St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-08
Formed To
Build st. Tammany
AQueduct.
Capital Stock SIS, 900, 900

has already been chartered and an
other probably three times tina
size will be chartered within th
next two weeks.
| These two big concerns pale int
insigniticance compared with tn
lgreat movement involving the d.
rect outlay Of 100000 capital
which has been quietly planned Ii
this city looking toward the furnish
Ing of the city with a pure waite
supply. The eastern capitalist
who have been examining tn
grounds locally and who hav'
agreed TO furnish the capital needed
to put the scheme through, bay'
been registered at the St. Charles
Hotel for the past several days
Last night they departed for New
York City, but they will return
in few days.
The plan they will carry out il
the city gives the proper encour'
agement, Is nothing more or lest
than the final consummatlon OF
the long-talked-of scheme to bring
a fresh and pure water supply from
the untalnted springs IN the hills
of St. Tammany across the lake
into New Orleans.
The writer yesterday managed
to secure the details of this extra.
ordinary enterprise, getting the
story in piece meals, and by ad-
missions which were secured be-
cause they could not be avoided.
Mr.. Lloyd Posey, the we'll
known local attorney and formerly
State Senator from the Fourth
District, is the manager of the st.
Tammany pure water enterprise.
He was made to admit this fact last
night and then begrudginglv dis
gorged his secret plans, which are
maturing SO rapidly.
The party OF capitalists finally
agreed that whatever Mr.. Posey
should say they would stand by,
but they requested that their names
be not made public at this time un
less Mr.. Posey thought 1t would be
proper to publish them. Mr.. Posey
said that in case the city accepted
his written proposition to furnish
it pure St. Tammany water he
would then consent to have their
names published. In case the city
turned the proposition down, he
thought there would never be any
occasion to make known the names
of the gentlemen he had interested
in the st. Tammany water plans.
EYES," said he, sit is fact that
4 company of New York and East
ern capitalists have just finished
looking into all the details of the
plans which have been carefully
matured for the purpose OF bringi
ing water across Lake Pontchar-
train into this city tor domestic
purposes. This trip of these capt.
talists is not the first one they have
made to look into this subject,
they have been here several times
before. Our plans are to build an
electric railroad across the lake on
piling, and for permission to do
his Congressman S. NJ. Robertson
has introduced bill before Con-
yress granting us the right to make
such construction.
"What has the electric railroad
got to do with the St. Tammany
olan to furnish water to New Or
cans? Everything in the world.
We propose to build the acqueduct
bringing the water across the take
N the same trestle that will bear
he electric lines of railway. OF
curse the electric line of railway
not dependent upon the success
f the scheme to furnish The city
nth St. Tammany pure water, but
he water scheme Is dependent
pom the electric railway scheme,
Ut the railway will be built
7hethe the aqueduct is or not.
eli you will notice, by the re-
ort of Engineer Earl of the Water
nd Sewerage Board, it will cost
rom $3.50 to $500 per day to furnish
lie city with filtered river water.
low this sum will amount to fully
$4,000 per year. We propose to
y before the city government i
thin the next few weeks written G
,bstantantial bona tide offer to s
lrnish the city pure water from t
ross the lake at cost that will Z
axe 1t to the financial interests of t
le city to take the pure water from +
). Tammanv rather than to pay i
r the filtered water from the river X
u'cn Is very poor al pest.
''For the past many years. every 9
gineer and scientist of any u
has. pointed out that o
e only way New Orleans could D
furnished with pure water in . =,
fficient quantity to fill all needs :
IS to bring the supply from the
rings in the hills of st. Tam h
my. The expense and the diff se
ty of constructing the necessary 81
,educt has always stood as an as
obstacle in the wi
Y of this plan being carried out &c sc
the city. Now we have a COM At,
y organized that Will furnish
the capital needed and will n
pg the water across the lake at