The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-04-20
RESERVOIR QUESTION
is SETTLED

Some very pronounced opposition
is found to allowing the construction
Of the American Falls reservoir, A
good many people who do not wan
to go into it are informing theil
friends and neighbors and whoever
will listen, that even those who DE-
not consent to go into the contract
will be taxed to build 1t and that
they will find their lands are mort.
gagged to secure. the payment.
Important news. this, in the face
Of all evidence to the contrary! Il
is quite remarkable that men who
have never attended a single meet
ing where anything was planned for
this reservoir and bond issue. should
know more about it than the men
who have done the planning and
been at the work all the time!
z Every county In the valley is
fortunate in having some of these
very wise men who are not only wise
by the exercise of great wisdom, but
were born wise besides. When it
has been stated that peopl can buy
entire water rights or half water
rights or quarter water rights for
their lands and have twenty years in
which to pay it, the whole cost be-
ing 81 or 81 or SO an acre and in
terest according to how much they
need per acre, these wise men have
thrown up their hands in holy hor-
ror and said that 1t would keep them
and their children's children
chackled in the process of paying it
off. s ga a= j"
Practical people are glad to know
about this They did not know it
took so long to pay of SO an acre
or 81 an acre, until these prophets
elucidated or whatever you call it.
Lands must have taken a slump in
productiveness since this reservoir
project was suggested. Some of
these same prophets have been tell
ing OF the prOductiveness of their
lands and of how they have made
net profits annually of sums that far
exceed the whole cost of a reservoir
water right which they would have
twenty years to pay for.
We have been mentally tracing
back along the record of some of
these wise men on reservoirs, and
lind that each of them that we know
Of, has not only been wise on reser-
voir finance, but has also been wise
On automobile finance. Each of |
hem has unblushingly bought one
Dr. more automobiles for his farm
hat cost $40 an acre for every acre
he possessed and has taken the ma
'hine out on the road and knocked |
to pieces in hard service chasing
lround on unproductive trips to fish,
1unt,, dance, worship and joyride,
moving that the life of the car
would be less than five years and an
Expense bill every day of the time.
Every ambitious Moses of this
lass OF wise men has shot his wad
nd made his record in auto finances
efore advising people to stay out of
n investment that is constructive,
hat requires little or no expense for
pkeep, that will be productive every
ear for thousand years, and which
e is not called upon to pay cent
n until he has had time to reap
lany harvests from it.
Not content with keeping out of it
imself, he is going about trying to
eep other people out of it by telling
lem they will be mortgaged and
axed. for it all their lives even tho
hey never get to use any Of the
alter, and that their children and
leir grandchildren will also be
lxed for the follies of their ances-
IFS.
People who are at all concerned
bout their water rights should con-
der the record already made by
leir local Moses and Moseses who
'e talking against the reservoir and
aiming to know more about law
Id reservoirs than those who read
me laws and attend most of the
servoir meetings.