Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
OUR FUTURE WATER SUPPLY.
Water Pure and cleAr-Quantity Unlimited- Quality Without suporior-The Construction
 of Supply works to be Immediately Bssan.

Much has the subject of water been discussed by the citizens of Tucson, but few are aware of the source of the proposed supply, or the locality of the country from which the supply is to be drawn. When the projectors of the present scheme announced their inten- tfon of making the Punta de Agua their supply head, the point through a misinterpretation of locality, the name
 being common to several springs within a radius Of ten miles, was misplaced The Punta de Agua in the Cienega on the Altar road being the spring which in the minds of many, the basis of the proposed water system was located and people shook their heads, and reason ably too, at the feasibility of tue entire project, but as we stated on a previous occasion, the point or place in ques ton IS distant not more than six miles to the south of the city on the ranch of Captain Gay, at which place the water breaks out in great force, pure and clear Tn volume of nearly one million gallons Tn every twenty-iour hours, which will be more than doubly sufficient to meet any and every demand that the wants of the city may require and with sufficient head to throw i've separate streams from as many different nozzles at the same time, over the golden eagle at the City Hall, at which place the pressure head will be about seventy feet.
 THE COMPANY Have acquired the right to and own a | mile of land running north from the base of supply and towards the city and | along which they will lay an inch pipe to be reduced at q given point near the city, which it will enter at the intersection of Seventeenth street and Stone Avenue, to one twelve nches. which will be capable of deliver ug, if necessary, fully
 FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND GALLGSs OF
 WATER
 Every succeeding twenty-four hours. The course of the main will be along Stone Avenue to Congress street, where ! further reduction will be made, thence to any desired limit
 All mains south of Congress street unning east and west will be of the anne capacity as the principal one on Stone Avenue, thus guaranteeing sup 'ly fully adequate to every want.
 Work will be commenced in the course f about ten days and pushed rapidly onward to its completion, the time of 'hich will not exceed ninety days. It , the purpose of the Company to 0 construct their works as to secure and continuous flow. subject 9 cessation from no cause other than han those over which man has no con- -oL Mr. Sylvester Watts, a man of reat experience as a successful origin tor and manager of many similar en- arprises, will have immediate charge of le affair. It is his purpose to construct . the water -head a "fobay" or eoffer am made of timber and stone to be sunk ito the gravel for depth of eight feet ' nd the water percolating through the 7 ean and polished gravel entering the l 3-inch main leading to the,c city. The .. 'bay will be of sufficient height as to , snder it impossible for any surface , ater of any quality whatever to enter. I he supply will be thus kept pure and ee from outside contamination, so that Y its delivery in thls city 1t will be as C ure as when it first rippled down the : ourtaiu sides.