El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-29
Ell PAso TEXAS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1900

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sible by slightly increasing the assess-
nents to give an adequate amount of
bonds to establish the water works. In
regard to this assessor Smith says
there is no question of the ability of
the city to raise the tax valuation all
over town, for At present tbe assess
ments are only s66 valuation On each
500 worthot property, while the aw
allows the sssess.nens of property st
its actual value.
But il eoouG a hoods, As nov appears,
cann"s o. Issued to GARRY out both pro
jeots lis FOR the tax osy era TO decide
whsther tAey prefer water works or
school houses.
In GREER TO ascertain something of
she se u-- If the saxpaser, of tae ely
upon IA, q'ies i'm as stated, rcrre.eE-
tatives o. .ac HERALD sought ex.
pressl0Ls from ousin"ss nua r-ofes-
sional men. Some decliAed TO be
quoted but . number gave their views
as follows:
VIEWS OF TAXPAYERS
w. G.Walz: We are up against 1t.
In both proportions, and must be
careful or We will make . lasting
mistake. We need the waterworks
and We need the school baildings, and
We need both very badly: AS We can
not get both We must take one and
wait for the others. AS for
ny part uncompromisinRly favor the
schools. L have . daughter in school
in Los Angeles and . son In school iu
Kentucky, and for no other reason
than the fact that they cannot be 40.
comodated IN e. Paso. There are sev
eralcorpor atione now ready 20 construct
a wsterworks plant here and furnish
no better than that. When the city has
the money it can buy the plant
from the company. No corporation
will furnish the city with schools and
we must do that ourselves. If two hon
dred thousand dollars iE bonds are
fastened on the city for waterworks,
the school proposition will end for a
long time, while s75, 900 for the schools
Will only defer the waterworks for
about year. The waterworks question
will take care OF iteelf while there is
only one way TO secure the schools. I
unconpromisingly favor the schools
A. Krakhuer: BY all means and
regardless of the expense let US have
the waterworks. The school question
can be temporarily arranged to meet
the requirement while the water
question is already over due ard o
should lose no time in putting In a
complete plant. II the board of
directors OF the public schools would
tingent and use the Ell Paso schools
for tho education of Ell Paso children
the present facilities would be ample
for the demand. would favor is
suing bonds for both the schools and
the WaterWorks If IL could be done, but
II IL cannot shall vote fer the water
works.
that the issuance Of SIS 900 in bonds
for the improvement of the schools
| will interfere with the scheme for q
| waterworks system, and II this Is the
| case 1 muss favor the waterworks. It
is imperative that we get better water
aud it IL equally as important that she
wait a few years II the board will cut
of the attendance from Juarez. We
must own the waterworks in self de-
tense and Il the city owns the plant we
| will have some assurance OF plenty of
good water. I hope that bonds can be
issued sufficient to carry out both pro-
positions but rs TO one against the
/
A. P. Coles: favor good schools
and l favor wsterworks bot between
the two proportions as they are pre-
sentsd here I must favor the wster-
| works. I do not think We can get both
for 1t will run our bonded Indebtedness
| 10 the Limits, which would not be q wise
| move at this time. Schools are i'm
pOrtaut and lay no less stress upon
| the importance OF good schools than
any other oit'zen. but think We can
bridge over that difficulty better than
we can get around the water question.
We need both and can only get one
and between the two propositions /
must favor the waterWorks.
]. P. Dieter: In ano sher year the
contract with the old wsterworks cor1-
pany will expire aud il the city places
itself in q position where IL Cannot
build 9 plAut Of it's own We will be at
she mercy of the old compsny. The
water we are using now il actually un-
fit to take y bath In and | consider IL
absolutely necessary to secure pure
water to protect she health of the pub
lie. Out the Juarez people out of our
schools and you will have the school
problem solved for a short time At
least, and sitter we q. the waterworks
We can build good school buildings.
]. W. Fisher: Let US have she
schools. Nothing can so damage the
city as poor school system and this |
is the only way to get them. The |
wsterworks question will take care of |
ftself. The water we have now is not |
good but 1t is not rs bad ns the public |
thi"ke. have thoroughly tested it
whose health would be damaged by |
using 1t. Let a private comnanv sne-