Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-05-07
AT LAST
Mexico Gets a Move on Herself.
New Hitching Racks.
CROSSINGS TO THE COURT HOIrSE.
SIDEWALK TO CEMETERY.
Water Works-The Ledger Happy.

front. You can't keep a good town
down. The editor of the LEDGER
called on the county court Monday
and invited them in a body to be a.
the council meeting Monday night.
CROSSINGS TO COURT HOUSE.
The county court, ever ready to do
all in their power for the good of the
county, came in a body and made a
proposition to the council to furnish
timber for good crossings to the
court house if the city would put the
same down. The proposition was
promptly accepted and the matter
will be attended to at once, and so
taxpayers won't have to swim into
the court house to pay their taxes.
HITcHNG RACKS.
The county court has also ordered
the sheriff to repair the hitching
racks and paint the court house fence,
and what has so long been an eye
sore will be an ornament as we'll as
useful for what it was intended.
SIDEWALK TO CEMETERY.
At the same meeting of the council
r. NJ. White, editor of the LEDGER,
proposed to the council that if the
city would pay one-half of the cost
of a sidewalk from the city limits to
the cemetery he would agree to raise
by subscription the other half. The
ground will at nee be surveyed and
inside of a month the walk will be
down, unless we are badly mistaken
in the sentiment of the people of
Mexico. CSee editorial in another
column.
WATER WORKS.
VIM. Pollock was also before the
council and made the following prop
osition for water works:
Proposition to furnish the city of
Mexico with a supply of water for
general use
To make an artificial lake with ca
pacity to contain forty million gallons
of water. The land covered by the
lake and also sufficient land on which
to erect buildings for pumping pur-
poses to be decided in fee simple to
the city of Mexico. The overflow
dam for carrying off the surplus
water to be of rock laid in cement.
All trees and brush to be removed
from the ground to be covered by
the water.
To lay one and one-half miles OF
8 inch water pipe, one-half mile OF
6 inch and one mile of 4 inch water
pipe, and to place twenty-five by.
drants having two 2 1-2 inch nozzles
each. To erect adjoining the city
hall one iron frame sixty feet high on
substantial stone foundation and tc
build thereon of wood a tank "a fee
in diameter and 20 feet in height
having a capacity of over fifty thou
sand gallons.
The upright pipe to connect mair
, pipe with the bottom of tank, said
pipe tn he II inches in diameter anf
to be inclosed so as to be protected
from freezing. The main pipe con,
meeting with the upright pipe shall
= have a stop or gate valve to shut of
water from the tank, so that in cas-
of fire and a large quantity of watel
shall be required 1t can be thrown
with high pressure direct from thu
g pump.
To purchase a pump with sufficien
capacity to do the necessary pump
e ing, pump to be located at the mil
but at the expiration of ten years i
to be removed to a suitable building
? to be erected on the ground adjoin
ing the lake. To operate this puml
h and keep all machinery and waite
works property in good repair for tn
period of ten years from date of con
t tract. At the end of ten years tn
city of Mexico is to have full posses
sion of said pump and other waite
I works property. To furnish the cit,
of Mexico with water for use in ex
tinguishing fires, in washing out sew
ers and supplying four troughs o
public watering places to be locates
by the council, the water at thes
four watering places to be used onl
for watering stock from the troughs
In consideration of the above tn
/. city of Mexico shall issue bonds t
VIM. Pollock & Co. for fifty thousan'
dollars, bearing six per cent. interest
the bonds to be delivered from tim
to time as hereafter agreed. Polloc
& Co. are to have the right of co
lecting from private consumers fo
r use of water furnished them.
The council meets tonight to cor
slider the water works question. G
course the proposition is still in th
rough and subject to changes whic
will be agreed upon. Mexico want
water works. When we get thel
the manufactures will come of the
own accord. The council is ready I
submit a proposition and we trus
: they will confer with Mr.. Pollock an
fill out the details of his propositio
so it can be submitted. Messrs. Pc
Il lock & Co. are ready and willing
l do as we'll if not better than an
other company that has been hear
l. from and we are sure the matter ca
IS be "shaped up" so as to be just tt
thing. The entire city is waitin
. almost breathlessly the result of IL
y meeting tonight and expect tt
council OF a committee appointed, I
agree on a proposition to be submit
< ted at once.
Grand Concert ut Fulton.
The Mendelssohn Q~uintette Cit
gave their first concert last evenir
to q large audience in Mercantile 1