Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1903-05-06
THE SEWAGE QUESTION.

The die is cast Prescott is to ad-
vance one notch in the scale of NUM-
cipal growth.
Cities like persons have periods of
growth and these periods are charac-
terized by certain activities or all alb
sorbing topics of interest.
The voters of Prescott have wisely
decided to advance this beautiful, and
in many respects ideal, mountain city
in the scale of American cities and
have manfully shouldered the burdens
of bond issue TO begin the work.
To the voter and tax payer belong the
double credit of desiring this munich
pal improvement and the more real
effect of paying for it. Municipal
improvements like all other is born of
necessity. The prime force in the
present move, and Prescott is on the
move in new sense, is Prescott's in
adequate, incomplete, outgrown sewer
system. This system which has cost |
the city neat sum is good as far as it |
CUES, but it does not go to one half |
the residences and only about one and
one half miles from the court house. |
1t is like a tree without roots or
branches. 1t it too short at both
ends. 1t ends within few feet of a
we'll travelled public highway, one of
the principal drives from the city,
ends in dry run and crosses and re-
crosses the public thoroughfare. That
this method of disposal is crude,
careless, repulsive, dangerous and
nothing short of criminal is only stat
ing the truth mildly.
Prescott has been, and ever will be,
to certain extent, the haven OF the
sick and afflicted, and because of its
climate will always be the
home of the consumptive for a large
part of the year. Epidemics of ty-
phoid and similar diseases will occur, ,
as they have in the past, until such
rigid and effective sanitary measures ,
are taken as will remove their causes ,
and prevent contagion. With these
but stern, uncompromis-
ing facts III view, and others that will
come to the mind of anyone who is {
acquainted with the recent past, and
orescott's health reports, it is not
strange that the taxpayer and public
pirited citizen have risen to the occa-
ion and furnished the means and
low demand that a speedy, effective
nd economical means of disposing of
his peculiarly dangerous and object p
enable sewage. a
If the subject needed any more elab- a
ration to arouse the dullest intellect d
nd win the strongest opponent of ex
the imagination might
tart with the fact that during the dry al
OF days of the long summer the end X
the sewer is the drinking place, and r
the only available drinking al
lace of herds of milch cows, which
urnish part of the supply for the
ity, and this milk, uninspected, is Il
eddled from house to house for family Il
Sc. CT
This then is the present situation; b
rescott has a peculiarly dangerous
nd repulsive sewage; this must be r
isposed of; the public is aware Of it; =
be community, and especially the
Military authorities, both of which
ave been long suffering and patient,
emand the removal of the present
the tax payer has burdened
imself with bond issue to this end p'
nd now in view of these facts and al
Onditions the community at large, az
ach citizen. every tax payer. the well IL
ire of the city and community, and
ne military authorities at the post lie
nd Washington are waiting to see VI
hat action the city council will take W
} abate this nuisance and remove this d
anger spot. 1t now devovles on this pl
ody, into whose hands has been u
laced the interests of the community,
nd what is more binding, the express
i'll of voters at the polls and the
leans to carry it into effect, to devise PI
plan that will purify this sewage and =,
ispose of it so that it will 'lose nj
its power for evil W
How this can best and most econom- al
ally be done is the question to be -
)lved. 1t is now up to the authori- le
es, the mayor and council. to decide ge
pom means of sewage disposal as sa
lall meet the given present require ~
ents and be adequate to keep up
18th the growth of the city, we'll de- II
ned plan, based on scientific prin- -
piles, backed by successful experience
nd in accord with the best and most
practice of sanitary engi-
eering
In another issue several Of the best
etbods of treatment and disposal g.
i'll be discussed and compared =;
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1t is significant of President Roose- III
Its magnetism that no one was vi