Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-12
CITY TRUSTEES.
The Question of Sewerage Again to the
Tront-RaiIroad Franchises.


showed that during the past week 1897 ,25t
gallons of water had been pumped, the
c. P. pump having been used u hours and
the Holly 1856 There were present quite a
large number of citizens, all having bust.
ness of no little importance.
A petition was presented, signed by eighty
residents or property in the vicinity
of Seventeenth and r streets. setting forth
that The drainage canal running along
Seventeenth street from X to Y is moi
covered over and that in summer time the
water would become stagnant, and be in.
furious TO the health of persons living in
that portion of the city.
Matt. f. johnson addressed the Board in
regard to the matter, and urged that some
means be employed so that during the
coming summer the nuisance would be
abated.
Mayor Gregory stated that the Board had
the subject under consideration several
months ago, but owing to the lack OF
necessary funds nothing could be done in
the matter. However, that would be
remedied when the tax levy was made.
The petition was placed On file and will be
considered in few weeks.
a petition signed by a majority OF
property-owners on the alley between Sixth
and Seventh, J and X streets, was received,
asking permission of the Board to lay an
artificial walk in the alley. The matter
was referred to the Street Commissioner.
G. ]. Cross asked permission to construct
a sidewalk on Y street in front of his lots
in Highland Park, and the Street Com
missioner will look into the matter.
A remonsrance against improving
Twelfth street, from B to n, was received,
and the excess of property owners against
grading being 23l3 feet, the intended i'm
provement will undoubtedly have to be
given up, and that street will shortly cease
to be a thoroughfare.
a petition to grade Nineteenth street,
from E 10 G. was referred to Trustee RYAN.
Bids for grading and improving Twenty
third street from TO U, were opened and
d. NJ. Cox being the lowest bidder the'con-
tract was awarded him.
& communication received from the Fire
Commissioners stated that the estimated
expenses of the Fire Department for the
next fiscal year would be $685. 900 and asked
that tax levy sufficient to raise such
amount be made.
The City Treasurer made the following
report:
Balance on hand January 1st....~......S sos 242 AZ
Receipts during month";. 250ST 81
Total.... ...... 829 IS
Warrants paid during month. 229 II
Coupons paid during month................ COP 90
Total disbursements. .........S20 24l IL
Balance on hand February 1st...... 80. Sl0S0SS 81
Mrs. Eleanor Fuchs appeared before the
Board, and stated that she had been pay
ing taxes on four lots fronting on c street,
- hot j
track ran through the property, and she
thought it proper foi the railroad company
to pay the taxes. The matter was referred
to the City Attorney.
An order was passed granting the prop
erty-owners permission to construct side.
walks on NJ street, from Twentieth to
Twenty second, and on street, from Ninth
to Tenth.
The Mayor stated that of late there had
been considerable complaint about the way
in which the city scavenger did his work,
and he though il proper that that indiyid-
usl should be reminded of the fact.
Maurice Haley, in the midst OF the pro-
ceedings of the Board, startled every one
by shouting, all of sudden, that vener-
able chestnut: Where is that gravel!
want that gravell" He did so much talk
ing that none Of the Board could get in a
hOid, anu Tic ICSulI was ludL ne lclL WIFI
out any consolation whatever.
E K. Alsip appeared before the Board,
and stated that in behalf of the Central
Street Railway Company he wished to
withdraw his request for all franchises, ex-
cepting that one granting him the right to
lay track on Fifteenth street, from ] to
NJ on ], from Fifteenth TO Twenty-eighth,
and Twenty. eighth, from j to NJ. The mat
ter was taken under consideration.
R. S. Carey stated that under the con-
ditions which the Board had seen fit to
bind him In building his road, he did not
want any franchise at all, as he did not
wish to lay his property liable to conhsca-
ton.
DR.. J. H. Parkinson. in behalf of the I'M
provement Association, addressed the
Board in regard to the condition of the
Thirty irst-sireet canal. He said it was
bound to be very obnoxious thing in the
summer time, when the waste from the
brewery and slaughter house were being
turned into il, and that il ought to be
remedied in some manner. He said be
did not tnink it would be good policy to
lay pipe in the ditch, as some parties had
suggested, as the fall was not near suffi-
cieat; that It would amount to an enor-
nous sum TO construct one large enough
10 carry off the large volume of water the
ditch carried in the winter season. He
recommended that sewer be constructed
on Twenty-fourth street from ] to Y,
which would follow the natural line of
drainage, and be much cheaper in the end
City Engineer Bassett was called upon
for his opinion in regard to the MISTER, and
just went at the sewer and drainage ques-
ton right and left. He said that there was
no use in trying to brick up or cover either
fhaG he Netrx .
canals. If it was done the heavy matter
which would be carried into the sewers
would soon settle, and pipes sufficiently
large could not be flushed with all the
water the Waterworks in this city could
pump into them. In regard to the con-
struction of new sewer on Twenty. fourth
street from ] TO Y, Mr.. Bassett said he did
rot think il best-the city wanted sewerage
right in its midst, and not out in the sub
urbs. The drainage and sewerage of the
city now was all patchwork, and he had
plans which were almost prepared, by
which he thought tbs city could so at the
work Systematically, little at time, and
in the end have a very good system. He
would submit his plans in few days.
The question was then brought up as to
where they would empty their sewers.
After while the people living in the
W
lead TO would enjoin the city for carrying
their sewage there. They would have to
seek elsewhere. Mr.. Bassett said all the
matter from the canals and sewers should
be pumped directly into the river, as all the
towns of any importance on the river above
this city emptied the contents of their sew
ers into the river. Redding and Marysville
did this, and he did not see why Sacra-
mento could not do the same with even
more right, as there were no towns below
this city that took their, drinking water
from the river, while Sacramento had to
with the two above mentioned cities emp
tying their waste matter into the stream
He thought there would be no complaint
excepting, perchance from a few farmers,
who could be easily fixed or bought off.
Mayor Gregory said he did not think the
city had such very bad drainage system
after all. The result of bad drainage was
always sickness, and he was happy 10 say
that there are less deaths in this city from
feveis and such diseases as would arise
from accumulation of foul matter, than any
other city in the United States in proper
ton 10 its sizs. DR.. Nichols sustained the
Mayor in the matter and said that Sacra-
mento was undoubtedly one of the most
healthy cities that any one could live in,
When smallpox was all over the State
there were but three cases in this city.
At Mayor Gregory's suggestion Mr.. Bias
sett was requested TO prepare plans for tn