Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-10
J. That excludes the South Gardiner

a. II eXcludes part of that. 1t takes
in the settled portion and excludes the
unsettled Gardiner portion.
Q. The Wateryille district has pro-
tceeded SO far that the next step is an
appraisal
A. Yes sir.
Q. And the Gardiner one is pending
and the company has no objection to
that bill?
A. No objection whatever.
O. And they are willing. or are they
willing here for either of these towns in
lany way to form such a combination
or such an arrangement so as to take
the whole? slfsrl ~
| A. Any combination which will take
the entire system, which will take what
we have.
@. Why do you object to their TAX
ing out slicessof the system as proposed
by their bill? State in your own way.
1 A. If they take the Brunswick end
west from Thompson brook it leaves
our expense east of the Thompson
brook practically the same as it is now,
and the revenue won't be very materi-
Tally decreased. The only item that we
would save money on would be the de-
crease in the use of fuel / don't be-
lieve we would save over five or six
hundred dollars a year on fuel. The
plant was built and adopted to be most
Iefficiently operated with the consump-
ton of about three million gallons
iday. and if you cut that down to what
Bath would use alone. we could not
maintain the same standard OF effi-
lciency that we do now.
| Q. Without increasing the Bath
: rates.
Il. A. No sir; we would have to carry
1.-The same steam pressure maintain the
Lsame "a hour service, and think the
decrease in the coal would be very
lsmall indeed. Every other expense
would be exactly. the same.
Q. If you We're to get the same reve-
nue. relatively that you do now, YOU
would have to increase the rates ir
Bath, wouldn't you?
j A. That would be the logical out.
come.
Q. say. if you were to keep up the
same relative revenue?
A. That would be the only way VIZ
tcould.
would have to stand the loss your.
: selves?
A. Exactly.
Q. Do you know of any other source
) lof supply that is adequate to suppl,
' this city of Bath and the town o
Brunswick or either of them separate
lly, as a result of your experience, othe
than Nequasset?
A. No sir.
c. Do you know something with re
ference to what experience has shown
as to the safety of relying upon the un
known quantities to be derived from
driving wells as an adequate source o
lsupply for towns of six or seven thou
Island people?
A. / have had no personal experience
in regard TO the unknown Quantitie
las regards driven wells. as there i
e lsutficient danger in making the calcu
e lations on our water.
@. Those do. not always come out ex
!, lactly?
A. No sir, not always.
@. You had nothing to do with tn
e system at the time of Mr.. MaXcy's con
\ nection?
1 A. No sir, not previous to Deem
t Der 1899.
/ @. Have you given some time an
t study yourself and in connection wit
your counsel to endeavor to devils
some standard of value which coul
!, be applied here which would enabl
E this plant to be disjointed, as tn
Brunswick people have suggested, an
still not do injustice to one side o
/ the other?
81 A. Yes Sir, have.
4 @. Have you been able to find an
such plan or standard of valuation?
A. No sir.
@. Have you anything else that yol
think of that you would like to stat
e in regard to your position here?
A. No sir.
CROSS EXAMINED.
.. BY Mr.. Thompson:
Q. l believe in the case of the Ken
nebec Water District, the Fairfield vii
lage corporation and the city of Wa
. terville took the system which includ
ed those places and the towns of Ben
ton and Winslow?
A. Their act provides that they shall
do that. ets
@. The town of Benton does no
take the system of Waterville ant
Fairfield?
A. No sir.
Q. 1t is the large place that takel
land not the little one?
A Yes sir.
Mr.. Weeks: Have you ever exam
ined that aet? as
A. have read it a number of times
Q. Do you remember whether thu
town of Winslow or the town of Ben.
ton had an opportunity to enter into
, lthat? a ~
A. I know they both had an oppor.
tunity to join the district and they de-
cided not to at that time
Q. Under the provisions of the act
A. Yes sir, under the provisions OF
the act.
Mr.. Manley: You were speaking OF
the Gardiner district. Randolph is on
the other side of the Kennebec river
from Gardiner?
A. Yes sir.
Mr.. Guernsey: The pumping station
Testablished at the lake is steam sys-
tenn, is it?
As Yes sir, we have a four million
gallon steam pump and a two million
gallon steam pump and three boilers.