Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-05
Interest and EXCHANGE on Bonds, .sSa.seO


Inc total amount OF pipe laid during the
year has been 27,933H feet, or 5,29l miles i.
and $50 feet of four. inch pipe has been taken
up from Pearl-street, between Kilgour and
the reservoir. Deducting this from the
amount laid, and the actual increase of pipe
in the city, is 27,5s311 feet, or 5,225 miles
of which 1881 feet was twenty-inch, and
10, $50 feet was four-inch.
After referring to the minutia of the man
agement of the works, the Superintendent
continues:
The Water works debt is 1915, 900, the an
nual interest and exchange on which is al
most $4,000.
Messrs. Clearwater, Gerard and West,
the Trustees in 1855, state the value of the
Cincinnati Water-works at 50, 900, 900. The
average annual expenditure for extension
account alone, since hat time, has been at
least $4,000, or an aggregate of $3.50, 900;
and adding this to their estimates, the pres
ent value is 81, 250, 200, or a clear profit, after
paying the entire debt, of ST. 1000.
The above amount of $3.50, 900 has been
applied in extending the pipe, mostly in
remote sections of the city, affording no
advantage whatever to those who contribute
this large amount; and as long as the system
is continued, of applying all the surplus
means realized from the receipts to account
of extension, and the city makes no pro.
vision to redeem the bonds, the water rates
must be such as to realize over and above the
actual and legitimate expense of carrying on
the works, keeping them inrepair, and max
ing Unnecessary additions to the machinery,
reservoirs and pipes; an amount equal to
the interest and exchange, and extension &C
count. These W items alone, for the past
year, amount to$ll5,0 600, or much more than
one. half of the entire receipts of the year. If
the sum of &c., 900 per annum was applied to
the liquidation Of the Indebtedness, with in
terest compromising in part, the whole debt
would be paid in about thirteen years.
l consider the practice of applying the
money realized+ffom water-rents to the pur-
pose of extending pipe, instead of liquidating
the debt, as unjust and un~warrantable, and
respectfully suggest that 1t should be stopped,
and the plan at once adopted, of only laying
the pipe in such localities as may be Pc
titioned for by a certain proportion of the
property-owners, and that in all cases where
distributing mains are laid, an assessment be
made and collected upon the front foot, equal
to the actual cost of laying said distributing
main; and that to all parties taking water
from pipe thus paid for, water be furnished
at a rate below other consumers, equal to the
interest on the amount thus paid and that
the amount thus saved from extension &C.
count, be applied in taking up the bonds Of
the Water-works.
By this course the debt will soon be paid,
the pipe will be extended wherever it is
really needed and paid for, as it should be,
by those Immediately benefited, and not by
those who not only have no positive inter-
est in extending the pipe, but who really
bear the expenses.
The average daily leakage of the present
reservoir amounts to Llls,oS gallons, or
one fifth of the quantity thrown in. The
water pumped, on an average for every in
habitant, is but BIZ gallons daily, while
the actual consumption, after deducting
leakage, is but 20 gallons.
According to the engineers statement,
the smallest average number of gallons
pumped per day, during a month, was in
January, and amounted to 4,047,l29 gallons,
and the largest in September, being 6,l78,O27
gallons. The total quantity of water thrown
up during the years 1859 and 1860, is as fol-
lows
Amount in lS6o.'""'.- 2L,sI5.OOs
During the year 1859 the maximum supply
of a day occurred on the 10th of July and
in the year 1860, on the 18th Of September
there were several runs made during the
Summer and Fall, nearly approaching the
one above named, of fo~rty-nihe hours and
ten minutes.
These extra calls are becoming more and
more frequent, and as water consumers are
constantly adding to the demand, the pump
ing department is placed in rather an awk-
ward position, particularly in time of fires;
thus far, however, we have been fortunate in
having machinery in readiness when the
demand occurred. The year 1861 will, II
prosperity returns to the manufacturing de-
partments and business generally, increase
the demand upon the pumping department
and the large number of useless wastes mus
of necessity be stopped. Should this be at
tended to, they will in all probability GET
through the year satisfactorily; provide
there be NO break Of the machinery,