The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-20
MORE WELLS, MORE WATER.

WOnE WGGLOt MonG Wal En-
The want OF sufficient supply of
water in this city is fact disputed by
no one. Its impurity, total unfitness
for use time after time in nearly every
season Is another undisputed fact, at
least by any business firm or family
at all dependent upon it. Talk greater
than that around an Indian pow.wew,
or in as great volume as is ever wit.
messed in State legislature, has been
INDUCED over propositions to increase
tho supply, but with no practical out
come. This paper has continually
kept the matter before the public and
urged action on the part of the city,
but without practical results. The
city continues to grow rapidly and the
demands and necessities for more
water to multiply, bnt the volume is
no larger nor the quality any better
IL begins to look as II we were doomed
at no distant day TO experience tho
inconvenience and dangers of most
serious water famine.
Under such circumstance, there mp
pears for the residents, and for even
the business establishments, in less
degree, but one alternative. We must
have more wells and cisterns in Da'
las. In such all emergency, in such
an important matter, it may prove sui
cidal to depend much longer for water
on an inadequate supply and seeming
Indifference on the subject in success
sivo city councils. And no men in
Dallas are more directly Interested In
the matter than the property ownors,
whether they own their homes, or
whether they build to rent.
There are hundreds OF little dwell
lines in this city dependent exclusive
ly for water on the city water works,
either the hydrant in the yard
or house, or tho wat6r-wagons Tho
presence of a hydrant puts an add.
tional dollar por month on the rent of
tho house, which either the renter
mast pay or tho landlord 10 Sc, to say
nothing OF the Inconvenience, often
tho want OF supply aud always TIE
menace to tho hoalth Of the inmatoa
Tho house with IL good we'll or cistern
is worth to any family from $50 to $50
per year more thsu a house equally
desirable but for the hydrant water or
want of any water. In few years
half tho houses could be paid for by
the cost ensuing from tho absence of u
well or cistern. Those who have had
TO occupy those undesirable promises
know these statements to be ta3ts.
The cost OF two years water, either to
the renter or to the landlords, whose
property il less valuable, always
Objectionable, and often without an
occupant, wonld oSGily place we'll or
olstern on tho lot, Renters arc moro
easily secured, better rents are Oh
tained, insurance rates arc lower and
the property generally rendered more
valuable by the addition Of q we'll or
goodly sized cistern.
1t was for awhile thought that West
err Texas would suffer in tho way of
growth and development for tho want
of water aud the almost imposslbility
of obtaining il, but tho plonoers in that
field went brsVoiy to work and in
many portions sunlciency OF VOLS
has settled tho question satisfactorily.
Such 10 now the case In Abilene. A
recent issue of tho Abilene Reporter
contains tho following tom:
"It the success in Obtaining wells of
wator suitable for All purposes con-
tlnuos, the water-wagou industry will
soon bs at discount and rule con-
sidorably below par. A great many
OF our citizens have succeeded in oh
tanning good wGtor, and the Reporter
did II with its little ant.bod theory.
In view OF the fact that water Is found
AZ such y dry time OF tho year, IL can
be taken as n pretty safe indication
that the wells will DO lasting. Good
wells are becoming quite common
aud those who want them only have
to dig short depth aud tho water Is
there. The theory that thoro was M
water In this country has been OK
ploded,"
Under such circumstances as W,
have noted, no community ought "a
DO moro promptly or iudustriously en-
gagged in digging wells aud clstorus 1t
every yard, whether thai Of
dwelling or u business house
than Dallas. ThOy have become ali
soluto necessities. But we desire {
! see slill IN honest effort 90 make tn
city's public supply larger and better
r There must DO no relaxation Their,
l Fortunately tho river Ia here Rlway
TO afford an adequate quantity for fir
a. d flushing snd sprinkliug and eve
washing purposes, There ought 10 l
one kind OF water In tho street and fit
: plugs, and the latter should be MOI
numerous, and another aud puror vi
ter for tho pipes Ia business hOus,
:, and dwellings. Every good citizen,
do we, desires TO SEQ our watcr worl
vastly improved, but, In the meo
time, We want the great bulk OF u
population to become Independent
n tho public supply, both in the intere
?. OF health and convenience and u
p value and greater security of proper
a Of sll kinds. I. Ia matter worthy
g serious consideration by every pro
N erty owner IN Dallas.
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