Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
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1t is safe 10 say that while this city
wants Touring mill established here.
that it is not willing TO bay the ground.
erect the building and donate the mo-
tive power for Its operation for five
years. The power alone is estimated
to be worth "a 1000 Der year; the saving
in the hire of an engineer is $500; the
interest on money that would be inves-
ted in engine and boiler in a steam mill
will equal S400 and the saving IN insur-
anee on water mill would be at least
S200-or total of S5,5On per year.
which, in five years would more than
pay for the mill. The city has a mag
nificent water power that, with proper
attention, will likely be a permanency.
capable of Iunnlng a 125 barrel Touring
mill, and we have an idea that the priv
ileg6 of using this power will be given
to the first reliable applicant who can
satisfy the council that he means bust
ness. But. just now, the city is not in
the notion of building and eauipping
ing some individual or company to col
lect and appropriate the profits.
Kiowa Herald: "They are not MAX
ing rapid progress at the salt well this
week. We are informed they will move
the drill ten rods and try new spot.
The Herald hopes they will be more
fortunate this time. Ed. Sample is in
favor of bonding. We understand he
is willing to extend the bonds to sup
port Mr.. Eldred's proposition so as TO
include Kiowa. That is right. AS
Kiowa has nothing to pay we can help
Medicine Lodge out. Push the bonds
-. james Thompson reports all the
horses at Rosewood in good condition.
and the prospects are that Campbell S
Electloneer will beat % this year He
will trot few races in the fall. Dauut-
less Bess will, if nothing happens, pace
below 2:20. Leta Howe will keep UP
her record by beating all the four-year-
olds in Kansas this year. Acolyte will
be put in training in July, and We ex-
peCt him to go fast. Mr.. Thompson
further stated that he expected to han
die some horses for outside parties as
there was plenty of barn room and facil.
tiles to train trotters."
a suggestion in connection with the
proposed waterwOrks that may not be
out of place now, is this In arranging
the details for laying the pipe, it might
easily be fixed that, in the event of the
city desiring, at the end of five or tel
years, to get its water supply from the
open ditch. that it would be but small
expense to reverse the large mains, and
relay them to the north part of town
there to connect with stand-pipe, to
be supplied by a turbine wheel, opera
ted by the water-pOwer. This is on the
suppositiOn that the works, under Col
Eldred's proposition, are to be located
south or east of town and of course il
is only possible or desirable after the
water ditch has been demonstrated as
a success, after few years of testing
it with drouths and floods. 1t may oc.
cur that when Col. Eldred or his sue
cessOrs have combined paper-making
salt-evaporatiun, electric lights, and
perhaps other industries, with the sor-
ghum sugar industry, that he or they
will be willing TO turn over to the city
the water mains, and that then the city
may be in shape to operate its own wa
ter system at a comparatively trifline
cost,