Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-11
~~% 2 WHY SEWER BONDS SHOULD
 BE VOTED FOR IN BISBEE
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Chamber of Commerce, which fully set forth the req why the sewer bonds should carry at the cleo tion to be held here on March 20. The pamphlets read follows:
 Every citizen of a community owes it to him self and to his neghbor to surround his family with every safeguard against disease Sell preservation is the first law of nature only from attack with out but from attack from within our midst on ac- count epdemics bred by facilities Tor conveying away the offal and refuse of dense population For this purpose communities subscribe to a form or municipal government, empowered to protect he community from contagious disease by making ana enforcing sanitary laws and taking all other steps necessary looking to this end. Working along this line the city authorities have provided scayenger service have passed ordinances appointed a san tary inspector, and done great many other things calculated to provide healthy and pleasant sani- tary condition for people. While all these steps have been in the right direction the bald fact re- mains that the desided result has not yet been at taned. .. The city of Bisbee has attained such proportions; it's population is so dense; dwellings so crowded together that iI has been proven beyond question of doubt, that these primitive methods will not avail The situation demands a substantial and lasting remedy, and for this purpose the pres ent City Council set about to devise ways and means for relief.
 SEWER SYSTEM THE REMEDY.
 After going thoroughly into the subject, and SC curing the advice of the best sanitary engineer on the Pacific Coast it was demonstrated to the Coun cil that the only possible solution of the unsantary conditions of the city sewer system. Plans and estimates received with the result that an election ordered conforming with the pro visions of the following notce setting March 2Oth the day when this important question should be presented to the property tax payers of the city for their approval.
 NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION ON ISSUANCE
 OF BONDS.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That in accord with the Organic Law of the Territory of Ari- zona, and the Revised Statutes of Arizona pertain ing to elections and pursuant resolution of the Common Council of the City of Bisbee passed and adopted at meeting of the said Council held on the 14th day of February. 1906 by which resolution it decided to call a special election, at which election should be submitted to the qualified electors and owners of real and personal property subject taxation in said city the question whether not said city should issue bonds for the construction of sewerage system in the said City of Bisbee. a special election will be held in the said City of Bisbee OH the goth day of March 1906, between the hours of o'clock in the morning and o'clock in the evening of said day, at which election will be submitted to the qualified electors and owners of real personal property subject to taxation in the said City of Bisbee, the question whether not the said City of Bisbee shall issue bonds in the of Eighty Thousand Dollars for the construction of sewerage system in the said city, said bonds not to bear rate of interest exceeding six per centum per annum payable semi-annually, and said bonds to run twenty-five years and be payable as follows, towit
 During the first five years of the time which they to run only the interest shall be due there on and the end of each year thereafter, besides the interest. there shall be due and payable said bonds the of Four Thousand Dollars until the said bonds shall have been paid. Notice is further given that said election will be held in the following places in the First Ward, the Fire House: in the Second Ward. in the building in the rear of the Fire House formerly occupied by J. E. Thompson; in the Third Ward in the Johnson Block
 Said special election will be conducted in all re- spects as regular election in said city, excepting only that the form of the ballot to be furnished electors shall be follows Shall the bonds for the construction of sewerage system be issued? Yes. Shall the bonds for the construction of sewerage system be issued? No.
 Dated and done at the office of the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Bsbee this 18th day of February. 1906.
 CIV HICKS,
 City Clerk
 THE ENGINEERS REPORT.
 This election was called after a careful survey had been made of the feasibility of the proposed sewerage system by of the best sanitary gneers the Pacific Coast. Mir. Frank II. oim s1ed of Los ngeles. who in submitting bis detailed report to the Council said:
 Bisbee, Arizona, December ,, 19G5 Honorable Mayor and City Council
 Bisbee. Arizona
 Gentlemen: .-. ,- specifications and estimates on the proposed mu- nicipal sewer system for Bisbee.
 The plans are quite in detail showing a general outline of the whole covered by the system on a small scale, and large scale section maps show ing the exact location of the sewer line with refer streets and alleys and property lines. Also showing profied giving the change in elevation and grade for every foot of the IIO00 ft- included in the system. Also showing the profiles &C., curate classification of material at every point. These plans not the result of any assumptions in the office but in every from actual veys in the field and with the lines marked on the ground in such a manner that they be recovered ESTIMATE
 The estimate figures up s79 993.30 The estimate I believe is in every respect liberal one. had thought that the estimate might overrun this fig } ure and much pleased your account, to find , that it within the ss0,000 limit You will re , member that my fee is somewhat dependent upon the size of the estimate and bond issue, think you may take it for granted that I have not de Hberately attempted to make the estimate lower