Salmon SO for and So against.
Totals 211 for and 144 against.
Three months ago the same ques-
tion was vetoed by the taxpayers.
Its submission at this time came in
response to a numerously signed pc
tition and the general demand for an
adequate water supply for a grow
ing community. Unfortunately the
leaders in this praiseworthy move
sonal enemies who could not be
beaten when it requires a two-toone
vote to accomplish that result.
1t was not many years ago that the
men and women of vision who felt
the need of modern school house
to take the place of an old dilapitat-
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school house in this town had to call
three elections for the issuance of
bonds before finally securing the en-
abling endorsement. History is re-
peating itself here in Salmon, for
there were two defeats recorded
Against modern school facilities just
as have been recorded two defeats
fer an adequate water supply. Pro-
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the substantial growth and develop
ment of the community from such
,set-backs as came with the stubborn
discrimination to hold on to the old
shack of school instead of build
ing modern schools such as We now
have.
There were yarns manufactured
out of the whole cloth and spread
abroad to defeat the bond issue. AS
usual the eleventh-hour scandalous
circular, which came from the same
old source, got in it's appointed work.
The most active of the anti-bond
boomers said he carried around in
his pocket an option to sell the rail-
road lands with their 40 inches of
water for 500 per acre; that indeed
SO cheap had it become that he could
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that. the city was being fimfiammed
into buying othe rholdings of water
to be sold which are mortgaged and
after buying the water it would be
worthless; that Ernest Long had
given an option to sell his water at
half the price the city was to pay,
the difference going to somebody
else on the inside of the deal.
The unwary good citizen was in a
few Instances fooled into believing
some of these Misrepresentation as
the emissaries of the deception were
sent out to spread it from mouth to
mouth. 1t is not surprising that a
twoto-one vote could not be secur-
ed under these circumstances. 1t Is
of c>arse understood by every citi-
zen whose mental perception is not
warped b. prejudice that the own
ers of the Lo. ranch and the Smith
ranches, who, II the solicitation of
the city authorities, had agreed to
sell their water, We're not putting
over" any sort of scheme for their
private advantage nor was anybody
for them attempting such thing
/ Charges to this effect arose. as Is
very well known, from source
where bond issues heretofore have
been notoriousiy misapplied and
more than likely the opposition tC
this bond issue might be traceable
to the prudent circumstance tha'
there should be none of the same
fingers in this pie.