The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-25
The prices asker are:-
For each million gallons up to twenty

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million gallons daily, SO.
For each million gallons between TWEEN
ty and twenty-five million gallons daily,
$53
For each million gallons between twen-
ty-five and thirty million gallons daily.
$751;
For each million gallons between thir-
ty and thirty-five million gallons daily.
$50.
For each million gallons between tfhir-
ty-five and forty million gallons daily.
S4S-
For each million gallons between forty
and forty-five million gallons daily, $45.
For each million gallons between forty
five and fifty million gallons daily. $35.
ANOTHER PROPOSITION.
The fourth proposition is made in re-
sponse to the call for a daily supply of
50.ooOoOO gallons. with pumping capaci-
ty of 60.0o0.000 daily. 1t is as follows:-
For each million gallons upto twenty
million gallons daily, $3.50.
For each million gallons between twen-
ty and twenty-five million gallons daily,
s51.5o.
For each million gallons between twen-
ty-five and thirty million gallons daily.
5000.
For each million gallons between thir-
ty and thirty-five million gallons daily.
S49. 90.
For each million gallons between thir-
ty-five and forty millions daily, S47.
For each million gallons between forty
and forty-fve million gallons daily. s44
For each million gallons between forty
five and fifty million gallons daily. s34
The company fixes no purchase price
on such an. extensive plant, showing that
it is not required at this time, and that
to build it would be unnecessary. outlay.
For the auxiliary 4S-inch main across the
Hackensack Meadows the bidders fix the
cost price at 100000. They are willing
to build the main at ANY time in the
event Of their receiving the water con-
tract for a margin of 10 per cent. The
standard of purity fixed by the COM
pany Is the same as may be found at
any time in the main channel of Little
Falls.
In the one proposition the company
embodies a proposition for gravity
supply to Belleville, retaining the present
pumping plant to deliver the water at
High Service. On this plant with one
supply main the purchase price is fixed
at $S,0O0,OOO, two supply mains $S,S00,0OO.
The price per million gallons under the
one pipe line is on a sliding scale. from
$40 for 2O.000,0 900 to SIS for 50,000000 gal
Ions. With the double pipe line the price
is graded from SAT for 20,000000 to $16 for
50, 900, 900 gallons daily. The company en-
bodies in the same bid a proposal for
gravity supply to High Service. For
one pipe line the price is fixed at S10.-
900 900, and a double line at S11, 100000. I'm
der the one pipe gravity plan the price IS
on a scale from $50 for 20,000,000 to $50
for 5O.oO0.O00 gallons. The double pipe
gravity plan increases the price to $3.50
for 10000, 900 to $31 for 100000 gallons
daily.
CERTIFIED CHECKS DEPOSITED.
certified check for 10000, drawn
on the New Jersey Title Guarantee and
Trust Company, accompanied the fore
going proposals. The Did of the Jersey
city Water Company was accoTnpa MED
by a check of similar size. This bid
was signed by Sidell Tilghmann, Presi-
dent, and Eric P. S,monson, Secretary.
The offices of the company are at No.
"a Exchange place, New York The COM
pany sets forth in ITS bid that its reser-
voirs will put five and a half miles of
land under water. The area from which
its sources of supply are fed cover $500
acres of uninhabited territory. and con-
sequently free from all possibilities of
contamination or pollution.
INTAKE ABOVE DOVER.
The intake Is to be above Dover and
Boonton. presumably at Powerville, as
the company bids only upon a gravity
supply. It's sources of supply are made
up of Hoagland and Denmark Lakes,
Dixon's Pond. Split Rock Pond. Green
Pond and the various feeding sources
In Morris county. Its reservoirs are to
have at all times supply equal to the
consumption of 400 days. The main
reservoir is to be located at Great Notch
which is sufficiently above sea level to
send the water by gravity to High Ser
vice.
One of the features of the proposition
is the anticipated tunneling of Watching
Mountain. The companys bid for TO-
100000 gallons daily through two pipe
lines is as foiolws:-
For each million gallons up to twenty
million gallons daily, $44.
For each million gallons between TWEEN.
ty and twenty-five million gallons daily,
$42.
For each million gallons between twen-
ty-five and thirty gallons daily, 40.
For each million gallons between thir-
ty and thirty-fve million gallons daily.
s36.
For each million gallons between thirty
five and forty million gallons daily, $32
For each million gallons between forty
and forty-five million gallons daily, $28
For each million gallons between forty
five and fifty million gallons daily, SIS.
The one pipe line proposition is lower
as the following shows
For each million gallons up to twenty
million gallons daily, s3975.
ty and twenty-five million gallons daily,
ss7
For each million gallons between twen-
ty-five and thirty million gallons daily,
$685.
For each million gallons between thirty
and thirty-f1ve million gallons daily, S32.
For each million gallons between thirty
five and forty million gallons daily, s29.
For each million gallons between forty
and forty-five million gallons daily $27.
For each million gallons between forty
five and fifty million gallons daily, SIS.
The company's purchase price for its
two-pipe line is sS.00o,000, and one line
s7,O0O0OO. The company agrees to accept
negotiable four per cent. gold bonds to
the extent of ten per cent. and 80 per
cent. in cash.