Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-12
Afternoon Session.


The council meS this afternoon
friday as per adjournment Of last
night with Mayor Webb presiding and
all aldermen present with the ex.i
ception of A. T. Patterson. Il
A communication from Captain
Ronayne, captain in command at Fort
Lincoln, in connection with the sewer:
proposed to be constructed by the
city of Bismarck with an outlet into
the Missouri river at a point about all
mile above the fort. 1t set forth thatEI
there would Turk therein a danger oil
an infection at the post and that thetl
communication was sent the city bell
fore work was commenced on the
proposed sewer that they might look
up the matter and save themselves a!
possible interference by the federal
government at later date If said in
fection should be caused at the mill
tary post as direct cause of the out
let of said sewerage into the Missouri
river above the post. !?
The communication was referred to-
the committee on streets, grades, addir
lions and sewers in conjunction with
the city attorney. /
Alderman E. G: Patterson offered a
resolution that the proposed contract
l q int hot
and the Bismarck Water Supply com.
pany in accordance with the franchise
granted last night be read and that
the mayor execute the same The
resolution on motion was duly passed:
and the contract so read and executed
the mayor and city auditor signing
and sealing same as did also Mr.. Nc.
Kenzie as president of the said Bis
marck, Water. Supply company.
An easement granted by I. P. Baker
for right of way over section five for
the proposed sewer route was then
read, which defined and stipulated the
manner in which the same should be
laid and went into details in general.
In the easement Mr.. Baker asked that
he be allowed to take from the sewer
main so laid such water as he desired
for the purpose of irrigation of land in
said section five through which said
sewer was to be laid.
This caused some controversy and
speculation among the members of the
council and not being thoroughly un-
derstood did not meet with general
approval, some saying that the taking
OF water from the said sewer and
spreading it onto land adjacent to
the city might become nuisance and
other than that, that the preparing of
that main line of pipe so that sewer
age water could be taken therefrom
might entail a considerable additional
expense to the city.
Mr.. Baker was called before the
council to make his demands clear
and spoke in substance as follows:
What we want is this: The man
holes are a large oval place that will
admit of man entering the same
and are put into sewer mains at
distance of four to six hundred feet
apart. Midway between these man
holes are smaller holes called lamp
holes through which lights are lower
ed so that man entering man hole
can see the same if there be no OBJ
struction intervening. Where the
sewer main enters one of these man
holes the upper half of the sewer pipe
is taken off so that the sewerage is
exposed while running through. Now
all that I ask is that where the sewer
age leaves the man hole, that is near
est the level so that sewerage would
run out, that gate valve be placed
in the pipe as it leaves the man hole
and that pipe Zone lengthy belaid
out to the south of the said. man hole
and that a gate valve be placed there
IN. Then when it was so desired the
first gate valve could be closed. the
second one opened and the sewerage
would run or onto the land. It would
be but matter of the expense Of the
length Of pipe and the two gate valves
to the city and think that it is Of as
much or more value to the city than
It is to me for this reason: During
stages Of high water in the river it is
not infrequent that sewer outlets be-
come clogged up or damaged and it |
can be seen that a second outlet would
be 81 value in that instance"
Mr. Patterson wanted to know
what Is the use Of running the sewer
to the river at all II We are going to
dump It out "a the land anyway"
Mr.. Baker replied that as far as the
sewerage Of the city was concerned
at the present time that 1t would be
Just as well to run II to where ~