Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-11
The Water Question.

III lt were proposed Co bring wafer m 1 to Tucson from heaven, serious objec tions would be made by many who dC ! not expect tO go there, and who may l need the waterln anotherplace. '- From ! the Arizona Citizen, Nov. 30th.
 The communication of MT. Brovder in your issue of yesterday, is scarcely worth noticing; but to correct some mis- representations, which, with your per mission, will be briefly done.
 The water of Santa Cruz river (sc called by compliment) cannot differ much in quality from head to sink The object of pumping the water into reservoirs to be eXcayated from the hill near Warmers mill Is for the purpose of purifying and cooling it, and to obtain a pressure which for fountains, hydrants, and in case of fire will be found of great advantage.
 The Warmers mill property includes one of the oldest water rights on the river and sufficient land to make it inde- pendent of any other source of supply.
 The engineers statement Is the best evidence of the abundant quantity and Prof. Richards opinion is satisfactory as to its quality. He is not a London chemist, but has lived in Arizona several years and is respected by all who know him for his ability and honesty.
 As for the healtbfulness of the water, Solomon Warner is about 12 years old and many people live in Tucson who have used it all their life time from the acequia with all it's impurities and vet survive beyond the allotted span of man. It is the whisky that kills, not the water of the holy cross.
 1t IS very true, as your correspondent says, that Tucson has existed hundred years without wdterworks, and at the present rate of justification will exist a hundred years without.
 Nobody has requested the people of Tucson to furnish any capital for the construction of waterwurks, and they will not be under the slightest obliga- ton to purchase the water when 1t is in- trOduced, unless they want it.
 If anybody makes any money out of the enterprise ie Is probably as fair as mining, gaslighhng, commerce or any other business which engages capital and labor. If anybody should not make money out of 1t they can have the usual redress of grumbling, and obstructing.
 As to the interference with irrigation, that question, II it arises, must be set tied between the Water Company and the land owners having water rights, ac- cOrding to law-and is not much of any body else's business.
 It Is very easy to critici5e, cavil, ob- iect, obstruct and grumble, as everybody has tried to do anything in this vicinity Is aware; butneither your correspondent nor any other person has presented a more practicable scheme or one that capitalists would take hold of "The three tailOrs of TO0iey street do not represent the people. The city council them for the present; but they have been very much embarrassed by an old charter which has hung over the city like an incubus for nearly three years-nObody is going Co work on |" dead horse,7 and the mill never Grinds with water that has run by."
 1T work can be commenced by the first of January water can be supplied by thc summer months, and if not the city will suffer greatly in depreciation of proper ty, absence Of population and very prob | ably in health. The matter rests with ] the city council. Respectfully,
 CHARLES D. POsTON.