The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-14
nice WEATHER IS
help TO The CITY
SEWER AND STREET CLEANING
AND PRUNING OF TREES
GO MERELY ON
Skating Soon

ice Skating Rink AT Beau fark is All
Ready for the Winters Fun and
Will Be Flooded as Soon as Old Man
BOreas Says the Word.
That this is somewhat of an "off"
year in the matter of the prolonged
stretch of Indian Summer prevailing
In BOzeman, and pretty generally
throughout the entire length and
breadth of Gallatin county, and that
the nice weather has been a zeal help
to the city government in permitting
an unobstructed campaign of annual
fall cleanup work is the opinion of
City Manager S. A. Mendenhall, who
reviewed for the Courier some phases
of important city work that because
of the routine nature Of which is Of
ten overlooked by the general public.
One of the most important pro-
1ects, from a public health and sani'
tatiOn point of view, is the cleaning
out of all the main and lateral sew-
els in the city, which work began
about the middle If last month on
the east side, and which is now pro-
crossing westward to the extreme
city sewer limits. The principal de-
bris being taken from the sewers at
this time consists OF leaves and paper
scraps although there is found enough
rags, sticks, piece of wire and the
like, to cause a jam and a possible
overflow, in the event that an extra
heavy precipitation should occur be-
fore the city workmen complete their
big task.
Pruning the Trees
For the Identification of the city
streets, one of which was recently
described by Major j. H. Durston, of
Bozeman and Butte, as being "the
most beautiful residential thorough
fare in the entire state Of Montana"
a teamster and two men, working
under the personal supervision of J.
D. Hughes. superintendent of city
parks, are engaged at the present
time in pruning dead, unsightly and
~low-hanging limbs from the shade
trees on the ~boulevards in the resi-
dental districts.
The street department, proper, is
still engaged in raking up the leaves
from the city streets and hauling
them to the dump where they are be,
ING burned in huge piles. In some
sections of the city a large leaf-drag
is being used to expedite this work
81 that the leaves will probably al
be removed before the coming of the
first snow which usually cover them
and make ultimate work of removal
in the spring all The more arduous
and, incidentally, expensive. The
new Tiffin pressure street flushe1
would be used for this work were il
not for the danger of the water freez.
ing during the cold nights and thus
~jeopardize "the life and limb" of the
average pedestrian, especially Of
elderly people to whom a broken hiT
would mean the rounding out of then
years as a helpless invalid.
In connection with the disposal Of
dead leaves by individuals, the city
manager calls attention to a city re.
gulation which strictly prohibits the
burning Of leaves or any other debri,
on the city steets because of the re
sultant damage to the paving. Pro
perty owners who desire to burr
leaves in an open fire are asked tt
make request of the fire department
Phone 2.
As an illustration Of the frigidity
of the night air it might be r."+.3n
ed that when worGm n wen: las
week TO clean out The B5zemar. reel
reservoir, for It's t'.irI ablution O
the past year. a crus. Of ice. meas
uing nearly two inches IN thickness
was encountered.
Referring to the purity of Boza
mans water supply, Mr.. MendenhaI
showed a letter from the municips
water testing department of the Stat
Board of Health at Helena, in whicI
the state bacteriologist, after MAXIM
analysis of the six samples of waite
sent to, him last week-two from eac
of the three sources Of suppIy-prc
nounced the water perfect and CAV
it the states go. K" Only one tes
Y showed a small meteorological cor
tent-60-which is considered s
nearly perfect, that no attention !
paid to it, OF objections made by til
Estate health authorities. Many soul
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