The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-02-18
WATER PLANS
up TO COUNCIL
Concluded from page one.)


covered the ground from 1898 up to
the last one and we have certified
copies of all blue prints in the en-
gineer's office. The city engineer
was invited to come before us and
was given one evening. We ignored
nobody. The citizens came in with
suggestions and we secured infor-
nation from other sources as we
could get 1t.
We gathered a large amount Of
information from the water commits
sioner's office and the information
we secured from the board of pub
lie works and the city engineer was
of great value TO us. The city en-
gneer's office made maps and sur
veys for us and personally l have
no scrap with the city engineer He
treated me as a gentleman and we
treated him as a gentleman.
But what l want to say, to get
down to facts. is that you must
anchor some place. l haven't the re-
hottest objection to presenting my
plan TO the best engineer in the
world, but YOU would then have to
find some one to pass on him. You
may refer to as many engineers as
You please, but when it comes down
to action this council must pass on
ii and nobody in Gods heavens can
do otherwise. 1t is the council
which, under the statutes, has the
last guess.
we are accused through the news
papers with having put on a little
patch of time on the plan. ! want
the people to know that we did our
duty. l worked until 10 o'clock at
night, worked II hours a day and
counting the time consumed the same
as in the city offices, we put in so
days.
viii say that for an outside man
TO come here he could not analyze
the plans short of 100 days. The
fact that Mr.. Weile was on the
ground and thoroughly familiar with
the matter helped US to make the
plans more speedily
I'VE recommend a reservoir at an
elevation of 2164 feet for this rea-
son, as your pumps as they are now
hitched up couldn't pump more water
to a higher elevation. Their per-
Torrance would be Just about what
it is now. That Bull Pump" as
you call it, is rated at 100 pounds
and is working most of the time at
120 pounds. The pumps are not able
to raise the water higher than the
elevation given at the Stage site or
to that level You can't lift the
water into a higher reservoir with
what pumps you We got there. 1t is
true you could use a "a inch main.
but in a few years you will need
more water and that is the reason we
put in the Sc inch main.
1T doesn't make any difference as
to meters. You have a limiting ca
pacity to your pumping plant You
must have place to put your night
service. 1t helps you the next day.
in case of fire you have the water.
IT Puts you in a condition to fight
fire.
When the North Side grows to be
the bigger portion of the city, as you
expect II to, you can put in new
pipes. There is no limit to that.
Now as to Lidgerwood Park. In
the school where I learned to debate
we didn't sling mud. When 1 first
came here l called on the mayor to
see what I had ahead of me One of
the things l found was a standpipe
plan for Lidgerwood. l thought it
was odd when / looked up the levels,
but ! said nothing al the time But
when l came again / took ObserVa-
tions from back of the piped and
j found there were dydrants higher
than the tank. We so reported and
said the tank could not supply the
territory up there. Those hydrants
in use were higher than the stand
pipe and the water would not flow up
to them, There would not be suf-
ficient water there to allow the fire
steamers to draw any out of the
hydrants.
las l understand it, the popula-
ton of the South Side is nearly two
thirds of the total population of the
city. l found that the North Side
mains, instead Of supplying all the
water 10 the North Side, was sup
ply the South Side. If you had shut
the gates off the North Side would
have had all the water needed, but
the South Side got the water. You
were just pumping water through the
North Side mains to the South Side.
You have to fill the tank there
through u inch main, according
TO your pumping reports. in seven
or eight hours, which would be the
only time you would have pressure
suf1cient to put water in there This
would mean that you must put 1900.
600 gallons Of water through In "A
hours
If the tank at Ninth and Pine was
only partially filled, the gates would
open and this would pull your water
head off up there. The tests made
IN Lidgerwood by the fire chief show