, 1906-03-26
OFFICERS
IN REPLY
MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL DIS
CUSS SIGNED ARTICLE ON
WATER PROPOSITION
BY MR.. HOLIDAY.
Some Misrepresentation on
Part of Former Writer and Relter-
ate the Position Taken by That
Body in Interest of Increased Eff
ficiency of Distribution System Of
Water Service of City of Laramie.

To the Editor of The Republican:
MI. Holidays article on the water
question in Fridays issue of The Re,
public is the most unfair and mislead.
ing article we have yet read on this
important question now before the peo-
pie. We can overlook the sarcasm
thrown at the city council, but the
attempt to mislead the people as to
actual conditions cannot go unan-
swered.
The city council has taken this wa
ter question up to give the people an
opportunity to get a system which will
serve them equally and efficiently for
scores of years t come, and they
have tried to plan the installation of
sue a system so that the paymentthere-
for may come easy upon the citizens.
Wiling to Be Shown.
Mr.. Holiday would have us believe
that seven-eighths of the homes in
Laramie are now receiving water
from a three-inch lateral. If Mr.. Hol-
liday means hat three-inch laterals
feed the service pipes directly to
s~eyen-eighths of the homes in Lara.
mic; if he will prove it we will be-
lieye it, but not otherwise. We make
the assertion that not one-eighth of
the homes in Laramie are supplied
direct by a three-inch lateral, and in
many instances five or six homes try
to get water from a one-iEch pipe and
less.
Mr.. Holiday, like a few other objee
tors to the new system, the
main and is n of the first to receive
pressure on his line. But how about
the man five or six blocks further
away, where the size of pipe has been
decreased and the water has been
drawn before reaching him? See arti.
Gle in Saturdays Republican of Spicer
against Weiser.
Some Cases in Point.
We are duly informed that recently
Mr.. John Mckenzie wanted to tap his
own pipe for a connection to another
lot on Fifth street, but the Fifth Street
Water company refused to let him do
so. He purchased a right to tap the
Fourth Street Water company's pipe
for $25, and then a member of the
Holiday company, though not a mem
Der of this particular Fourth Street
Water company, tried to stop Mr.. Nc
Kenzie from getting a tap, none of the
stockholders Directing, but the mem.
Der of the Holiday company stating
that the pipes were overloaded now.
Does this show that the pipes are of
sufficient size to furnish everybody
with water, or that some of our citi-
zens who claim to be so much inter
ested in the welfare of the city want
another tap on a pipe line which
might decrease their own supply of
water?
Need of a New System.
To relieve just such instances as the
above. we need a new system, that no
citizen may be at the mercy of an
other. Mr.. Mckenzie could probably
have done as is reported Mr.. Holiday
did-bought one tap and run a pape
from one house to another across two
other lots owned by him and deprived
the water company Of the price Of
three taps, giving himself the priv
ilege of connecting the TWO lots in be-
tween. thereby getting three taps for
the payment of one.
AS to the rate of interest on the
bonds, had the city council stated to
the people that the bonds would be sold
for 4 per cent, and when we come to
sell then We should be unable tc
place them for less than Az per cent
would not the citizens have been mis-
led in voting for the proposition?
The Rate of Interest.
Mr.. Holiday states that any maj
capable of financing this proposed bono
issue knows that it cannot be done fol
4 per cent, yet he was the man who
at the meeting of the Laramie Literary
club, when they invited the CONNER
cial club for a discussion of the waite.
question, made the motion that it BIZ
the sense of that meeting that the cit!
council pay not more than 4 per cen
on this bond issue. If he knew the,
could not be sold for 4 per cent, hi
motion seems very inconsistent and
barrier thrown in the way of the pre-
posed improvement.
We do not consider the city in de
fault, as stated by Mr.. Holiday, c
over SAC, 900 bonds drawing 6 per cen
While part of them may be in exces
of the limit for what they were ISSUED