The herald., 1894-08-26
PLEASE, ONE DROP OF WATER!
Mr.. Ames Comes Begging Of
the City Council.
Years Ago He Had Bright Idea but
1t Failed.
Time Was when Mr. Amos Had Water to
Sell, but Alas the Ou,faiI
Sewer Gets 1t
Now.

Councilman Pessell, occupying the
position OF chairman OF the zauja com
mttee, yesterday received letter. 1t
was from ii. NJ. Ames. 1t went on to
state that the writer had request to
make of the council and expected Mr..
Pessell to stand in on the deal, as it
were
81 think" the writer said, "that in
Justice to me the council should turn
the small stream OF water running into
the river on Sixth street over to me-.
The water is used now to flush the out
fell sewer and is OF no value to the city.
Ii your honorable body does not make
this matter right, the supreme court
will"
There the letter ended. But the
zsnja committee got letter, too which
went over the same ground, only that it
called attention to the fact that the
writer has 500 900 gum trees on the
Glassell tract which needed water.
There is story which hangs on this
letter. simple as it may appear. Coun-
Gilman Pessell told the story to HERALD
reporter yesterday.
Seven years ago II. NJ. Ames got an
idea. 1t was splendid idea. A great
deal of water was going TO waste in the
Los Angeles river, as that was the days
before the outfall sewer. Also a great
deal of land WAS going to waste below
the city, in the Vernon district, because
it had no water for irrigating purposes.
Ames was man of means. His plan
was to buy up considerable portion of
land along the river, below the city,
catch the water as it came from the
city'a pipes and use it for irrigating his
own lands, and sell the rest.
He purchased the Glassell tract, ap-
propriated the water, built long bitches
and put in pipes, inverted dams and
the Ike, and did business with q rush.
Pretty coon along came the Pirtle Ir-
rigstion company. This company was
composed of men who had caught Mr..
Ames' idea and liked it first lsts. The
Pirtle company put in bitches, took
city water and sold it and did good
business.
Then the Pirtle Irrigation company
and Mr.. Ames fell out and some law
yers fell in-into suit, in fact, which
the city took a hand in and which is
still in the courts.
Then the city got an idea. 1t was the
cutfsll sewer idea. 1t knocked Mr..
Ames and his idea and the Pirtle Irr;ga-
uion company and it's idea into a cooked
hat.
When the outfall sewer was COM
pleted the city utilized the water out OF
the Los Angeles river, just a little further
up the creek than whore Mr.. Ames vas
in the habit OF getting it, and Mr.. Ames'
irrigation scheme went dry.
The people of Vernon who formerly
lodged Ames' water rent collectors now
dodge city water rent collectors and Mr..
Ames is rendered very unhappy by that
fact.
So he has written to the council to see
il the council will please be 80 kind and
90 condescendng as to let him have just
drop of weter-just wee little bit oi
moisture to freshen up those gum trees
and the council, the mean thing, prob
ably won't do anything of the kind.
81 know an old soldier who had
chronic dsrrhea of long standing tc
have been permanently cured by taking
Cham oerlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhea Remedy" Gays Edward Shumpik
s prominent druggist of Minneapolis
Mimi. II have sold the remedy in thil
city for over seven years and consider i
superior to any other medicine now or
the market for bowel complaints" 2j
and so cent bottles of this remedy fol
sale by OFF & Vaughn. Fourth ant
Spring; 9. f. Heinzeman, 222 N. Main
druggists.
Eckstrom does the wall paper business o.
the city. He has large stock, good taste anc
lowest prices. 800 5. Main 1T