The record-union., 1893-08-19

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give the town black eye.
Q.--That is true.
A.-W can't borrow, because our bonds
out are up to the lawful limit.
Q.-Ihat is so, too.
A.-Ihlrd, if we could borrow it would
mean more taxes to pay interest and one
Iortleth each year of the principal. as the
constitution requires, while we are still
IN debt for old goods.
would it?
Al should say not.
Q.-Ihen, as you see it. il is simnlv
Duylng water at present cost and not SELL
Ing franchise?
A.-That is just what it is.
Q.-And we are not bound to buv
Flsh's pumps and wells?
Alt Is so nominated in tho contract
that we are not
, Q.-And we get clear, pure water all
tne twenty years for lust the present cost
ana without taxes or rates being raised
A.-Not exactly. For clear water will
neip US save the Capital. 1t will re-
move an obstacle that checks the citvSs
growth. SO we will grow faster, and as
VaIues multiply and debt decreases.
taxes VIII 60 down and not stay even
where they are.
Q.-ouppose the people vote down the
matter on the Goth?
A'-1hen we are all in bad fix.
GLOW so?
A.-All over the State Sacramento will
be cursed for its stupiditv travel &c
you know, and know what ia the mat
ter. - 'ne ni"'
Dwell, we have used this water half
century, and done well on it,
A.-Have you? Well, other people do
not PeIleve any such tweddle. Ii you
hau had clear. pure water, you wouldn't
know yourself in your present state.
Q.-But the river is all right?
Ats all wrong. Go up stream, as I
do, and see what you drink.
Q.-But running water purifes itself,
A.-Who told you that?
Ooh, 1 heard so.
A.-Once 1t was thought SO. Now it is
proved that it was an error. All scien-
tlIlc men are agreed on that.
clear water? - '-'o
A.-Then you must stand a special tax
enough to raise ut once between S4O0 000
and 100000. T-O0''0'
Q.-What for?
A.-To put in a main-to put in new
machlneryi that will give US 100 pounds
pressure, and to fix reserve. We carry
All our eggs IN one basket, now.
Q.-But will clear water give us 100
pounds pressure? wv
A.-Whe are your eyesP Read II and
see, man. Your lgnorance-excnse me
Is damnaple for free citizen in the wear
1893. al 'no e'i
Q.-But can't our Water Works give
us all we want of pressure?
A.-Bah How much water can Won
get In third story of building in this
city now?
Q.-That is so.
A.-Then look at our water-it ia foul /,
Git Is clear some months, though?
A.-And don't you know that it is then
1oulest. fullest of organic matter? That
IL Is pest when fullest of slickens, and
fresh from the mountains? Don't you
know that when it is clear it comes in
from the overflow and the river is then
snow.
Q.-l guess that is so.
A.-You know it-don't be chump!
Dwell, it is snow water, anyhow?
A.-Tush Go and see what becomes
ofthe discharges from 800 prisoners at Fol-
som, only twenty miles up stream as the
bee tiles.
Q.-Is that what you mean?
A.-Come closer-I'll whisper it.
Dough!
A.-Then go to Marysville and see
what she pumps in every day. Go see
what the dead fish, dead hogs and cattle
and the river boatmen do to the riverl 1
am tired of the essence of the living and
the dead in my water!
Ooh, boil all at our house now!
A.-The devil you do. and then hesitate
to vote to buy clear water at the same
price you pay for human and animal es-
sence, with guarantee of no taxation, no
increase in water rates. no giving away
OF franchise. no selling out city right?
l am amazed
Dwell, have come to think you are
right. You have told me things that 1
misapprehended; / have got 'em straight
now. But they tell me this well water
will scale in boilers?
A.-That is not true. It never has at
the Swimming Baths, at Scheld's Brew
cry, at the Smith place, at Strong's place.
at Clark's orchard or at the factories in
Stockton. At the County Hospital lit
tie deposit is found, but the engineers all
say, 1T is nothing" How do you suppose
they do in the great iron regions of Penn
sylvania, where | come from, and the wa
ter is all charged with iron? Why, they
don't find scale an obstacle to manufac-
turing that can't be overcome? How
ever, this driven well water does not
scale. l examined the boiler at the
Clark wells carefully, and it shows no
scale, and never has.