The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-24

present contract, at Bellevine; and during
lne l6ne hve years commencing September q,
sufficient to do away with all pumping,
both at High and Low Service; the COM
pany 70 have the right to furnish the
Passaic River above Little Falls
rlhe plas of the RockaWay and Hudson
IIoihpany:a Ion 2a: were next read; under Plan a
DAY Ga s35- 90; 20 to 30 millions per day, $3.50;
80 TO 40 80, and 40 to So $22.50.
option, % millions. plant and easements,
for 80 nilEons. se,o50,00e Option, 50 mill
Plan {. gravity to High Service, at
head e : 9f ,f,;ao zlo feet the prices are
- 70 30 million per day, S96 per million.
so 70 % million per day, s35 per million.
40 to % million per day. Ssd per million;
million, 81 409, ,00O
This. Pan is practically the same as of
tered by this company last spring The
modification is the specifications in re-
sponSe TO the protests then filed by the
East Jersey and Jersey City Company in
the matter Of n1ethed Of cleaning reservoir
u ties, care of pollution, right to dispose
OF surplus water and extension of time
70 complete TO three years, has resulted
70 q reduction of 81 per million. gallons.
and IS million plant from 81 600 to ST.
a1d ar s., 58 niiion pant from $7,50o,o09 to 81
Plan G. two-third low service delivery;
oeslszthird one hgh service delivery, at 20
d milton gallons. 1860 per million.
20 10 80 million gallons. $3.50 per million.
q . % million gallons. $50 $50 per ps miS.ion
piS3 op1s e On g II,la0 mllion pan oS ss259o aao
Both in plans a and c this company
proposes to utilizes the present 36-inch
ndoss oW sfrpee fp eess dsssrg t. aSseK er efg z
good order and maintaining taem during
life Of contract adding new steel pipes
supply to so mi;lion capacity when called
for. The company to substitute for any
equivalent area Of tributary watershed and
storage capacity the 10000 gallons daily
nowing from the Couper Lord Outlet
Tunnel at Port Gram
The Rockaway and Hudson people.
after the Commissioners had heard their
bid, made a protest against the Plan B
of the Fast Jersey Water Company for
80 million gallon supply The East
Jersey had only figured on one pipe Wills
the RoesSaway and Hudson obeyed the
requirements of the specifications. which
cali for two or three pines This protest
and another Informal bid from the East
Jersey Water Company were considered
by the board, which took 9 recess at
eleven o'clock for one hour
Before that adjournment an informal
bid for filtering the river water was read
from the United States Filtering and
Pnrifying Company of Philadelphia. At
the outset of its bid the company took
exception to the last paragraph in the
specifications referring to right of emf
nent domain The permit to the con-
tractor in that paragraph, the company
complained, did not cover, the use of the
bl1idings and present machinery nor allow
OF their improvement to make it per
fect plant. 1t would not the company
ccntended. enable the contractor to offer
good risk TO the capitalists to loan
money upon. The company adds that it
IS impossible to give final figures as 10
me cost per million gallons of water as
required by specification until the purity
clause and details of specifications are
approved by the Board. Under these con-
dftions the company makes the following
rates per million gallons with purchas-
ing price. which will not be exceeded on
final adjustment of specifications For
to ~ million gallons daily, $40, 20 to so.
S23; 80 to 40. sci. 40 to 50. SlS For the
plant, conduits, lands, together with fill
ters, machinery, etc, necessary to filter
80 million gallons Of water daily the price
charged is 81 100000. For the complete
plant. capable of fltering so millions of
gallons per day, at the end of five, ten
or fifteen years. the price charged is
81. .91S. 600.
The Commissioners returned from their
recess of one hour after an interval of
three hours. The Commissioners came
into the Board room and formally adj
journed until tomorrow morning. The
lobby was somewhat surprised that only
two bids for the water supply and one
informal bid for filtering We're received. 1t
was expected at least that the Jersey
City Water Company and two or three
fiitering companies would compete
On the whole. the Commissioners are
pleased with the bids and say that the
prices are extremely low in comparison
with the last bids. They will be con-
sidered in private session tomorrow, and
it is believed that within a month the
award will he made