The record-union., 1892-05-10
WIDE=AWAKE WOODLAND;
Her Enterprising Citizens Determine
on Improvements.
New City Hall, New Waterworls and
q Sewerage system to be Con-
Structed.
from the Travelling Correspondent of the
RECORD uNIoE.l


from the Travelling Correspondent OF the
RECoRD-UNIoS.
WOODLAND. May 9. = The Business
Mems Association of Woodland repre-
sents a united effort on the part of those
who desire to see their city worthy of the
fertile country that surrounds it and the
wealthy people who reside there, to
arouse public sentiment in the line of city
improvements.
They found disposition to add more
acres to holdings already unwieldy and
more dollars to bank deposits already be-
yond their capacity TO loan. In Septem-
Der, '9l, Woodland voted to issue one
hundred and thirty thousand dollars In
city bonds, payable in twenty years and
bearing per cent. interest. These We're
taken at par in block by capitalist
from Denver, and the proceeds are on
hand which will enable the city to pay
spot cash for the work. In view of this
very attractive feature the towns swarm
ing with contractors who are entering
their bids, which are to be opened on
May 10th.
NEW CITY HALL.
For this they have apportioned 5000 for
the lot, which has Eeen already secured,
and $4,000 for the building. 1t is to be of
modern architecture and the most sub
stantial construction. The bricks for all
walls will be selected hard brick and the
mortar rich in cement. They have seen
enough of cheap mortar that crumbles
between your fingers and only permits
70 pfo lCr,o fAr thn
tractor to draw his pay by special cour-
tesy. These walls will be practically a
solid brick and the builders expect
+. them to stand for hundreds of years. The
lower floor will be occupied by the Fire
Department. The main floor Will contain
the city offices, City Library and prob
ably the fine exhibit of dried and pre-
served fruits that now stands in the Pub
lie Library, with valuable additions. The
third floor will not be finished at present,
but reserved for future needs.
THE WATER WORKS.
For this object $1,000 has been assigned
for purchase of a lot and $4,000 for erec
ton of works and system of distribution.
Experience with private enterprise seems
to have fully satisfied the people OF the
economy Of this measure.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
For this they have already bought q
sewer farm, one and one-half miles out
side the city limits, where the sewage
will be carried. This will probably be
rented To gardeners. 1t is customary to
distribute this over the land in solution
with irrigating water. In this way it is
easily handled and goes right where it
will do the most good, and do it quick.
The system comprises six miles OF mains
and cross pipes and has been designed
with full plans and specifications by a
good sanitary engineer. The present
headquarters of the city officers are
largely occupied with samples of sewer
pipe. The sewerage system is supposed
10 absorb the remaining $4,000 of the ap
preparation.
THE EARTHQUAKE.
AS evidences of the frightful devasta-
ton, which some of the papers depicted,
we saw one or two chimneyS partly
tumbled down, thousand bricks that
had been lately laid in a fire wall, and
heard that little plaster had dropped
lrom the ceiling OF one OF the hotels. The
damage is now estimated all the way
from 800 to $1,000. Possibly the people
might have been scared an hundred
thousand dollars worth, because it was
done by an earthquake, but if similar
damage had been done by wind or by
the lightning in the East they would not
have thought it worthy Of mention even
in local papers, and it would not have
been spoken of outside the family except
to send for the mason to relay the bricks
and plaster. At the library there We're
forty or fifty raiSin boxes sitting on the
shelves on edge and many Of them were
only two inches thick. Yet only four or
five fell down, and not one of the glass
jars that stood almost touching one an
other were injured in the least. If me-
chauic builds wall so cheap and so poor
that it will not stand such a shake as that
Ia dos 70 ta1l l.
fore he draws his pay.
IRRIGATION.
Inever visit Woodland, read of Wood
land, or think of Woodland but that il
calls to mind the picture of child sleep
ing over gold mine. God meant it for
the garden of the Golden State. The
antelopes and swarthy children of nature
that long ago peopled hills and groves
and plains could not see His handwriting
in the giant oaks and mountain lakes,
When we have seen all about the CITY
what water will do for the soil. and then
visited Cache Creek and Clear Lake. and
found more that six hundred thousand
acres of mountain watershed, with a re-
servoir of more than fifty thousand acres
lying thirteen hundred feet above the
valley, we are favorably impressed with
Woodlands irrigation facilities.
The Mail of January 20, 1892, saws the
discharge of Cache Creek. the outlet of
Clear Lake, is from 10000 to 35.OO0 cubic
1eet of water per second during flood sea-
sons. 1t was probably taken from en0i
neers' estimates. Now four cubic feet of
water per second falling four feet gives
one and eight-tenths horsepower (theo-
retically), and from one-third to one
tenth less in practice according to appli-
anceS used. Here we have 5000 times
fourifeet of water, and 325 times four feet
OF fall. We can afford to throw OFF the
eight-tenths of the horsepower for waste
and friction, and then a full usa Of the
power generated by this magnificent
water privilege would give two million
six hundred thousand horsepower. We
don't know what to do with any such
1orce, but that does not prevent the use of
that little portion that we can put to use-
ful service, and of our dreaming of what
future generations, with broader mental
capacities, may accomplish ate inyen-
tlons have enabled us to hitch this steed
OF the mountains in electrical harness to
do our bidding at almost any spot where
force can be applied to industry. In con-
nection with this power, another decade
OF discovery along the line of transmits
sion of force opens possibilities for this
county almost beyond the power of the
imagination TO depict. These possibilities
are open only to high grade of business
and mechanical enterprise,
SUPPLY FOR IRRIGATION.
Tulare Irrigation District has canal
which will carry 500 feet of water per
second, and it Is variously estimated by
those capable of judging such questions
that when the system Is complete, the
table water" supplied to the country
and economical use of water practiced
generally. this supply can be made to
serve 10000 acres. Here we have MANY
times that amount Probably there IS
not greater area than 100000 acres in
Yolo County that is adapted to irriga-
ton that can be reached by the Clear Lake
system, and there may be as much more
in Solano County. OF course this supnly