Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-01-25
MAYOR HowARD's FAREWELL.
4 RsssAte Picture of the Water Quesf
 ton and Financial Situation.

The old city council held a meet ing on Monday evening prior to the induction into office of the new officials at which Mayor Howard delivered his farewell address. The document is quite lengthy, but We quote from it the more import ant points. On the water question the mayor said:
 Since my election as mayor, in 1888, and ever since that time to the present, the various councils have had under consideration the water | question, and water supply for the city, for 1t is notorious that not only was the character of the water at the original source, or original Ioca- cation, at the mouth of Miller creek, unfit for use, except for fire and ir- ngation purposes, and the supply for a portion of the year was V ry short, and could not be depended upon for a needed supply, and for the past two years has at times en- tirely failed, and for the past six months has entirely failed, and had not the council and water commit tee changed the location of its water supply, the city todry and for more than six months last past, would have been out of water of any kind. But fortuna tely the council fully realized the condition of things early in the summer of 1891, and took the necessary means to pros pect for water, and about the first of November, 1891, found what they believed to be an abundant supply, of the purest of water, and it to use for ali purposes, so that carly in the winter of 1892, the council were able and did commence supplying the city with an abundance of good water. and continued to do so until the middle or latter part of the year, when the supply fell short, to some extent, owing to the failure of our usual summer rains. But in the meantime the water committee took the necess ary means to prospect for water, by procuring an artesian well borer, or auger, and caused a we'll to be sunk to the depth of one hun dred and eighty feet, when a fine stream of pure water was found, which rises in the pipe to within twenty or thirty feet of the surface, and 1t is believed by good judges of such matters that by the use of proper machinery at a small cost, the water can be utilized, and water enough be found to supply the city for all time, and the water problem finally settled.
 While it may be true that the cost of our new water supply is con- siderable, but it IS money well spent, and the tax payers have not been obliged to go down in their pockets to pay it. In connection with the change of our water supply, new main of twenty-one hundred feet had to be laid from the we'll to the reservoir, and also, the city has laid about thirteen hundred feet of water pipe on Mount Vernon street., and made other improvements, be- side the expense of causing a good we'll to be sunk for the water sup ply, and digging or making cuts from the well across Granite creek, and to the east side of Montezuma street, for the purpose of catching the water between those points"
 The mayor then refers to the reports of the various city officials and to the steps taken by the council to fund the indebt- edness of the city. He pays a we'll merited compliment to the fire de- partment by sayin that it has fully kept up with it's excellent record for efficiency and promptness. The address closes by the following com plimentary and congratulatory no- tice of the city council, not forget ting the retiring mayer:
 1t gives me great pleasure to assure you, that during my long connection with our city govern ment, that more honest and faith ful set of councilmen cannot be found connected with public affairs anywhere.
 'For my part, l have endeavored to discharge my duty to the people and city, honestly, and the best I knew how, and hope I have not dis appointed my friends who elect. ed me"