The record-union., 1893-05-10
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EDS. RECORD-UNIoN Will you tell a
land? JNO. S. Alta.
Public land that may be taken in lieu
OF other public land that might have been
taken, but for the fact that the Govern
ment has withdrawn it, or because it has
fallen within reservations specially made,
or that arise out of other grants OF the
land that might have been taken.
EDS. RBCoRD-UNIoN Can you give me
the present condition of the public debt
Of the United States, what il all is and in
what form it exists?
S. T. s., Susanville.
on the 1st of May the aggregate debt
including certlheates and treasury notes,
was s., ,55S, 424, ,3S5 l3. The interest bear
ing debt was $3.50, $40. The debt on
which interest has ceased since maturity.
8, Dds, iS9 %. The debt bearing no inter
est, s375, Ia, ,463 81. Aggregate, S962, ,4O7. =
764 l3. Certificates and treasury notes
Offset by an equal amount in the treasury.
SJ96,0lG,62l.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN Where, if the
chemical deposition for sewage treatment
is adopted here, would the works natur-
ally be located?
CITIZEN H., Sacramento.
Naturally at the lowest point in the di-
recuon of the How of the sewage, and the
tanks should be sunk as deeply there as
il is possible to sink them, in order to get
all the fall possible in the supplying sew
ers.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN How do you
make out that it will cost the city less to
burn garbage than to haul it out of the
city and simply dump it? I'd like to un-
derstand that. II. b. c., Sacramento.
The RECoRD-UNIoN has not said If
would. 1t has said it would cost the peo-
pie no more and possibly less. The city
does not now dispose of the garbage
therefore it costs the city nothing now.
Bat under the law requiring the garbage
10 be hauled to point quarter of a mile
outside of the city limits, there must he
charged presently more for the hauling,
and there must be purchased land on
which to dump it. So these new costs
viii be visited upon the house-holders.
This added cost viii, in no very great
time, equal the cost of 4 garbage burning
machine within less distance than that
named. The saving of this added cost
will continually meet the expense of the
burning of the garbage, once the crema-
tory is provided. Also the residuum,
or ash, is valuable as a fertilizer. This
does not, of course, include old tins,
crockery, wire and such refuse as cannot
be reduced. and which should not be put
into garbage barrels or heaps The
proper thing to do is for the city to build
and own the crematory and charge house,
holders for its use, just as the city now
charges for the use of water for domestic
purposes. Tie cost 10 the house-holders
ought really TO be less than now, once
the machinery is in operation.
FEps. RECoRD-UNION Viii you please
tell me if there is any law in regard to
removing bodies which have been buried
on private property? Has any one the
ripht TO remove such bodies? II so,
whom? Who pays for said removals?
We have had controversy in regard to
the same. and some contend that no one
has the right TO desecrate said graves.
\ SUBSCRIBER, Sacramento.
Ero,, nublic burial grounds removal