Show swimming pool for farmers farmer oakdale cal Is a town of 0 only 1500 people with a thickly settled tributary territory remarks country gentleman doth both city folks and farmers approved the idea of a municipal swimming pool and farmers coming in from the nearby country use the pool more freely than the city people on hot summer days the cost of construction and maintenance Is so BO low that any farming community of BOO people can enjoy the pleasures of a swimming pool completed this pool cost 1700 and it serves a double purpose a place of recreation and a method of flushing the sewers the pool Is built on a high piece of ground in the form of an ellipse sixty feet long and forty feet wide it to la not heated except by the tuna suns rays the pool holds gallons of water and the cost of 0 filling la Is about 2 it to Is built of concrete and ranges from one to nine feet in depth so successful has baa been the municipal swimming ming pool which was wa built a year ago that many western towns both large and small email are copying the idea |