The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-10-31


Northwest Pacific coast.
The population Of this city can be
doubled in FIVE years IL every person
VINO reads this paper will adopt hope
full tactics for city growth.
No city can grow at more than
snaiPs pace without steadfast, consis-
tent and everlastingly aggressive
improvements.
II every reader of this paper will
go to work to get one family to come
to Salem next year Salem will double
in population.
But people who come here must be
employed. Public improvements alone
will employ common labor and help
build up the suburbs rapidly.
Will you labor TO get people to come
and live in Salem? viii you favor
a policy that shall result in building
sewers, streets, etc?
What about a water system for
Greater Salem? Has not the time
come for this city to begin to consider
the propriety of buying or building a
water system adequate TO the needs Of
growing capital city?
Criticism and condemnation will ac-
complish little for the needs of a
growing city, and neither will policy
to destroy or injure the water service
we now have.
Salem. as a capital city, is the tar
get of observation for the whole state
on this matter of water supply, and the
state institutions are interested about
as much as the people OF this city.
Why would It not be wise for the
state institutions to be considered at
the time when Salem is planning a
water supply? They would be the
largest customers for Salem water
and should have the best quality.
The city of Salem alone has the
right to make contracts with the state
institutions under public ownership,
and yet the state could join the city in
building a suitable water plant
The state and the city could bring
water from the mountains, when
neither could afford to bring It alone.
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A sewer system for Greater Salem
is Indispensable AS well try to run
a factory without a chimney, a horse
without lungs, house without air, as
a city like this without sewers.
Every state institution must have
sewer. The city and the state should
have a Joint sewer system. It is
wrong to turn state institution sewage
into the creeks that flow openly
through this city.
Who knows what becomes of the
sewage of the asylum farms, OF the
mute school, of the reform school. of
the fair grounds, and other public in
stltutions?
A sewer system for Greater Salem
must include the sewerage of the state
institutions.
The city should have the right to
tap the state sewer that now runs
through the city, and the state should
have the right to tap the city sewers.
The state and the city should unite
in adopting an adequate sewer system
for the city and the institutions. The
sanitation and welfare of the one af.
fects the other
II is TO be hoped that the committee
of the Greater Salem Commercial
Club on the extension Of the electric
lines to Chemawa will soon get a con
ference with Mr., ]. J. Henry of Den.
YER the owner Of the plant
That committee is composed Of
Mayor Bishop, John II. Albert and e.
A. Pierce. A meeting OF the citizens
should be held at Chemawa to see
what can be done to promote the mat.
ter
With the students at the school
there are about a thousand persons in
that neighborhood, and their business
is worth conslderIng-it is worth go.
ing after with some energy.
Il will be said that we already get
their business. but that is not true in
the sense OF their convenience. Those
people would come 10 Salem fave times
whore they come now once II they had
an electric car line with service every
half hour
Salem should appoint committees
who would go and visit other commu
mites that want extension OF motor
lines from this city aud find out what
they are willing to do 10 get them
salem should also push hard for IN,
Falls City and Salem railroad 20 b,
completed TO this city, These are mat
ters that mean much 20 Greater Sa
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