Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-08

MESA ARIZONA.
| foreseen items OF expense will run
| 1T up to at least $500 mcnth, which
sum could net be met cut OF the water
rentals. The 5000 feet OF wrought
iron pipe will rust cut in five years,
necsssitating extensive repairs. ! he
! interest win amount to $500 per an
mum. The total assessed valuation IS
5000 coo, and the law provides a four
mill tax with which TO pay interest on
The public debt This tax woaId yield
$500 a year, leaving shortage CT
81 600 a year in our iEters st Every
unprecedented, thinking man must
cCncede that as a paying proposition
the water works viii be a failure, and
failure to pay cur current expenses.
and failure to Fay our interest can
hiring nothing but financial ruin, re
suiting in enormous taxation. People
do not invest their money IN sinking
saips or falling towns, and Tempe will
get no new money" or new people
while is finances are in such c0rdi-
ton.
We would rot mortgage orr home
steads 10 invest the money IN an en-
terprise that viii nC's pay. and We pro-
test against m0Itgaging every home
and every business house in town u
invest the money in a water works
system that we know will not pay.
So, if the people do not buy the water,
We will be. financially ruined, and II
they 90 take it. the town viii nece5-
earily be filed with ceSspo0ls and W.
will have an epidemic Of feVsTs within
q few years.
Second-Because the interest is too
high Prescott foated its bonds for
five par cent, End We should at least |
Try to place ours at the same rate
ThiTd-The city council did not ad- /
ve-Jlse for bids for the construction Of
the water works system
To say the least, it locks bad Tor |
public officers t. award a contract IL /
volying an outlay Of $28 $50 Of pubic /
money to a Chicago corporation hav- /
Jag 20 interest in Tempe or the Ter /
1itory, without affording a reasonable /
opportunity fer composition, The /
council says: We did advertise Ter /
BIDS; we spent $40 for advertising.
The fact IS THAI they published 10 I
tice in some eastern papers to the CT |
feet that the town desired bids for z |
system OF water works and thar II
would bond itself TO pay for the same
1t did not refer to any plans or speci- |
fcations and in fact, i has n-t TO mis- /
day had any prepared. (Tha spectf /
cations Submitted belong to the
Chicago c0rPoI3tiCn} We claim that |
If bonds are to b issusd al all, tie
city should emp-oF is own engineer;
make its cWL plans ard specifications,
and publish them, and when all OBJ
jectioral paints have been overcome.
advertise fce lids in our own
county papers as we'll as eastern
ri n DIV (
ever bGdy an oppGl tunity to bid Tor
the contract.
F'ourth-The water supply viii lie
insufficient. The well is TO be I3cated
at or near the south bank Of Salt
river" 1t must be ten feet wide ana
produce SEQ 900 gallons a day Every
body knows that I hole ten ftet deep
on the bank Of the river would fur
nish the water and that il would be
river water: that the sIugiah
river water is thoroughly polluted by
5ecOmpCsiEg vegetation and the drain
age from the adjoining farms above.
Furthermore. the we'll itself viii be
badly damaged or washed away BY the
first big food.
No question Of municipal ownership
is involved in this controversy: we
cCncsde that municipal ownership is
good, and if the town has a population s
E $500 or COCO psCple we would favor 4
bonds fer good water and seWer3g e-
put under the existing conditions Ee
are opposed to the bond issue and cp-
posed to investing any money in the
very poor and temporary system of !
water works now offered to Us by the
Chicago cooperation.
MESA.
Miss Para KfmbaIl. Mrs. Campbell.
Mrs. Blanche Newell. J. D. Lcpsr AMI
Icldern brothers were amcng those !
Who went to Phoenix yesterday.
Miss Annie HaeI. sister CT Ms. Burt
Eingar, returned to Phoenix yester-
,ay after an extended visit in Mesa ]
T. L. Andrews OF Phoenix was in
Mesa Yesterday,
2. C. WOOdmansee drove TO Tempe
with a lead of his dairy pro-
iuc5s.
Mesa was visited by flock Of tray-
ling men yesterday.
The Mesa Lumbe company received
hree cars cf lumber yesterday
The N. [. l. association dance in-Jhe
70-oD hall hall Friday night was q
uccess, IS most dances in Mesa are.
\ picnic and musical programme was
njoyed during the evening. The event
vas the opening number for this win
er's work
Those registered at the KimbaIl :
ouse are; Katie Dcnnelly, Florence;
dalcoim McLeash, Denver; A A.
Whitney, San Franchises: Fred Winter,
)eming; J. H. Brady, Los Angeles;
'homas German, Denver; DR.. W. Il.
}6VoIe and wife. Tempe
lie: Mrs. c. r. White, Florence; g.