Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-10-03
FORMAL REQUEST TO
COUNTY FOR FLOOD
WATER ASSISTANCE
Interesting and Startling Figures
viii Be Presented BY BiSbee-
ties to County Supervisors To-
morrow.

morrow.
Formal request for county co-opera-
ton with this city in the caring for
food waters and prevention of damage
/ from flood waters and detritus wash
ed from county land into the city con
fines will be made OF the Board of Su-
pervisors at their meeting in Tomb
stone tomorrow. The mayor and city
council. and a committee from the
Commercial Club will journey to the
county seat to present the PROPOSE
ton. It is expected that a number of
other interested property owners and
taxpayers will also make the trip
over to lend weight of their presence
to the presentation of the case A
meeting of the committee of the Com
mercial Club named by President j.
d. Bowen met with him at the Club
Office yesterday afternoon and outlin-
ed their part of the work. Members
of the city council discussed the mat
ter with the secretary of the CONNER
cial Club Friday afternoon.
Interesting and startling figures
have been prepared by the city engin-
eer and the city clerk for presentation
to the Board of Supervisors in connec-
ton with the request for county co
operation in caring for food waters
These the secretary Of the CONNER
cial Club digested and drew conclu-
sions FROM for the committee of that
organization. In addition there is a.
Typographical map prepared by the
City attorney showing the area that
drains into and through Bisbee. both
county and city land.
It is conservatively estimated that
flood prevention and the direct result
of food damages have cast the city of
Bisbee at least a quarter of a million
dollars in the past ten or twelve years.
And this does not include lessees to-
Individual businessmen and business
houses The city clerks report shows
that up to June 1912, a matter of
S145O00 had been expended in food
prevention. These figures are reached
as follows:
Cost Subway Floodgate to Depot,
S53.692.4O.
Cost Subway to Wood Canyon up
Tombstone Canyon, S74,51232
Naco Road Culverts 9, 3SS. SO.
Bridges OF Culverts, Tombstone
Canyon, $500
What was expended for the first
subway, what for cleanups after floods
and paid TO property owners for dam
age occasioned are not shown in this
part of the report AS the average
cost for three years past has been
$6,S45,62 and was even heavier prior
to the construction of the present sub
way il lis evident that total costs with
damages added, are far in excess of
those figures.
Direct flood costs, repairs and main
tenance of subway and walls and cost
of cleaning up since June, 1912, are
shown to be in 1928 $7,l4787; 1914
IA, S5,S35.3O; 1916, $I55369 and
since June to September, $3,465, a
total of $24.OO1.S6. Thus the figures
included in the report amount to sl7O,-
O94.53.
City engineer Ziesmer shows that
there rs a drainage area of $500 acres
into and through Bisbee of which
3l4O are outside the city limits Of
the area drained S26 per cent is in
the county and outside of the city
limits and only ia per cent is a part
of the city. His map also shows this
as well as the contour of all the coun-
try drained
Mr.. Ziesmer's report shows speci-
hcally the drainage of each and every
canyon and gulch and how many
acres of each are within and without
the city. Brewery Gulch drainage
will especially be taken up with the
county officials as it is there that an
immediate further expenditure for
flood prevention is contemplated.
Through that suIch and Review Alley
and o. x. Street there are drained 5S1
acres or 1873 PEI cent of the entire
drainage through the city. The major
part of the balance has been cared
for by the present subways In Brew
cry Gulch the territory drained Is III
per cent county and 23.3 per cent city
and these latter figures will be used
as a basis for proposed county co-ope-
ration in the arguments presented by
The city officials.
From a study Of the two reports
and the figuring thereon done by the
secretary of the Commercial Club It
appears that had the expenses occa-
stoned by floods in the past three
years, merely for cleanup purposes
and rot for construction, repairs OF
maintenance, been borne by city and
county together in proportion 10 The
iareas drained, the county would have
paid s10,146 and the city only 81
1879, while instead of this in that
period the total expense of S12.2S3.S9
fell upon the city alone