The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-31

tempts that the city must either take its
chance of q restricted watershed ana y
small water supply or take is wafer IFom
III fact this is a method In which all
large water supplies have 10 pc eon-
II must be remembered in this cennec-
ton that after the twenty-fourth day OF
September. nineteen hundred, unuer lae
temporary water contract with the East
Jersey Water Company, all Of the supply
of Jersey City viii be taken from Little
Falls; that water supply Will be supJecl
many. other places in the Ramapo Valley
outside the jurisdiction of the courts OF
New Jersey. II will be also suDJect 70
villages OF the Winockie; it win be also
subject to the pollution in the RockaWay
watershed, and in addition thereto there
will flow into the water at Little FANS
all Of the pollution in upper Passaic
River. including Morristown, Madison and
the Great Piece Meadows. 1t is only
necessary to call attention TO TINS Iact
to show the great superiority of the
waters Of the Rockaway River over and
above those at Passaic and Little Falls;
The annexed comparison VIII snow the
advantages to be derived by the city UNI
der the accepted contract as against the
present temporary supply. This state
ment has been made up by Mr.. GarWood
Ferris, the expert employed by the city.
1t will be seen that if the city par,,
cfases the plant from Mr.. Flynn and
issues three and a.half per cent. bonds
therefor, the surplus of the water rents
during the period of twenty-five and a
half years will more h purchase the
seventy million gallon supply with the
seventy million gallon works.
If the city should be required to issue
bonds at four instead of three and a half
per cent, the surplus would still be more
thar nine million dollars.
During the tendency of the Flynn bid
before this Board we have aScertained
that the contractor has arranged for his
water rights with al the parties oWnlhg
Passaic watershed as against the ROCK
away River. This settlement Included
the rights of the Morris Canal ana Bank
ing Company and its ~lessees, the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company; the Society for
Establishing Useful Manufactures. at
Paterson; the East Jersey Water Com
pany; the Dundee Power n Land Com-
pany and other associate companies. In
view of this settlement no time Will be
wasted over litigation, but the city can
confidently expect to have, in case the
Board of Finance concurs and the Mayor
approve, a new water supply by the frst
day of May, nineteen hundre and one
a new water supply forty per cent. larger
than that of the city of Newark and UNI
equalled by any city in the Union of the
size of Jersey City.
Comparative statement of cost to the
city for a water supply under the East
Jersey contract and under the Flynn
contract
j. If the city continues to buy water
from the East Jersey wafer company at
$36 per million gallons under. the temper
airy contract, the result to the water ac-
count for the twenty-five and a half ac-
tive years of the proposed new contract
would be as follows:-
annual increase Of 3%......... s29,07S, 800
Cost of water supply. .SI2, 5S7, 46s
Cost of supplies, extra
and miscellaneous (. 2,lS2 egg
Cost of general payroll 2,425,060
debt .............. 7,o49,5ss
- s24. 1874. O51