CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-11-20
AGITATION FOR
BETTER WATER

ginning to clamor as never before for
an adequate supply of pure, fresh
water. the only thing needed to COM
plete the happiness of the community.
The water here is no worse than it
is in many other towns, but is not as
good as it ought to be for com
munity that is accustomed to the best
of everything that nature can produce
or art can promote.
Suggestions have been made to the
city council from dozen different
sources as to the best manner of OBJ
tanning the desired water supply. but
no real solution of the matter has thus
far been reached, although it is quite
within the range of possibilities that
in the course of time an Alexander
will he found to cut the Gordon
knot.
One of the most feasible PROPOSE
tions of which we have heard in re-
| lation to the affair is that of the
Colorado Springs & Florence Oil
Company, which offers to deliver ar
tesian water from its wells near
Chandler, to our city mains for so
much a thousand gallons. provided of
course, contract for long term of
years is entered into between the par
! ties in the agreement.
The exact terms of the company's
proposition to the city council are not
known to the public, but they are be.
lieved to be practically prohibitive,
the water supply from that source
presumably costing the people of
Canon City something like one hun
dred dollars a day.
Cottonwood, West Four Mile and
the Twin Mountain valley have also
been mentioned in connection with
this water supply question, but none
of them seem to fill all the require
ments of the case. and for this reason
will probably not be drawn upon.
The two former are distant forty and
twenty-five mills, respectively, form
the city. which would render 1t too
expensive to lay pipe line to bring
the water here, granting that IN
efficient supply is to be had either
of the places suggested.
There is water in the Twin Mount
ain valley, but the quantity is in
sufficient to supply the needs of Canon
City, although il is believed that IL
can be increased by boring rs the
same geological strata that furnishes
the water at Chandler is known to
underlie the greater portion Of the
valley.
The artesian wells at Chandler are
600 feet above Canon City and the
w ater can be piped here at n smaller
cost than from any other direction
and they would therefore appear to
offer the easiest solution Of the ques-
tion, although there is some skepti-
cism in relation 20 the sufiiciency of
the supply at that point.
The flow from the Chandler wells
is computed at l,o50. 900 gallons every
twenty four hours, which is about
equal to tho maximum quantity OF
water used here during the warmest
days last summer.
The matter of first-class supply
of pure, soft water is an affair that,
like Banquo's ghost, will not down
and we have no doubt that solution
will be found by those in charge of
our municipal affairs in due course.
Other towns have been confronted
by the same problem and have tri.
umphed over difficulties apparently
insurmountable, which is assurance
| that Canon City will succeed in over
coming obstacles that only require
for their removal an enterprise and
capital within the reach of its citi-
zens.
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