The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-27

ONLY TOO TRUE.
1t Seems Probable That the
East Jersey Water Co.
Will Gobble Jer-
sey City.
HOW IT LOOKS TO NEwARKERs
The Situation Altogether Favorable
to the Syndicate
Monopoly.

From the Newark s.Calr' of last Sunday.
The East Jersey Water Company is now
furnishing Jersey City with a partial
supply of pure and wholesome water
Newark's surplus. In a few months the
company will be in a position TO give a
full supply. An influences in Jersey City
are now tending to give into the hands
of the East Jersey Company the perma-
supply of the city.
On Monday bids were to have been
opened in Jersey City for the furnishing
of a new supply of water. Only one bid
was submitted. This was made by the
Rockaway and Hudson Company, a cor
poration that has as yet taken on no
definite form. The East Jersey Water
Company made no bid. In a long COM
munication the representative of that
company. expressed a desire to submit
a proposition, but declared that provis-
ions in the specifications were needless
ly ~onerous." Seven objections were
specifically set forth. but not one of
them is of the first magnitude. The
Jersey City Water Company. a pape
concern that has figured in previous
efforts of Jersey City to make a water
~ NIo<
The proposition of the Rockaway and
Hudson Company is in two forms. The
first lis for a supply from the Rockaway,
entirely by gravity, from the head of the
Couper-Lord water rights at Boonton.
The price is to range from $36 per mil
hon gallons for a 10000. 900 gallon supply.
to $7 for from 10000, 900 to 50,0 900. 900 gal
Ions. The plant can be purchased out
right for $3.50, coo. with a guarantee of
100000 gallons daily, or s6,s5o,OoO for a
guarantee of 10000. 900 gallons daily. The
other proposition is to take the water
from the upper Rockaway water shed,
with the intake at P%owerville. From
this plant. a guaranteed daily supply of
Of the plant 81, sc, go. For a Al guar "a
daily supply of $4,000, 900 gallons the price
is fixed at Sc, 500, 900. The contract price
g I from sSS per million gallons for a
gallons for from 1000, 900 to 5o,o 600. COO gal.
Ions. The price per million gallons is
the p1r.ce proposed for the city to pay
purchased, which the city may do at the
agreed price at the end of tw~enty-three
years.
The specifications were supposed to
contain provisions under which a bid
could be made for filtration of the Pas
sale River water as now used at Belle
vile, but the prevailing. opinion among
filtration clauses in the specifications
were drawn rather to discourage bidding
than to encourage Il. No bids for filtra-
ton were made. The Jersey City Board
Of Trade has come out openly against
the making of a contract under the ex-
listing conditions. and other influential
parties are working against a contract
There was some difficulty in ascertain
ing who was represented by the Rock
away and Hudson Company. 1t was
the J.. Couper-Lord estate, at Boonton,
were to be the foundati ton of the work.
but that is all. Benjamin Nichols, ].
eF0I BSow Er0 Brctb oe the & BIZ a5. DaN5s sM v firm
and Fl. A. Whitledge, president of the
Consolidated Trust Company, New York.
are the trustees, of the estate. and are
project. The president of the company
is w. p. Stevenson; secretary, George
Holmes; treasurer, James Cogan
None ! Of the officers are known promi-
The water rights of the couper-I.ord
estate date back to a very early period
that fhs they pTes anted fantu he 9 # i e u ned
Morris Canal Company to water from
the and to the surplus from
Lake Hopatcong. There were located
at Boonton extensive iron works owned
by ]. Copper Lord many years ago, and
in the works the water power was used.
OF recent years the water power has
been rented to manufacturing concerns
The only large interest that might be
disposed to dispute the ownership of these
is the Morris Canal Company, or more
properly speaking its lessee, the Lehigh
Valley, Railroad Company. The Lehigh
valleys CLOSE relationship. with the Eagt
Jersey Water Company in the Newark
and presumably In all water
supply enterprises, wouId influence it to