Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-24
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
OUR WATER SUPPLY.
The Trustees Will Decide on Monday
Next What They VIII Do.

The Trustees viii Decide on Monday
Next What They Will Do.
A few days ago w. R. Goats, consult
ing hydraulic engineer, came to this city
on some business connected with the Legis-
lature. DR.. G. L. Simmons and Eugene ].
Gregory addressed him communication,
asking that during his stay ne make an in
vestigation of the artesian water belt east
of the city, with view of supplying the
city from that quarter. They were acting
as Committee on Water Supply from the
Sacramento Improvement Association.
Mr.. Goats, in his reply to the gentlemen
named, said that he had given the subject
some attention during former brief visit
to the city, and had also prosecuted his in
vestigation during the past two weeks.
while have not yet been able to give the
subject sufficient attention and study to
justify me in giving an opinion as TO the
best mode of procedure, / have no hesitancy
in saying that think it is entirely feasible
to develop an adequate supply of good,
clear water from the belt you mention, and
that such water supply, when properly de-
veloped, will prove infinitely superior to
that now procured from the Sacramento
river"
OotCiudys dS pei ccutut, MI. SOdtS
met the Trustees and the matter was
talked over. DIR. Simmons and several
others who have the utmost faith in the
proposed water supply, were present by in
vitation. Mr.. Goats is gentleman of
large and varied experience, and has been
connected with the water supplies of &
number of the large cities of the Union.
He said to the Board that he had no
doubt but that good supply could be OBJ
tanned from wells in the section referred to,
but the best locations would have to be es-
tablished by tests The well system was
quite common throughout the Western
States. He presented drawings of a well
fifty feet in diameter, from which was
drawn 100000 gallons of water daily. In
Kalamazoo they had well supply of water,
and it had been the cause, more than all
others, of increasing the prosperity of that
city. While the Sacramento river water
was not clear at all times, still it was good
water. Strangers, however, would never
take kindly to muddy water. He believed
test could be made for $500 that would
thoroughly settle the question of supply,
and there was no doubt as to its clearness
and purity.
The Trustees were OF the opinion that
the test should be made at the expense OF
the owners of the land, as they would, in
all likelihood. sell the same to the city at
handsome prices, providing large supply
of water was obtainable.
Mr.. Strong. who was present. stated that
the individuals owning the land had made
tests sufficient to satisfy them. 1t now
seemed to be so clearly demonstrated that
this was what the city not only needed,
but required, that the Trustees could not
logger refuse to make an appropriation to
oelIay the expense of test.
DR.. G. L. Simmons, who has made the
matter thorough study, is welded to the
well theory, and is very anxious that the
Trustees should make the test asked for
This question had been so thoroughly ven
tilated, the necessity of it involved the fu-
ture growth and prosperity of the city
The river water had ever stood in the way
of the citys increasing population. He
said, with a 81. 800 pump on the Monte
Vista Colony, l 700 coo gallons of water
were pumped daily.
The Trustees have taken the matter un
der consideration until Monday next, wher
it is altogether likely they will make the
small appropriation asked, and order the
test made.