The record-union., 1899-05-09
ANOTHER WATER PROPOSAL.
THIS TIME IT rs FOR THE
COSTUMES RIVER.
Board of Trustees Rejects All Bids
for Sprinkling the
Streets.

except Trustee Bentley
General T. w. Sheehan, on behalf OF
the Grand Army of the Republic, asked
for the appropriation of $l5U, as usual,
for the celebration of Decoration Day,
so that it would not be necessary to
call on citizens to contribute.
The appropriation was granted unan-
imously, without debate.
P. Menken asked that the Seventh
street sewer be extended to d street,
as there are many residents of that
vicinity who have no sewer accommo-
dations, and their cesspools overflow.
Trustee Douglas said it would accom-
modate at least thirty houses and was
a great necessity. He moved that it
be extended.
Trustee Brown said the Sewer Com
mittee had reported favorably on the
matter. 1t would only be half block,
but it had been put off Indefinitely by
the board to wait for the issue of
bonds.
Trustee Kent objected to patching up
the sewers. He favored passing the
bond ordinance tonight and getting
the whole system constructed He was
willing, however, to refer it to the FL
nance Committee, if there are funds
enough.
Trustee Dolan said it would cost only
500, and should be done Immediately.
Mayor Land said the tracings had
been completed for the system and
sent to Engineer Grunsky with a re-
. quest to hurry up his report.
The Surveyor was requested to pre-
sent plans and specifications for the
extension next Monday night.
j. T. Minear requested permission to
remove the photograph gallery from
Thirteenth and K streets to Eleventh
and r, and the request was granted.
ANOTHER WATER OFFER.
A message from the Mayor was read,
stating that he had an offer from J.
S. Mitchell of Oakland to deliver water
from the upper Costumes River to the
city for $525, 900.
The communication was read, as fol-
lows:
Oakland, May 6, 1899.
William Land, Mayor of Sacramento,
Cal.-Dear Sir: Understanding that the
city of Sacramento is DESTROYS of OBJ
tanning a better supply of water than
that at present available, 1 beg to state
that l will agree to furnish the city of
Sacramento with pure, filtered water
from the upper sources Of the
Costumes River, delivering the same
through a pipe into the city's mains
at the extreme eastern boundary Of
the city, under a pressure of seventy
pounds per square inch, equivalent to
head of 40 feet and will supply the
city at the rate of 1I5 gallons per
capita, assuming a present population
of $1,000 habitants with the right to
call for like amount per capita as
the population increases up to a pop
ulation of 100000 inhabitants; and will
accept therefor in compensation the
sum of 500 600, which may be paid
for in Sacramento 4 per cent. munici :
pal bonds, in proportion as the work
is completed
L beg that you will present this mat
ter to the Board of Trustees for their
consideration
l will offer you as reference the First
National Bank of San Francisco. Yours
respectfully, ]. S. MITCHELL,
$50 Twelfth street
The following communication from the
Chamber of Commerce was read:
Sacramento. May &, 1899
To the Honorable Board of Trustees,
City of Neutrality-suspicious.: At q
regular meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Sacramento Chamber of
Commerce. held on April 26th, the fol-
lowing was unanimously adopted and
ordered transmitted to you:
Resolved, That this Chamber of
Commerce petitions the honorable
Board Of City Trustees to authorize
the Mayor to appoint a commission OF
twenty-five citizens, who shall investi
gate the whole subject of clear water
supply, and report plans to the Mayor,
he to transmit the same to your board ="
Most respectfully
FRANK MILLER, President.
]. o. Coleman. Secretary.
Trustee Tebbets said it was the duty
of the Trustees TO investigate all the
offers and satisfy themselves as to then
merits. If they wished then to ask
the advice of citizens. they could do 50
He moved the communication be place
on file, and it was so ordered
The usual number of claims were
allowed
Trustee Paine, for the Street Com
mittee, said the committee had consult
ed with the Mayor and had ascertained
that the work of street sprinkling could
be done more cheaply by days work
than under the lowest responsible bid
ders and therefore recommended that all
bids be rejected and that the sprinkline
be done by days work
Trustee Dolan said that there were
some bidders so low that they could
not feed their horses at the price. The
committee therefore favored days work
Trustee Devine thought their bids
should be accepted if they put up bonds
Trustee Paine said the bidders he re-
ferIed to had all had trouble with tht
Street Superintendent because they die
not do their work properly.
Superintendent of Streets Touhey sale
that experience had shown that tbs
bonds were of no use, for it had beer
found impossible to compel such bid
ders to do their work or to inflict fine:
on them
j. D. Moynahan spoke for one of the
contractors. and thought the boarC
should accept the bids, after calling FOL
them. A man should not be thrown GU
because he had been derelict in the past
c. o. Busick also spoke for anothei
contractor and asked that his bid b'
received.
John Wall thought he was entitled t.