Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-23
CITY TRUSTEES.
s ,ecIfications for New Water works ma
chinery-School Election.

s ,ecIfications for New Water WORKS Ma
chinery-School Election.
The Board of City Trustees met IN regu-
lar session yesterday morning, all the
members present.
The Clerk of the Board was directed to
advertise for sealed proposals for doing the
city printing, for furnishing prison supplies
and water taps. He was also directed to
give ten days notice that city election
will be held on Monday, December 9th, for
four School Directors Zone for each ward
and to decide whether or not tax should
be levied to assist the Northern California
immigration Association;
nefition with long list of signatures
| was presented to the Board, calling their
attention to the disgraceful and deplorable
condition of the drainage canal below the
city. The citizens in that vicinity have
much to complain of, and justly so, too.
The authorities should remedy the evil.
and if they dump the sewage OF the city
upon a mans farm in all its rotienness
and disease-breeding condition, they should
either nav him proper damages or make
some effort to take careof the sewage. The
petition sets forth that the canal below
the bridge at Sutterville is practically no
canal at all, and consequently the filth
collects above and becomes fetid mass of
deadly poison, the effects of which are felt
for miles around.
The petition was referred to Street Com
missioner Ryan, who promised to attend to
it without moments delay.
If the case is one-haif as bad as repre-
sented, and the complainants areall honor
able persons, it is a matter that should at
once engage the attention of the Health Of
ficer and the local Board of Health. If it
is true as stated, that from it arises foul
odors laden with disease germs, then every
breeze that blows from the south brings
poison to our city.
The Street Commissioner was directed to
advertise for sealed proposals for the i'm
provemeut of Twenty-fourth street, from X
to Y, according to specifications on file.
The grade on the street has been established
as follows At S street, 20 feet above low
water mark in the river at T, 1871 feet; U,
III feet; " II feet W, 16 feet; X, III feet;
Y, % feet.
The CITY Engineer was directed to pre-
pare plans and specifications for the i'm
provement of Twenty fourth street, from
L to G, as per resolution passed by the
Board September Goth, and to make an es-
innate of the cost of the same. The Street
Commissioner was directed to advertise for
bids for doing the work according to the
plans and specifications.
One OF the principal advantages that was
urged in favor of the Blue Lake water, was
that it dispensed with all pumping ma
chinery, and in that way would be a great
saving to the city, besides giving our citi-
zens clear water, as pure>as the snow itself
and as health-giving as any to be obtained
in the higher Sierras. hat the old Holly
is worn out, everybody knows, and that at
any time breakdown will occur, no one
doubts. and were it not for the old-reliable
Stevens pump the people of this city
might be alarmed The Trustees evidently
don't intend to give the citizens what
they want-mountain water, with hydraulic
pressure, and now comes the third Trustee
with another scheme with the old Holly
Manufacturing Company, of Lockport, n.
Y. They want 1914, 600 for another pump.
1t is stated that this pump, the Gaskill, will
pump 100000 gallons every twenty-four
hours. The matter was referred to the
City Engineer and the Chief Engineer of
the Water Works. IF the matter is left
to a vote of the people remarked citi-
zen last evening, there will be no more
Holly pumps purchased. What we want
require should have, and proper care of
the health of the city demands, is mount
ain water"
After auditing a number of bills, the
Board adjourned.