Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20

portunity to work the oonvicts by night as well /
as by day If Gecessa Y.
The electric power generated from the dyna-
mos can be applied 10 the quarry deTricks, and
TO improved machinery for drilling and dressing
stone, decreasing the cost of the quarry and
stone yard, while largely increasing the output.
When this is done, we viii not have utilized
hali the power at our command, and we will
be III position to operate any kind Of factory
that may be deemed advisable by the Legis-
iature or your honorable body.
\ BOYS EXPLORATORY
Is one OF the crying needs of this State, where
the youthful criminal, convicted for the first
time, may be segregated from the older and
more hardened criminal, and an effort made to
reclaim him before vice has taken too deep
root. That can never be done il our State
Prisons. We have at present near one hundred
boys under the age of % years that under no
circumstances should be allowed to mingle with
the older criminals. There is au Industrial
School in San Francisco. but it is city institu-
ton, aud not fitted by location or surroundings
for a State Reiormatory.
The purchase OF a tract of land adjoining this
prison and the location of rcformatofy for
boys would afford an opportunity to utilize all
the power derived from the canal. 1t can read
| lily be conveyed by electric wires in sufficient
quantities to give the boys course of meehan-
ical training that will fit them for useful citi-
| zens upon their discharge.
| The entire tract can be placed under high
| state of cultivation, being irrigated by the
4 waters o. the canal, pumped to amy hight upon
| the surrounding hills practically free of cost,
anu ll1b hGNS call gwen practical lessons III
vitle1 ture and agriculture that will furnish
| them q vocation whereby they can cara an hon
| est HVipg. In Australia the prisons conduct an
| experimental farm, under the direction of the
| Government Board o. Agriculture, with good
| results and my Judgment is, that il would well
| reuay tho OUTLAY III this State.
/ submit herewith estimates OF the cost of put
ting in the necessary building NJ the stat fall
| for the purpose OF utilizing the power; also,
| estimates for the necessary water-wheeis, two
| fOrty-horse dynamos for lighting the prison and
grounds by night and running the quarry der
| cks in the daytime, together with cost oi
electric plant for lighting purposes also, &
pump Sufficient to raise 700,0G0 gallons of water
daily TO hight of 800 feet with the necessary
piping for the same, and the co of reservoir
These estimat are for the necessary cash
outlay, the work to be done by convict labor
| also present estimates tor iron stone sewer
pipe for sewerage. As these things Will be
necessary for the next Leg stature to make tbs
appropriation, and ask your r. commentator
to that effect.
ESTIMATES FOR UTILIZING WATER POWER.
Buuding-1S5 feet by 90 feet
Iron 70 If and sky-light..... SIS, 70S 70
Main nhoor....-....-.........-.... l,3g %
Puwer-room hoOr............. l0.o5l p
Cement q 500 barrels. ....... 5,l15 90
- s36, ,065 O9
Necessary gate with appliances ......... S,1S6 3
Machinery to operate slme................ 29OS0 G
One plunger pump............... s4,Sii %
1900 feet iron pipe, with at
tachmentS, 10-inch.....,..... 5000 %
0Si4 Oh
Lighting prison grounds and buildings
Two 10-horse-pOwer dy
| nam0S.............................S a, 800 90
600 incandescent and l6
arc lGmpS........-........... $50 %
-Four 2O-horse-poWer mo-
tors, with fixtures ......... 5000 90
Wire................... zoo 90
Sewer system complete. $500 0
Incidental expenses...................... 5Si