The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-19

Toe glsy lying outside of the city limits.
aHd i0r that purpose 70 ditch, grade or nae
any stone. earth Or other materials which
bay Dc necessary or Convenient in con
straeuoa
"rhiSa-Thas the city Of Tacoma will
sonaefnn raEhsscf.way. where | may not
ne ace TO secure them, upon nr paving
the cost Of suiE
:. feursh-Thst the city will pass no Or
aihAnce nor do sny other act Which shall
or may IN any manner increase fhe cost or
1'Mcusty OF doing the work and perf3rrn-
Ing toe services heresnaooye specined.
fasth-That on the senth day OF each
amount due anon the work done and ma
endar month.
Stxfh-Ihst upon the completion of
TIE work contracted for, the CITY will uar
the balance % Is per ceag. he'd on all
previous partial payments
~ tae above meets With your favorable
consideration and II tue city can legally
enter into = contract based upon this
proposition aud can provide the funds Tor
the Psy ment thereof 1 xill furnish good
ana sufhcaent BONDS, conditional urNon my
entering lato contract with the city
upon the conditions as above xea forth.
-. 'SHArNcKY W. GRHG6s."
November Is. iSaS"
Ine matter was referred TO the city at
torney for an opinion on the point of the
eiiy's ability 20 furnish funds for such \
purpose. the limit for water supply. sewers
and artificial light having been reached.
From the improvement work proposed 10
the so-caiied water rights" OF the water
company there will be $4,000 available
Then IL - proposed TO draw upon the gen
eral fund
Chairman Cove. OF the city council
nnanee committee. says.
There Is no money in the general fund
TOT this purpose. There isn't half enough
However. this Is good proposition. The
city has been robbed in the water deal It
was dirty steal. Col Grirgs' proposition
Is worthy of serious thought"
DIR. Cove voted for the si00. 600 indemnity
bond. which closed the 81, ,ooo. COO loot. He
was formerly against the purchase.
Col. Griggs' promised land 10 almost ont
OF the question. so far as it may be affected
by City Attorney Murray's opinion. lie
is on record showing that the city's limit
for water purposes has been reached. AS
for the general fund, City Controller
slaughter's communication TO the city
council, published elsewhere. shows how
hopeless it Is to look for funds from that
direction.
Dr. Cove tried to put through q resolu-
ton this evening accepting q guarantee
made by the now famous Sellers, repre-
senting the now repudiated Father
Wright, Of Philadelphia. that he would
furnish 5,Oo0.0g0 gallons of water per day
from Patterson springs. Only Loco. 600
gallons were found there by the board of
public works. The council deemed IL i'm
- Ia has
dow OF water as guaranteed, and IL the
water company believed there was. II was
in honor bound to find it. No one seemed
to thiak IL would try.
An engineer who has examined all the
figures included in Col. Griggs' proposal
says:
"Col. Griggs' offer Of $500, 400 is about
one quarter what Herring. the s50per-day
done for. and is one-half what the board
OF public works and Assistant City En-
gineer sutton swore in the Rigney case IL
could be built for. They said Ii would not
be possible to get a gravity supply for less
than $io00.000. Now If Col Griggs can
do this Tor one-haif, the question arises
why II would cost twice as much for the
ciiy officials TO do IL than IL would cost
Griggs, and what would in that case be-
come OF the other half of the million7
The city's civil engineering department
must have known that there would be
some profit In the gravity system at $780,
000. and therefore when he swore that no
gravity water could be had for less than
100000 he was far in excess. IL does
not become reaeily apparent why"
All in all, IL seems the bid OF Col.
Griggs was made on a bedrock basis. His
figures are said TO be very close TO the
a@ff1mt Of nNn.trr~ston n..g1-
has to pay something for the Mashell
water right which, like nearly every
available source Of supply. has been filed
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