Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-04-16
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

then go on paying for coal and labor
to keep the pumps in operation. Be
sides there was the cost of reservoirs
TO be added TO the expense Of pumping
II might seem at first that the price
was very large, but in the end It would
be cheaper than a pumping system.
Senator Paris asked II the Govern
ment had not the right to condemn tho
water whenever II was needed.
Delay Expensive.
Senator Cecil Brown replied that he
believed the water could he obtained
cheaper today than at any time later.
II he owned the water he would not
let II go for less than S2j0.OO0 Answer
ing another question. he said the Gov
eminent favored pumping plants be-
cause there was politics in them. There
were many billets to give in extensive
water works.
Senator Paris said It seemed to him
that they ought to 20 by what the
Government wanted and not force on
them something they did not want.
Senator Cecil Brown replied that the
Government proposed to construct u
stinkpot in Nuunnu valley.
Senator Paris referred to the filter
ing plant for which the Government
asked an appropriation.
Senator Brown said IL the big rcser-
voir proposed for Nuuanu valley wero
constructed there would not be water
enough TO fill 1t more than once year.
People who spoke about a great water
shed in Nuuanu did not know what
they were talking about.
Aehi Says No Money.
| Senator Achi believed II the bill
passed 1t could not be put into effect
He agreed with Senator Browns state
ments, but the question with him was
how the thing could be done. The
Treasury balance on March 81 was
$4,000. The entire receipts till Deem
her 81 were estimated at 81. 2Sl, 900. BY
the terms Of the County Bill $72O. 900
was to be distributed amongst the coun-
ties. lie could not see where the money
was going to come from.
Senator Paris again expressed the
/ opinion that the water should be left
go condemnation when II might be
needed.
Mccardless Quotes Figures.
Senator McCandless moved that the
I bill be indefinitely postponed. He pre-
sentcd a series of figures to prove that
the proposed deal should be prevented
on economical grounds. 1t cost $13.3a
4 lnV for ~, L.,
plant, which amounted to S4SG5. 40 Il
year. The interest at per cent on the
( purchase price of the Pauoa springs,
$4,000, would be $780, or an excess
OF S263i.5o over the cost of the Berc-
tania street pumping plant. Adding
100000 as the expense of maintaining
the Pauoa system, the difference in
favor of the pumps was increased to
$db3i,65, and his calculation took no
account of building reservoir and lay
Ing pipes for the Pauoa system. An
other point was that there were hun
dreds of acres OF land mauka of the
PauOa springs left outside the control
OF the Government so that there was
no protection against pollution. The
policy OF the Government in Nuuanu
valley was TO prevent the erection of
dwellings above the levels of the reser-
voirs, IL was within his personal
knowledge that In 1898 the taro lands
In Pauoa valley nearly all dried up.
Mr. Booth dug a great big well and
erected a windmill over II so that he
could get water for the taro lands. Mr..
McCandless went on to plead consider
alton for the growing industry. AT
one stroke of the pen II was proposed
to put 80 acres OF taro land out OF