The Greeley tribune., 1905-04-13
Our MIR. Satiricus Talks
to New Mayor and Council

/ nresen, water supply and are AFRAID
Of ir. But if you will take the pains
10 inform yourselves you'll nno that
Rsulder and Collins have always IN
the past had at least two cases ol
typhoid rever for every one that has
occurred in Greeley; and that in all
the mountain region including the
Poudre valley above US there has
been more than three times the
amount OF fever in proportion to the
population than has ever existed
here in this place.
/ Please 90 into this proposition no"
in a business like manner. 1t Is
true that we with much more senti-
ment than sense virtually threw two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
into blind pool without specifca-
tions. and pretty much after the
manner of the subscribers to the now
/ defunct ship building trust: but you
have been here long enough, the most
OF you. to know this people, and that
/ if YOU make any bungle in the mat
ter you will see more than seven
devils enter and possess the subject
apparently so clean swept and gar
nished in our recent election. A
mutual friend has suggested to me
that Mayor Watson was more fortu.
| nate that he deemed himself to be i'll
: his defeat for reelection. He says
Watson will always have the credit
! of having originated the scheme for
mountain water. if it succeeds, while
his successor and the incoming coun-
Gil will be cursed from Hades to
breakfast in carrying the scheme
through to completion. There Is
much truth in the observation; you
had better bear it in mind and
watch cut.
Raise reasonable sum of money
by ordinance, and not by bond issue,
at this time, in order to thoroughly
investigate your subject before in
vesting dollar, directly, in any
part of your plant. | have endeay-
ored to keep track of previous effort
in that direction, and | have reason
to.believe it has been superficial in
large degree. You have, as i under
stand, got so far along as to definite
ly locate your outlet: but when you
have determined the point of your
! intake and the source and cost of
your water supply. and have obtained
careful estimate by some competent
plant, and have raised it as you
must, if you are well on to your job,
from thirty-three to fifty per cent,
and then find, as you certainly will,
that all previous estimates were away
below the inevitable cost of the
enterprise, then take look at the
monitor | have advised you to paste
up behind your table in the city ball,
and, instead of going on blindly and
issuing and using, in partial con-
struction, the bonds we have voted
for the purpose, be manly, and ask
for the hundred or hundred and fifty
thousand more which you will GER
tainly require, and allow us to be
the judges before you put us in the
hole, instead of asking lis to foot a
bill we never authorized, after you
get US in the hole.
And permit me, will you? with an
experience of thirty-five years in
building and afterward enlarging and
improving bitches and reservoirs. to
back my judgment-to cheerfully
predict for your consideration that
the minimum limit on your proposed
expenditure will be $3.50, 600, and the
maximum possibly as high as $3.50,
600. Paste that in your hats. please.
and have the figures to taunt me with
If am wrong. Twill put up with
your jeerS with pleasure and be in
expressibly happy in the result if /
am proved at false prophet.
Very respectfully submitted.
| SatiricuS