The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-01
SPECIAL RATES.


cluling water for washing vehicles.
For lst horse. $500 per annum.
For 2d. 3D. 4th and 9Th horse. s. 90
per annum each.
For 9th to 50th horse. $l.00 per annum
each.
Fer 51st and above, 10 cents per an
mum each.
For 1st COW, $3.50 per annum.
For I'd, 3D., 4th and 9Th COW, $l.0O per
annum each.
For 9Th COW and above, IS cents per
annum each.
Section 3. Irrigation where confined
to such four "a hours of the day as
are published from time to time by the
superintendent Of Water Works, at the
rate of one-half cent per square yard
per annum; no annual charge to be less
than $4,000 five dollars.
Section 4. Stores. banks. bakeries.
offices warehouses. saloons, groceries
eating houses. barber shops. butcher
shops. book binderies. blacksmith shops
confectioners, hotels. lodging houses
boarding houses. churches. halls, laun-
dries. photograph galleries, printing Of
fees. steam engines, green houses. mar
ketS market stalls. horse troughs, soda
fountains and other places of business,
each to be charged according to the es-
timateG quantity used.
Section >. Water shall be furnished
and delivered to shipping lying along
side any of the wharves on the water
front where water pipes or mains are
laid. between the hours of o'clock a.
m. and o'clock p. m. daily. at the rate
of one-fOurth cent per gallon.
With these as the yearly rates here
the following monthly rates in ten
Coast cities are of interest. The rates
are those made for a small house with
five persons. which here would not pay.
on an average more than $40 a year.
HOLSTER $50: Napa City. $1.00 to $3.50;
San Bernardino $50; Vallejo. SIS;
Sacramento, $1.00; Suisun, $1.20; Santa
Clara, $l.OO: Modesto, $50, all of these
towns in California; Pendleton. Ore.
81 50: Portland, Ore, $1.00. In addition
to these rates there is in most of the
cities named a rate of 30 cents each
month for a private bath. and on the
general average the meter rate is -
cents. in some places being 20 ard 9TH
ers as high as 30 cents per thousand
gallons.
As showing the scope of the local wa
ter system the following items would
convey the greatest amount of general
informa ton:
ing and gravity system.
The pumping system consists of three
No. lone verticle triple expansion
engine with a capacity of 5,000.000 u. S.
gallons per twenty-four hours supplied
from three twelVe-inch artesian wells.
No. 2-One Blake Horizontal pumping
engine with a capacity of $500. 900 L. s.
gallons per twenty-four hours supplied
from two ten-inch artesian wells.
No. 3-One triple cylinder single act
ing brass pump with capacity of
1 100000 L. s. gallons per twentyfour
hours supplied from one eight-inch ar
tesian well.
The pumping system supplies the city
to an elevation of one hundred and fifty
feet above sea level
There are two reservoirs connected
with TIE same, one with capacity Of
!, 500 900 L. S. gallons and one $4,000 T..
5. gallons.
The gravity system consists of three
No. with capacity of q. 900 900
gallons at an elevation of 405 feet above
sea level.
No. with capacity of 10000 900
gallons al an elevation of 735 feet above
sea level.
No. 3-With a capacity of 100000
gallons Al an elevation of $50 feet above
sea level.
Nos. and 3 are piped to the electric
light station where the water is used
o generate power to run the street
lights after which it passes into No. 1
which supplies the higher levels say
rom the $50 feet level to $50 feet above
ea level
These reservoirs are supplied from
ain and springs from the mountains
Ibove Luakaha.