Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-06-12
Or Rather il Does not Work
the City Council Table the
Proposition.
Arguments For and Against at
the Meeting Last Night-A
Mass Meeting.
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.


meeting of the city council last even
ing, Mayor Schsetz aud Aldermen
Brown. Bullsrd, and Holt presented
themselves at the council chamber at
the appointed hour; the full board be-
ing present with the exception of Aid.
Flsger, who was out OF town. The
special business Of the meeting was to
hear the proposition submitted by
Geo. f. Woolston for furnishing the
city with water supply for domestic
and fire purposes. The proposition,
which is Ia the form OF an ordinance
and OF consequence extremely
lengthy aud verbose, may be briefed
a. follows:
For a twenty years franchise Mr..
Woolston proposes to put in direct
pressure or "HolIyn system, which
shall at all times during the life of the
franchise, be adequate to the demands
of the city as to supply, and shall give
a domestic pressure Of twenty pounds
to the square inch and fire pressure
Of fifty pounds TO the square inch. He
proposes to lay three miles of mains at
the outset, which is stated TO be sufli.
eient for full fire protection at the pres.
ent time. On the art Of the city, he
requires that ii shall take ten fire
hydrants to the mile of mains, or
thirty bydrsnts and pay therefor q
yearly sum of Que hundred dollars per
| hydrsnt, orthree thousand dollars per
year. Il, at any time, the council
order him to lay more mains, he en-
cages to do IL on the condition that the
city take one hydrant for each one
tenth mile of pipe at seventy-tive dol.
lars per year. The maximum rates to
private consumers are fixed at $l.25
per month for houses Of four rooms
and Sl.50 per month for houses OF more
than four rooms; private bath tubs 33
cents per month; private water closets
80 cents per month; private wash
basins % cents per month; lawn
sprinklers $500 per year or sl.0O per
month to parties who use water in
houses, or Sl2,OO per year or Sl.5O per
month to others. The franchise asked
for is not exclusive in its terms, but IL
practically 50, rs the city would have
to grow enormously to warrant an
other company putting In a plant and
entering into competition with az es-
tablished company.
The proposition was read by the
clerk and then bee lme the subject of
discussion. In response to the sugges.
tioa made by the JOURNAL, that the
citizens generally attend the meeting
and give the council the benefit of
their views on the matter, there were
present Walter Il. Jordan, John
Wright, Ed Campbell, w. f..
Sohmalsle, b. Ullman, C.. r. Middle
ton, NJ. G.. Naples, John Fox and
Others whose names are not remem-
bered, The members Of the council
one and Nil appeared TO feel that it
was matter involving too much ex-
pense to the city to be acted upon
hastily, and were disposed to table the
proposition. Aid. Brown was decid-
edly of the opinion that the city was
in no condition to undertake such a
heavy yearly expenditure, and thought
In our present condition We could get
along very well without water works.
The other members of the council and
the mayor had talked with taxpayers
In relation to the proposed improve
ment aud found some In favor Of IL
and some against Il, leaving them in
an undecided state of mind as to
whether the acceptance OF the PROPOSE.
tIon would meet with public endorse
ment or not.
From the outside Mt. Jordan, Mr.
Middleton, Mr.. Wright and Mr.,
Campbell were heard from. Mr.. Jor
dan was of Ithe opinion that the com
munity were already burdened witt
oil the taxes they could pay, and tha
the addition Of water tax nj thil
. time would work more hardship thar
the resulting benefits would offset
He dlsbelieved the statement otter
made that competent system o
water works would reduce insurauc,
rates. and 10 support Of his assertion
produced recent issue Of the Pionee
Press containing a statement on th,
authority Of Msndau Oak. CORES
, pondenl, that while Bismarck snC
Mandan were equipped with thor
ough water systems, there had beer
no reduction in insurance rates an,
demands made on companies dolnI