The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-03-22
ENGINEER STURTEVANT GIVES
OUTLINES OF PLAN AT MEET
ING LAST NIGHT.
POWER WOULD GO WITH THE|
PROPOSED SYSTEM
Power Would Be Generated at Clear
. Lakes-TOtal Cost Would be About
$S30,000- Would Agree to Contract
With City or Sell Water.

A proposition to put Blue Lakes
water into the city with Clear Lakes
power, at the same time to furnish
5000 horse power for electrical light
and power to the municipality for
total sum not to exceed $S30,000, was
explained to a number of citizens last
night at the rooms of the Twin Falls
Commercial club by George w. Stur-
tevant of Chicago, who claims to
have supervised the building or re-
building of 155 waterworks in differ
ent cities, and is now preparing esti-
mates on the waterworks system in
Indianapolis, Ind, for use before the
Indiana public utilities commission.
The cost of the system proposed ac-
cording to Mr.. Sturtevant will be as
follows: Reservoir, $25,000; pipe to
reservoir, $S5,000; Blue Lakes to town,
$3.50 900; Clear Lakes power, $245,0O0;
city distribution system for fifteen
miles of pipe, $125,000 total $780,
900.
The Clear Lakes power is owned by
w. c. Hazard of Buhl, and the water
would be furnished by l. B. Perrine
without extra cost in any amount
needed The proposition which it
is proposed to lay before the city is
that the municipality either buy the
plant outright as outlined for the
amount named, when it is completed
or that the city put in the distribut-
ing system, reservoir and pipe to citz
reservoir and pay for water and pow
er at an agreed price, taking an OPP
ton on the system, water and power
Of cfinrIafQd nri0p fha nnfinn N
expire in twenty years.
The meeting last night was called
to order by George Herriott who said
that the estimates would be presented
for comparison with those filed by
Engineer l.. G. Kelsey. Mr.. Sturtevant
said that his object was not to criti-
else Mr.. Kelsey's plan but to state
his own estimates on the Blue lakes
proposition; adding that he did not
have at hand the detailed figures on
which Mr.. Kelsey based his estimates
Mr.. Sturtevant said that his system
contemplated the use of only metal
pipe, properly coated, so as to be
practically indestructable. He oppos-
ed the use of wooden pipe in any event
and said that he would not make es-
Inmates based on the use of wooden
pipe as it would last only fifteen oil
twenty years. He had done so bul
not within the past fifteen years.
City Clerk r. NJ Williams said tha
Mr.. Kelsey had figured on woodeI
pipe for part of the system on thu
ground that the present price of iroT
and steel was unduly high and tina
enough saving would be made during
the life of the wooden pipes to buy th'
; metal pipes at it's close. Mr.. Sturte
want said that personally he woul'
not do that, though it might be JUS
tification for the use of wooden pipes
The engineer said that Blue lake
water would obviate the necessity TO
the use of a filter and would save tn
city that much most. In the event tina
: purification should be needed it woul
be done with chlorine. The waite
would always be clear and ther
would be no settling. Moreover, tn
supply would not be doubtful at an
time and there would be no need I
make a change from one source to an
' other.
For city of 1000 the gross in
come should be $67,675 for waite
) alone. This should furnish prof
of something like from $30,00000 t