Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-17
BOARD OF CITY TRUSTEES.
THE AMADOR CANAL COMPANY
ACCEPTS THE CITY'S OFFER.
The Bond Question Again - New
Walks to be Laid in the Plaza
No Chinese Need Apply.

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bers present. Trustee Nielsen said his at
ten ton had been called to the fact that
Chinese were employed in the capacity of
janitors at the Crocker Art Gallery. He
said the property now belongs to the city,
and although the latter is not paying the
expense of maintaining the same, still the
employment of Chinese in or around that
institution was a violation, not only of city
ordinances but of State laws also. Further
consideration of the matter was deferred
for one week, and during the interim the
same will be investigated.
The City Auditor was directed to adver-
tise for sealed proposals for doing the city
printing and advertising, for the furnishing
of groceries, meats and vegetables to the
city prison and water taps for the Water
| Works for one year from November 30
1885.
Judge W. H. Beatty appeared before the
| Board and, in lengthy address, advised
the Trustees not to take an appeal upon
the bond question from the late decision of
Judge Mcfarland, saying that such action
| would be against the best interests of the
city. He said it was wrong to further hold
| the money in the sinking and interest fund,
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trial. and that the Board should direct that
| the same be dismissed. He said the appeal
Of the City Treasurer was unwarranted
| and II he chose to act in defiance of the
| Board in this matter it would be an easy
matter to remove him from the Office and
| appoint some one who would act III accord
ance with the instructions of the Trustees.
He said he appeared, not as an attorney
| representing those who held bonds against
| the lIIf m haltalf nf : he IaI H.
| Commissioners. OF the money on hand,
100000, or perhaps $4,000, of it will go
| to the Funded Debt Commissioners, and if
that money was in their hands now they
could buy up bonds for 40 cents on the dol
lar and perhaps less. This should be done,
and done Immediately. One thingis certain.
he said the money on hand at present is
doing the city no good whether it is other
! persons or not, lie was not prepared to saw. |
| The appeal sought TO be made by the
| Treasurer would only tend TO tie the money
up for an indefinite period, and the CITY
would suffer great financial loss thereby
Mayor Brown said he had heard, unoffi-
cially, that the Treasurer intended obeying
| the order of the Board. He also believed
| that bonds could be purchased for less than
40 cents. he agreed fully with the remarks
of Judge Beatty, and the clerk was directed
TO ask the City Treasurer, the City Attor-
ney AID Judge Beatty TO meet with the
Board at 10 A. NJ. Tuesday, November 18th,
| TO further consider the matter
THE BLUE LAKES WATER PROJECT.
Mayor Brown read the following resolu-
| ton
WHEREAS, The Amador Canal and Mining
Company has made proposition to supply the
city of Sacramento with /, 100 0O0O 900 gallons of
fresh, clear, potable water from the Blue Lakes
| and Mokelumne river, to be delivered into the
| city main, on | street. through an iron or steel
| pipe, and under gTavtation pressure equal to |
the best fire pressure attainable with the system
at present in use, at cost of $50 coo per annum;
| and whereas, a committee of this Board accom-
| panied by the City Engineer and several citi- |
! ems nave VISITED and examined the source of
supply and works of said company; and it is
! believed that said company can deliver such
| quantity OF water of the desired quality, by the
| construction of proper works for that purpose
at less figure than that proposed, it is there
| fore
Resolred. That the First Trustee Mayor of
said city, be, and he is, hereby authorized, en-
| powered and instructed TO enter into negotia- |
| tons and make a contract on behalf of the city
| OF Sacramento with said Amador Canal and
Mining Company for the delivery to this CITY in
| the manner aforesaid, of an ample supply. not
! less than eleven hundred millions of gallons
annually, of clear, fresh. potable water, through
an iron or steel pipe, TO be delivered into the |
city main on ! street. under gravitation press
| ure to be determined by him and expressed in |
| such contract, at the annual sum or price to be |
PAID by the city of $4,000; such contract to run
| Tor the term OF - years and to contain such |
| other conditions and details as may be neces |
sary for the protection of the interests of said !
| city. and as the said Mayor, by and with the |
advice of the other members Of the Board may |
! agree upon with the said Amador Canal and |
Mining Company The city in no event to be
| come liable for any expense or sum of money |
| whatever until the works shall have been com |
pleted by said company and the water delivered !
accordingly to the terms of conditions of such |
contract |
Trustee Nielsen suggested that action |
upon the resolutions be delayed for one |
week
]. w. Haines, former resident of this |
city and one of the largest stockholders in |
the Amador Canal Company, then adj |
dressed the Board. He said: -" 1t would |
suit us, if you would act promptly in this |
matter. The price agreed upon is very
much less than was anticipated Few per |
sons have an idea of the herculean task be- |
fore us We will be compelled to pipe from |
u point near the town of Plymouth. For |
several miles above that village the water |
| is conducted through pipes and in light |
| fumes. One reason we desire prompt |
action is, that all the material for our pipe |
! has to come from Germany, and its transit |
by vessel around the Horn will occupy |
from SIX to eight months. The pipe will |
| be nearly forty miles in length and |
as 600 per annum is a much smaller |
sum than we expected to obtain, we have
| concluded, in view of the fact that we have
| an abundance of water, to increase the size |
of the pipe, and in his way secure a
revenue along the line by selling power to
mills and water to farmers. The pipe will |
be from 26 to 2S inches in diameter. As
soon as you pass the resolutions. we can
| commence making the trench in which the
| pipe is to be buried This ought to be dug
during the winter months while the ground
| is moist. The trench will be four feet deep.
! and the pipe fully two feet under ground.
The pipe is buried for two reasons. First,
to keep the water cool, and secondly. to
prevent it from being in any ones way.
One hundred and eighty feet fall will give
you seventy tiye-pound pressure; but you
can have any desired pressure YOU de-
sire. We would like to give YOU all the
pressure your system of mains will stand.
1t has been frequently stated that by this
| system you would at certain seasons of the
year get muddy water. The snow belt
wherein lie the Blue lakes is some thirty
| four miles from Plymouth Our fumes.
pipes and canals throughout that distance
will be carefully protected from all wash of
hilisides and ravines. We have to protect
our bitches in the same manner that rail
road tracks are protected. There will at no
season of the year be muddy water. and at
all times it will be absolutely pure We
have, by the construction of a stone dam.
increased the storage capacity of the lakes
to SIX times their original size having
raised the water in them over twenty feet,
so that there is not the slightest fear of
failure of supply. The lakes cover upwards
of 600 acres, in basin where the snow
lies until late in the season. The altitude
of the lakes is 5, 400 feet. There is no wash,
and very little vegetable growth in or
around the lakes nearly all kind of vege-
tation ceasing at that altitude"
Mr.. Haines said he lived near the head
of Carson valley in the State of Nevada
twenty miles distant from the Blue Lakes
The water comes down now to Plymouth.
In the next FIVE or six miles there is fall
of 1,5O0 feet. This pressure would burst
all the mains in this city, so it will there
be allowed to escape into reservoir. For
that purpose a small rocky canyon has
been selected, where a stone dam can be
constructed, and the water be kept per-
fectly pure, as the reservoir Will be entirely
free from all communicating influences.
Mr.. Nielsen said he thought it best to de-
lay action for one week, and let the public
have chance to consider the matter. We
have agreed to the price 600. The
term of years for which the contract is to
run is a very important matter. Within
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