The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-11-17

Esmeralda Sewerage & Improvement
Co. Laying Main to the City

Co. Laying Main to the City
Over at the proposed dumping
ground, about a mile and a half north
of Columbia, a gang Of men in the en-
ploy of the Esmeralda Sewerage & In
provement company is busily engaged
in laying the 10-inch main sewer pipe.
The first spade full of dirt was thrown
from the trench last Wednesday morn
ing and operations are to continue un-
til such time as the outskirts Of the
city are reached, when work on ON
pany account is to be superseded by
that of the contractors. Bids for the
contract of piping the towns of Gold
field and Columbia, and the additions
thereto, are now being advertised and
it is the purpose to have all in readi-
ness for the continuance of operations
by the time the bids are opened on
November 25. Charles F. Pugh, secre-
tary of the company, states that all
contracts are to provide for the en-
ployment of union labor solely, and
that they will further specify that so
far as possible lone but home labor
shall be employed.
Unless conditions at present unfore-
seen prevent, the system will be III
Operation by January l, 1906, and from
that time on the danger of disease as
a result of typhoid fever and other
germs will be reduced to a minimum.
Only the best grade of pipe and other
materials are to be used in the con-
struction of the ~conduits, and in every
sense the system is to be complete and
thoroughly up-to-date. The company
now has a man out securing the sigma
lures of property owners to the service
contracts and he is meeting with al
most universal success. The residents
of the town have a comprehensive APP
preciation of the great sanitary bene-
fits which will accrue from the opera
ton of the plant and are furthering the
PROJECT by their cooperation. Goldfeld
has never been an unsanitary town,
when compared with the conditions
that prevailed during the early periods
of other mining communities, for eff
forts have always prevailed here to
conserve the health of the inhabitants,
and thus far with a fair modicum of
success. As the city increases in
lPoPuidtiou, hOWCNtls tuCSt SOlitN nat
primitive methods are rapidly becom-
ing less and less effective and the es-
Enlistment of a sewage system should
therefore be encouraged and fostered.
The development of a community and
its commercial growth .epend largely
on its sanitary conditions, and to pre-
serve the public health, tends scarcely
less to enhance the wealth of a mining
center, than the development of its
mines. Goldfeld is thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with this fact and with the pro-
gressive spirit that has prevailed from
the very inception of the camp, is pre-
pared to support an enterprise of the
character mentioned. That its pro-
motors are reasonably sure of making
the system a dividend paying PROPOSE
ton is apparent, but this is as it should
be, for no man, or coterie of men, are
in Goldfeld altogether for the benefit
of their health, eve in the case of SAN
itary promotions. The main fact to be
taken into consideration in the prem
Uses is that what tends to the interest
of the sewer system promoters likewise
tends to the interest of every person in
the city, and that while the former will
undoubtedly make good in a financial
sense, the latter will make equally
good in a physical sense.
The main conduit of the system will
have an actual fall of 215 feet and in
order to facilitate it's flushing the
company has secured a water supply
from the Highland mine near Diamond
field. 1t is the intention to furnish
water at minimum cost for both do
mestic, fire and flushing purposes, and
to that end a water pipe is to be laid
in the same trench with the sewer con
duit. A 6-inch pipe is to be laid along
Main street for fire purposes connected
with a huge steel reservoir, capable If
holding 100000 gallons of water, which
is now in course of construction high
up on the east slope of Columbia noun
tain. This will afford a gravity pres
sure sufficient for all purposes and
will assure an ample supply in time of
fire. The main from the Highland
mine to the tank is also being laid and
connection Herewith will be made
within a short time.
That the company has plenty of
water and to spare, is evidenced by the
fact that the flow at the mine exceeds
100000 gallons per day, and that this
could De doubled at a minimum of ex-
pense. The water is said to contain a
smaller per cent of alkali and soda
than that generally utilized here and is
obtained from what appears to be an
inexhaustible underground river. The
flow was encountered by miners en-
ployed in the Highland mine, and 90
rapidly did the water enter the levels
and shaft the men barely escaped being
engulfed in the workings.