Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-11
ANOTHER ELECTION
Voters Will Soon be Called on to
Ratify Contract.
PLANS TEMPORARY WATERWORKS
In Order to Prepare for Closing of the
Plant of City Water Supply Co
Council Has Decided to Erect a
Temporary Plant in the Spring.

Ottumwa will soon be holding an
other waterworks election, if the pres
ent plans of the city council do not go
amiss, this time for the purpose OF rati-
Tying contract which will probably be
made by the council with some con-
tractors for the building of temper
airy waterworks system for the protec-
ton of the business district of the city,
which, it is claimed, is but inadequate
ly protected and would be burned if
connagratlon of any great extent
should break out. Alderman Hoglund,
chairman of the water committee and
John Brady city engineer. have COM
pleted plans and will soon have the
specifications ready for the erection of
temporary plant, for which the con-
tract is to be let during the winter in
order that the building may begin early
in the spring.
For city's Protection.
Alderman E.. Hoglund, when
questioned about the matter, stated
that as the injunction issued by the
United States district court is still in
force and prevents the city from carry
ing out its contract with the Fruin.
Bambrich Construction company for
the establishment of new and thor
ough water supply system, and Presi-
dent Underwood, of the City Water
Supply Co., said when he was in OF
tumwa that unless granted a twenty
five years contract or franchise he
would not allow his works to run after
April |. the city is compelled to make
some arrangements for plant which
VIII furnish at least temporary pro-
lection to the business district of the
city. 1t may transpire, so the alder
men hope, that the injunction issued
by Judge Smith Mcpherson will be dis.
solved by the United States court of
appeals before the beginning of the
building of this new plant, and il that
is done the work which is commenced
in the early spring will be by the Fru-
ln-Bambrich Construction Co. upon the
big plant. However. if the decision of
the court is Withheld after the first
warm winds begin to blow the work of
building this temporary plant will at
once begin.
Will Require Election.
An election will be required in order
that the people may by their vote
sanction and ratify the entering by the
council into a contract for the cree
ton of this new system the money
for which must be taken out of the
water sinking fund in the city treas
. ury, a fund which was created when
the matter of building a new water.
works system first entered the minds
OF the councilmen. This fund is made
up OF a tWo-mill tax and has been &C.
cumulating until there is enough in it
now to pay for the establishment of
the new temporary plants
The Plans in Brief.
The plans, as they are made thus
far, make the proposed plant look as
if it had been mapped out by some boy
but when the whole matter becomes
! known the reason for the ARRANGEMENT
is learned. The farther the water
| gets from the plant, according to the
plans, the larger the mains become
which is directly opposite the plan
| followed in all well-regulated water.
4 works systems.
The reason for this, however, lies
in the location of the power plant
According to the plans for the big sys
tenn which is, it is hoped by the coun.
Gil and many citizens, soon to be es,
tablished, will be in the West End
of the city, while the plan for the tenn
/ porary system calls for a power
house either on or near the Vine
/ street bridge, east of the center of the
| city.
The Pipe Lines.
1t is the intention to run an eight
inch main from the power house or
Vine street to Main street, and here
the water will run into a twelveinct
main from Vine to Jefferson streets
a fourteen-inch pipe from Jefferson tt
Market streets, and from Market tt
Wapello in sixteen-inch main. This
main pipe line will be tapped at Greer
street by six inch line which viii
run up Green street to Fourth, ant
another main of the same size will
branch off at Washington and run tt
Fourth. These two will be connected
along Fourth street by an eight-incl
line. An eight-inch main will rul
east on Hayne street from Vine stree
to the packing house and another ma,
go along Main street from Vine stree
to the Janney plant.
For Fires Only.
The new plant is to be for fire pre-
lection only and the water will not b.
| filtered. 1t will be obtained at tn
temporary plant direct from the rive
and will be pumped into the mains b,
means of two boilers and pumps
which will be purchased specially 70
the work and which may later b.
; used at the big plant. The pipe line
will. of course, be in readiness whel
the new and permanent system is in
augurated.