The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-03-16
THE FRAUD
IS EXPOSED.
A Water System That Actually
Carries No Water for
Any Purpose.
REPAIRING THE DAM WITH HAY!
The Council Committee on Fire
and Water Renders an In
tereSting Report.

The contract between this town
and the Neihart Water company re.
quires that the mains of the company
shall be free from frost, and that they
shall contain at all times supply OF
pure and wholesome water, sufficient
for fire purposes. The HERALD has
contended that this part of the con-
tract has never been fulfilled. 1t has
maintained that the water system as
accepted is sadly at fault in respect
to these features. 1t required only a
report of the council committee to
bear out the HERALD in this matter
and since the last meeting of the
town council the fact is proved be-
.yond doubt. 1t will behoove
every tax payer in the town to read
this report:
IllE REPORT.
To the honorable, the mayor and
board of aldermen of the town of Nei-
hart, Montana, Gentlemen:
On behalf of council committee on fire
and water would respectfully report to
your honorable body Of having made an
examination of the water mains on the
9th, 10th, l tn and 18th of February
last, by opening the hydrants for the pur-
pose of testing the same, and that on
said dates found no water in the mains
or hydrants.
That on the 18th, 14th, 18th, 10Th,
17th, and 18th of February again made
an examination of the hydrants and
found no pressure in the mains sufficient
for fire purposes.
On the 18th, on an examination it
was found that there was no water in
the mains.
On the goth, twelve hydrants were fro
zen up and there was no water for fire
purposes.
Again on the 2nd of March | found on
an examination that there was no water
in the mains. On the 3rd of March on
a personal examination of the reservoir
at O'Clock Il. m. of said day found no
water in the same except about 3 or 4
inches above the intake pipe
Respectfully submitted for the con
sideratlon of the council.
(signeD Chas. Crawford,
Chmn. com. on fire and water.
Dated, March 9th, 1895.
This report is exactly in line with
the argument we have advanced.
We had these facts in mind when we
first charged that the town had been
buncoed, and that tax payers are be-
ing forced continually to pay for
something they have not received.
If Attorney Brady or the public
desires to know who Charles Craw-
ford is, we reply by saying that he is
only plain everyday alderman who
delights in dong his whole duty.
Look at his report 1t shows on its
face that the man is alert and active
to the city's welfare. He may be
pin-headed as Mr.. Brady charged in
various letters to individuals here,
but he has enough God-given sense
to know his duty as an alderman,
and to know when a bydrant is frozen
or water main empty. We give it
straight from the shoulder that if
mems outward conduct be the crit
erion, Charles Crawford is as far
aiead of Thos. Brady in the posses
sion of common sense as the sun ex-
ceeds the moon in the refulgence of
its splendor.
Is there any man SO foolish as to
believe that the town of Neihart has
no legal recourse? Is there single
tax payer who wants to pay for
public enterprise which is fraud on
its face? Will anyone continue to
pay taxes for fire protection which
does not protect? Is there court
that will require the town of Neihart
to test all its hydrants each and every
day in the year, allowing it the bare
privilege of refusing to pay only for
those days when there is actually no
water? Will the town submit to
such an outrage? These are ques-
tons which every taxpayer, every
business man, every qualified elector
in this town should seriously con-
slider, and we are positive that the
answer can not be other than one
laundering, unanimous 'No."