Weekly journal-miner., 1911-07-05
fFrom Friday's Daily.l

ical juncture in its history, was tht
 assertion made by H. E. Armitage
 at the meeting of the Chamber of
 Commsrce last night, when he made
 a elean-cut, stirring speech in favor
 of a less expensive and more de,
 pendable water supply.
 MT. Armitage eontended that the
 maintenance of the present source of
 supply, at Del Rio, is OceasiOning a
 conditions of affairs among the con
 sumers not to be borne much fur
 ther; that the twenty-twO miles of
 pipeline from the supply to the
 Prescott reservoir would soon have
 to be replaced in part, or as a whole;
 that Prescott s credit will be ruined,
 by means of the inability of the
 City Fathers to set aside a requisite
 amount for the meeting of the $441, :
 900 of water bonds and that an cpl demic of typhoid might become inn minent, if the Granite Creek water supply be further resorted to.
 Accounting the successful efforts of scores of fellow -townsmen whereby they have, without exception, seeur- ed ample water for domestic purposes, without going, in any case, below depth of loo feet; he felt positive that a sufficient supply of artesian water existed under the City of Pres colt, which might easily supply the domestic and industrial demands of all its inhabitants
 4 petition was introduced, signed by Messrs Armitage, H. Wm. Stevens, Judge Wells, Sid Birch, J. W. Mines, M. B. Hazeltine, F. o. Smith and others, asking President Fredericks to name a committee to prepare neces- sary data to lay before the City Council, at its next regular meeting. This committee, consisting of MT. Armitage, chairman, and E. W. Wells and E. S. Clark, will ask the council to appropriate $500 for the drilling of a well through the hard-pan to the main underlying body of water.
 W. A. Kent reeounted his exper- fences at Jamestown, N. Y, where conditions far worse than those i'm minent here, were encountered; and where resort was had to drilling ar tesian wells, with signal success. Mr. Kent declared that the Prescott Eater rate is higher than that of any city in the Union and that, no more deadly thing can happen to community, than to lose confidence in tbe purity of its water supply. "It is a burning shame to a city when its water must be boiled," he con cluded.
 Applause greeted the remarks of Kent, Armitage and others, who, with the exception of MT. Mul- venom, seemed heartily in accord with their ideas.
 Councilman Harry Heap admitted that the position of the city in re- gard to its water supply was grave and supported the petition insofar as to state that the suggestion in hand should receive most serious considera tion.
 The offer of Mir. Hazeltine, Judge Wells and Hugo Richards, to lay a cement floor, over a damp-cOurse, in the present quarters of the Chamber of Commerce, to extend the length of the room by tearing down the parti- ton and connecting the main room with a private office for the use of the secretary, was accepted. The proviso was added, "until the chamber can secure better quarters, at reduced rental" (the present home of the organization is donated rent free,) NIT. Hazeltine, for the Bank of Arizona, accepted this gentlemen $ agreement" and was accorded a vote of thanks.
 Letter of Ed. Shumate, withdraw ing his offer to furnish quarters for the chamber in the St. Michael Hotel, was read and ordered filed.
 T. G. Norris spoke on the subject of good roads, stating that he had the assurances of MT. Girand and the board of control; that, immediat- ely on the levy of the tax, the con- struction of the Territorial Highway, for a distance of twenty miles, at least, would be resumed. He said that the Yavapai board of supervisors had given him substantial assurances of help, to the end that a practicable ( road would be a certainty ' before the fall, and that they deserv- { d unbounded praise.
 "The board of control" declared 2 Er Norris Ewera moved to their f