The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-06-18
Still a Source of Anxiety to Our
 Citizsns.
TWO DIFFERENT SCHEMES
Occupy tho Attention of tho Council and dPeopie-Sm!th spring Being aDoubtfui Source of supply
 Oak Creek Is Looked to.

|
 da! evening ln consider tue qlrstiou
 M water supply for he town.
 Mayor J. NJ. Francis presided, and
 t"re was fairly representative gath
 ~,ing.
 The committee appnin,rd at former
 meeting submitted a lengthy rep ,rl
 advocating Smi,l's spring as the mns,
 available source of supply. Trey cal
 cu'a,@i thai it would est about S6j.-
 600 |" lay flame SxS inches. aud
 th" total running rxpe,,Sr> would he.
 SS. 15O. as aoains, a pr,iabI,. iurump ,,"f $lo.OOO. They further ,rr,.,l-
 mehird that ille city issue certificate.
 "f indebtedness "n 1 per cent of the
 assessed value "f the municipality.
 which would realize about SIS OOU,
 and that the Cnunci' be instructed ,n
 mak" surveys and pursue such invrs-
 li9ati"ns as may be found necessary.
 They als" recommended hat steps be
 taken [" ssrdre tile To ihc spring. and
 that stock company he organized.
 with the franchise SD framed that the city could purchase lhe plant at an,
 time on payment of the cnst and 10 per cent interest per annum thereon.
 The report having been approved.
 D. NJ. Riortlan offered as a su-rrstinn that the duty "f conducting the nrcrs. sarS investigations should ,lrvulve on A. T. Cornish, if l,e would accept il, as he was we'll acquainted with the ground tn be gone over and knew more about it perhaps than any other man in town.
 k. $. Gosn"v said that only on. proposition was considered in The re. port, namrl! ihr railroad spring nr Jack Smith spring. hut there were. parties who were firmly of illr "pininn ,ha, an nbnnd mt smpp'y of water could be obtained closer. He referred | [" ihe A valley. He thought lhrr.. was sufficient rr;lSun to believe ll,ai there was Il supply there ,n juslif, the expenditure nf Il small anl,,r, uf money [" show what there was there. l, might prove a source of ample sup ply within seven miles of ihe town, and could be brought here for aboni of what it could Lp brounh, round the mountain. Some night think it would not be lasting water, hut as the exp'nse was 80 small il would be g""l plan tn lest that well while we were making the lest nf the spring on the mrnniain. as here were pld settlers who claimed lha, at times that sp' ing ran very low, and we ",,.h, !" look at all aud selec, the best.
 Dr.. D. J. Branncn saii that while he had not been t" the spring himself. he knew many who had, and he was willing to take their statements. He lid not ,hink i. would be wise for us st this stage to think of getting water elsewhere. There was m fear of the 'pring running low. This surely was K sjry a season aS HnN WI have had | i"t we had report from the civil 'ngineer that there is an abundant upply. Why should we want to take my chances of developing water when ve have a sufficient supply. It. would ,ot be an economy of time, nor did he believe it would bn such great econ my of expense either. The cx- ,rnses would be he same whether it. waI brought from the smith spring or from the vale,. They 'ad been offered that spring at n"m- nal figure other they had no. 'pen offered. Heretofore the railroad company had held it at a figure none f us could touch. and now we cnul,i ,avp the railroad company as a con nmcr. They should unit" nr tlis one