The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-22


line connecting them. This proposition,
while apparently the cheapest. Is in reality
the most expensive 70 the city OF all the
propositions submitted.
Proposition u.
This proposition involves a fat cost If
2ia cents per thousand gallons for a mini
mum Of 10000 gallons daily, delivered
into the present low service reservoir on
Beacon hiIl and pumped 10 higher districts
D. The company as required For guam
titles In excess Of 10000 gallons up to
Ieta0.g1 gallons, the rate to be cents
per thousand gallons. and for quantities IN
excess OF 100000 gallons up 10 100000
gallons per day the rate to be IL cents
per thousand gallons.
The minimum rate paid 10 the COM
pany under this proposition would he Sb3,-
So per year. Increasing TO $50 20 when
the consumption reached I2,5o 80 gallons
per day, which would be in 1910. according
20 the per cent basis Of incfease before
used.
In order 20 meet the necessities OF the
city the high and low service reservoirs
would have 70 be constructed al our own
cost. under this proposition.
Here is the summary Of proposition d
for the same twelye-year period used in
analyz.ng tae other propositions:
Twelve years payments for water
4
High-seryice reservoir and force
main Dn.it by city...-..,-........-. 125.0rp
Low services reservoir .............. loo"o
Total for twelve years. ........ 81. 2O1 90
Average cost 10 city per year IN
der proposition D...-..............s 1o0 GO
For tbs expenditure the reservoirs
would be the only permanent values add
~ to the city plant. The rights on Cedar
river and Swan lake and the conduits
to the city would remain yet TO he pur-
chased Al the appraised values fixed by
the conditions Of the future.
General Conditions of All Power Com
pany's Propositions.
The city could never acquire the COM
plete control Of Cedar river and Swan
lake. IL would secure only the property
and flow necessary for the city water sup
ply The operation OF the conduit from
Cedar river 10 Swan lake would be join.
The city could not use even the sur
plus water in the pipe or reservoir in the
city for other than water supply purposes.
until the completion Of the power COM
pany's contract with the Lake Washing
ton Waterway Company. Under this
proviso any development OF power by the
city for municipal or other purposes
would not nc allowable until the South
canal is completed. This condition gov
crns even after the city might exercise
its option and purchase the pipe lines.
Although not stated IN 50 many words.
yet the operation Of the various condi-
tons would amount 10 an absolute sur
render by the city of the opportunities
for municipal lighting and power devel-
Opment under any or all OF these prop
osltious
The entire area Of the city lying above
the 25o-foot contour now supplied by the
pumps from Broadway and Queen Anne
pumping stations, including all the pr!n-
cipal residence portions of the city. would
continue 10 be dependent upon the pumps
for their water supply. Under the Bene-
zette Williams plan. al but a very limited
area around the city park and a similar
small area on the knob Of Queen Anne
hIl VIII receive the full gravity service.
Comparison With Costs of Pumping
From Lake Washington.
"Tn view Of the fact that the power COM
pany makes the assertion that its mini
mum cost under proposition \ g12.390 per
yesr) is less than the average cost OF
pumping by the city, making due allow
ance for the deterioration OF the plant.
the pumping statistics ought also 20 ba
considered in this connection.
1t is just five years since the purchase
from the Spring I'm company was made.
The pumps were then pumping about
s.1oae0o gallons per day into the Beacon
hill reservoir. Now the average is 100000
gallons. an increase Of less than - per
cent. II IS common knowledge that the
pumping stations today are no more ade-
QNste 20 tho needs or today
than were those Of five years ago
% the demands then. Hence, all renewals
and additions during these five years have
no more than Couutcrhalapced dcrori0ra-
ton. and la making up a yearly average
must he counted as part of the pumping
expense.
- ll,,,.i,,r Ca ,bc a,... ,.o.,.s. ,ro,r,7.
Paia for operating and maintaining
Paid for renewals 20 overcome de-
teriofations ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10000
Total pumping cost for five.
wears ......-......--......-.. $50. 30
Average cost per year, account
30 WP-UE plants ...-.-.-....-. ...... : 81 go
while this does not sustain tho asser-
tjau OF the Seattle Power Company. u
brines out tho significant fact that il
would have paid the city had we fouowed
The recommendations Of Benezctte Will
Jams aud Mayor Moran and put Tn the &C.
dar river gravity system in 1870 and $50.
The money paid out 90 ran and keep up
pumps during the past FIVE years would
more than have paid the Increased inter-
est charge.
considering the pumping expense for
the twelye-year period upon which basis
tho power company propositions have
been analysed. the economy or the grav-
inv plan Is cmphatjcally demonstrated. II
would ty poor economy - reinforce the
Lake Washington pumping station with
anything less than q ie.@slns1 gallon ca
rarltv Yuwp. n We are IL continue the
fftrnuiue proposition. This addition can
NOT BE, made too soon for fhe protection II
the interests ~ tire city. Including extern
sion ~ house. Increased boiler service.
su.ten ialet from lake. force main 20 res-
40 Sc teeF ~