Arizona republican., 1904-01-03
CITIZENS COMMITTEE
Conference Held Last Night at the
Board of Trade.

The Citizens WateTWOrkS commit
tee held a meeting last evening in the
board of trade room. There was very
fair attendance and some definite steps
were taken in the way of recommends
lions to the city council for proceed
ing with preliminaries necessary to the
construction of a municipal water
works plant. Subsequently the con-
ference covered rather a wide field and
the matter of temporary protection
against fire was discussed. The recon-
mendations made to the city council
were in substance: first, that a cOmpe-
tent hydraulic engineer be employed to
prepare plans and specifications for an
adequate waterwOrks system; second.
that the validity OF the bonds prOpOs-
ed to be issued, or the authority to
date for their issuance, be laid before
Judge Dillon of New York for his
opinion respecting their validity; third,
that the city council purchase a wagon
equipped with two more chemical
tanks OF the capacity of 100 gallons
each as an addition to the present fire
fighting apparatus.
The chairman of the committee. Eu
gene Brady O'Neill, was instructed to
present the recommendations to the
city council at its next meeting Mon
day night, and it was requested also
that a good attendance of the COM
mitteemen be present if possible.
Previous to the first recOmmepdation
there was a long discussion Of the
plans for a watersystem, presented by
the subcommittee some time ago.
with comments thereon and the eX-
PLANTATION that the plans are lacking
in minor details and therefore not rea-
dy to be considered as a complete
working plan. Engineer Fuller. who
had charge of the construction Of the
Tempe plant was presented and was
invited to address the committee res
peCting the needs of the plant, how
long it would take to build it, and 9TH
er things of a general nature pertin-
ent to the subject, covering the points
of methods of equipment, the compar-
ative expense of having the pumping
plant and stand pipe close together or
a long distance apart the possibility
of mountain reservoir. the cost and
length of life of pipe in this climate
and soil the probable value of the
present plant to the city in the event
that it was purchased as a nucleus for
a new plant. He of course did not APP
praise the old plant nor would not
without carefully inspecting it, but in
a general way mentioned certain
things that he thought would not be
valuable to the new plant. He held
though that only cast iron pipe should
be used and that the new pumps of the
plant are proba bly, all right, though
are not the kind he would recommend
were he building a new plant. At the
conclusion OF his remarks many ques-
tions were asked which he answered,
after which he was given a vote of
thanks.
J. c. Adams then brought up the
matter Of securing the opinion of Judge
DillCn on the bonds at the earliest
possible time; not that he had any idea
that they are invalid but that this ap-
prevail will be necessary some time be-
fore they are sold and the sooner the
opinion is rendered the sooner they will
be ready for sale. There was a sugges-
ton by some that they should be ap-
proved even before the employment of
an engineer, but the committee de-
cided that the two moves were not con-
flicting as the purpose is to build a
municipal plant anyway and if the
bonds are found invalid, necessitating
still another election, the plans would
still be available when needed, with the
possible necessity for some additions
or alterations.
1t would appear that there Is no def
mite idea regarding the location of the
proposed water supply. stand pipe or
plant and it is likely there will not be
till the plans have been received from
the engineer yet to be employed. II
has been suggested that it might pay
to place the pumping plant somewhere
between the two railroad tracks that