Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-12
TUCSON IS AFTER SUPPLY IF
 WATER
Waiting for Congress to Permit Issue of S260,000 of Bonds So All People Can Take a. Drink
. (Tucson Star.

Everyone knows that Tucson has a wateTwoTks system. and nearly every one knows that it is inadequate to meet the demands Of this fast grow ing town. Part of the people know the system is inadequate because there are restrictions as to the ways water can be used and restrictions as well as to the days you can do cer- tain things with your garden hose.
 All these things are unavoidable under present conditions, but they are not pleasant Next comes the people who arg in districts where water has not as yet been carried at all. They are in downright hard luck, but there is a bright day coming when all these annoying features will be done away with, and water will be as plenty as water should be, which IS very plenty indeed.
 When the proposed extension of the present water system is com pIeted. there will be lots of high pres. sure hydTants scattered all over town there will be a big modern engine in the new fire house, worlds of wa. ter in the forty miles of pipe and owners of buildings and valuable ctONho OA t7oOGS NdAl ACiA bE 4O"SA fire insurance rates and more peace ful slumber of nights that something has happened.
 There are at present seventeen miles of pipe laid for Tucson's water system, with a pumping plant with daily capacity of 4,000 900 gallons of water. The proposed extensi
 this system will add an additional 4,000,00O gallons to the supply. and add twenty-three miles of pipe, in cluding about four and one-half miles of 16inch pipe to connect the new pumping station on the Santa Cruz river, where Superintendent Thomas Conlon is sinking a 20-foot caison with a cast iron shell twenty feet in i diameter This caisOn is already down six feet. and has developed a flow of 100000 gallons Of water every twenty-four hours. That is eC ing some. At that point the waters of the Santa Cruz river are only on the surface during the season of heavy rains.
 The pump in present use is over a well thirty feet deep and in it's bot | tom are five drill holes varying :n | depths from thirty-five to 210 feet. ! The new pumping station will have a l stand-pipe. naturally, but its capacity has not as yet been determined on. The present standpipe has capacity of 500,000 gallons. but it IS proposed | in the not far distant future to have a reservoir with a capacity of 1G 0G0.00 gallons, constructed in line ! with Sixth avenue. and some three l miles south of Twenty-second street. The territory to the north and south east are the sections crying most loudly for improved water facilities and Superintendent Conlon estimates that it will take at least twelve miles of pipe to satisfy his demand and cover sections that while not now suffering will soon make demand on the department for water. The new well on the Santa Cruz will be some seventy feet higher than the well now m use.
 Three years ago the city had but forty-three high pressure hydrants
 but now has I27. and the plans foi the new system carries an item foI the purchase of an additional ITO.
 Two years ago 3ss00O feet of peE all the old four. six and eight-inch | plpt. anu hhDChlHE DU Nbt SO-Cdllct gravity water system. In addition tC
 the TO new hydrants mentioned. the
 new plans call for thirty sprinkIint
 cranes. 50,000 feet of fOur-inch pipe 17,e00 feet of six-inch. 700 feet ol eight-inch, 2S.000 feet of twelve-incf
 and 23 900 feet of sixteeninch.
 I All these good things outlined art
 dependent upon congress author.zin
 Tucson to put out the s260000 o
 bonds she has already signified sh'
 desires to issue. There is not a par ticle of doubt that congress vii grant this authority at the next ses
 sion. Included in his sum of $260,
 GOO is S25, 900 for the Improvement o i; the fire department and Fire Chic
 George P. Sehofield admits that i
 can arrive none too soon to suit him
 He wants to see a big new engine
 a new fire house. and if possible sem sort of a fire alarm system in placi
 some time before water is flowini
 through the pipes of the new sys
 tenn