Williams news., 1909-02-06

a date to remember things by Tn the town of Williams, for a move of more lasting benefit to the town than any other that ever was or will be made was inaugurated when the reorganized Grand Canyon Electric Light & Power Go. first broke ground for a water system to provide good drinking water and large supply for fire protection for this town that has needed it so long and suffered so badly in the past from devastating fires.
 The town as a unit should be ready to extend vote of thanks to the gentlemen who have labored so hard for the consummation of this object, and when we remember our our losses, even when insured to the limit, the inconvenience the community has been put to, and the high rate of interest we have been paying on account of our many fires, we wonder that some thing was not done long since and are especially thankful that at last it is started.
 The people at the special election called for that purpose by an al most unanimous vote, sanctioned the letting of a franchise to the G.
 c. E. l.. & P. Go. and the council
 passed an ordinance that, while
 guarding the interests of the ely
 in every instance. was still fair to
 the proposed water works.
 There then com menced the hard
 est work of all-the securing of
 outside capital to begin the work
 Although the water works will be
 a good business investment. the
 smallness of the town and the
 remote location in woolly Arizona
 together with the stringency in the
 money market, rendered the in-
 vestment of much outside ca pitaI
 so slow & process that the promo
 ters at last decided to secure local , capital. The result is the organi' , zation of a new company that has , taken over the Electric Light G Power plant, the telephone system 7 and the new water works, and 1t Ii 3 certainly an object lesson in wha 3 community can do when infiuen 7 tial citizens combine their resource g for their own and the common t good. The new concern. under tn e general management of Jaco' V Caufman, should result in a savin - of operation and a betterment c r service.
 'f The first move of the new com !. pany was the purchase of abou n 10000 feet of wooden pipe, stet 8 wound, like the 16O-mile line Tt l. gently installed by the El Paso {
 Southwestern railroad, and lik
 which most of the newer coa' n towns and cities of California, g 10 we'll as Nevada, have put in. Tn " pipe will be laid from the dal ,e built many years ago by Caufma l. & Arey, in partnership with Joh +o Freeman, who had water righte
 the canyon. The dam itself wi h be raised to hold a years supply f' ,b the town, and just below the daI n. a concrete gravity filter of 60,o n. gallons daily capacity will be il o. stalled. The snow water fallir ,d from such a high and unpollute as source, after passing through u lv filter to eliminate the minute pa or ticles of vegetable and mineral ma ds ter, comes to town through pip he which will not cause iron rust, ct
 will undoubtedly be the best drin ing water obtainable. The count in might still further guard again m human infection by prohibitil 1r nuisances in the water shed abo
 the dam, although the out (
 the-way location on the ste if, mountain side is practically ins H. eessible.
 m. The pipe line to town will be to and 6 inch. This large diameter ID. not needed for ordinary use, but