The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-01

shed 1e, IN the State of, New Jersey. -.
acceptance BY the city until the first
day of August unless extended in writ
ing.
sBDELL TILGHMAN..
sUgRHgHEAH Ell 5SEAHr sPF2 HarSg
year contract for the following prices
For - million gallons up to 20 per
$S6; for 25 to 80 millions daily, s34; for
80 to 35 millions per day, SS1; for 50 to 40
millions milo per day, ssl; for 40 to 45 mill
lions per day, S2S; for % to so million
gallons daily, $25.
Said water to be delivered by. gravity
into, the High Service reservoir at a
gnavity supply in all parts of the city.
The entake will be located at Old Boon
ton, AT this point the Rockaway will
365 feet above mean high tide. This
intake reservoir will be SO built that it
can be used exclusively for Jersey City
CITY shall have the first claim and
| right to all water stored up to 50,000,000
gallons daily if reaued u. And An fran 5hls com
Por pan to - any my purehaser eDh Of Of water from
aye The cr 1g fot to sell fh the surpus wa a
subject to the. above limitations. This
company will build reservoirs sufficient
for. 100 days supply at 5O,ooOooo gallons
Gated at Dixon Lake, with a capacity
of 2.25S,00Oo00 gallons or forty,hve days
supply at 50000,000 gallons daily, at an
elevation of 596 feet above mean high
tide.
Ais another storage reservoir in the
Upper Rockaway water shed, at above
| $50 feet elevation to have capacity
Of at least so days supply at 50 mil, nil
lion gallons daily. The intake at Old
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five hundred million gallons of water,
or ten days supply BY. this plan an
area of one hundred and thirty miles
of water shed is made tributary to the
system. This plan contemplates new
line across the Hackensack meadows.
Under this plan the water will also be
carried through the Watching Mountain,
thus shortening the carrying distance at
least three miles The right of way will
be at least forty feet. The company, to
RaeaunS Rockaway ne will % build p an intercepting
sewer, with the necessary branches, from
Port Dram, along the river, to point
ing Port Dram, Dover, Rockaway, Dem
vile, Powsrville. Upper Boonton. and
Boonton. The contractor will maintain,
ready. for use, the. plant at Bellevillee
for three years after the delivery of
water.
The company demands two years in
pany also agrees to sell its plant for &c.
650O00. payable in cash or in four per
cent negotiable water bonds OF Jersey
City to run at least twenty years, the
option to be exercised by the city any
time within five years, or for the whole
plant. etc, subject to the reservation
that this company shall have the
right to direct and use for it's own bene-
fit all or any part of the waters in said
watershed in excess of fifty million gal
Ions daily. or SO much of such fifty mil
lion gallons as the city may require &c.
200 900, payable in cash or twenty year
four per cent. gold bonds of the city.
This option is to be exercised only be-
tween the third and eighth year after
the date of said contract. This proposal
remains open until August also.
A THIRD BID.
A third bid was received from a new
syndicate named the Rockaway and
Hudson The prices it asked ranged
from $50 for twenty million gallons. oy
double pipe, and s57 by single. pipe to s26
for fifty million gallons by double pipe,
and s25 by single pine.
Fx-Assem blyrnan H, H. Holmes IS the
president of the company and It claims
title to an extensive water shed in the
Rockaway region, through the Cooper
Lord estate which the. company claims
owns the right in all the waters of
the Rockaway River.
Owing to the lateness of the hour at
which the Street and Water Board ad-
iourned '.The Newsv is unable today to
| give the details of the bin but will pub
| lish them in full tomorrow.