El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-02
KID HADLOCk HIS
CONFERENCE On
WATER
Wants to Supply City Water
From Near Cemetery,
City to Furnish
Pipes.

kid" Hadlock wants to furnish water
TO the citizens Of Ell Paso at rate Of
six cents per thousand gallons with
daily capacity of six million gahons'
the city to furnish the mains into which
he will pump water from wells on MS
land Just east of Washington park and
the two cemeteries.
Mayor Rabinson and the city council
entertained HaGlock for nearly an hour
Monday morning while he discussed his
plans. submitted maps, and declared he
could deliver the goods.
The MAYOR informed him that ne
would have to furnish a 100000 bond
before the proposition could be con-
sidered and until ne does so nothing
will be done.
For some / ne Hadlock has had these
plans and enc avored to get the ear OF
mayor SWeene- and the council acting
with him but s -eeney would have none
OF it, not believl g in the feasibility OF
the plan.
However, the p. ssent city council
agreed to give him hearing and this
was done Monday n rnirg.
This proposition calls the efforts
of Col. Ritter 20 secu4 water from an
artesisn well at Wa lington park,
which was drilled down yer 1000 feet,
costing the city a considerable AMOUNT
of money and being finally abandbned
as non-feasibIe Work started in 1893
and continued for nearly a year, the
drills being broken and several diff
cult problems having presented them
selves in the drilling of the we'll
Hadlock's well from which he secures
water for irrigation purposes at the
present time is located several hundred
feet east of the point where the odd ar
tesian well was drilled and IL is there
he proposed TO erect a plant for the
purpose of supplying the city
Situation Unchanged.
There have been no new Developments
in the water proposition, which is still
waiting an adjustment. Since the ac-
ton taken by the city council at Fri
day afternoons meeting, the Interna-
tional Water company has made no re-
ply to the proposition presented to it
except manager Simmons's statement to
The Herald that the company had moth
ing more to say
Mayor Robinson stated Monday morn
ing that there had been no new develop
ments and no action was contemplated
at this time as the council is waiting
now to see what will be done by the
water company.
The APpra1sement.
Relating TO the court how he hap
pened to arrive at the appraised valua-
ton OF the water plant and why he
in chancery Sayers, in a supplemental
report TO judge MaEey said:
Comes the master and respectfully |
to the court that because Of |
the hurry TO have the report printed, |
his explanation of the process by which |
he reached the conclusion that the an
nual earnings of the company should |
be fixed at s225,000 as a basis for rate |
making CReport 29), does not appear; !
and he therefore begs leave to submit |
the following supplemental report:
In determining the amount (s225,000) /
TO be allowed asa basis for rate making |
the following items were allowed: Re-
aewals on the valuation of S1,407,s64, I
less S293,S16 valuation Of real estate, 4
prospecting organizing and financing, !
and going value, s1e.710; 5 percent in !
terest and 2 percent sinking fund on !
$3.50, 900 bonds; and 10 percent interest /
on s29S,4S4, cost OF stock, S29,S4s. !
Operating Expenses.
This would leave s111,942 for operat-
ing expenses, including taxes, which is
in excess of $S407 over operating ex-
1910.
The amount allowed is believed to be
sufficient for efficient operation. espe-
ciaIly as the revenues Of the company |
from operation have been steadily
growing year by year and will continue
20 grow
Robert ". Hunt & Company (report
2D estimate the cost for 1900 900
gallons at $O.OS514.
The manager says that the shaft well