Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-02
ARE CONFIRMING
 IN LITTLE ROCK Water Company, City and Federal Court Officials Discussing the New Wat erworks Plant Today.
R ECO M M END TONS
Of Engineer Fladd Will Be Final Water Company Will Be Required to Build According to the Best Ideas Advanced by Engineer.

F. G. Bridges, president of the , Pine Bluff Light and Water com pany, Edwin Fladd, an expert en- gineer from St. Louis, Major w.. J. Parkes, city engineer and w. F. Coleman, city attorney, are in Lit tie Rock today, discussing the kind of plant the Pine Bluff and Water company recently must erect i'll this city. The city and the Light and Water company recently agreed on the erection of a plant with two pumps, but Engineer w. w. Fladd recommended plant with three pumps and five ten-inch wells. Recently the city brought suit against the Pine Bluff and Water company, seeking to annul it's char ter because, it is alleged the water pressure at that time had not been as required by the contract with the city. The city therefore brought suit for forfeiture of charter Judge Jacob Trieber, of the Feder- al court of Little Rock, refused to listen to the case; and said that the city and the water company must come to an agreement. He therefore appointed all expert engineer, Ed win Fladd, of St. Louis, to determine the quality of plant demanded by the needs of the city, and according to the ruling of the court, the water company will be compelled to build the kind of a plant Mir. Fladd re- commends
 At meeting today, MT. Fladd will recommend the construction of plant with three pumps and five ten-inch wells, and it seems very probable that this is the kind of plant which the water company must erect in order to keep their contract with the city.
 These gentlemen will return this afternoon from Little Rock, and it is supposed that by that time, these representatives from the various interested parties will have agreed on the kind of plant which the company will erect.
 The water company recently pur- chased three blocks of ground ad- joining the site of the Bluff City Lumber company for the erection of the proposed plant. F. G. Bridges president of the light and water company, recently expressed him. self as being certa that 1t would be many weeks belore the active work on the plant would begin.
 Engineer Fladd filed his written report with Judge Trieber in Little Rock yesterday.
 The report of MT. Fladd is accom- panied by cuts and drawings showing in detail what is recommended in writing.
 MT. Fladd says a proposition has been made to obtain a water supply from system of driven wells S5o feet deep in white sand. He believes the supply from this source will be ade- quate both in quantity and quality. The statement is based on tests made at Pine Bluff and Memphis.
 He recommends that not less than five 10-inch wells, $50 feet deep, should be dug, and if four of them will not produce 5,oOo,0oo gallons of water in "A hours additional wells should be dug.
 He recommends the installation ot two pumps with an extra one for eme' gency that are capable of pumping 4, ,0Oo ,000 gallons and produce pres sure of 40 pounds. and in case of 3 fire be able to run it to 100 pounds. In addition that part of this city in which the service pipes are now laid it is recommended that service pines be laid in additional territory at (Continued on Page Five.)