The daily sentinel., 1906-03-30
UNITED IN SENTIMENT
FOR MOUNTAIN WATER f!
Splendid Meeting at Auditorium One Question OnyHOw
Much of Supply Where Go TO Get Splendid Speeches
the Subject Unanimous Sentiment Favorable The Project

As was stated last night by one of
the speakers. had there been an an
nouneement of Mountain water
meeting in this city a half a dozen
years ago. during the strenuous
times of the consideration of that
question by the people, no hall in
the city would have had sufficient
capacity TO have held the people. But
with a pretty generally unanimous
sentiment in favor of building a
mountain water system for this city.
there is hardly Two sides to the case
and the people are not so alert in
the matter as they were in that per-
iod of several years ago.
However. with the number Of other
attractions and meetings through
ont the city. the crowd that gathered
al the Auditorium was not less than
$50 and perhaps more and these We're
representative of the citys best in
terests and were Interested in the dis
cussions that took place. The aud
fence was made up largely of business
men. although there were fair
sprinkling of women in the audience.
Undoubtedly the discussion that
was participated in by the members
of the special committee of council
and number of other citizens, Will
be resultant of much good While
no action was taken as a result of
the meeting, the sentiment in favor
OF the building of the system was as
certained and crystalized and the
council was informed of many mat
/ ters in regard to the source of supply
the legal phases of the matter. etc
which will enable them to better de
termine for the best interests of the
city, when the final decision shall be
made upon the matter.
The meeting was called to order
about SIS O'Clock by Mayor l. n
/ Bunting. who with the council occu-
| pied seats Just in front of the Audi
torlum stage. Mayor Bunting stated
7 the object of the meeting and rapidly
reviewed the interest which council
/ had taken in the matter and the per-
/ tinent causes which have been force
] full in determining the council to
l engage in the herculean task of at
/ tempting TO provide this city with
pure mountain water lie spoke only
a few moments and announced that
I the three members of the commit
tee would speak first on the subject
viewing II from different standpoints
and then in an informal manner the
meeting would be thrown open to the
citizens for discussion.
Chairman John O'Boyle of the
special water committee was the first
/ speaker Mr.. OBoyle. who has given
much time to the matter spoke at CON
siderable length lie reviewed the
steps that had been taken BY the
committee in attempting to secure
the water by purchase in the Kan
nah creek country. what obstacles
they met and the prohibitive price
that has been placed upon the water
by the people there. The price per
inch which had been paid. the maxi
mum price in that section had been
$4,000 and now they. the people of |
that section. which was looked upon |
with favor by the committee of coun- |
ell has formed an association and are |
asking 100000 per inch for their
water Mr.. O'Boyle then read COM
piled statement of the amount of as
sessment on the ranches and the
water of that district. The approx
mate amount of assessment was S15.-
900, which was at one third valua-
ton. Valueing the lands and the
water at their fun value IT would
approximate Si5, 900 and yet the peo-
pie of that section wanted $1S0.00O
for their land and water, which sum
was not TO be thought of for one mo
ment. Mr.. Boyle did not state
whether the committee was in favor
OF securing the water there he spoke /
of four places the city had in mind |
10 secure the water. He reviewed |
rapidly the conditions that were l
favorable to each section that was /
under consideration. lie stated that II
all mountain water was pure at us1I
course and there was no positive ne
sessity for council to take any one
place.
Mr. O'Boyle was listened to with n
great deal of attention and his re-
marks gave evidence that he was thor
oughly familiar with the subject in
hand, II is unnecessary to state that
Mr. O'Boyle might have said more
than he did say, from his knowledge 1
upon the matter, but he thought it L
eNpedient under the circumstances
not to say all that he could relative
to the subject
Alderman McCulloeh was then
called upon by the chair Mr. Me
Culloch spoke upon that portion of
the subject relative to the estimated
cost of the scheme He said that
alter careful estimates of the mat
ter he thought that Il would be nos
sible 10 purchase the wafer or Sc
cure the water and build the plant for
q sum not to exceed S35O.OOO Hell
then went into review of the difi-
culties attending construction of
the line 10 this city. II brought down
on the south side of the river from
. t'' W NAAh AtNu watershed. lie said II
thnt II entailed no particular enei-
neering fete and that while II would
Ably necessitate to span some
Eulches and pass through some heavy
work FOR the laying of the pine IL III
could readily be done. MIR. McCul.
loch showed great familiarity with
the subject aud impressed those who
heard him that he was certainly a
sate and conservative member of the
committee one in which council
could have sufficient trust to burden
with any of the details of the con-
struction. Mr.. McCulloch also touch
ca upon the matter of having no
money with which to secure n com
petent engineer TO make the necessary
surveys and that therefore the conn
ell desired to so very slow in the
matted Mr.. MeCalloch's remarks
with much attention.
The last member of the committees
to speak was Mr.. w. d. Davies. Mr..
Davies has accompanied the commit
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