Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-03-04
THE CITY COUNCIL
 HOLDS A MEETING
Refuses to Confirm Mayor Burk.'S Nominee For City AttOrney===Claim From John
 Duke For Heavy Damages.
The Advsabity of Calling Special Election Vote An other Bond Issue Extend Water and Sewer Systems Is Discussed and Referred to Finance Com
 mitee For Immediate Action.

at this office not later than 10 o'clock
 a. m., tomorrow, for instructions. '' When the communication had been
 signed by Mayor Burke, Mulvenon moved that the communication be l, laid on the table. The motion was seconded by Wilson. The mayor ut
 terly ignored the motion but proceed
 ed to call up the residence of Mir.
 Norris by telephone and read the
 above communication to him.
 While this was being done Mir. Null
 venom demanded the ayes and noes on
 tn motion to table the communica-
 tion and on roll call the following
 vote resulted:
 Ayes-Mulvenon, Head, Wilson,
 Brinkmeyer, the mayor refusing to
 vote.
 This ended the expected struggle
 between Mayor and council on the
 matter of appointments, as the former
 did not make any further reference to
 his appointments.
 After the smoke of battle had clear
 ed away, so to speak, the mayor an-
 nounced the appointment of standing
 committees as follows:
 Licenses-Brinkmeyer, Head and
 Wilson.
 Finance-Wilson, Head, Mulvenon.
 Water-Head, Wilson and Brink
 meyer.
 Streets-MulvenOn, Wilson, Head.
 Sanitary - Brinkmeyer, Head and
 Mulvenon.
 The finance committee then audited
 the unpaid bills against the city amounting to 5271i.52.
 | The city treasurer reported s1365. IS
 on hand
 | The city auditor reported having collected the sum of S267 from fines, during the month of February.
 The report of the city assessor and tax collector showed unpaid water \ bills for 1901 to the amount to sl57.77 for 1902, s1375, while no wa
 ter bills had been collected for the
 months of January and February of this year, leaving nearly S5OOO due the city from this source He was instructed to collect these bills at once and to shut off water to consum- CTS who did not settle as soon as their bills were presented.
 The report of the city engineer was quite exhaustive and contained some very important if not pleasant, infor- nation. He reported the pipe line between Prescott and Del Rio in very bad condition for about eight miles and said it was necessary to keep men at work along the line continually re- pairing the line where the lead joints ] were blowing out every day. The res ervoir in the city Is also in a deplor- | able condition, it being impossible to | keep more than abOut nine feet of wa | ter in it when there should be sixteen | feet. This was on account of leakage. l
 Ills report brought out a lengthy discussion on the water works prob lem. Mir. Mulvenon, who had been the chairman of the water committee | in the old council and who is un- dOubtedly the best posted man on the water works condition in Prescott, gave the new council some very val uable pointers on the situation. He sary to purchase about five miles of hydraulic pipe which could be fasten- ed together in long sections, the reser- voir filled and all unnecessary use of | water stopped for a few days and that the line could be relaid for the dis tance of about five miles where it is in such bad condition in about ten days time. But this would cost sev- eral thousand dollars. The reservoir would also have to be repaired and enlarged. and it was his experience that this would cost several more thousands and then could not be made to give good satisfaction and he that instead of more money being spent trying to repair and enlarge the old reservoir that million and half gallon steel tank be put in. which would stop the repair business for many years to come The tank would cost SlO.0 900 to 515, 600. Another thing, he under stood it was the intention of the gov to station at least three com panies at Whipple in the near future which would increase the consump- ton of water at the post to O.OOO gallons per day which together with the rapid growth of the city would soon demand about 60O, OOO gallons of water per day. The present capacity for furnishing water is short of 800, GOO to increase the capacity of the present plant. He suggested that an auxil- iary plant be put in near Smiths lane. This would reduce the pressure at the Del Rio plant so that the en- zine could be speeded up to meet the required needs, and the auxiliary plant could pump the water into the city reservoir. These needs, he de- clare1 were not fancies but faced the city in fearful reality and must be met. The matter of calling a special ( election for the issuance of bonds to ! meet these needs was discussed and $ Mir. MulvenOn was asked what amount ( would be needed. He replied that it f would take every dollar of $50, 0O0 and possibly more to put the water system in place where it would meet all de- mands of the city for years to come and also to extend the sewer out let C to the distance required by the war department. which is nearly two miles s beyond where it now empties. C
 On motion this matter was referred f to the finance committee with instruc- s tions to prepare a resolution calling