The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-07-21
Ordinance No. IS.

Ordinance No. IS.
An ordinance providing for the supply of water TO
the city IF McCook. in the County Of Red Will
low. and State of Nebraska, and it5 inhabft-
ants, and aul horizlng the Lincoln Land Com
pany TO maintain its system of wafer works
as now constructed, and establishing a tariff.
of reasonable water rates, and requiring said
company to erect and maintain a stand pipe,
and put In nine additional fire hydrants and
one watering trough, and to extend their water
mains along Dennison street in and through
West McCook, and prescribing rules and regu-
lations for the consumption of said water de-
rived from said water works. and providing a
penalty for the violation of The same, and
authorizing the Mayor and Council of said
city TO enter into Il contract with said Lincoln
Land Company, its successors or assigns, for
the Improvement, maintainence and operation
of said water water works, In said city, and to
repeal Ordinance No, 81, and all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith.
De it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the
City of McCook Il
SECTION /. That in consideration of the bene-
fits which will result to the City of McCook and lis
inhabitants from the erection, maintainence and
operation of water. works III said city, there is
hereby granted to the Lincoln Land Company, its
successors and assigns, the right to maintain, i'm
prove and operate the system Uf water works it
now has in said city, and to add to the same. and
10 construct other works and buildings necessary
to = successful operation of said works; and also
the right to maintain and to lay mains. pipes, con-
Quits and erect MIGRANTS in and along the streets,
lanes, avenues and alleys and public grounds. of
the said City of McCook, for supplying water for
fire, domestic and other purposes, tor the term of
twenty Years and the common council of said
city is hereby empowered on behalf of The city,
to enter into CONT acts with said Lincoln Land
Company for tile construction mnintainence and
operation Of a system OF water worksin accordance
with the provisions and requirements of this Ordi-
nance.
SECTION q. The Lincoln Land Company shall
at all times after the erection of the stand pipe
hereinafter mentioned, furnish all water necessary
for fire protection domestic and lawn and street
sprinkling puI poses from wells and not river
water AT the rates and under the conditions here
matter mentioned and in consideration of the
benefits that will result to the said City of Nc
Cook by the erection and maintenance of said
water works the said city agrees to rent and does
rent for the term of twenty years, thirty double
dischaI ge anti-freeZingf fire MIGRANTS two water
ing trolghs ana one street sprinkler. Twenty
one OF SAID MIGRANTS and one watering trough are
now located on the mains of said water works Of
said city and nine MIGRANTS and one watering
trough 10 be located at such points as the city
council may direct OIL the mains as now laid and
to be laid in said city. For such MIGRANTS and wat
ering trough the said City of McCook agrees, after
the erection oil said stand pipe to pay the annual
rental of fifty dollars payable quarterly , on the
first day of january, the first day of April the
first day of July and the first day of October of
each year OF said term, til legal rate Of interest
On deferred payments, The ny drants when erect
ed shall be used exclusively tor. the extinction of
fire and necessary practice of fire companies but
in all cases of fire practice there shall be no nozzle
used larger than one inch nor more than two n.y.
grants uSeu dt one Time nor ClScnargeu from an
ortice larger than one and one half Inch, and in
all eases of practice the superintendent nj of said
company shall be notified
SECTION ). The said Lincoln Land Company, its
successors or assigns shall by December first,
1893 extend the mains Of said water works from
Mcdowell street in said city west on Dennison
street to the corporate limits AID from Dennison
street south Oh Maryland avenue 10 the right
away of the railway company and north of Den
nison street on said avenue $50 feet and from Den
nison street south Michigan ave to the right away
~ Tho I u D,nan and nnrfh of o--,.a
street on said avenue $50 feet, and such ex-
tension will have sufficient pressure to throw water
one hundred feet from the end of the nozzle when
six hundred feet of hose is used with one inch
ring nozzle, with one line of hose; in considera.
ton of said extension and the building of said
stand pipe, the city agrees to the rental of the
nine additional hydrantS and one watering trough
provided for in section two of this ordinance. The
said company shall extend the mains of said water
works to any part of the city when required by
resolutions of the city council and when such last
eXtens.o on shall be required there shall be erected
for the use of said city one fire hydrant or watering
trough for each four hundred feet of mains to be
located at points in said city designated by the
city council and for each of such hydrants the
city shall pay to the said company the sum of fifty
dollars annually payable quarterly as. aforesaid.
SECTION 4. The city council of said city reServ-
ing the right to revise and amend the water rates
hereinafter established after the expiration of
eight yeals from the passage of this ordinance
istence of The contract herein provided for be-
tween the Lincoln Land Company and the City of
McCook do establish as the tariff of water rates
per annum to consumers from the Lincoln Land
Land Company's water works at McCook the fol.
lowing: