The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-11-16
Cairo Electric and Tract on Com
pany to Make Proposal to
the City.
CAPACITY NEW SYSTEM
MORE THAN NECESSARY
Electric Energy at Minimum Rate
and $4,000 Pumps at Low
Monthly Rental,

Coincident with the erection of
the colossal system of levees sur
rounding Cpiro, includ ng massive
walls of dirt on the west side of the
city and a gigantic sca wall of rein
forced concrete erected upon con
t;naous wall of interloeking sheet
steel pi1ing on the Ohio side, the
whole rapidly nearing completion
to the Sixty-foot stage, will make
the City of Cairo and the Cairo
Drainage District actually safe from
future high water scares.
If ever in the future the stage
of the rivers should exceed this
sixty-fcot stage, V'cksburg and
Natchez will be the only two cites
n the whole Ohio and Mississippi
valleys from Pittsburg to New Or
leans that would not be inundated
with a volume OF water of vary
ng depths. 1t is the double assur~
ancc of mighty walls, impregnable
to the waters, at any gauge OF water
below sixty-foot stage and when
such stage has been reached with
ita great spread covering a wide eX-
panse Of country SO immense that It
appears impossible that water
could rise higher and top the levees
of Cairo.
1t is this knowledge that inspires
absolute confidence in the hearts OF
every cairo'te, prompts heavy in
vestments of capital in various en-
EterpriBes and building operations
iuncxcelled in prev aus yes ib
Contemporaneous with the erec-
ton of this levee system which viii
hold back any stage of water in the
rivers. Cairo is making extensive
preparation to rid itself of all sur
plus water which may accumulat :
within the city during the periods
when the stage of the rivers have
attained sufficient height to close
automatically the gates in the out
let's of the sewer system, this sur
plus Of water arising from sew
age. rains and other sources and
seeking its level in the lowlands
back of the city.
All repairs have been completed
TO the break i'm the big trunk or main
sewer on Commercial avenue, which
connects laterally with other sew
era draining all the city, and since
this has been accomplished, a better
system of pumping will be installed
in place of the obsolete Mengc
pumps which have outliveI their
lives of usefulness. Already ono
direct connected electrically driven
rotary pump has been purchased by
the city and is now in its station al
Thirty-eighth street Prior TO ita
removal to this station it did duty
last spring at Twcnty-eighth stree
larger ami more powerful pumT
having recently been purchased and
partly is now in position
The Tenth street Menge pump ha;
been dismantled and alterations arr
now being made preliminary to tn,
installation of a similar electrically
driven pump.
It is estimated that when tn,
pumps are installed. in combination
they will have a capacity of approx
imately 100000 gallons per hour
far in excess OF any and all re
quirements.
1t is authoritively stated that tn,
Cairo Electric and Traction Com.
pany has made a proposition to tho
city which embOdies the purchase o.
the pumps. their installation, mair
tenance and rental for the period o.
ten years at a figure based on tn,
actual cost to the Electric Company
including a low rate of interest or
the investment which will approx
mate $4,000, the company agree
ing to take over and pay for tn,
pump recently purchased for tn'
Twenty-eighth street station bu
which has not yet been paid fcl
since complete delivery has no
been effected. In addition, tn
Electric Company will, it is stated
furnish electrical energy to operat
| the pump at rate so ridiculousl.
low as to be surprising and can b