, 1906-03-29
FOUND PIPES
NOT ROTTED
WATER MAINS BURIED YEARS AGO
NOT AFFECTED EXCEPT
WHERE AIR REACHED.
Mr.. Holiday Urges the Lack of Neces-
sity of Destroying Considerable
Amount of Property in Rebuilding
Entire System, and Advocates Plan
To Rebuild it PiecemeaI,
TO the Editor Of The Republican.

To the Editor of The Republican.
In the absence Of information to the
contrary, l do not believe that the resi-
dents and property owners on Seventh
and Ninth streets are urging a policy
that would lead to the abandonment
of private Investments in the larger
street laterals that now supply SO ma
ny homes with free water from the
city springs. The investments in the
three-inch laterals, together with the
connecting pipes, in the streets have
cost the owners from 100000 to $685.
900, and are as q whole in good condi-
ton.
The writer within the past year had
occasion to dig out a hydrant on his
residence lot that had the regulation
drain cock at a depth of six feet, and
found that the black iron water pipes
were in good condition away from the
hydrant, where the air had been kept
from them.
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With the exception of here and there
a small speck of rust, the pipes were
as bright as when laid sixteen years
before. From this, and from %opportuni.
ties that | have had to see the street
laterals that have been laid as long,
and in certain instances for a longer
time I baliava tbot tho M
good iron pipe is practically limitless
wherever the air is kept from it.
Some Causes of Complaint.
The complaints of the lack of water
have been caused:
First-For the reason that until Sep,
TENDER, 1905, there never had been a
satisfactory reservoir at or near the
springs, to prevent the quick drainage
of the Grand avenue main.
Second-Because the $-nozzle had
been mislaid in too many instances, or
missed somehow, and the flow from the
garden hose had not been held in check
according TO the requirements of the
city ordinance.
Third-Because the property owner
on the streets that have the 3-inch lat
erals have too frequently kindly per.
mitted such laterals to be tapped for
the purpose of carrying the water tC
homes facing on other streets. This
applies particularly to Sixth street
from where the water has been carried
to Seventh street.
Fourth-Because property owners
several blocks from the Grand avenue
main have obtained permission to con,
meet to the 3-inCh lateral with a much
smaller pipe and carry the anne along
the center of the street, to be drawn
from by the homes on both sides of the
street, and in a few instances to be car
ried over to the next street.
Extension of L~aterals.
1t is probable that the amount of two
years interest on the $4,000 proposed
bonds would more than pay the ex-
pense of laying new laterals on those
streets that are not thus provided for
and would pay for extending the S-inct
laterals to the extreme limits of the
streets that such laterals now supply
Tax Until End Of Time.
1 cannot see the sense or justice fl
abandoning $4,000 to $4,000 worth Of
lateral work that has been lone and
paid for, because there are certain de
ficiencies in the laying or extensions
J of laterals. 1t would be better for the
large number, who have paid for the
system we now have, to submit to two
years extra taxation to supply those
who are inconvenienced for want OF
water, than to have the work that has
been done, abandoned and everybody
be compelled to submit to a tax that
would run to the end of time.
, ". H. HOLIDAY.