The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
City Council Will Discuss Wa
terworks Transfer.
Little Doubt About Clearing UE
the Title.
READY BY JANUARY 1
President Street Says Transfer
May Then Be Made.
Process by Which the Mortgages
Were Adjusted.

There is likely to be a short meeting
of the council tonight for the purpose
of getting some of the preliminary ar
rangements under way for the transfer
of the Waterworks plant to the city.
City Attorney Spencer will have
resolution drawn up authorizing Mayor
Bergundthal to execute the $350,000 wa
terworks bonds, so that they may be
sent on to New York to be signed up
by the trust company which endorses
the bonds. 1t will take some time to
send the bonds to New York for this
ceremony and receive them back
again, and President Street desires that
the matter be attended to so that the
transfer of the plant can be made on
January l. which is now only six
weeks distant.
President Street has not yet turned
over to City Attorney Spencer the pa
perS involved in the examination of
the title, but will.do SO within a short
time. He will also have prepared
schedule of all the property of the wa
ter company. ae7r
Il don't anticipate any difficulty
about the title" said President Street
today. I'VE have not had the alb
StractS to all our real estate examined,
but L don't doubt that they are all
right. / am not particular when we
turn over the plant to the city, but L
should think that January l would be
the pest I1IIle.
Water Company Property.
The following is a. complete list of all
the property owned by the Topeka Wa
ter company in the city of Topeka, the
abstracts of which will have to be ex-
amined by City Attorney Spencer:
Site of the Harrison street pumping
station, occupying two half blocks be-
tween Harrison and Tyler streets, and
fronting on the river.
A tract between Potwin and Auburn
at the northeast corner of Underwood
addition to the city of Topeka, as the
same appears on the recorded plat
thereof, thence north 1876 feet, thence
west Is feet, thence south 135 feet,
thence east Is feet to place of begin
ming.
The present pumping station tract
west of the asylum, described as fol-
lows: All that part of lot No. in
section &c, township IL, south of range
Is east of the sixth principal meridian,
bounded on the north by the Kansas
river and described and bounded as
follows. Commencing at a point on
the east side of said lot 8, 1,4231h feet
north of the center of said section No.
26, thence west 1920 feet to the west
line of lot 8, thence north on said west
line of lot 3 to the river, then down
the river to the east line of lot 3, thence
south to the point of beginning. This
is a tract of land about quarter of a
mile square, fronting on the river. 1t
is subject to the right of way, 100 feet
wide, of the Rock Island railway.
The right of way for water mains,
aqueducts and pipes is also owned by
the company from its pumping station
to town, through the John D. Knox, J.
M. Harvey, and other tracts. This
right of way is a strip Is feet wide.
The undivided one-half interest in a.
bridge across Martins creek, together
with the undivided one-half interest in
the right of way of the city of Potwin
Place across said Martins creek.
Right of way through the rear end of
lots to 81 on Underwood avenue.
All erections and buildings, all ma
engines, reservoirs, pumps,
wells, hydrants, plugs, pipes stand
pipes, main and distributing pipes, wa
terworks plant, fixtures and other con-
structions and all the equipments. and
also all the tools, implements and fix
lures of every kind and nature, manu-
featured, constructed, built, laid. rur-
chased or in any way acquired in or
about the construction, maintenance
and operation of the waterworks of the
Topeka Water company.
Clearing the Title.
City Attorney Spencer must nqA only
examine the abstracts to all the above
property, but he must dig into the legal
proceedings which have been taken for
the purpose of clearing up the mort
cages which hang over the plant.
There were three mortgages hanging
over the plant, as follows: First mort
gage, $270, 900; second mortgage 1851, 900;
third mortgage $550,000. The Atlantic
Trust company was trustee for all these
mortgage bonds. A few years ago, the
Trust company was absorbed
by the Metropolitan Trust company.
When it was desired to clear up the til
tile, the Metropolitan Trust company
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