The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-01-31
IDAHO ENGINEERS ANNOUNCE
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of the larger costs on the ground
| that they had been wrung in on this
larger cost due to the mistakes OF
the engineers. The records of the
meetings. and all official proceedings
turnout, showed that the extra cost
was in a measure thrust upon the de-
partment by the insistence of the set
| Tiers and their representatives In
congress. It was so in the FIT. Hall
project, the American Falls project,
the Twin Falls, the Jackson Lake
dam, the Yellowstone, the Newlands,
the Roosevelt and all the others.
Floods. washouts, inclusion of great
additional areas and works not at
first intended to be attempted, were
saddIed upon the engineers ana III
some cases ordered by the secretary
of the interior without the approval
CT the chief engineer, A. P. Davis.
In the face of all these things the
cost of construction had risen by
leaps and bounds, and all other
works done by Carey projects, by
private companies, by cities and
towns and counties had risen and tax
leyies had been doubled and trebled
to cover them. The same argument
LQdL is D6ll6 uOOu " 0iCSA ONAS SA@~
business ability of civil engineers
would discredit all our statesman
our officials and builders of every
kind. When Secretary Work al
lowed the publication of the tables
showing that A. P. Davis estimates
were not correct he should in all
fairness have had it shown that the
particular parts of the works COW
foe dnna at
about the estimated costs and that
the total costs Of the enlarged plans
of the projects under rising costs
made up the greater parts OF the ad-
ditiOnal costs. A secretary of the
interior, who would allow that de-
ception to go out as an official re-
port, as proper subject Tor the
activities of the fact finding COM
mission now in session. The bust
ness ability of civil engineers is at
tested every day by the fact that the
business men of the nation keep call
ing in the engineers before deciding
big business ventures, and of the
400 cities that have adopted the
form of government that
per cent of them are now employing
CIVIL 0ukluCcIS do MdAd6Cl
Engineers Reclamation Lecture
Ralph R. Wooley was a member |
of a surveying party that went thru |
the canyon of Green river last sum-
mer as a part of the activities of the |
service to complete the |
mapping of the stream and its pos |
sible reservoir and power sites, and |
he gave the Engineers convention |
an illustrated lecture on the subject |
at Pocatello The photos taken on
the trip were reproduced with all
the colors of the canyons, and they |
were further colored by Mr.. Wooley's
dry humor He gave very human
account of the trip, not forgetting to
describe the cook and his peculiar /
ways. Here are some extracts from
the lecture:
'"The cook was a TYPICAL frontiers
man, and had a dialect all his own
when It came to swearing. His line
Of invectives was his pride, and when
anything went wrong he reeled them
of in a string that was shocking. He
also claimed an exclusive proprietor
ship in them, SO that II anybody else
to make use of any OF
them, the cook would be peeved and
would make 1t known that he
claimed some sort of copyright on
them. In this picture Che was show
ing a morning camp scene) the cook
was opening a can and broke the
and cut his hand. In
stantly he let loose such stream of
invective blaming the broken fnstru-
ment. l never knew there were so
~ oxu binds 0f ran OnaUQTS
Here Is picture continuing
with the views), where we had
trouble getting past pebble lodged
IN the rapids, (pointing to rock as
big as school house) the leader OF
our party pointing out the passage
.hru which boat should be steered,
md II perchance the current should
larry it against the square face or