The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-07-03
Discrimination III Water Rates

Discrimination Ii Water Rates
Continued from page one)
conditions. We certainly don't admit
that Mr.. Mnan should pay more than
Mr.. Maynard. InSl9O1 Tinans paid $l2
for a 100 foot front yard and Maynard
paid 81. If we owe $3 on the 1902 tax
how much does the honorable member
of the fire and water committee owe
the city on the 1901 tax: What
Maynard lacked in lawn he more than
madeupin garden.
Now, we'd like to ask this munici-
pal CRATER how it comes that last
year "a. M. Bowles, with 70 foot front.
age, 10 barn, horse nor COW, paid SO
andC. ]. Maynard, with $50 foot
frontage, garden, barn, horse and COW
paid $3.50.
We'd like to ask the honorable
member OF the fire and water COM
mittee, who pirates about other people
getting the best of the city by 20 to %
per cent, how IL came that Z. Al.
Berry, with IS foot frontage, and a
house and barn covering half Of it and
no garden, paid $40 and g. j. Maynard
$3.50, with his corn in that crack
gardenFof his tasselling out in June.
There's nothing like being where
you've gotta pull. Will the strictly
pure member OF the council explain
how it is that his next door neighbor,.
q. A.aFonte,sW wa taxed Sl2 for yard
purposes in 1902 for the same amount
Of yard and use OF water four hours
only andsC. .. Maynard taxed So for.
the same purpose.
Uncle haunceY better come down
the pole without any more shooting
and walk up.to the captains office
and pay what hesowes.
The proposition last year, when the.
4 fourAhour limit was for the first time.
s#5 putin effect, over which we s~ssbeefed,n
5 Mr.. Maynard says, embraced a
sliding scale Of rates ranging from 81
to s1Osfor the use OF water with a hose.
Now, wei like to have Mr.. Maynard,
or anv either person, here or anywhere
on earth, figure it out how one man
can get more water from a three
quarter inch hose in four hours than
another Hitcan't be done is there
anyone who canstell us why one man
should pay more than another?: The
fact that n mar may have a bigger
lawn than another or more OF a garden
s than another cuts nosigure il he al
lows his hose to run the full four
hours-which they all do. They
have to.
The water system Of Kimball con:
sists in part Of q 1900 gallon tank SET
up8butl8 feet. When full and no
hydranJs running the pressure is not
ten pounds. When the MIGRANTS arr
opened II drops to nothing, sometimes
not everything ahose fullSas tiles or
the ground.
OnsSouth Main street where tllree
consumers have paid $12 for foul
months use of the water there is a
little 2 inch main to which have been
attached nine service pipes, and on
which there are now ten-none
smaller than thr~ee-fourths of an inch
and some b inch, supplying the
residents there. In other parts of$the
town consumers get their water from
q -four and teninch main When all
hydrants are turned on from 5 to g
:. m. those on South Main street get
just about enough water to flow
through the hose. AS a service for
lawn use it becomes practically worth
less.
In all other towns where the hours
are limited consumers are taxed on
the average about Sc a year for yard
use andstnere is sufficient pressure to
throw a stream OF water fifty feet.
The ordinary premises can be sprink-
ledsin an hour.
There should never be anything but
a fiat rate for the same service. If
people don't want to use it that's
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