The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-03-10
THOSE EAST WACO PONDS.
SHOULD the Railroads Assist ina
Sheir Drainage?

Should Inc ksafkfO&us Assist ia
1 1heir Drainage?
All of our readers have noticed,
through the proceedings OF the city
council and articles in the EXAMINER,
that several very bad ponds exist IN
East Waco, and the council has for
long time been puzzled as to how to get
rid of them. Citizens not living in the
vicinity have no doubt rested under
that natural Indifference which
is common to all when they themselves
are not annoyed. 1t in nevertheless a
fact that large number of East Waco
people have been annoyed and have
been sending up prolonged and Just
cry. Not only are those ponds general
inconvenience and public nuisance,
but they are standing menace to the
health of the city, and those people
under whose eye they rest over there
would not be doing themselves, their
| families, or the citizens justice,
unless they raised strong objections.
| To all the complaints from that sill lie of
the river the council las given an atten-
tive ear, and with the limited resources
of the city, has always evinced willing
ness to appropriate all that could be
spared, and even more, when there was
any chance to do any good. Alderman
McLaren, Of the street and public i'm
provement committee, Mayor Sturgis,
Aid rman Tibbs and others have given
the question of draining these ponds in
| Eas Waco attention, and the city is 90
| ing to do all that corporation can to
have the work done. Alderman Nc
Laren has not only fulfilled his official
mission, but has actually given of his
time when it was a detriment to his bust
| ness, and hardly day has passed when
he has not had his carriage or buggles
out, either using them himself or loaned
to others to | ok af er the clty's inter
ests, and everybody Will admit that IN
the last two months to take a rig out
and go from one limit of the city to the
other meant damage to some extent. In
company with Alderman McLaren, an
EXAMINER reporter yesterday went to
East Waco to see why these ponds stand
in the places they do, and how they
might be drained. Passing up Elm
street, a pond several feet deep,
perhaps, in some places. reaches
all tie way from Elm street
to Mann's mill. AS we went out
the street in the direction of the old
pour-house, we saw on the left side of
the street a stream of water almost
strong enough to turn mill, running
down in ditch that has been cut and
filling up the ponds on either side back
of Watkins hide house and the Frazier
building. This is the drainage from Kel-
lums fields and other places in that vicin-
ity. Formerly all this water ran across
III natural outlet in front of the cotton
factory and Mrs. Earls residence and
then passed into Mrs. Norris field and
the branch. At the Narrow Gauge and
Missouri Pacific entertainments we find
that neither have provided means of es-
cape for it under their tracks, hence it
banks up and is thrown back and runs
down Elm street, to continually swell the
two ponds spoken of. In front of Mrs.
Earrs, or west Of her house, moro prop
erly speaking, is now Il pond which
reaches NJ to the Narrow Gauge EN-
bankment and by it is prevented from
seeking the natural drainage it enjoyed
before the road was built. Still further
east has been another pond, and some
water still stands there. The company
cut ditch to carry it away, but instead
of passing it under their track
they throw it back into what
has now become known as Lake
Cameron" Netr Mrs. Earles residence,
where the natural drainage channel 8,
neither the Narrow Gauge or Missouri
Pacific have provided any outlet for this
water, and hence it stands there until it
gets SO high that the surplus runs down
Elm street, as We have already
st ted. Directly to the south of
the lake, the Narrow Gauge has
a passage way under its track, but
the Missouri Pacific has not, and to cut |
a ditch to carry the water through the |
making the lake larger, as it cannot pos
That road has not between the east |
bank of the river and the east city linn
its any means for the escape of
this water, and before the
road was built there were two
natural channels in which it run. The
Narrow Gauge shuts off the discharge
source of the upper ponds and throws
them back ON Elm and into the big
pond. The II. and L. c. shuts off all
natural drainage of the big pond to the
river by its fill around the depots. Any
person who will look under the cotton
wharf opposite the pa senger depot
can see the natural earth and
notice on the outside how much
ill there is. We believe that it can be
reasonably and clearly established that
the three railroads are to large extent,
il not wholly responsible for these ponds
in the city, and, by all means,
they should assist III removing them.
If the Narrow Gauge and Missouri Paci-
lie will open the way for the water to
pass under their tracks, and haul the tile
rom ST. Louis, for the city, sewers can
be put in that will drain all these ponds
and the Central should help put in the
sewer from the big pond to the river,
or "a part of the company's property is
lnder water. These ponds must be got
Id of in some way, for the convenience
and general health of citizens demand
t, and the city is least OF all responsible
or their existence. Nature provided
IN outlet which has been cut off on all
ildes by these corporations, we do not
mean to say purposely, but the incon-
yenience Is there all the same. We
lave assurances that for the best inter
,sts of all, the city is willing to do all
hat III reason or equity could be re-
lulred of her, and those who will inves-
igate will decide that the railroads
hould do their part. The management
If the different corporations we do not
'elive wish to trample upon the rights
If either the city or the citizens, and we
lope that before the season of sickness
omes on these unsightly, unhealthy
Iuisances may be removed
Pain from Indigestion. dyspepsia and
90 hearty eating is relieved at once by
aking one of Carriers Liver Pills imme-
i tely after dinner. Don't forget this.
'or sale by Tucker & Willis.-0300lw
Five hundred bushels of seed oats for
ale at Bart Moore's.-020stc