The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-05-16


Tank in place ....... 10000
: $3429. 90
per cent for conting. 171.45
Cost of Plant @ ...... $4,000 AZ
Distributing systems at Cemetery not
figured In either estimate.
In plan @ it is proposed to remove
from the city pumping plant one
pump and one 22 hp. gasoline en-
CINE and to install in its stead one
new 500 gallon Rotary Pump direct
connected to a 20 hp. electric motor
and to leave the other pump and en-
CINE for reserve.
The engine removed from the City
plant is to be taken to point G and
connected to one new ESQ gal. Ro-
tary Pump which will pump to the
10000 gal. steel tank set on the
highest point of the Cemetery.
Plan @ will furnish $50 gal. of
water per minute, while plan b will
furnish only so gals. per minute.
1t Is proposed to have the sexton
operate plant c, spending his time
between the Cemetery and City Hall,
which will not make any additional
operating expense.
If no change is made in the City
plant as 1t now stands and only the
plant for irrigating the Cemetery is
built, plan G reduces in cost to the
following statement:
One $50 gal. Pump ......
One 15hp. Gasoline Engine
all connected, and COM
One 10000 GAL, Steel Tank $50.
200 IT. Aims Wood Pipe.
500 IT. Gin. Wood Pipe,
all in place ....... 404. 90
$2654. 90
5 per cent for contingen. 1870
$2786. 70
This plan will considerably reduce
the cost of plan G and IL there are
no immediate reasons for making
the changes at the present City
Pumping Plant this scheme will give
the same results for two-thirds of the
expense of the other plan proposed
under G.
Summing up the total advantages
of plan G we have the following to
recommend 1t above any other plan:
First. 1t will give the City addi-
tional water rights, which as the
City plant draws heavier upon the
present we'll system until their ca
pacity is taxed to the limit, will be
very valuable.
Second. The whole plant and pipe
line will be on property owned by
the City.
Third. For practically the same
cost as plan B the capacity of the
Citp pumping system will be doubled
and three times the quantity of wa
ter delivered to the Cemetery as by
plan B.
Fourth. The plant will be indie
pendent of the City Water System,
will relieve the City system of the
additional strain of the Is feet head
contemplated by using the tank in
plan B, and can be operated sasIoften
and as long as Is necessary without
In any wise interfering with the City
system.
Fifth. By the installation of Ro-
tary pumps. especially the one in the
City plant, the efficiency Of the plant
will 'sber greatly raised at half the
power in put.
II appears that ON account of the
corrugated condition of the present
pump cylinders the actual combined
capacity of the present pumps is only
345 gallons per minute while, their
stated capacity Is $40 gallons per
minute. The maintenance on rotary
pumps Is less than any kind Of a
piston pump.
Sixth. Plan G wiilfurnish enough
water to irrigate more than 20 acres
which is a greater area than will be
required by the City Cemetery for
period of IL years, based on the
needs of the past.
Seventh. At a relatively small
cost the plant could be extended to
frrigate 40 acres IL required.
For the foregoing reasons plan C
is recommended as the best plan
available for a water supply for ir-
rigating your Cemetery.
A few additional suggestions fol-
low which are intended to give some
idea of the distributing system in
the Cemetery:
The tank should be set so the
mean water level is not less than 20
feet above the highest point. in the
area to be irrigated.
The system of distributing pines
should be laid out according to the
"gridiron" method with not less than
inch supply from the tank.
lrrigating from the open end of
a hose is recommended rather than
from nozzle or spray for by plac-
ing the open end of the hose or. the
highest point of the lot much more
water can be delivered to the ground
In given time than can be believer
ed with spray. This system can be
investigated in Boise, being the prac-
tise of the Capital Water system,
which with a low head is able to
give much better and quicker, re-
suits than spraying from the high
pressure system.
In the installation of the pumping
plant at the cemetery shallow well