The record-union., 1894-07-06
ROAD SPRINKLING.
The Wind is on a Strike, and Water is
Very Scarce.

The Wind is on a Strike, and Water is
Very Scarce.
It was after o'clock yesterday when
the arguments in the Hicksville road
matter were concluded before the Super
visors, and Chairman Morrison re-
marked:
well, gentlemen, we've had pretty
hard DAY of it, and 1 think we'd better
take recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning."
But Clerk Hamilton had petition he
wanted to read, so the members kept
their seats. It was from residents of
Grand Island Reclamation District. re-
questing the appointment OF Commits
sioner TO succeed George l.. Figg, de-
ceased. The petition was placed on file.
j. S. Boggess, who has contracts for
sprinkliug the roads in Oak Park and
for some distance down the Lower Stock
ton road, appeared before the board to
say that it was impossible for him to do
good service. He was between wind
and water" it seems, for there wasn't
enough of the former these days to keep
the solitary windmill in Oak Park NOV
ing fast enough to pump water for sprink-
ling.
Boggess said he was doing the best he
could by hauling water from Supervisor
Curtis farm, nearly mile away, but the
best he could do under these circum-
stances was far from satisfactory. He
has about four miles of road to cover. and
he wanted the board to provide some
means by which he might get enough
water to keep down the dust.
Up to week ago, Mr.. BoggesS said, he
had been getting water from the Electric
Railway Company's tank at Oak Park.
but that company is now so short Of
power that he had been cut off from that
source of supply.
Contractor Patten, who has five-mile
stretch of road south of the city to keep
wet down, was also there to complain of
how the wind had seized the prevailing
fever and entered on strike. He couldn't
get enough water TO keep down the dust
on his division, and like Contractor Bog
CESS he hoped the Supervisors would
come to his relief
Supervisor Curtis said the Oak Park.
lower Stockton and Freeport roads were
all short of water. In Oak Park, es-
pecially, there is now very heavy travel
that has been diverted from the Stock
ton road, and the soft soil there had
caused the roads TO be badly cut up. I'm
til some relief could be had he would let
the contractor have all the water he could
spare at his farm, but it was such a long
haul that the service was necessarily
poor.
Chairman Morrison said that the Code
permitted the use of money from the
general fund, the general road fund.
and from the several road district funds,
for sprinkling purposes, and he thought
that if windmills had to be erected the
cost should be divided in this way: the
sprinkling to be paid for out of the gen.
eral fund, the cost of windmills and tow
ers out of the general road fund, and
the cost of repairs, etc., from the differ
ent road district funds. In this way the
expenses of each branch of the service
could be easily traced as well as be fairly
distributed. The cost of each tower and
mill would be about 500.
1t was finally decided that Road Com
missioners Curtis and Jenkins should be
empowered to erect such towers and
windm1lls as they found to be necessary in
the respective districts.
The board then took recess until 10
A. NJ. to-day.