Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-21
THE WATER QUESTION.

water question yesterday
EDS. RECORD q MON: In your list of welli
of good water you left out that at Ninth anc
! M streets. / have used from it for domestic
purposes. and think the water to be good. Il
Is a little charged, but if sunk deeper woulc
likely be as good as that on Tenth street.
EDS. RECORD UNION: In 1850 we dug
well on Tenth street. between and K. We
struck gravel at about forty feet and for some
years got a plentiful supply of pure, sweet
water. Changes in the street and adjacent
property led to the well being finally filed up
M & l..
! EDS. RECORD UNION: Iwant to bear tes
tImony to your statement that it is difficult
to make strangers like the muddy river
| water. Old residents do not, | think, APP
| preciate what an offense the muddy water is
to the new conner. Many OF my friends
abroad dread visiting me here because of the
water. 1 now buy clear water from deep
well proprietor, have shut off the hydrant
and ceased paying city rates. There are live
| families in my neighborhood who now buy
clear water. 1t seems to me that these facts
ought to lead to some action.
H-STREET HOUSEWIFE.
| EDS. RECORD UNION: You are mistaken
In your list of fifteen wells of good water
there are over thirty wells of good water here.
| That at Knauer's is not yet finished, and the
water is little hard. [ believe that any
where on Poverty Ridge, or anywhere be-
tween Florin and Tenth street, inexhaustlbie
supplies of water can be had if they will bore
| for them. REAL ESTATE.
| EDS. RECORD UNION: I use Blue Canyon
water hauled from the railroad shops, and the
demand is so great that the railroad folks
threaten to stop giving to any one. Now
that. it seems to me. should convince people
that Sacramentans do not all prefer river
water, with its decaying vegetation. learn
that hundreds of people go to the wells daily
and carry water home. G. l..
EDS. RECORD UNION: You omitted the
Richmond Grove WELL 1t is only some 80
feet deep. If sent down 100 feet it would
probably be a flowing well. As it is | drive
there and carry water home in preference to
using river water for drinking purposes.
EDS. RECORD UNION: A competent we'll
borer this morning estimated the cost of
test well at Poverty Ridge at less than $500.
Isn't the clear water question worth that
much to the people? Put me down for So of
the cost of the test well if the Trustees won't
do anything about it. NORWEGIAN.
EDS. RECORD UNION visit every section
of the city daily on business, driving on nearly
every street and meeting many hundreds OF
people. | want to say that your statement
that SO out of every 100 of the people want
an investigation as to whether we can get
clear water or not, is not enough. l have not
found five in thousand who do not talk
about it, and favor the inquiry the RECORD
UNION proposed the other day. You ought
to be more accurate in such figures. The wa
ter question is about all that the people talk
about. DRIVER.
EDS. RECORD UNION Your estimate of
the water taken from Scheld's well, Twenty
eighth and NJ streets. was too low. l made
measurement of it and of the power of the
pumps and of the supply it will give, and |
believe can show that it will furnish nearer
to 800, 900 gallons day than 100000. a.
EDS. RECORD UNION I have Just come up
from Stockton. Down there they have clear,
pure water, and plenty of it. 1t is all drawn
from artesian wells, pumped up into reser-
voir on Hunter street, and thence supplied to
the city. Stockton is on lower ground than
Sacramento. with no high lands near it, yet
the underground deep-well water there is
No. 1. l believe Sacramento can have clear
water running in the city pipes inside of
three months. J.
Ens. RECORD UNION: If the river water is
so good, why Is it that the railroad company
sends train clear to Blue Canyon to haul
water down here for its 500 workers to drink,
over at the shops? l think that is the best
evidence of whether the pudding is worth
eating. FoRGE.
EDS. RECORD UNION: Not long ago Mr..
Cunningham, Chief Engineer at the Water
Works, told me that a hard crust is forming
on the inside of the water pipes, which is les
sening the diameter of the pipes and their
SO that it will only be matter of
time when they will have to be replaced, and
that it is owing to the sediment in the river
water. II this is so it is a reason for securing
clear water as soon as possible which you
have not yet mentioned besides, the sedi-
ment destroys the machinery of The Water
Works rapidly. w.
4 EDS RECORD UNION If clear water can
be had from the wells that all the town is
talking about, I hope it will, that we may be
able to do away with filters and settling
barrels, that are source of great trouble to
all housekeepers | think the cost of filters
and SO much ice ought to be considered in
this matter. Mrs. S.
EXTENSIVE ALARM.-About 4 o'clock yes
terday morning the stiffness of the early
dawn was badly broken in the neighborhood
of Third and L streets, by screams of murder
and vigorous blasts of police whistle. OFF,
GERS Ferral and Rider hearing the alarm
rushed to the scene, expecting to find brace
of murders and a variety of lesser perpetrated
crimes, but upon arrival saw an Indian by the
name of Raphael Vasquez running across the
street in shirt sleeves and bare-headed from
house on the south side, and a woman stand
ing in the door in loose flowing white gar
ment, excitedly screaming Police, ''NIur-
der, Stop that man, and other similar ex-
pcessions tending tohighten the dramatic effect
THAT man," who was making for Third
street as fast as his powers of locomotion
would propel him, was taken in and matters
investigated. 1t appears that Vasquez had
entered the house through a rear open win
dow, and had taken off his coat and was about
to make himself at home when Mrs Cravens,
who keeps the este blishment, woke up and
spied him. and scared the poor fellow so badly
that he made an unceremonious exit through
an open front window, and was followed by
general alarm turned in with police whistles
and screams. Upon examination the ina
tive son of the golden West was found to
have left on lounge in the house his coat,
white bed-spread and three or four pounds of
very ancient Goldfish. Vasquez was taken TO
the police station. and will explain his famil-
lAEltE W d uugc Iiciiy'
DEATH or Z. C. FELLows.-E. c.. Eel
lows, Assistant General Superintendent of
the Central Pacific Railroad, died at Oakland
at half-past o'clock last evening. Mr.. Eel
lows was well known in this city, where he
was greatly respected. His social and manly
qualities were only rivsled by his abilities as
an officer of 50 important department as
that in which he served. Flags were placed
at half mast cut of respect to the memory of
Mr.. Fellows last evening on the steamboat
and railroad shops and offices here. Dis
patches state that the cause of Mr.. Fellows
death, he having been sick nearly two weeks.
cannot now be accurately stated; but one of
the chief causes was congestion of the liver,
arising from climatic changes experienced
during his recent trip to the present terminus
of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona.
Mr.. Fellows was native of Syracuse, ~ Y,
and aged AZ years. He arrived Ia California
in 1868. Several gentlemen connected with the
railroad departments in this city viii leave
here Thursday to attend the funeral.
CAPTAIN EADs' MOVEMENTS. = Captain
Eads, the engineer. an account of an inter
view with whom appeared in yesterdays
RECORD UNION, leaves for San Francisco
this morning, where he will remain two or
three days. On his return he, in company
with Engii esrs Ia and Mendell and Com
missioner Knox, will leave for Marysville,
where the party will be joined by Commls-