Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-26
CITY MUST BUY WATER F STREETS
 ARE SpRINXLED
Dust Clouds Cause Complaint Reservoir Kept For Fire Purposes. Copper Queen Offers Supply

Offers Supply
 The dustiness of the city streets has caused merchants along Tomb stone canyon to petition the council for more frequent sprinkling, only to be told the municipal water supply must be conserved for fire purposes, and that relief must be obtained from the Copper Queen company which will sell water to the city.
 This relief probably will be sought by the council immediately. word coming from Mine Superintendent sherman of the Copper Queen yester- day that that company would supply 2 limited amount of water for sprink- ling purposes, at the actual cost of production.
 The conditions on Tombstone can yon responsible for the action of the council, are reported to have been dust drifting into the stores through out the day, damaging hundreds Of dollars worth of goods and almost suf- locating the people.
 The petition was signed by upwards of twenty store keepers and was but 3 mild, earnest plea for some remedial action.
 The shyness of water on the street was at first thought to be the result of city hall politics, and the respon- sibility was laid to many doors, each refusing to assume it. The truth, it is believed. is that the city merely cannot afford to withdraw much water from the fire reservoir. lest the sup ply be found too scant when a con ilagration threatens and disaster fol- low. The reservoir holds only 3,000.- poo gallons, according to Fire Chief Norton, and while it is full at present. it is being constantly tapped by the central school. public stations and water troughs, and was never in- tended for street sprinkling or other such purposes.
 There is water available from the Copper Queen, and while the city must pay for it, it is deemed the only safe course 10 pursue.
 To Wright, street superintendent, expresses a willingness to continue to draw from the municipal supply if the city council advises it, but he is said to have been instructed to take o1 one of the sprinklers. and when this vas done, the complaint came in from he merchants.
 The city officials, some of them, at least. are crediating the responsibility for the withdrawal of this sprinkler O various members, but the fact has been reached that sprinklinS water must be obtained from outside the municipal supply, and the council likely will undertake such contract with the Copper Queen people this afternoon.
 I've do not wish a repetition of the fire disaster of 1908" said Chief Nor ton yesterday "The present drain on the supply outside the sprinklers con sumes 10000 gallons daily, while the pump replaces only one fifth that amount. It is patent that this will materially reduce our supply during the present dry season. Then should a fire come. and the fire department have to play a half dozen noZels on it for hours. we might find ourselves ~ithOut water and at the mercy Of the fire. Each hose shoots 800 gal 'ons a minute, So you can see a real ire would soon eat up hundreds of thousands or even million gallons of water"
 Norton said he did not wish to ap- pear an alarmist, but these were the facts, and other sources were i'm pera- tive. he said, for street sprinkling purposes.
 Proposals for a ball game between the city officials and the merchants of Bisbee, the proceeds to go to the city park were preached to Mayor Adams yesterday and were warmly received by His Honor"
 In fact the mayor declared it was ever known to eminate from the head that proposed it. Mayor Adams has no doubt that thousands would be at tracted to the exhibition. and that the park fund would be materially fattened as consequence.
 Both Cuncilman Holz and former Councilman Cunningham stamped the big idea with their approval yester- day, and allowed they still had an in shute or two up their sleeves, if the mayor didn't insist on doing the pitching.
 Mayor Adams will confer with Billy Delbridge of the Warren District Commercial club today. and will prob ably announce the date of the game and the possible lineup of the two teams in the Review on Sunday