The record-union., 1893-05-30

The report of the Citizens Committee,
who had been requested to prepare ordi-
nances for the consideration of the City
Trustees. was taken up at yesterdays
session, when the following letter was
received and read:
SACRAMENTO, May 25th.
10 the Hon. Board Of ITustees-G rNTLEMEN:
Your committee to whom was referred the
matter of new water supply for the city re-
draft OF three ordinances thereon
First, an ordinance on subterranean sup
ply, which your committee in general terms
mas approved ana second and lnrd, two or
dlnances on gravitation or mountain supply,
which your committee submits without rec
Ommendation. f. r. DRAY
Chairman Pro Tenn.
L. T. Hatfield, as the representative of
the Gallatin interests, made
the request that the matter go over a
week and that the board would set day
for its hearing.
Mayor Steinman said that under the
rules it would have to go over week,
and that next Monday the board would
set day for hearing it.
DR.. Van. Orden, of the South Yuba
Canal Company, said he would like to
make suggestion to the board to the
effect that before any of these PROPOSE
tions were considered the subject be care
fully examined on all sides. On behalf
OF the company which he represented he
wished to invite the Trustees to go up TO
the Bear Valley reservoir some time
| during this or next week and investigate
their water system. They had good
house and a good cook up there, and
would take care of them. From there, if
they wished, they could go the next day
higher up, to the lakes from which the
supply was taken, and if they wished
could come back by way of Nevada City,
which was being supplied with water by
the company, and see for themselves
what kind of a supply there was and
what satisfaction it gave to the people.
The company, said Mr.. Van Orden,
would pay their expenses, and would be
glad TO have, in addition to the board,
some OF the citizens who were members
of the committee as well as a representa-
tive each Of the daily papers. accompany
the Trustees. He himself would take
pleasure in going along and giving them
any information they wished and would
afford them every opportunity to investi-
gate. They could leave here at IL \. NJ.
for Bear City, go the next day to Cisco,
and return the third day,
Mayor Steinman said it would be i'm
possi BILE for the Trustees to go this week,
but they might be able to do so next
week, on Tuesday or Wednesday. He
believed that it would be wise to investi-
gate thoroughly each one of the PROPOSE
tions and understand them before taking
action. 1t would not be we'll to act
hastily. The matter would have to lie
over for a week any way. He thank ed
Mr.. Van Orden on behalf of "the poor,
over-worked newspaper men, to whom
he had so kindly offered holiday.
On motion of Trustee Conklin the mat
ter was referred to the Mayor, who prom
ised to let the doctor know when the
| Trustees could go.
The ordinances were then read the first
time. The one under which bidders for
a contract to supply water from subter-
ranean sources are to submit proposals
has already been published in these col
umns.
The ordinance intended to cover the
proposition of the South Yuba Company
requires pure water to be brought to the
city in a 24-inch pipe, under a forty-years'
contract, with a pressure of l50 pounds.
The supply is to be equal to 100000 gall
Ions daily.
The Livermore plan contemplates a
pressure of forty and not over sixty
pounds, the water to be brought in pipes
or covered fumes.