CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-12-03
WATER PROPOSITIONS

WATER PROPOSITIONS
The City Council Has varisty ol
Schemes To Choose From In
Determining Upsn A New
Storce Ter lnereassd
Water Supply.
Several plans are bling brought for
ward for new water supply for the
city, asd the merits of each Of them
will doubtless receive the attention of
the municipa. authorities before final
action is taken in the matter.
The proposition of City Engineer
Smythe to procure public water sup
ply from the river, near the Hanging
bridge in the Royal Gorge. has been
very widely exploited the last few
months and we need not enter into its
details at this time, suffice it to state
that he would pipe it down to receiv-
ing reservoirs in South Canon and,
after passing it through settling basins
distribute it throughout the city by .
gravity system. Mr.. Smythe's plan
has much TO commend it and it il be-
ing given . thorough investigation By
Mayor Coulter and the water commit
tee of the city council.
Dali DeWeese hss outlined q plan
which seems to offer Q solution of the
problem Of pure water and would have
the city obtain its supply from Grape
creek canon. A large storage reservoir
is being constructed in the Wet Noun
tain valley TO be drawn upon as occa-
sion demands for the irrigation Of
Lincoln park and from this source Mr..
DeWeese suggests the city could obtain
an adequate quantity of pure, soft
water for all purposes. public and pri-
vate- The water will be brought down
Grape creek from the impounding
reservoir and could be taken out OF
that stream and forced into the mains
in much the same way that it now is
from the Arkansas river.
Another proposition anent the water
question is that Of Mr. Green of Pueb-
10, which will probably be submitted
to the city council next Monday night.
Mr. Green thinks the city il neglectine
n exc~peional opportunity 10 not pro-
fsurss4 -sss water -edrp srcm ms
artesian wells of Messrs. Macon and
Civilian at Chandler and will endeav-
or to convince the council of its error
in not closing deal to that effect.
II xrka e
engineering capacity by the c. F.& /.
company at Pueblo, is gentleman Of
the utmost professional attainments
having formerly been state engineer,
and, previous to that time, city engi-
neer for Chicago. and is presumed to
know what he is talking about. He
says the water from the artesian wells
at Chandler Can be piped here and that
the supply is ample to meet all the
demands of the city for;many years to
come.
Mr.. Green has made a survey of the
route of the proposed ripe line from
Chandler here and says there are no
serious engineering difficulties to he
overcome in bringing the water TO
Canon City. He made the survey al
luded to last summer for Colorado
Springs company which proposed to
supply South Canon with water from
the Chandler wells. and is familiar
with all the details the scheme involves
1t is understood that the Colorado
Springs COMPANY has withdrawn from
the ent, rprise and that MIR Green him.
self will furnish the money reconstruct
the pipe line, provided the scheme
meets with a favorable consideration
at the hands Of the people of this citv.
All of the plans proposed have some
good features, but none of them to the
casual observer seem to fll all the re-
quirements OF the situation, and it 10
probable that most Of the members of
the city council take the same view of
the matter. The friends of the river
project assert that when once aband m
ed theie will oe forfeiture Of the
city s legal right to use the water from
the Arkansas. ~hich alone is worth
many thousands of dollars, The que>-
tion OF u new water supply for the city
is difficult problem to settle.
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