Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-08

proposition is beset with difficulties, and
/ have as yetreached no satisfactory con-
clusion with reference it.
Segregating the amounts of the re-
ceipts and expenditures in the different
departments (all Of which are grouped in
the Auditors showing) as far as seems to
be necessary.
The following Is statement Of the
affairs of the
|, zANJERo's oFFfeR.
The receipts, expenses and improve
ments of the irrigating system, for the
past year, up to date are as follows;
Receipts $l3, $50 03
General expenses ........ l3,630 80
improvements ........... ll,G07 81
Total expenses. ..... $50, 23S so
The approximate length and cost Of
the various sized pipes, in the system,
are as follows:
Twenty-Five inch pipe, 1852
Thirty inch pipe, 700 feet, cost $50 90
Sixteen inch pipe, 2.074 feet.
COST ............ l,oO4 w
Brick, conduit and canal, 79l
feet, cost..... 6,936 4O
In many instances the property owners
have paid one half the expense OF piping
across their property.
The embankment OF Reservoir No.
3, has been raised SIX or eight feet at an
expense OF 81 200 to the city, the citi.
zens supplied by the reservoir volunteer
M, N ra;so 1I nOh ,,oro 30 l.. a-.,-,
priated TO the work.
The following work is nov in progress;
On Zsnja No. 1, 1850 feet OF sixteen
inch pipe to be laid at a cost of SOB 50.
On Zanja No. 0-E, an iron pipe to be
laid across the Arroyo Secn. distance of
2,6l6 feet at cost OF S7,6lll0.
The water question i, one OF vital i'm.
portancc to u.s. Properly developed, hus.
banded and DISTRIBUTED from the rev.
enue derived from the sale Of water, the
entire expenses of tue city government
can and should be paid, Independent of
any, every and all other resources. Tax.
alton can be done away with, and the
license system for revenue abolished.
We want cotton, wool, paper, and dozens
of other sorts of factories here. You
have within your borders power suf-
ficieut to turn hall the spindles of Low
ell. Let us harness and put it to work
BY so doing we need not diminish its
tbirst-quenching or fructifying useful
ness to any extent whatever. Men
stand ready to pay you enormous sums
for the use Of this motive power. You
have now corps of engineers in the
field whose duty it is to get together
facts and to devise practical plans for
storing and utilizing in the most econom-
ical manner this great source of
wealth. But you must not sit idle.
Be up and doing, providing ways
and means to carry out such suggestions
and plans as shall meet with your ap.
proval; let not another dry season find
us in the same predicament as the one
just passed, with our streams, more prec-
ious than Pactolian river, running to
waste in unproductive sand, aud our
people crying out, s'Give us water to irri-
gate our crops, else they perish" I
suggest that you prepare now to prompt
ly ask permission of our citizens to issue
bonds to raise money in an amount suffi.
cient to carry ont, at least to some ex-
tent, the most important parts Of well
digested plan in the PREMISE.
HEALTH OFFICE.
For the year ending December, 3lst
1888, we find the expenses of the de-
pertinent to be as follows.
Salary of Health Officer =. SlO75 90
Hire. of conveyances, etc., for
quarantining g........... l7I0O
Total .......... sl246. 90