Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-26
ANOTHER PROPOSITION.
what the Pacific Sewerage Com
pany Says 1t VIII Do.

AS stated IN the report OF tne COuncll
proceedings yesterday morning, the Pa
cifc Sewerage Company submitted an
other proposition for taking care of the
sewage of the city. The proposition in
full was as follows:
Supplemental to the original PROPOSE
tion of the Pacific Sewerage Company to
your honorable body dated September
21, 1888, and upon the conditional ac-
ceptance of which you dispatched COM
mittee of your choice to Atlantic City, in
the State of New Jersey, to inspect and
report upon the West system of sewerage,
owned and operated by the said Pacific
Sewerage Company; and supplemental
to the unanimous affirmative report
of said committee, as we'll as supple
mental to an agreement drawn by your
City Attorney and Sewer Committee in
harmony with said original proposition
now on file with your honorable body,
but never acted upon, we beg to offer the
following:
WHEREAS, Doubts as to the efficacy of
our system, Notwithstanding the cordial
and unanimous verdict of seven of your
best people in favor thereof, have sprung
up, and
WHEREAS, Uncertainty and misunder.
standing in regard to its rights and capa-
bilities, have developed among some of
your people; and,
WAEREAs, The Pacific Sewerage Com
pany persists in maintaining the virtue of
its system, to the honor and honestyof it's
course, as we'll as the maintenance of it's
business standing, it Graves permission
to erect at its own cost and expense, at or
near the present outfall sewer, on San
Pedro street, within ninety days, ,!fltering
and deodorizing works of sufficient capac-
ity to dispose of without offense and in
convenience to health, all tine sewage now
discharged at that point, and as much
more as your body, in its wise discretion,
may conduct thither by laterals or other
wise; and if the report of your committee
sent to Atlantic City in regard to the per-
feet work of the system is verified by the
practical operations of our construction
on San Pedro street, or vicinity, and the
sewage disposed of in manner satisfac-
tory to your body, the present contract
as now existing between your city and
the said Pacific Sewerage Company shall
be carried out with the following modi-
fications, to wit:
l. The Pacific Sewerage Company will
erect the above mentioned works as
aforesaid in workmanlike manner !;
also, works of similar nature on the
southern line of the city at or near Boyle
Heights; and like works at or near the
proposed outfall sewer near the race
track; making three sets of fltering and
disposing beds or work, instead of one, as
proposed in the original proposition thus
| a q ncr tn tho aifvr tho vnooccifxy of hYrilI-
ing the several costly intercepting sewers
100000 in that direction beside the saw
ing of not less than $3.50 900 in the nom
necessity of a sewer to the sea.
2. The payment and the amount there
Of in said several plants to remain as in
the original proposition and contract, to-
wit, 500, 1000, excepting that only $25, 900
is to be paid when the San Pedro street
works are finished, working in
good order and accepted by your hon
orable body, and when you decide that
the second set of filiering beds are to be
erected, locating the same, and when the
same are finished and working in man
ner satisfactory to your body, $15, 900 is
to be paid to the said Pacific Sewerage
Company, and in like manner the bal
ance of $4,000 is to be paid when the
third bed is ordered to be built, finished
and working in an acceptable way the
annual payment Of $4,000 to remain as
in original contract, unless franchise of
fifty years be granted to the said Pacific
Sewerage Company to receive or to dis
pose of and use for its own purposes all
the sewerage of your city, whereupon it
is hereby agreed that the Pacific Sewer
age Company will receive and dispose of
all said sewage of your city for fifty years
for nothing, and without cost to your
municipality.