Cañon City record., 1911-03-23

At the regular meeting OF the city
council Monday night a resolution
was adopted agreeing to the Contract
recently negotiated by the special ir-
rigation committee. OF which Alder
man Hamilton is chairman. with the
Fruitlands Ditch company and the
mayor and city clerk were instructed
to execute IT, The contract provides
for the sale OF fifteen cubic feet OF
water to the ditch company for irri-
CATION purposes for a period OF twen-
ty years. with the right OF renewal II
the purchaser 80 desires. on the fol-
lowing terms: One hundred and If
~ dollars a cubic foot for the first
year. two hundred and fifty dollars a
cubic foot the second and third years
and three hundred dollars a cubic
foot for each succeeding year there
after. Five cubic feet OF the water
is delivered to the company at the
surge chamber on the eastern slope
Of the "Hogback" and ten cubic feet
at the company's reservoir site eou-
pie OF miles north through a pipe
line to te laid by the purchaser With
out expense 10 the city.
Tho city reserves for itself in per
petuity all power that may be de-
veioped in the delivery OF the water
TO the purchasers. which Is Of itself
a very valuable consideration II Is
computed that one cubic foot of wafer
in It's fall from the surge chamber to
the company's dftch At the fool Of tho
',Hoghack- Is equal 10 fourteen horse
power. making an aggregate for the
fifteen cubic feet TO be delivered OF
two hundred and ten horse power. 1t
is provided In the contract that the
ten cubic feet OF water which the city
binds itself to put into the company's
reservoir may be shut on during the
day and the water utilized for the de-
yelopment OF power during all regu-
lar working hours II the city should
desire to create more than two hun
drcd and ten horse power for the op-
GRAFTON OF machinery OF any kind the
entire capacity OF the waterworks pipe
line passing through the tunnel under
the -hvgbacs estimated at twenty
two cubic feet or three hundred and
eight horse power. may be utilized.
The contract. which seems To be a
very satisfactory one for the city. was
signed up this morning and is now in
full force and effect
a petition was presented TO the
council Monday night by number
OF residents OF Orchard park asking
that two-inch pipe line connecting
that community with the city water
system be Installed. In the event the
application was granted the petition
ers agreed to take water from the
city 20 the value OF three hundred dol
lars per annum and bear the expense
of digging the trench for the water
pipe. The petitioners agreed TO pay
sum into the city treasury yearly
equal TO fifteen per cent OF the cost
OF the installation OF the proposed
pipe line. The matter was referred
to the water committee and the water
superintendent with the request that
they make report OF their investi-
cations at the next regular meeting
OF the council.
After an exhaustive discussion Of
the matter the council voted to give
the state penitentiary water from the
city water system to the value of one
hundred dollars per annum for a per-
iod OF twenty years in exchange for
the right to lay its pipe line across
the st&e land and through the tunnel
= s.Eader the "Hogback." The committee
Sppointed at a previous meeting of
the council to Investigate the PROPOSE
tion OF Mr.. Collins OF the Canon Cry
stal Ice company to purchase a tract
OF land belonging to the city, one hun
dred and ten by one hundred and six
feet In Dimensions, adjoining the COM
pany's plant between South Second
and Water streets for the sum OF two
hundred and fifty dollars. recommend
ed that the sale be made and tho may
or and city clerk were authorized to
make conveyance OF the property on
the payment into the treasury OF the
sum OF money agreed upon.
A resolution was adopted BY the