Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-06-12

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amount invested in extensions and
bptiormouls that today Houston ir
furnishing the people water A. lsc.
per 1000 rallons ln salt Lake CHS
where they bring their water some
| hundreds of miles out Of the noun
fains tho water rste D. Sc. said Mr
! liimbrough aud ihal this T. purely
q business propoaItio ~ to the PEG.
plr Of Amarillo
Judge T. T. Work being called on
stated that be- heartily favored the
prppu .ltIou of getting an adequate
| supply of water io thought the
/ people who had been taken into the
! city limit. we're entitled 10 other pri-
! yi'oEoH than that OF paving cts tax
o. Hc stated that 'p the best ~
hia ku,Hlcdgo The city of llillsboro
! hich owns her water plant. bad %
minimum water rate of 25c The
! veil there are artesIdn. but some ui
! hem are fourteen o. fifteen hundred
feet deep De- hoped omcthing would
hc done toward briugng about the
ownership of the cIl" of the water
md Light systems here
" 81 Russell informed the meet
iut that the Amarillo business Men
| 4 oDiatiou bad this question up for
Dme time that thew have been Zoo
correspondence with lIllsboro Sher-
man Paris and many other towns
which own their water plants and
! Ip every iu lauce Tho have been iu-
formed that The sam" f. q good in.
ycstmpnt that instead OF advocating
! rttru ions of our paving 49," ought
% work toward ownership of q wa.
/ t.r plant that the city Light a.
/ Water CO.. do not oVe us anything
Iud neither DO the people owe them
| thing that there Nas no griev-
luD, Boo This movement nor continent
.itinu that if the water business
/ V1H losing proposition the com
! puut ought 90 De- r.li--.l. ot u lu
SOME say. ana II DO was a paying hu-
! -ucs the clty ought 90 make tho
/ profits lie suggested that q com
miftoe appointed by the meeting
take the matter up with the Board
II 90 ltr Development
q G.. - Bynum stated that while
boz was not well vcrscd in the mat
ter. be- was heartily In favor OF the
I movement thought that thorough
Investigation should boz made into
the proposition aud steps taken To
acquire or establish water and lifh'
I plants 10 u was found as advanta-
geous as we were led 90 believe.
Commi- -ioncr Chas \ FISK va,
called upon and he informed the
meeting that he and the other mem
hrrs of tho city Commission had
been eating into tho water aud
| nrht question with the Wow Of muni
cipal ownership that thcy had IN
II rmally discussed tho matter that
hc was 'ronrly IN sympathy with
tho movement a. against thai o'
moro paving and that he was cor
tain tho other members of tho com
mi sion were of the same mind.
G. Is Cblnrlor stated that he un
dcreiood mat the combined gro
c,rninE of the local r"mpauy ioi
water and light wetc 100000 an
uually. which would bc equal 10 ~
per cent on million doll9rH. or
por cent ON two millions. u looked
Ike there ought 10 h. q chance for q
reduction BOO tho water and light
raios DO fhc cts owned the systems
that h /. ihc custom ui modern town
and elite. 90 own DO utilities
that hp Hi. been in ~ west recently
and Boo california water rates are e'
- L.. n. . q b
with ours that there g. mo- reelection
ON the local company intended by
the meeting. bu' that the matter b
purely uu, Of buaneV. that Amaril
lo BIAS reached the tare whore she
must undertake son ething big lik'
thi. Boo order 90 place herself 90 pc
NiiuU fu develop NOng industrial
! lu,. a. veil a. ia lthcr respects.
o. 80 W CUNNINGHAM was in "a
( ,or 1t iho city owning the water
! ue.I street car and an other public
! utilities Ile said ~ Los Angeles th'
! water rate was zoe iuno gallons
} ut .Hr irrigation Sc tina "a siN-incl
! stream 90 water running eight hour
( .Hf HIu ST.
! EH.NItnr &c, sale he always ha'
favored municipal ownership 0f pub
: . rtI's.. that D. had no crit
I ism tu offer the local company. hu
( ."If 'r.u the sanitary standpoint
( alone there ourht - b. something
! iuue joRard an eXtc3sion of the va
; t.r system thai Oh, meeting shout
I uUf u."r... innate the advantage q
|" derived by municipal ownership
: nf th. water &, stem that the wa'e
! business bad not paid the compan
3 as Tao as he had been able to ascer
I tain that the iight lad always paid
! that The 0ompauy's report setera
s ftlr- ago showed net profit 81
! about f, per rent that the high eos
oi ,uel labor. evaporation. etc uu
: doubleday made it more expensive {
I operate such plants here 'han
{ place more iavorabiy located
} a. kallenhach n tho Amarili
! green house stated hat city waite
; hal proved too costly for him an
h' vas nou pumping his o.n at
I cost ~ Z 10 cents per thousand "a
( Ions
: Henry Rietman stated that in u
1 diana towns where BE- bad lived th
| purchase of water plants Nas profit
able and they soon paid for then