Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-07-20

| The South Paris Village Corporation
at its meeting last Monday evening, vot
ed to establish municipal water system
at an expense not to exceed ten per cen
of its valuation, and to issue bonds t.
the amount of $4,000 to procure tn
money for installing the system. 1t wa
evident that there was strong sentimen
in favor of such action.
| "A good number of voters were in New
Hall at the time for the meeting to open
and practically all remained till the clos
of the two-hour session, which adjourn
ed about 10 o'clock.
Corporation Clerk E. n. Haskell wa
prompt about calling the meeting t
order at the hour named, s O'Clock
Walter L. Gray was chosen moderator
| The business of the evening was en-
| tirely on the water question, Article
following the election of the moderator
being to see if the corporation would &C
cept the act passed by the legislature
authorizing the establishment of
| municipal water system. A. z. Shurt
Jeff moved that the act be accepted
There was no discussion. The vote wal
taken by show of hands, most Of those
present voting in favor, and none
against. and the moderator declared it 9
unanimous vote.
The next article was to see If the
corporation would establish municipal
water system, and raise money for it
When this article was taken up, K. n
Hall promptly moved that it be passed
over.
George r. Morton Immediately took
the floor to speak upon the general ques.
ton. He first took up the question OF
the water supply in the two brooks from
which it is proposed to supply the vii
lage-Cooper Spring Brook and Stony
Brook. he said that he understood
some were fearful of the supply. He
then read from the reports OF Mr.. Jones
and Mr.. Chase, the engineers who had
been employed by the water committee,
and added some statistics from his own
observation, among them the statement
that on the day previous to the meeting
he had measured the flow at the CORPORA
tion's dam on Cooper Spring Brook, and
according to his calculations there was
water running there to the amount
of 800, 900 gallons per day.
With regard to the quality OF the
water furnished by the Norway water
system, he stated that Professor Robin
son took samples of the water from
several places about the system, and
that only one of the samples, that taken
from the middle of the lake, was pro-
nounced by him good water for domestic
use. He then read letter from Pro-
lessor Robinson wishing success for the
municipal system plan.
Mr.. Morton then read abstracts of re-
ports which he had received from num-
Der of towns in which municipal water
systems had been established, which
were regarded by the citizens as better
than private systems, including Lancas.
ter, Gorham and North Conway, n. H.,
Dexter and Pennington, Maine. He
briefly urged the establishment of such
system.
Hon. James S. Wright rose TO ask Mr..
Morton IL any engineer had measured the
flow of the brook in August of last year,
during the drought. Mr.. Morton said
there had not. Mr.. Wright asked il Mr..
Merton had not himself once measured
the fiow of Cooper Spring Brook and
found ID but 5000 gallons per day. Mr..
MOrtop's reply was that the lowest
be remembered measuring during the
drought was about $4,000 gallons a DAY
in Cooper Spring Brook, and al all times
there Was from three 10 Eve times as
much flowing IN Stony Brook as In the
other.
Mr.. Wright then said that there Was
part OF the year when there VAS hardly
enough water In Cooper Spring Brook
for chicken. Tie was at the dam once
last summer when all the water IN the
brook vas running through three-inch
pipe, and II measured just az iucb deep
IN the middle The engineers had esti-
mated $1,000 gallons . day FOE the viii
lage. bat that ~as only a fraction OF
What Vas needed. He loved the village
as mech a. any one, and II there was q
AXE or any certain supply be wouldn't
oppose this water scheme for a moment,
bot be didn't believe there Was water
enough.
There Was considerable discussion fol-