Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-15

At the council meeting Tuesday
 evening there was considerable telS
 of whether any sewers were put
 in beyond Fourth street to h e
 south, and as to whether the council
 should take more vigorous action than
 heretofore to compel citizens who
 have not done so to connect up wilh
 the sewer system. No report was made
 of these features of the council pleet-
 ing at the time, because the action
 of the council was confined to the
 scavenger work, for which purpose
 the meeting was called, but there has
 been so much talk since to the effect
 that there are no sewers south of
 Fourth street, that the reason is that
 w. Nj. Adamson, when mayor, divert
 ed the sewer funds from the part of
 the city south of Fourth street into
 building sewer in the Clawson addi
 tion. and that that is the reason that
 he was not elected supervisor, that it
 has become a subject Of interest and
 news regardless O. meetings of the
 council.
 Mayor Greene, who by virtue of be- ing city health officer, takes a special
 interest in all matters affecting the public health and who was a member
 of the council when the sewer system was being put in, was asked yesterday
 as n ha nF +hnSA ct which are vigorously made about town by parties who have a political in
 terest in doing so.
 "The town is fully severed south Of Fourth street to International ave nue," he said, "as fully as any other portion of town, except a small DOT ton lying between F avenue and the railroad, south of Fourth street. That small piece. it is true, Is in town. but il is such low ground that it iJ not likely to be ever used for residence as a part of the present system of sewers on account of the lay of the land. II is owned by the International Land and Improvement company. T. 1 is not even divided into lots. and is | more likely to be used. if il should | ever be used at all for business prop | erty. the location of a factory or rail l road yards or something of that kind. l l. was for these reasons that il was | not severed and not because money ! was diverted from it. The council. or 1 city, yet has money on hand. left over | from the appropriation for sewers, l even after putting some sewer in the | Clawson addition. IL is from this : leftover money that the expense Of | the present extension of sewer sys- ! tenn in the Clawson addition Is being | made Sewer was put in the Clawson l addition because it was thought that | that was likely to be a residence sec | tion, and especially to do so while | We had the ditch or sewer digging | machine here would reduce the eX- ! pense of the work over what it would | be it the trenches were dug by hand i as usual, and because il would also l be cheaper to build the sewers in that | addition while the land was open, be- | fore 1t was settled. As a member of l the council kept close track of the ] sewer work when the sewers were be- | ing put in, and I am sure that the | town is fully severed south of Fourth l street in all except the small low | tract of the International Land and | Improvement company's that I have | spoken of. Any citizen who doubts it | and who has not yet made his con 1 nection with the sewers can easily | satisfy himself whether I am right or not by making the connection, or at tempting to do SO"
 But how about the council moving more vigorously toward having cIi- zens connect with the sewers who have not done so?"
 Well, we have been waiting for them to do so of their own accord for two years. Isn't that about long enough? The part of town in which it is claimed there are no sewers is about the only place where there is much residence prop erty still unconnected. Some cOnnec- tions have been made there. The town is young. When the sewers were put in many people had but recently put in vaults and cesspools, and we thought 1t only reasonable that they should have some chance before be- ing compelled to go to another ex- pense for the same purpose. Then the hard times came on and we de- Iayed enforcement longer on account of that. But I don't see any good req son now why compliance with the or dinance should not be insisted upon. It has been thoroughly proven that much of contagion Is carried on the feet of flies, who get it from ofal in any place where 1t is open enough for them to reach it, and from there Is carried to Cur food and thence into our systems. Cesspools and vaults favor this process. Sewers are as complete a preventive of 1t as has been devised. It is true that we have not very much typhoid fever. We want to have less. The trouble Is that when a place is once thoroughly innoculated with the germs of typhoid