The Little River news., 1916-04-19
CITY UTILITIES
 ARE ACCEPTED
Commissioners Settle With COntrac. tor Cardwell Friday-NOw City
 Has Full Charge.

The Ashdown water and sewerage systems were formally accepted by the commissioners for the district Friday and the final settlement made with the contractor H. w. Cardwell. The commissioners, who have had charge since the organization of the districts are J. M. Johnson, H. l.. Tol- and and J. R. Bowles. The engineer ing has been in charge of Winters & Dove of Fort Smith with MT Dove actively in charge. The cc.ntraoa was let during the early weeks of May, 1915. Work was begun soon there- after. The Cardwell contract was for $42,443. which provided for his fur nishing the material in the sewerage system, and the city furnishing the material i'll the water system. The total cost for construction and mater ial was $6S,91O.12. This did not in- clude engineering. attorney and other overhead expenses nor the purchase of meters and other materials, which would bring the total probably up to $84,000 or better, a. complete report not yet having been published.
 The commissioners will likely meet with the council this week. probably Wednesday night, for the purpose of taking up the matter of future plans of management and operation. The commissioners have employed MT. Dove until the first of May as mana ger and inspector of plumbing. Every effort will be made to cause the water system to pay it's own operating ex- penses the first year. Somthing like sixty connections have already been made and others are being made rap idly.
 Town System to Go.
 The commissioners authorized the News to give notice that the local system, which for several years has been operated by the town council, will be discontinued on the 1st of May. This does not apply to the va- rious privately owned water systems over town and it is not known wheta- CT they will be able to continue op- eration and meet the competition of the municipal system. The water rental rate has not been definitely set, but the tentative or suggestive rate is $1 per month as a minimum, allowing for 2,000 gallons and 35 cents per 1000 after that up to possibly 5000 gallons. The heavy consumers other than private homes will be adjusted by sliding scale that will fit all cas- es up to the manufacturer who would use water for steam purposes. The Texarkana and Hope systems have been used as a basis thus far in plan ming a rate here. All consumers will be put on meter and all water that passes through the meter will be charged for.
 A Model System.
 The two systems are models in every way. Everything is standard and the latest and best tyres that have been yet devised by modern en- gineers. They stand as monuments of the type of citizenship of which our town is composed. They have beer planned and brought to a successful completion by men with a broad vis- ion, vision that saw further than the expediency of the present, but far into the future. The men, more par ticularly the commissioners, who have shouldered the great mass of work for more than a year, have done SO at the expense of great time and labor and without pay. The splendid co-opera- tion of the people has been remark able in comparison with other towns. The future success depends not only on efficient management, but m the patronage and cooperation of the public, and in this case the public are the owners of the system.