The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-19

$4,000
"lf the r-wash system is used would be addi
onal cost of $500 to the abovenamed prices
Kindly let hear from you with reference to the
above and should we be favored with the contract
probably make shipment in about six weeks from receipt
of order. Yours truly
"WM. b. SCAIFE & SONS CO..
per J. NJ Davidson. Pressure Filter Dept
"P S.-We presume suitable fltering sand is available
your district which would cost less than could pur
chase same the quarry in Wisconsin who fur
nish crushed quartz would charge about $500 for de
erng the Admore, which includes the quartz bags
and freight 1t will require about 5i tons, or 275 cubic
feet, of flterng material, so per it being fne 25
per cent medium ard 25 per cent coarse grade"
Dashiell proposed using the Scafe Filter you
will notice by the letter these filters to withstand
only IS pressure while the filters that in
by Mr. Erchsen to and did withstand pressure OF
200 pounds
The filter that proposed to be put in by Mr. Dawson
for thirteen hundred dollars less than the Erichsen bid
only $4,000 while the filters put in by Mr. Erchsen
purchased from the Roberts people, cost $6450. Here is
difference of s215O in the of the two filters which
accounts for the $1,000 difference in the Erchsen bid and
the Dashiell bid The difference that the Dashiell fill
would a failure, while the Echsen filter
will be a
The filter proposed by the agent Mr. Jackson
was Of about the same type as that proposed by Mr.
Dashel
Mr. Dawson stated that these filters just like boil
that they Sx20 feet that all ofthem exactly
alike except little strainers used on the inside he might
well have made the statement that every house
20XlS feet the 1t is unfair argument. In
the filters built to withstand rs pounds
and in the other they built withstand 200
pounds pressure.
that one the that had been
given for putting in the present filters that there would be
increased charge for pumping. He knew this to be
true He knew that the plans submitted by Mr. Sayre and
himself provided for using exactly the kind of filters
that have That the difference pumping
these filters concerned would have been
exactly the in his plans and the present plans but
that his plans would put the house As feet below
where it stands and that the great additional cost in
pumping, for all time to come would be in lifting the
water that extra As feet.
Why he fair and why did he tell the people
this? In changing the filter plans merely all
his sedmentaton basins for the stated here
ofore that sedinentaon settling was unnecessary in
particular Because everything that would settle
would have settled while the water in the lake
That the moving of the pump house and placing it be-
low the DAM where if the dam washed out the plant
would be total loss, and the laying of pipe line
pole line and wires all eliminated and that under the
present plan permitted to pump the water from
the lake at the most economical point
He also stated that if his plans would have been
ried that pumping machinery would have been
put in and that the fire insurance rates would not have
been increased And why did he not state to the people
that the mayor and board of commissioners had done
everything in their get him to put the steam
and electricity demanded by the insurance people of
the state?
Why did he state that he proposed to Mr.. Foster
and the board commissioners that if his plans
and the filtration plant and pump house located
below dam that he would the bond money in buy
ing pump and doing away with the steam
plant altogether.
He a part of letter received by Mr.. Slaughter,
chief of the department, Mr. Ingalls, of the Okla
homa rate showing that the neiciency of the
pumping plant of the why the insurance
rates raised.
Why did Mr. Dawson not state to the people that
recommendations made by the insurance rate
bureau follows: Install electrcdriven pump
of at least one and half gallon capacity per diem.
a seamtriven pump of like capacity arranged to be
interchangeable; is arranged that the motor and
engine drive either pump These pumps should
be provided suction line and should dis
charge through 14inch suction line into the force main
meters should have not less than Ginch
connections bypass around the valve In large main
Now what reason can you give, Mr. Dawson, for failing
TO put which you purchased two years
and what you give the people for failing to
comply with the recommendations by the Oklahoma
rate hureau9 what give them for not
reading all of the addressed Mr.. Slaughter in
which he that he furnished of the report
made upon the condition of pumping plant by r. K
Townsend Chicago fire insurance engineer of national
reputation the recommendation of the rate bureau
made you?
When YOU knew from this report months ago before
bond money expended that the insur
ance rates going raised if the steampumping
plant was not put in good condition why did you fail and
refuse to put that seampumpng plant in good condition.
and why did you in the large meter?
Aud YOU you stated. that did, that the spill
way would be blown out or that the present