St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-06
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DISBURSEMENTS
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Balance S9,I2O 90
The general water receipts. including
high and low service and meters. were
SIS. 1854. an apparent increase of S5S,-
3s34 q. but from This should be deducted
$40. 155.25 and added to last years re-
ceiptS. being amount due by the city
for water for fire department to June l,
1888. making an actual increase of S20,-
023.74. of which 81. 402.07 was from high
service. $10.4S7.39. from low service and
Sl34.26 from the water consumers.
Contracts have been let during the
year amounting to s2SS. T44.67. The
bonded debt of the city for water works
purposes has been increased during the
year by the issue of $2OO000 of AZ per
cent bonds. The 100000 of old water
cOmpany's per cent bonds have been
paid during the year by the issue of an
equal amount of - per cent city bonds,
a saving of $500 annually in interest.
The present BONDED debt is s., 3G0, 00U.
and the annual interest Is Slf0.205. and
is paid from the revenues of the works.
There are now in use 354 meters, an i'll
crease of 20 over last year. -
The $S0,690 for construction includes
the s35, 900 expended for the Lake Bald
win extension, aud covers the pump
house. pumps. canal and right Of,way.
The balance of the construction funds
were disposed of in completing pay
! ments OH the big reservoir for the high
service, finished last year, -
SERVICE STATISTICS.
The total number of water connections
to date is reported at 9,D52, of which
4,721 are with the tow service and 1881
with the reservoir system. These fig
ures show an increase of 7.04fz house
connections since the city purchased the
water in 1882. There Isis services made
during the past year, 1891 with the
reservoir system and 49l with the low
pressure service. What most interests
the consumer is the price of water, next
TO having plenty of il, aud the secretary
submits figures that are encouraging.
The present rate is IS per year for four
room houses. 81 for fiTe-room houses
| and 80 cents for each additional room,
| with meter rate ranging from 10 10 20
cents per 1000 gallons. Last July re-
| duction of 81 was made ON house rates
| and about % per cent on meters. Three
years ago the lowest house rate was $40.
Interesting information is also found
| in the report of Superintendent John 3.
OVertOn. The system at present en-
! braces total of 1861 miles Of mains, of
which nearly thirty-siX miles we've laid
4 during the past season. There has been
| lSoplaced 337 new fire hydrants, max
| ing a total of 1,47l. The Hamline sys-
/ TEN, of three and 0ne-haif miles, was
\ completed May %. Notwithstanding
| the fact that there were fifty
three petitioners for the system, there
! have been but seventeen water
| takers since the completion of
! the extension, and seven of these are
owners of new buildings. The st. An
| thOny Park system, completed Nov. S,
already has forty consumers along its
| five miles of mains. The two-mile eX-
tension to WarrendaIe, and the work.
| house has six connections. A consider
| able proportion of the proposed Macal-
| ester extension was abandoned On ac-
count of poor sewerage and cannot be
| completed until sewers are built.
! The surface water encountered
| almost everywhere in the district
made il impossible TO maintain n.y.
| drantS. One mile of main was built
| down Smelling avenue to the college
| and has six connections. Superintend-
ent OvertOn recommends the cOnstruc-
| ton of twenty-one additional miles Of
| mains next year at an estimated cost of
| Si44, 419. Three miles of low service
mains are recommended for the West
Seventh street district. and eighteen
miles of high service on st. Anthony
hill, in Midway. In the Rice street dis
! friction Arlington hills and on Dayton's
| bluff.