The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-18
WATER FOR CAMDEN.
Plenty Of Bids Sent II for the
Needed SupplyAlEsti1 Il
mate OF Cost.
specfal to the Jerseu ditu Nesss.

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CAMDEN, Oct. IS. 1S95.-The Water
Committee of Camden City Counsel last
night opened bids for furnishing that
municipality with a pure supply OF
30 900, 600 gallons of water daily. over
one dozen propositions were submitted
and action on them was deferred py
the committee until next Tuesday Night.
DIR. WHITES PROPOSITIONS.
-Four propositions were made by DIT.
J. orlando White. as follows:-TWenty
million gallons daily from the head
waters of Rancocas Creek. for % years,
at $1O6, 500 per year. the city to nave
the privilege of purchasing the works
at the end of five years.. a 10000. Wo-
gallon supply from the Delaware River
daily for 1880 per year; alter present
plant and furnish a fltering plant for
a daily supply of 40.0OO,000 gallons for
SETS. 900: furnish a separate drinking sup
ply of 1900, 900 gallons daily for 10 cents
per ,thousand gallons. and 10 cents per
thousand for each additional thousand
gallons needed.
The Philadelphia Filter Company Of
fered to furnish a 20, 000,000 gallon plant
for $3.50. 900.
COL. PFEIFFER'S ARTESIAN WELLS
Colonel George Pfeiffer renewed his
offer to sink three test artesian Welis
for 81. 900 and furnish any quantity OF
water required for $40 per million gal
Ions. the city to nave the right to puy
the plant at the end of five years.
The United States Fftering and Purl-
yin Company of Philadelphia offered
a altering plant for 20.000.o0 gallons Tor
$751; 900.
The bid of F. C. O'Reilly was for $685.
$50. for which he agreed to erect a com
plete new plant with fltering apparatus.
having a capacity of 2%o.O0o.0o gallons
= Linwood Garrison of Philadelphia
put in a proposition to erect a cohpiete
pt The proposition of the Wagner Water
Supply Company of Dayton. o. inci9d.
ed six test artesfan wells for S NY and n
a complete artesian system ~ S07o'
0A''0 ANoTHER FILTER ORDER.
The Continental Filter Company, of
station ana fiIteTsI IggTv plant da Ens Of n e, 90. SSe
River and supply the water for So per
million gallons if not more than 1880
900 gallons were required daily, n To-
over 177.5oo.ooO gallons to be furnished q
for s1S, per 1,O00,o 900 gallons, the city to
have the night to purchase hsrnat the n wor5s
pany TIC purchase the city's present water
works and put in an additional GOO
Of the works to $4,000, 900 gallons daily;
erect additional buildings, lay. an addi-
tional thirty inch main, and furnish a
ity daily, at a price equivalent to a rea.
sonable estimate Of the present cost Of
Of furnishing the city with water under
this proposition were exactly similar to
those contained in the first bid.
Tho cauaa rannanV IN a mind nr0nO-
sition, suggests the ACCESSIBILITY Of the
city owning and improving its own water
works, and offers to furnish a complete
filter plant of 20, eo0,0 0 gallons capacity
daily for $239, 900. ~5rf9go1 fs9ndpdsa
Bids for f~ltering plants were also re
eeived from Isaac Doughten and the
Morrison Jewell Filtration Company, of
Philadelphia. The respective proposals
were for $120, 900 and $500 0