The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-04-18
NEW CITY HALL
TO BE PROPOSED
Council Authorizes City Attorney
to Draft Ordinance
WILL BL ERECTED ON CORNER
SECOND ST. AND SECOND AVE.
Mayor Sweeley Recommends This,
Also Better Lighting and Double
Water System.

Following the receipt of a message |
from Mayor E. M. Sweeley, favoring
the adoption of a double waterworks
system and the securing of an expert
to determine the best course for the
city to adopt to secure pure water,
asking for the improvements of our
lighting by the extension of a system
of cluster lights, suggesting the sur
facing of the four main arteries for
entrance to the city as far as the.
city limits and strongly urging the
immediate need of a city building
for the official needs of Twin Falls,
the council last night ordered the
drafting of an ordinance for bond
election for a new city hall to cost
approximately $4,000, requested the
several architects to submit rough
sketches of such hall, to be erected
on the city lots at the corner of Sec
ond street and Second avenue north,
and informally agreed on looking up
an expert for the water system. The
idea is to erect a city building two
stories high and strong enough to
permit the building of two more
stories The other matters recon-
mended were taken under advisement.
Relative to the recommendation of
Mayor Sweeley that the library be
located in the city hall, Councilman
Bobier said that there would be oppo-
sition to this, as many wanted Car
negie library. To this the mayor re-
piled that all that he had heard dis
cuss the Carnegie library was opposed
to it. Mr.. Bobier said that all that
he had heard talk about it favored it,
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The message of Mayor Sweeley
reads as follows
"Twin Falls, Idaho, April 18th, 1916.
Gentlemen of the Council, City of
Twin Falls, Idaho The first big step
toward the solution of our water diff
ficulties has been successfully taken; ;
but this is only the foundation There
remains the supplying to the city of
water of a quality beyond question
and in sufficient quantity for the do
nestle needs of our citizensr and this
in the shortest practicable space of
time. l wish to urge upon you the
Importance of speedy action along
this line, first, because the season of
heavy use is close at hand, with all
it's attendant difficulties, and, second,
because our city is so rapidly taking
her rightful place in Importance and
we cannot afford to have hanging
over us the big question mark of an
unsatisfactory water supply. / would
suggest that the services of a capable
engineering expert be promptly OBJ
tanned, or that such tests be entered
upon as will probably disclose salts
factory source for such a system, and
that steps be promptly taken looking
to the installation of a domestic dis
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piled, temporarily at least, from wells
and pumps already in service.
at seems clear to my mind that our
conditions here indicate a double sys-
TEN, one for the supplying of water
for lawn and street use, sewer and
street flushing and fire protection, the
! other for purely domestic service, the
charge for which latter service should
be as small as it possibly can be and
be self-sustaining. If / am correctly
= informed, the use of water during the
summer months for all purposes ex-
coeds five million gallons per day TIC
properly handle this amount of water
through filter beds and obtain salts
\ factory results is a huge undertaking
costly and, for the great bulk of the
water used, entirely unnecessary. II
we assume cur present population
as ten thousand, anu tne udily uc'
7 mand per capita for domestic use as
fifty gallons, a very liberal estimate
this would mean somewhat less than
t ten per cent of the total water use
in which quality is the supreme re-
} quirement I appreciate the obvious
] disadvantages OF a double system, bu
e believe our situation here demands it
r "Our city is not keeping pace will
I the demand for improvements in
l lighting. 1t is not a question of com
S parison with other cities, rather ono
, of what we justly owe to ourselves
] and l earnestly recommend that you
! take such steps as Will result in ex
tending cur cluster system to include
our business district, or by some either
means supply the illumination we are
y proncrly entitled to-
"There is a plain need for a cit,
d building. The acquisition of the wa
: terworks. the formation OF the ON
I ployment bureau, and the other city
3 departments require office room, and
s aside from the necessary room t
}. properly office the city's departments
l. we need an auditorium, open for thu
!. general use of the public for the dis
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