The border vidette., 1911-12-16

engineer that it can build this
 pipe line for S93, ,OOO.OO and that
 when built the 10 inch pipe will
 furnish enough water for the
 town purposes.
 If the engineer is wrong; if | the plant costs S12O, ,OOO. GO or
 more, or if when built it is found | insutficient; in what financial condition will the town of No
 gales be? I repeat that the town of Nogales seems to be stalking it's future on the plans
 and estimate of one engineer, who whether he be competent or not, is liable to be mistaken in
 his estimate as well.aS in his opinion.
 Again, the expense of a pipe line from the present pumping plant of the Water Company to the town of Nogales: the laying of mains in the town itself: the building of reservoirs and the machinery and pumps necessary to pump the water into these reservoirs, will be largely in excess of S30, ,OO0OO, the amount of money which the council es- innate will be available for the purpose. I do not believe that $50, ,O0OC0 will cover the ex- pense, and my opinion is based upon what have seen accom- plished by the City of Tucson in laying it's water pipes. And after all this is done, then the town will simply have duplicated what the Water Company al- ready has got in the way of ser vice from the company's wells to the town itself.
 The only logical and business like thing for the town of No gales to do is to buy the present Water Company's plant. It will then have this much definitely secured and accomplished. Then, instead of going to the great and uncertain expense of pumping water from the Santa Cruz River he town should eXpend S3, ,COOC0 ,r S1O,000.00 in an effort to in- ,rease the water supply at the place where the present Water Company is getting it's water by unning drifts or tunnels at the bottom of the present well: by
  ligging more wells with drifts nd tunnels and by driving more wells to considerable depth to ap deeper flows. Any sensible usiness man would first expend he small amount needed in an fort to increase the water SUD- ly at the point where the Water already has-its pumps stablished, rather than fail ven to make the effort but go ito the extravagant expense of pending S95, ,OO0.OO or more imply for the purpose of bring lg water to that very point, hen the water might already e there at that point if only developed. It will be me enough for the town to incur lis enormous expense after it as first demonstrated to cer- Linty that it cannot get the ater where the Water Con- any'S wells now are
 The Water Company had com enced to increase it's water lpply last summer by digging le necessary tunnels and drifts Id boring the deep wells, when Ie town of Nogales commenced 5 agitation for the establish ent of it's own water plant. hen the water company stopped Id has done nothing further. If the town does not purchase e plant from the Water Con- my then I would urge the ater Company itself to develop tter at it's present plant in antilles sufficient to supply e town, as I believe it can do. len there will be competition tween a water plant getting
 supply at a point two miles 'm town, against the municipal mt which has the additional pense of pumping it's water 'm a distance of six miles to d ighth of 600 feet. It stands reason that from a financial the municipal plant l lose in the contest. Al ,ugh I am the attorney for , Nogales Water Company, - 7ertheless the questions I am " considering are not ques- as of law, but questions that
 business and common sense. an see how the town of No es would injure itself by ex- sive bond issues for water